Made a decision A face sunny sue on. I hadasion nice wet Hi.
Everybody, welcome to for crying out loud. I know that you probably don't
recognize this voice. This is weird. I understand. Take a moment.
It's me Stephanie, and I'm here with Kaylin Hi. We were here with
Lynette for five minutes, I mean, not enough time for the show to
actually start. I'm sure she'll listen to this back between bouts of puking.
She just wasn't feeling well. But we have a show to do, you
know, the show must go on. Yeah. Apparently Sonny had a stomach
flu over the weekend and so she came in just looking like she was about
to vomit. I think she was. She looked really ready to vomit when
she walked in and like, oh, let's get through one show. And
she sat down and I think she did one of those all right, why
don't you go Why don't you go home? And Stephanie will take it over.
As I walked through the gate, I saw her kind of like stooped
over. You know when somebody looks like they're they're having a bad phone call.
Like I was like, oh, she she looked like she kind of
like hunched over a little bit, like she was receiving some bad news via
the telephone. Yeah. But as I got closer, I was like,
what what are you doing? She was like, oh, Sonny, Sonny
has the stomach flu or had the stomach flu. And I was like,
uh huh like it in my mind, I'm like, okay, so is
he wanting her to go back home? Because we all love it. Yeah,
when she walked in, oh, Sonny. Second, I went,
oh, so you gotta got to go take care of Sonny. Yeah,
no, No. Then she was like, and I'm starting to not feel
well, and oh boy, yeah, Lynette. Let me say this about
Lynette. Lynette Corolla hard worker. Probably doesn't have to be, but she
is very I mean, you know, I I have to I do other
projects here and there. And I will say that Lynette most consistent shows up
every day every time. Yeah. Uh, maybe not on time, but
like most time time close enough, yeah, but very consistent, Like it's
very unusual. She's She's not a person who is like I don't feel well,
I want to go home. Yeah. And when you're in podcasting,
I'm sure you've run into a lot of those people that are I can't do
it today. I don't know about today. It's like no, it's you
know, people get very Yeah that's the thing about podcasting. They just go
it'll be you know, it's so kind of relaxed and the schedules are so
all over the place anyway that a lot of times people just make excuses for
not wanting to do their episode. Oh we won't do it this weekend.
That's not Lynette. She's always coming in. And yeah, the people that
do make those kinds of excuses, they tend their podcast attends to fall off
after a little while. Yeah, it is a job, you know.
Yeah, although we get paid to just sit around and like chit chat,
which is fun. Well, you actually have a harder job. I get
paid to just you know, share about life. But it is still a
job, and people have expectations of their product coming out on a consistent basis.
There's nothing that annoys me more than if I like a podcast and set
they you know, once every few weeks they do an episode and then more
weeks go back and you're like, well is this still a podcast? Like
what happened? And there's no reason, Like I like my podcast to come
out around the same time every week, so that I have an expectation that
I'm looking forward to it and I want to listen to it. Consistency is
very important in podcasting, and when you're not, the audience will get very
irritated. Rightfully, so like you're you know, you get up, you're
doing whatever you do while you listen to podcasts working out, driving, work,
and then your favorite podcast is not posted when it's normally posts on what
the fuck what's going on here? It's very irritating. I have that sometimes
with this podcast. I listened to Crime Junkie, Court Junkie, not Crime
Junkie Court Junkie. We had her on our show. Jillian is the host
of it. We had her on our show a long time ago, and
she's had a bunch of stuff. She she's very consistent. I really like
the podcast, but she was pregnant and then like stuff was going on,
and then you know whatever, you know, she had a baby or whatever,
no big deal, but some of the episodes weren't really coming out that
often, and then what kind of bugs me it's funny is uh so she
started she has another podcast called, uh It's Not Court Junkie. It's called
Civil and it's about civil cases, which I really like because it's I don't
I don't like love the murder stuff as much anymore. Really, Yeah,
it's just it's gets tiresome. I don't just hearing about people getting murdered.
