Made a decision out face sunny sad on. I had a vision to what's
up everybody? Who? It's Friday, Huriate. Hey, if you didn't
listen to Thursday's show, go check it out. Yesterday's show with Lisa Lampa
Nelly so good. It was really great. We're kind of killing it with
these interview episodes. We've had some real good ones, yes, we have,
and we have some good ones coming up. Yeah. We got Mark
Wahlberg coming up the end of the month. Yes, right, Klein telling
you not the host of Temptation Island, but the underworm model. Right,
way to confuse our audience. Mark, now the host, the host of
Temptation Island. Start watching Temptation Island because we're gonna have questions for him.
Have you been watching it? Not yet? I'm gonna get on it because
I would get a paramount Peacock. Oh, pe Peacock. It's worth getting
Peacock. Yeah, there's a lot of shows on Peacock. That's good.
Yeah, I just have to tell all the date lines are on there.
Oh yeah, with no commercials. It's just that alone is worth it.
Yeah, I'm addicted to Peacock. Peacock and Discovery yeah, yeah, so
this sucks. I have Spectrum Cable and I have to watch the Bachelor.
But the main reason that I have just the basic cable package too, on
top of Max, Hulu, Netflix, you know, is because I have
to watch ABC, because I have to watch the Bachelor, and now I'm
going to be watching the old Man Bachelor, the Golden Bachelo. Yeah for
our Rose Perks Patreon. But they're having a fight. Spectrum is having a
fight with Disney, which is it's Disney is the parent company of ESPN and
ABC. So if when you go when you go to the guide, it
shows you what's on, like, oh news, ABC News is on right
now, but when you go to click it, it says we're sorry,
but you know, those assholes over at Disney and ESPN are making it like
they're trying to charge us way too much. So we were in a dispute
with them and like, if you like, sorry, it's their fault that
we're not able to show you this, but it would like cost us way
too much money to kill. It's like, really, get your shit together,
how's it? And then I'm like they go, if you want to
just tell them how mad you are, here's a you can go on this
QR code and like it'll take you directly. It's like, no, how
did I get hurt? Am I having to do the work? You get
a lawyer? Yes, you get on a zoom with these people? Why?
Why? Why I have to do it? Why do I have to
go like, hey, excuse me, Disney, can you guys come back
on the spectrum because like I want to watch you, Like, no,
you talk spectrum. You are a big company. You don't have one lawyer
there that can get on the phone. You gotta make me do it.
I know I'm good at email writing, but come on, I really did.
I was like John's like, should we like dispute this? I was
like, no, I write enough goddamn emails. I'm retired. How is
it? How are they putting that on the I already pay a lot of
money by my cable TV. If you can't provide me ABC, you talk
to ABC about it. Go talk to them. And it's not I'm not
adding that to my fucking to do list. Cunts, Oh my god,
speaking of cunts, Oh yeah, you should say hello to our favorite people
cuts in a good way, Like Sarah Stefano is my Pieson and Leslie,
why are you gotta be like Klin with that cough all the time? And
also the other Leslie who's accosting people everywhere. She's like, no one's safe
from her. Stop that making it up and down Ventura, Polly, we
love your pancakes. And Alicia Escalante of Oh Monte and Kelly Branch, she'll
take it a hip hop like I took Jackie to hip hop? Yes,
did she still remember that? Oh yeah, we talked about it all the
time. Oh my god remember and sat Bass and Gabby and Missy. It's
not so cute and your antics are not cute anymore. It's together girl,
Yes, come on now. And uh, Katarina, be careful. You
already had one implant. Don't get that. I'll get another one. Valerie
Bubba Fenwick and we already did. Polly, we love your pancakes, right,
and uh we love your dancing. Elizabeth. You've got a lot of
kids. Hero, you got a lot of kids. They love you.
Rita you got a bassinette and you're rocking people's kids. I don't know what
you're doing. Uh, Jacob, you're still Growley. You're very loved,
and uh did we talk about Aaron who is and Rachel's she's still a newcomer,
and Randy's got a lot of names, and Nikki call your girl,
and Ashley she I now I'm probably repeating people. And Jennifer get up,
and Sandra it's not easy being green. Christa yes, and Krista, you
made me watch true but that didn't especially but like that, Oh my god,
so I have my I think I don't know if you're going to relate
to this. This might be more of a Stephanie problem than I'll that problem.
But tell me, okay, so I have my sister my I don't
know why I called my it's my my nephew. Yes, is getting bar
mitzvad Oh really yes, tomorrow for you guys. I got a few days
and he was a baby when I met my. I remember I met you
at the park and I met your brother and he brought the baby yep in
a stroller. Yep. Now he's bar Mitt getting a bar mitzvah yeah,
thirteen years old. Wow, which I just realized that I forgot his birthday.
I'm the worst family. I'm like, honestly, I'm the worst with
birthdays Like that is my only family besides my immediate family, and I can't
like get my ship together to like wish my nephew a happy birthday. I
didn't do that, but I will be there to celebrate him, okay,
on his bar Mitzvah day. But anyway, so it's a whole thing because
my sister in law is no joke. When she's an event planner basically like
she's a produces plays. So she is producing the fuck out of this bar
Mitzvah. It is no joke. Like a wedding, it is planned like
a big ass wedding. I mean, the invitations were like super fancy.
You could put down what you know, you could order the filet, the
chicken, orange ruffie, no salmon, or a vegetarian manicatti. Like it's
a lot of choices. Wow. Yeah. And then so there's a temple.
It's it's so there's a temple portion that's in the morning. Uh,
it's like hours, Like I we have to be there at nine thirty.
The service loss until noon. Other guests can come a little bit late.
But family were immediate family, well you know family. So she's got family
coming in from out of town. So that's a whole Kashaw. Yeah,
okay, then there's a party at night and it's like cocktail attire. Right
wow. So here's the thing. What I know it's not about me.
It's not intellectually, I know it's not about me. But it is like
a huge deal to figure out what everybody's gonna wear. Because we live in
la I don't know if anybody knows that. Ain't nobody dressing up for any
Like I never have to get fancy right anything right now. I have had
to get fancy. I have gone to things in the past, but they
were like fifteen pounds ago. Okay, So like not to player hate myself
for my weight. I understand that I'm not fat, I get that,
but I am much bigger than I was the last time I dressed up.
I cannot fit into any of my clothes. So I had to like figure
out, like who can I borrow clothes from? And also, you know,
when you're not feeling your best self, your most felt, it's like
trying on clothes is like kind of depressing thing you want to do. Yeah,
don't want to be staring at myself in a full length mirror. And
also right now I'm not doing much about it because my foot of my foot,
so it's like, I'm not even you know sometimes when you're like you've
let yourself go a little bit, but you're like, it's fine because I'm
back on track. Like I know, I know that you don't have weight
struggles, but maybe clothes struggles where you're just feeling like what am I going
to wear to this? Or maybe you like you have something nice, but
you wore it to the last the last time you were with the whatever it
is. I'm like, okay, I had to get I had to make
sure everybody in my face. And when you go to a the temple portion
of the bar Mitzvah, you have to be dressed nice, but also your
shoulders have to be covered. So it's a thing. So then I so
I went shopping and it was just depressing. Can I ask you what about
like the thrift stores they have really cute sometimes they got some cute stuff like
RECHOI I don't know, Well, this is what I did. I just
borrowed clothes from friends. So my friend was like, let me raid her
closet. So I have a pair of like really nice black pants and I'm
like, I'm not wearing a dress to temp. I'm not a dress person,
I'll wear a dress. I'm going to wear a dress to the party.
I feel like dresses just aren't me anymore. I haven't worn a dress
in a lot of years. But I'm like, i'll wear addressed to this
party. So a friend lent me a dress that does fit and it's cute,
and I'll wear it to the nighttime parts. I want to see picks,
I'll send you picks. And then I got have this pair of black
pants and I was like, then I found I went took myself shopping the
other day, like I was. I was already at the mall for another
reason. I have lunch with somebody. But I was like, I went
into Macy's. I tried on some stuff. It was so depressing. I
was like, this is awful, awful, just no dress fit me right.
And you know, then you're like, I think I like to remain
a bit in denial because I just wear my sweatpants all the time. I
try to forget about it, but it's like staring at yourself in a freaking
full length mirror, you know, clothes that aren't fitting you right, It's
like, okay, yes, And then when they went the three way mirrors
and then you could see your backside what I look like from behind. Jesus
Christ. Yeah, it's a whole combination of just like having gained weight but
also getting older and like also also I only can wear glasses now because and
I loved wearing contacts. Wearing contacts for me was very freeing and I feel
cuter in contact. But I have this double vision thing that's came on a
few years ago that I went to the eye doctor and the eye doctor was
like, you know, you're seeing double. And once he told me and
I realized I was, there's no going back from it. Like once your
brain is like, oh I do see double, then you you're like,
oh shit, I can't see in my regular glasses. So now I have
to have a prism. And they don't make contacts with a prism, so
now I have to always wear glasses or I cannot see. So I'm like
glasses plus feeling overweight plus feeling like I'm getting older, and you know,
it's like a bad combination and to just be like so now I'm like resentful
of this barmit sky I'm like, God, damn it, I have to
wear a dress that I'm uncomfortable and I have to sound. I found a
couple of shirts that I like, and I'm going to wear one of the
shirts that I found to the barmitspan. Then I have a little cute jacket
that's gonna go over it. So I'm like, I'm fine. But then,
as I told, I had to take Xander Xanders like dress up,
like I'm gonna wear his clothes don't fit him right now, so I had
to take him to get dress pans. And I had to take him to
get the dress pans hemmed and I was like, how is somebody else's event
becoming a full time job for that? That's what I want to meet,
right. Have you had that where you're like, oh my god, I
would love to celebrate your another time. Yeah, Like I wish I could
just be like, I'm so sorry, I wish you. Well, here's
a check, like this is too much work? Yes, I remember Sundy
in Italian were asked to be in a wedding. I remember remember. And
it was my brother's new wife, yes, after Wendy who we all do
not like, and this Charmuta's daughter was getting married and why why why were
we invited? To be in the wedding. We don't know you that well,
right, especially your daughter, right, she wants Sonny in Italia and
their weddings or like I barely went to your wedding, Yes, I exactly.