But I like this psychological aspect of it, you know. I like hearing
about like how they found the person. And I love hearing about the trial,
which is why I like Court Junkie, but that also has a lot
of the murder itself in it. But Civil is like talking about the Bill
Cosby case or talking about like a I don't know, the McDonald's hot Coffee
case, or things that are really interesting to me. But anyway, she
was pushing that podcast really hard on her main podcast, like you gotta listen
to Civil. If you like this podcast, you'll love Civil, and I
was like, yeah, I do. I definitely love Civil. I'm signed
up. I've listened to all the episodes. But then it just stopped posting
May in May. Any explanation December, No, never has there been an
explanation. No social media you follow her on Instagram and stuff, any kind
of like still promoting the show. Oh if you listen to Court Junkie,
there's still a Hey, if you like this, go check out civil It's
like we have and we're waiting for an episode. If you go on Reddit,
you'll see sometimes they'll be like what happened to Sylvil? Like why are
we still being told to go follow it? When because, by the way,
they were only like eight episodes. It's not like it's like there were
it's not like it went on for you know, fifty episodes and there's a
whole back catalog and that's you know, go listen to the No, it
was like eight episodes and then then nothing, no explanation, nope. Huh
yeah, well that's that's very frustrating, very fast. Yeah. Yeah.
By the way, uh, here's some people that probably do get excited to
hear a new episode of our show every week, and that's our people that
pay twenty five dollars on Patreon like share Bear, Hi, Share Bear and
Amy She's a Hunt but we love her? And Katie E. E.
Murphy and not Anna Ferris and Aaron who dies? And Nikki Call Your Girls
and Leslie still costing people this time outside of May Company, which doesn't even
exist anymore. So that's what's weird, Leslie find a department store that's still
open. Had to google what that was the first time you said it,
even know what that is. It's very old school. And Jacob is so
growley, and Rita Rocks Elizabeth Williamson's kids in her basinette even though it's kind
of crowded in there. Athena Ginard, we love you, Polly, we
love your pancakes. Valerie, Bubba Fenwick, Katerine to check your moler,
Gabby and Missy up to no good as always, e Shan Vashpey, He's
hot, Rebecca a little Bita's so cute and just moved to Hawaii. And
Kelly Brandt is not your aunt, Alicia Escavante, Leslie's stop coughing, Sarah
Stefano, she's our Paisano, Aaron Dirty Sanchez, Jennifer get up, Sandra,
it's not easy being green. Christa, you make us want a droop.
And Stephanie Stinker Rinker. And also I want to say thank you so
much to everybody who kicked in some cash so that I could make we could
all make, but I was the face of it. Anna, who is
the mom of Lyle, Lyle crocodile. And let's just call Lyle's younger sister,
let's call her Lola. Lyle and Lola. Yeah, she's a seventh
grader and oh my god, they're just the best kids. And I was
able to give Anna over two thousand dollars. Wow, yeah, that's great.
And she told me that she'd recently lost her ATM card so and she
was waiting for the replacement to come in the mail. And she went two
weeks without being able to go to the grocery store, she told me,
which is like so sad. This is really this money couldn't have gone to
a more I think just deserving person works her butt off, is always working,
but you know, makes minimum wage. Yeah, it really sucks.
But she was so grateful and she was like she doesn't understand what I do
or who people are, but she understands that there's a community of people who
know her story and care about her. And she was like tearing up and
just saying, please tell them I'm so grateful. And I was like,
I will. That's great, that's wonderful. It makes me so happy that
so Lyle is still Xander's BFF. And I think I told you this on
a previous show. But we brought Lyle over to Xander's school because he plays
guitar and he's really good, and the kid has just been through so much.
But like he's a very serious kid. Although Xander says that he's funny
and fun yeah, but he has a he's very serious and focused and he's
a really good guitar player. And he was at the big local public school
where they had a and one of the things he why reasons he wanted to
go to that school was because they had a guitar class. But he went
to that guitar class and he told us that it was very boring and it
was just very rote and learning sheet music and scales and you know, and
his technical stuff, technical stuff, and it was just like and then he's
hearing Xander talk about being in a band, and like our music teacher for
the music program, which I'll talk more about in a few minutes, but
is just a really cool young guy who's like an amazing guitar player, and
he's just full of energy and life and creativity and he's always trying to come
up with new ways to teach the kids music. And but he has separated
them all he has two full classes of kids that make up this program and
he's separated them all into bands. So Sadie's in a band, Xander's in
a band, and anyway, this kid was just hearing Xander talk about how
fun this was and doing these performances and anyway, so Anna brought Lilee Crocodile
over to our school. It was a last minute decision. She had to
go get all his paperwork and he missed the first day of school. But
now he's there and he's so happy and he's you know, and Xander's so
happy to have him. And it was really sweet because he's in the meat.