I don't even think I went. They got married in Europe, my
brother. Okay, so I didn't know. So now her daughter's getting married
and she wants Sonny in Italian in the wedding, Like Sonny and Italian like,
who are these people and why are we in their wedding? Right?
They were like ten and they were in two actually two weddings. Adam's niece
in Oregon that that was fine because we see them Everythanksgiving and at least Sonny
and Italian knew who they were. But this side of my family, they're
like, huh, I think that's the one that I'm remembering that you were,
like, am I even gonna do this? Right? I took them
to Portland and We've had to fly out to get the plane tickets. I'd
get them the dresses and the suit and the whole thing, and they had
to be at the rehearsal dinner. They were I think a little older for
that one. But my brother's wife's one was like out and freaking I don't
even know, like El Segundo and shit like far away, and we had
to be there. It was a whole thing, you know, the wedding
doesn't start until that's the why. Yes, And we had to be there
at like nine am. Wasn't that right around the time that your dad died?
I think so it sounds right. And I got had to get sunny
a suit. I had to get hemmed, yes, you get a fixed.
Natalia's dress had to be a certain color. Had to take her shopping
and to find that, and then I have to find something to wear.
And then I'm driving them down to El Segundo at nine am when the wedding
doesn't even start the five because they want the whole wedding party there. They
want pictures. Yes, we have to be there early. Yes, for
pictures. And that's the depressing because I was looking in the mirror and I'm
like here, I am in my glasses and my thing, and oh gotta
all be in pictures. And I'm like, my family looks so ragtag,
like it's just you know what I mean, Like, yes, every I'm
sure Sadie's going to be wearing like Converse with her dress because that's what they
do, and like she's like nice shoes. I don't have any nice shoes.
And then I'm like, I'm gonna buy her shoes that she's gonna wear
one time I never wear again, which is what I had to do for
these weddings. Yeah, you know with Natalia and Sonny. Sonny was like,
can I just wear my tennis shoes? Like, no, you gotta
wear dress shoes. Then I get there nine am like hanging out. They
got brunch at least that I don't know anybody there because my brother's not around,
right, I don't know anybody. So I just meeting all these relatives
from out of town. Like I literally will not know a soul right at
this sparmouth side. I will actually I'll know one couple and their kid because
we go to Thanksgiving with them every year, who I really like. But
I'll know my sister, my brother and my sister on their kids. Would
that it will be busy. I don't know any of their Jewish friends right,
go to temple with them, nobody, No, So I'm spending a
Sunday all day with all these strangers. At least there's a spread of food,
and then it gets to be like three o'clock for the wedding starting at
five, so it's time to get dressed to get pictures taken. Lo and
behold, I don't have Sunny's pants. Do you remember that? Like?
Yes, I had to get him a belt and everything. I got the
belt. I was so focused on his belt, his tie, his jacket,
his vest, everything. I left his pants behind. So now I
get this ten year old boys in a wedding and he's supposed to be in
a black suit and no dress pants. And then I'm like, holy shit,
Now I mean else segundo. I don't know where I am. I
don't know what is there a Marshal's nearby or a ross, But even if
there is, they're gonna be too long, like they're getting what exactly?
Yeah, so you know I had to go find him a pair of pants.
I had to go, like get in the car with somebody's uncle who
I don't know. He lives out there, so he's he knows where the
mall is, so he's driving me to the mall. And now I'm in
awkward like sitting in the car with this strange dude making you know, well,
dumb me, I forgot my son's pants. Making small talks. He's
shown me the sights of El Segando drafts me off of the mom rushing trying
to find I'm like, at Macy's they don't have anything, and wed you
have Sonny with you or were you? Just like, I'm just gonna whow.
I just wanged it. I was like, Sonny, just I don't
want him to get hurt, so you just straight here and eat your bagel.
I'll be back, you know. And then I know what sized pants
that he needs and if if they're too long, I'm just gonna like,
yeah, take them or whatever. Yeah with safety bens. Yeah, bought
a thing of safety bens just so that I had it. Got his pants
they were like the different color black. It was black. But then we
got there in his jackets black black and these are like gray black. It
just did not and uh. And then they were in the wedding and then
the the DJ announced them their names wrong, like Sony and Natalie or in
the Flower Boy kids, you know, like Sony and Natalie, and I
was like, who e foks Sony and then you know, and then it
was like a long ass day. Yeah, it's just like for what,
like right, who you know? I'm not friends. I barely sing them,
haven't after their marriage, haven't seen them since pretty much. Well this
is my actual brother, so I do. I do very much care about
them. But we're hardly Jewish like, so that's another thing. And we
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me hungry, So I'm hungry too. So we have to go up on
the stage and the temple and we have to do this prayer that is like
my sister in law sent me, like the regular version of it, the
written version, the singing version. We have to know the melody. And
luckily Elby's been to like a ship ton of's fuzz, so she's like
I got I got you, but I have to know it enough so that
I'm not like we're going to be on a microphone. And Sadie and Xander
are like, oh, we don't have any idea how to do this.
They've never been to temple something ever in their lives. I don't know.
I might just go up with Elby. I'll have to see how it goes.
But you know, there's kind of a lot expected when you're family,
right right, I feel like, yeah, I've been to them, and
it's a long service, it's a lot. It's impressive. So we got
so we go to this thing on Saturday. So I have to. I'm
I shouldn't say I have to. I was invited to have dinner with my
brother and sister in law and my sister in law's extended family who's coming in
from out of town. Never met any of them. So I'm going to
go represent for my brother. Then the next day, nine thirty am,
we have to be at the temple the family. It's not close, you
know, drive to Santa Clarita. Then we do that whole morning, and
then we do lunch. There's like a lunch. Then we come home.
But then we to change, right, party for the nighttime party. Then
we have to be back there, Like, well, I'll probably have two
hours of downtime and then we have to be back for the night time portion.
So that's what I was going to ask you, because it is in
Santa Clarita, which is not close. So are you going? Wouldn't you?
Would you? Why would you rather go to your brothers and hang out
and change and then go back to dinner or you're gonna make that trek going
back and forth. And by the way, it's just better to come home.
It's like thirty minutes. It's just easier to come home because no,
I don't want to have all of our so plus we have Peepo, right,
we gotta walk the dog, like I mean, hire a pet sitter
for the day. Like that sounds like a lot. Yeah, Like,
no, we're gonna come home. It's not like it's that far, right,
if it was like Elsa Gundo or something, we probably would stay there.
But but my sister in law was like, we're having the hair and
makeup like professionally done. This is like a wedding dang, And I'm like,
no, I don't need my hair and makeup professionally done, like,
bitch, No, I'm not a bright Yeah you know what I mean.
Yeah, yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, it is a lot.
I didn't know that that's a lot. That does sound like a wedding.
Oh, it is like a wedding. She wants. I was like,
and then you have to be nice, like I don't want to be like
are you high? Like no, I don't want to get my hair and
makeup spend another two hours with like all the girls getting the hair. No.
I was like, no, I'm good, Like we'll just do our
own like hair and makeup, like yeah, yeah, thank you though,
right right right, it's a big deal. When I was in Florida,
so Wendy and Jackie loved corny movies, which I don't. They like they
you know, they liked them The Notebook, yes, but they liked the
Adam Sandler movie or have you seen the you know, there was another dopey
movie with you know, even though I love uh what's his name? From
Wedding Crashers Tall, Chicago, what's his name? Vince Vaughn. Vince Vaughn.
I love Vince von but there was like some Vince Vaughn movie that was
a dud. And they're like, let's watch it. And I was like,
it's like the proposal or the breakup or what was it? No,
the breakup was great. This one was God, I can't even think of
the name of it. Uh. You know when when Whenona Ryder was in
it and she cheated on Kevin she was married to Kevin James and she cheated
on Kevin James. Uh, and it was about Vince Vaughan catching her cheating
the dilemma. The Dilemma, Okay, it was like, no, none
of that was another like another Diamond dozen movies. I'm do we really have
to watch this shit? Okay? So I humor them. I fall end
up falling asleep. But the first night I was there, they're like,
Jackie Intillnatt, let's there's that new I want to see the new Adam Sandler
movie on Netflix. You're not invited to my bar mitzvah. Yeah, yeah,
you're so not invited to my bar mitzvah. That Woe's cute, is
it? Not? That one did look more serious than some of Adam Sandler's
other movies on Netflix, you know, like The Ridiculous Six or the Halloween
movie. Like I saw the little trailer that they play for. It was
like, Okay, this looks a little more normal than some of his other
ones, but it's serious. I thought it looked more serious. You watched
it. I had to watch it, but then every these two bitches fall
asleep, and then I end up being like I'm invested. Now I know
how the ship ends. So I actually watched it. I was like,
actually, yeah. Like the next morning, she's like, I want to
finish watching it. I was like, you finished watching it, but I
I finished watching it, and don't tell anybody, but I kind of enjoyed
it. I mean, it was okay, it was you know, it
was like a coming of age. It's his daughters, his two daughters,
right. His wife is in it, so the whole family's in it.
Uh, but it's his actual daughter playing and it's At first was kind of
distracting because I was like, oh my god, she talks just like Adam
Sandler. She got the same eyes as Adam Sandler. So I couldn't get
over that for a while. But then once I got over it, I
don't know, it was just like a coming of a like you know,
embarrassing, like, oh my god, we were talking about how you know
women fart from their vagina. You know, it's like, oh god,
you know, like just and then they're embarrassed because the whole class saw it,
you know, and then they're fighting about their bar mitzvah, and it's
like it was okay, but you're telling the story. I'm like, well,
you know, maybe your kids should watch it ahead of going to the
bub Well. It's funny because I suggested it as like you're all home the
other night. I was like, we should watch this movie. You guys
want to watch this movie and sad He's like, I already watched it.