We got him into music lab. Yeah, and so he was he's
in a band. So Xander's in a band, Sadie's in a band,
and Lilee Crocodile is in a band. So we had our big show on
Saturday and it was just so fun. And for Anna, that's where I
gave her the money to watch her Like she gets to watch her son doing
something he loves and he kicks ass. He's like a really good guitar player.
He had his solos in his songs and he just see his face,
he just looks so focused and serious, but like a rocker he's doing a
little bit of and not on purpose, but he was doing a little blue
steal like he had a little of that like rocker face, like loose deal,
you know, like like conduct lips a little bit, but not on
purpose. But it just looks so freaking cool. Yeah, yeah, it's
very nice. Why don't they all just form a band together. I mean,
they might need to find a drummer, but then yeah, they should
all just do a band together. I know, you know there are some
of these kids at this school, well Xander sings and Sadie sings. I
don't think Lilly Crocodile sings, but yeah, I mean, or they could
just form a band with some other kids at school. This is a very
talented group of kids. It's it really feels like a performing arts school,
like some kind of New York art school. It's very cool. John and
I were watching the show and we were like, this is very reminiscent of
like old watching episodes of Fame. But you probably never watched that show.
I did not watch that way before your time. That was like high school
for me. Loved that show Fame and Live. It was about a new
York's New York Performing Arts School. Yeah, no, I've never no anyway,
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Nice. So you did say that the show that you went to went on
for quite a wh while, right, Okay, So yeah, here's the
thing. So Saturday, and I'm going to also talk about this on the
old Patreon because that's where I can. But I was, I have I've
been elected, not on my own not I didn't. I didn't nominate myself.
Let's just say I was. I was asked to be the liaison between
the parents and the music program. Saturday was the big show. So today
is Monday. So this just happened, and I'm still tired, and I
have like a crank in my neck from just like the stress of it all.
But it was the big show. All three of the kids were performing
in separate bands. He separated everybody in bands, like I said, in
each band got to do like a fifteen to twenty minute set and how many
bands were there? There were eight bands. Yeah, you also have to
consider the fact that, you know, it gets started like a little bit
late, and that's set up time in between bands and in each set.
So there was a set of like four bands plus just some free free songs,
like some extra extra songs. Now every extra song requires getting the band
members together, setting up new set of instruments to do one song. Right.
Yeah, the show was over four and a half hours long, Like
it was crawling up on five hours long, painful. It was insanity.
It was insanity. No, nobody want to spend five hours watching their kids
do anything, you know, And for a lot of these parents, they
have one kid that they're there to see their kid, and like that's twenty
minutes out of like an almost five hour show. Yeah, what time was
this at? It started at three o'clock in the afternoon. You're burning your
entire Saturday, yes, yeah, and Saturday night yes yeah, yes,
and Saturday night. Also, because I was helping with it, I had
to be there. I was there at one thirty plus doing stuff for days
beforehand, So I was there from one thirty until I don't know late,
because then I had to clean up afterwards, you know, did you have
other parents helping you too, or are you the last kind of tune into
Patreon kind of kind of yeah. I mean, look, people were there
and they were happy to be there and they were happy to support the school.
But it's too long to have a show, and you know you can
get you you get your like energy yet because you're looking. I don't know
if you do this when the kids are doing something, but like I'm looking
at the program like a hundred times, Like I just keep looking at the
program like is this coming? Because they list the band and their set list
right each band is playing like five songs some of these bands. Yeah,
So like you're looking and you're like, okay, so this band that I'm
no offense but not enjoying very much, you know, some kind of heavy
metal band. Plus you're watching some of the songs were like thrash metal.