I was like, these kids just do their own thing. Like I was
like, when did you watch it? She goes on like a week ago
when it came out. I'm like, A right, You're like so we
were like, well, how is it? You know, and she's like
it's okay, it's okay, kind of funny. She was like, it's
kind of funny. Yeah, I liked it. Yeah, We're like,
okay. Out of ten, she's like, I don't know, five five
it was fine, but we're like should we watch it? She was like,
I don't know. You would not make a good film. Critic don't
watch it. What do I care? On your own Sady's so funny.
It is funny. But yeah, it was okay, all right, I
mean, well, that will be happening when you guys listen to this tomorrow.
Yeah, I'll get through. Hopefully, I'll get through the day.
I hate when I have a thing that's like hanging over Yes, that's like
okay, I'm sure it will be fun when it's actually happening, but there's
so much preparation that, like, and I got John's got to get his
pants for his suit, take it out, and he's, oh my god,
I got to remind him to do that tomorrow. And then I gotta
make sure I picked Xander's pants up and bring them with me. I guess,
yeah, you bet, don't forget his pants. So you know what,
I will say that I won't that I could have put on Patreon,
but I'll just tell you so you know how. Okay, this is bizarre.
Oh my god, that is really cute. Look at this thing.
Take a picture. I was. I took a picture yesterday. I had
a squirrel that stopped and stared at me for so long yesterday when I was
sitting outside and I was like, what the fuck is he staring at me
like that? For why is he staring at me? I had to take
a picture. I have a picture on my phone of this squirrel that came
by me yesterday and stared me right in the eye for like a like like
a death's stare, like mad dog and me for like, I don't know,
like two minutes. It went on and on. Then he went past
it. Then he came back and he looked at me again, and I
was like, what is going on? Now? I'm doing this podcast and
the fucking squirrel comes right up to the window just now and stares at us.
Yeah, what does this mean? Maybe the squirrel has a podcast and
it's just trying to like, what's up? Can I do Thursday? We're
like, we have somebody for next Thursday, but Chipmunk talk, give me
your phone number. I'll text you about an opening. It's weird. It's
like there's a lot of drama that goes on in this backyard. Yeah,
and here he comes again. This is freaking me out. What does it
mean? I don't know. Maybe it's some bit the ghost of somebody.
Okay, okay, so you know how, you know how I'm a big
time volunteer at my kids school. Now, yeah, and you know how
it was, there was like a little bit of like rough waters there.
Right, I don't know, go check Patreon, but there's somebody who's kind
of in charge of the volunteering, and I had I had some other ideas
on how the So they do a staff breakfast every month, right, and
among other many other things they do at this school, they like to treat
the staff to breakfast, which is like, yeah, that's a good idea.
That's nice. And the staff, the teachers and all the administrators,
they absolutely listen. We come from TV, right, TV there, you
don't it's not a once a month thing that's every morning, like we're my
Bagels craft service. Yeah, that's like you need we get spoiled by that.
But like a lot of jobs, it's like a big deal if they
have donuts in the morning. And I guess at school, like and these
guys hot, they don't make enough money. They should be treated special.
So I'm all for it. Yeah, me too. But my whole thing
was like I don't think that one parent should have to be in charge of
stepping up. They're looking for volunteers to like, hey, who wants to
host the staff breakfast, and it's like, well, I'm I would.
I don't mind helping, but I don't want to come up with the two
hundred dollars like to do it. And I had suggested, hey, what
if like we get a bunch of parents to help to like chip in some
money or some time, you know, or like make it more pot luck,
like everybody brings an item signs up? Ever heard of sign up genius
kind of a thing that people have been doing. So anyway, I was
met with a little bit of resistance, which I talked about and and then
I was told, well, if you really think that could work, which
the person who's in charge of it did not feel it would work out that
well, that people weren't going to volunteer. She was like, why don't
you take it over? So I was like, all right, I'll take
it over, and then she kind of didn't really let me take it over.
Well, but then I eventually, I eventually was tasked with this,
and I haven't given an update to this in a while. So now we've
had to count them two staff breakfasts already. So one of them happened literally
the first week back at school. They wanted to do one, and I
was like, and she put it made it up to me, So I
made a sign up genius. This is me, who we all know is
a no getter. I was like, I did it. I made the
sign up. I had to learn how because I'd never actually made one.
I've used them, I've signed up. I like made a sign up genius,
which I didn't even watch a tutorial on it. I was just like,
Okay, let me figure this out. Do you remember your password?
I didn't have to remember my password at auto philed, thank god, because
that would be a disaster. I don't I don't know my password. But
anyway, I made the sign up genius and then they sent it out to
people and what do you what do you know? A lot of people signed
up. It totally went off without a hitch. Nice showed brought the stuff,
and then I had to do another one. That just happened and it
was so great I felt I just want to I just felt so proud of
myself because I was like, yeah, I do know that I tend to
be like, I've got a better idea of how this should go. But
it did work out fine. Like I put it out there. I had
a couple of friends at the school that I didn't know about it, and
I was like, hey, I know you've been looking for a way to
help out at the school. Like here's the links of the Sign of Genius.
If you want to bring something, we have the most beautiful spread.
Two different people brought bagels, people brought cream cheese, people brought juice.
I brought fruit, people brought pop tarts, pop tarts. Somebody brought all
the coffee, all the coffee creamers, like different kinds of creamers. Anyway,
we had this beautiful spread and all the all the parents that helped out
like felt good, Like you feel like you're contributing something. The teachers are
super appreciative and like I did get quite a few emails reminding me about things
to do that I already knew to do. You know, the person who
had been sort of you know, when you're dealing with somebody that's controlling,
I'm I'm trying to have a little empathy for the person that feels like if
I don't do everything, it's not going to get done right. You know,
sometimes it's really hard to let go of and to feel very put upon
and like nobody helps out and nobody's willing, and I have to do everything
myself, and if I don't do it, it's just going to be a
shitty school for everybody. And maybe those people just don't have faith that they
can turn some of it to somebody else, and they just worry too much
that I'm going to trust this other person and they're not going to do it
right right. And when you're the person who's not being trusted that you're going
to do it right, it can be so fucking irritating, you know,
when you're like, can you step back, bitch, because I got it.
I I told you I got it, and I fucking got it.
What part of I got it? Like leave me alone? Do you not
understand? But then if I just shift my perspective a little and go,
let me understand that heretofore she really has been just doing it all herself.
Yeah, so let me show her, which I thought I did by handling
it well the first breakfast, but I have to say for the second.
For the first one, she showed up and did and brought a bunch of
stuff to which I was like, why did you do that? Like you
gave this, you put this on me, so that you because you were
complaining that you don't want to have to do it and you don't have to
bandwidth is what the words she used, so like let me do it.
But you know what I'm telling you that I was like, you know what,
let me look, let me feel for her, has some empathy.
She still felt like she needed to show up. So okay, she showed
up. It went off without a hit. She was very appreciative. She
sent me an email she was like, that was awesome, thank you for
handling it, which still made me feel like she still felt like my boss,
right because like now you're you don't need to thank me, like I
took this off of your plate, right, you didn't have to do it
in the first place. But then after the second one, for the second
one, she didn't show up. She she emailed me to tell me to
email people. She did email me some reminders, which I was like,
thank you, I got We're all good. I totally got it. Don't
even worry about it. But in her defense, didn't show up for the
second one, didn't bring anything and didn't show up and didn't try to Like
I thought for sure I would see her there, like commandeering and you know,
but nope. Wow. And I started in the parking lot when I
was leaving and she was like, how did it go? And I was
like it went great, Yeah, awesome, I know, And you're gonna
do number three. I'm in charge of all of them. Wow. Every
month I have to throw a staff breakfast, but I don't. But it's
but it's not because I'm not doing it by myself. That's the thing.
Like so many people signed up. It was easy, breezy. Only thing
that was the slightest pain, honestly was having to show up at school like
an hour early, like with my stuff. But like my kids. The
first one, both my kids were like, we'll come early with you and
help you set up. And then like Xander was like cutting tomatoes for bagels
and like they helped put stuff out. And then the second one, Xander
wasn't didn't go to school that day, but Sadie came with. She was
like, I'll go early with you. I don't care nice, like,
no problem, no problem, that's awesome, that's inspiring, good, good
for the kind of thing that I am like, I don't like I think
I want to be involved, but then it sounds like way too much work.
But I was like, I faced my fear. I faced down like
what I thought was going to be like a contentious relationship with the person in
charge of all the parents stuff, and I like took it on and figured
it out. And now it's like, oh, okay, this is no
problem, and now I'm in. Now I'm like listed on the board as
the person who's like in charge of that's great breakfast. That's good. Now
sounds much harder than it really is, right, But you know what else
is nice about it is that you know your kids are not getting any younger,
and they're this is like a good time for you to be like still
involved with their school, and you know, maybe once a month do stuff
with that. Like it's nice, that's good. I love that. Let's
take a quick break. Yeah. I do think like when Elby's school,
her high school was like a big high school, and I was and then
the kids I volunteered a bunch when the kids were in their first middle schools.
But then when they were in the big middle school, I was like,
well, I guess I can take the year off. They're both at
big public schools. They don't need me, right, But now the twins
are in it. It's a small charter school, independent charter and needs some
love from the parents. And I'm like, I feel like I had that
year to kind of breathe, and now I am. I'm like, you
know what I'm going to enjoy, like getting to be a part of this,
yes for a couple more years. Yeah, that's what I'm you know,
because like I know how you're feeling. Yeah, yeah, it's like
the last year of school. Like I was in Target the other day and
I was like, what was I looking for? And I came across,
like, I don't know, the ten year old section for kids, and
I was looking at their outfits and I was like, I remember when my
kids were ten and I would be in Target, going, oh my god,
that's so cute for Sunny, that's so cute for her. Nice to
you know, and go walk just walking through Target. I was like about
to cry. I was like thinking about I remember when they were little and
I would like take them with me to Target and bribe them with candy and
check out. But yeah, now it's like they're driving themselves to Target.
I know. There were so many good things, and it's weird because we
both are in such a similar situation. And we started doing this podcast when
our kids were so you young enough to be a pain in the ass and
feel like we were, you know, not in the corner office. And
the time between like being in the mail room to the corner office, it
does feel like it flew by. And now I knew you will never get
that back. Will never They'll never be seven, eight or ten or even
like twelve or again. I know, and I remember when they were little.
I just remember, like me, Melissa, Susanne, we were like
willing the time to go buy faster, like all right, let's let's get
this going, like wait till it, Like I can't wait till they're six
seven, when they're easy to handle. Yeah, it's like now, it's
like I wish I would have just enjoyed, but you can't tell you but
you can't. I do. I maintain that I did not enjoy the years
between like zero and five. Yeah, I just I'm just saying, I'm
just being honest. It's not that I hated it or that I disliked my
kids in any way. I loved, loved, loved my kids and felt
that primal like Mama bear. But there was just so much anxiety and boredom,
and like, it's just hard, it's just hard. It's relentless.
They need attention twenty four seven. There's always something, especially like twins,
right, me too. And Kaylin knows he's because both of his kids are
young and so close an age that you're there's always something. Potty training,
you know, getting them to eat, getting them to do this. They
need to be entertained, figuring are they learning enough, are they this?
Are they what? And it's so relentless. And then you hit this part
after they're five. Of course they still need to be watched all the time.
But there's something that changes for me. Yeah, remember it was the
best. Yeah, when, like doctor Drew, I always told me,
when they know when they they're going to go in the street, they could
get hit by a car. That's when it kind of changes. That's when
they get a little older, they start to it. It gets a little
easier, right I hope, so I guess, yeah, yeah, it
really does. But then then you have other like challenges, and then you
have a lot of school stuff, and then you're dealing with other parents,
and then there's a lot of things that are very annoying along the way to
this stage where where they get fully independent, right, and then when they
get fully independent, you're like, god, damn it. I know,
but I think that hopefully because sometimes I Alby's right there in my house and
I miss her because she's just different, right right right, you know,
Sonny said the other day and this is like I was like, oh,
you know, I've been thinking about, you know, taking them on a
look at a college, because Natalia just went with her family with the family
friends to Florida to look at university out there, and then they went to
New Orleans looked at it because her friend was interested. She's and she loved
both. She's like, I ain't getting into these places, but I you
know, they were like she really liked the Floridas. So anyway, then
I was talking to Sonny about it, and he was like, well,
you know, he goes everybody and their mother and he looks right at me,
are like going off. All my friends are going off looking at colleges.
And I was like, yeah, okay, well where you want to
go? Like I would like to take you and Italia? So what am
I supposed to do? Like take Natalia and then take him take them or
should I take them both to like ta they both, because just to look
at even you know, even if they're not interesting, even if one's interested
in the other ones, not just for the experience. But yeah, I
mean I told him, I said, let's talk to your college counselor let's
figure out because I don't want to waste I want to take them somewhere that
it's realistic for them, you know, yeah, especially for Sonny. I
really want Sonny to go. Look, I think it'll really like you know,
which to the one in Chicago, maybe that one I don't know I'm
going to talk to. This was just like two days ago. And he,
I mean when he said everybody and their mother and he looked right at
me, meaning like you're not taking me on college tours, meaning like he's
joking, or like, you know, like his best friend Cam just got
back from wherever, and these other friends are out. You know, we're
gone for two days last week because they weren't with their parents looking at schools,
and you know, it's a time where everybody's like doing that, and
I've been thinking about it and I would love to take them, you know,
especially just to bond with them. And just go somewhere. Yeah,
I mean I say, pick a couple and that's it, and then it
and then depends where they get in. Right. Then when they get in
somewhere, then you can take them and go if they're really considering it,
right. I wish if I had to do that again, to be honest
with you, I wouldn't have taken I mean, Elbie went to UCLA,
but it's right here. Yeah, but like, did we really need to
go to Berkeley before she got in? No, It's it's like I don't
even think we needed to go to a lot of the uc That's what I
think too. I'm like, do we really? But but at the same
time, I think it would be good for especially him Sonny, to really
like see because you know, he was so I'm not going to go to
college for so long. Now he is wants to go to college. So
I think, you know, taking him to show him some of these you
know, universities would get him like even more sure. But I agree with
the idea of like, you don't have to go to all of them,
and I would go to one that he has a reasonable chance of getting into.
Otherwise it's just disappointment, like yeah, yeah, yeah, take him
to these hard schools to get into my One of my really good friends took
her daughter to go see Brown and she fell in love with it, like
was like, this is this is my school, Like I want to go
here, like you know, and my friend feels like it was a mistake.
Her daughter didn't get into Brown, and then was like that much sadder
because it felt so real going to see it and picturing herself there and like
this is my school, and it's like, well, she didn't get in,
right, so right, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah,
I mean I'm not saying I'm saying if like in her case, I
understand why they did because her daughter actually did have a chance of getting in.
She's super super good like kid, you know, like super high stats.
So but just looking back, she and I both agree that it's like,
yeah, you don't want to like set him up for disappointment, right,
So I wish in retrospect, I wish I'd taken her to a couple
more schools where she for sure would have gotten in, maybe even out of
state, but to a school that a private university that would have given her
money. Because I didn't take her to see University of Oregon, and I
thought about it a lot, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because we
couldn't have afforded to send her there. They didn't give enough money off for
us to afford it. So then I would have had that same thing.
She would have been like, well, that was my fallback school. But
I've been there and I really like it, and now I want to go
there. And I would have been like, right, I just had dinner
with Suzanne the other night. Her daughter's the same age as Sunny and Italia,
and you know, she's doing the same thing. And Suzanne went to
Season and you know, you can get anybody can get in and it's pretty
cheap. And she's like, my daughter's not going to season. She's not
gonna go to season. Not gonna. Well now she's like, Season's looking
pretty good. It's affordable. Any kid can get in, they have they
have dorms. You know. She's like, I want her to be able
to like at least, you know, even though it's a Northridge it's like
hops gipping a jump from her house, right at least, but some kids
come from other places are staying there. So even though they could easily come
home. It's still feel You're still gonna be with kids that are not from
right away. Right. So she's like, yeah, he sounds looking pretty
good. And then I was like him, maybe it's good for Sonny and
it tally you too. I don't know. I wouldn't mind them going to
school close to home. I mean, listen, I'll be applied to cal
State San Diego, which we thought she had a real good chance of getting
into. No, she got declined from there. Yeah, so I mean
it's all a kind of a crap show. I mean, now I sound
like bitter, like, uh no, but get it. Don't even apply.
They're not gonna get in anywhere. I'm gonna hears college for two years.
That's all I will tell people. Now, I'm like, what's wrong
with community college? Yeah? I don't know. I think. I think
though taking them to places where the college counselor says is a target for them
is a good idea. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. I just
think filling these kids heads with like here, like look at this school,
and then it's like they have no chance of getting in. It's like kind
of sad, right right. And then I had the meetings last week with
their teachers. Oh do they still need luckily? Yeah, they're still what
the I epple because you know, they have this this hour of directive studies
which they can take advantage of, which is helping them a lot, which
is one hour of them sitting in a classroom where all they have to do
is just catch up on work or finish their whatever or focus or study or
especially for Natalius, and she's doing this these office hours you know, after
school. You know, Oh my god, she's still doing the job too.
Yeah, yeah, okay, but go on, she met. Yeah,
I had the meeting. You know, it's the same thing. It's
like by now, it's like they're in their senior year. I've been doing
this for years now, right, get on. Luckily I don't have to
go to the school ever since COVID. It's like it's all on zoom now,
isn't that the best? I was thinking about it. I was like,
Wow, this is like COVID has changed some things for the better.
Yes, I had to go at this at this school at seven forty five
in the morning. You know, I'm just on zoo. So I had
them back to back ones on Thursday. The other one was on Friday.
I had the Thursday one where I was on camera Friday one. I was
like, I turned my camera off. I was like, you know,
I'm feeling so good this morning. I was like, and I just got
back from Florida too, right, I was like, sleep deprived. I
was like, but I already saw you bitches yesterday on zoom. Do I
have to there's only three of you. It's not like I have all their
teachers there and they're all together, and they're together, it doesn't matter.
Well, they're in their in their own offices right before school starts. Everybody's
in there, and some of them are with the camera off. So that
gave me the idea of the day before. There was a teacher there with
her camera was off. Why I don't know. Maybe she was still at
home. I don't know. But I was like, oh, okay,
two could play at that game like you. So anyway, yeah, did
the I EP stuff. It's all the same basic stuff, right, but
but yeah, I mean, and Italia is still making the job though for
Gargos, she there's times where she's bored. There's times where she's has to
answer phones and she's like, these people call and they're starting to tell me
about their case, and I'm like, uhlah, blah blah, I'm not
a lawyer, Like, not far from it. Just let me get your
name and number off, somebody call you. They go on. She's like,
I don't know what to do. They're going on and on and on
telling me their story, and the phone's ringing and somebody else is asking for
this, and I gotta sit there and listen to this guy going. I'm
like, what do you want from me? They go to law school,
but she's reading about like the Menendez stuff. Very interesting. She's like,
holy, I said you should watch the documentary. Like yeah, she feels
like she knows the story. But I said you should watch a documentary.
But she yeah, she's loving it. She does love it. But I
don't know, it's taken a little bit of a toll on her. I
think she needs to needs a lot every day, every four days. See,
I think she should do it one day a week. Yeah, that's
enough interning, that's huge. One day a week is all she should be
doing. This is a job, right, right. If Elbe was going
to work four times a week, I'd be like, no, yes,
too much, too well? I wouldn't say that now, but I'm saying
in senior year, I would have been like, no, yeah, yeah,
she's she's like, I'll probably just do it for you know, a
semester maybe, but maybe she should cut down the days. I don't know
if they'll letter, but whatever, Like, oh, well, you know
it's her senior year, like her senior year in high school, and and
she's not getting paid, right it, Yeah, I get it, but
like can she? I would if I were her, I'd just be like,
they could hire another intern to yeah, they could yeah, job share
with her, right right, yeah, or pay her yeah yeah, anyway,
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