And I'm watching, like you know, Joey's like seventy five year old grandma
who came to watch the show, and I'm like, how are these people
holding up if I'm feeling like my ears are getting assaulted right now? You
know, cause some of the bands, You're like, oh, okay,
I like this this oh, this band's playing some soul music. But then
it's like, you know, you're it's not like a concert I would have
gone to that. Yeah, yeah, it's not bands I would have like
paid money to see. But you know, when my kids were up,
it was like fun. But in between that, you're like, Okay,
how many more songs till my till Xander's up. You know, you're like
counting them out in your head, like the one song come yah yeah.
And then I'm like, okay, here's the band because there was like two
bands before Xander, And I'm like, okay, now they're on the third
song of that, so can I go out? Can I go out of
the room? But then nothing's happening outside of the room either because it's people.
It's not a thing. It's not like you're at like a farmer's market
where there's in this place there's bands playing, but you could go walk over
here and get a boba, you know now, but at least there's no
thrash metal playing in your ears if you were to just step outside, That's
what I had to do. I had to do that because I'm getting older
and I don't enjoy thrash metal, and these kids were really into it.
They you know, I felt bad like leaving, but you know, there
are plenty of people. But what I felt bad for was the last band.
Nobody except for the parents of the people in the last band, want
to stay that long. So you got kids that stay and a few parents.
But people are like, wrap it up. Would it have killed them
to just break it off into two separate days, like two different events.
Try and break up the classes and then one Saturday and the next Saturday or
Saturday and the Sunday. I feel like they should have done that. Yeah,
Or my note would have been have all the bands do three songs like
that's plenty sure, because a lot of these kids also were like guesting in
another band, so you know what I mean. It's like you got to
see plenty of each kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a lot.
It was so much. But you haven't really hit the time of your
life where your kids are going to be full on constantly doing things that you
have to watch because you've just had a taste of it with soccer. Yeah.
I got a taste of it with with soccer when soccer was going and
dance was going. Yeah, I got a little taste of it, and
then it's this week is their Christmas show, their Christmas concert that they all
the kids go to the chapel and all the parents go there and we want
Last year it was fun and I think it only lasted about like a half
hour forty five minutes. They sing two songs and then they're out. And
so that's this Thursday, they're doing that again. Oh that's so cute.
Though. Yeah, it's really cute when they're little, it's it's very cute.
Yeah. But yeah, Island Blake have been very shy lately. Really
yeah. I I a few weeks ago I talked about their their little prayer
thing that they do at dinner time. That's just this cute little thing that
they do every day. And then we tried to refuse to do it Thanksgiving,
would not do it, and for I think it like scarred Blake because
now, for some reason, every time she does it just with us at
the dinner table, she like whispers it really quietly, and I go,
why are you whispering? And she goes out because I want to so ih,
my god. But yeah, and just in general too, I was
at a costco the other day I had to get a new car battery.
I was told by the trip lake I go to Costco. They got the
best battery. So I went to Costco and I brought Blake with me,
and we're waiting in the car battery place in their little automotive section, and
this very nice old guy like you know, they like to talk, Oh
hey, how are you doing, little one, and Blake will just straight
hide behind me. She won't look, she won't do anything. If any
like strangers talk to them when I'm there, or even if they're trying to
be nice, she won't say a word. She'll just hide. So and
this is a new thing. Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, they
weren't you know, comfortable with strangers talking to them obviously in the past.
But they would, you know, stand there and I'd say, oh,
say hi or thank you, and they'd say, oh, thank you in
they're a little shyway. But now Blake will just straight hide and we'll try
and act like it's not even happening. Interesting And so I don't know,
We're going to see when the concert comes up on Thursday, but uh,
yeah, I don't I wonder if she's going to be out there and energetic
or if she's going to be all shy again like she has been lately.
I remember when Elbie was really little. I think I was talking about this
on the last show, but she was like that for had a big face
like that, the anxious and didn't really want to talk to people. And
her first little dance recital I think she was four. I was very where
I was like, this is never gonna got well, like, she's not
gonna I think she'll refuse to come out and go out on stage. Nope,
she was totally fine, probably the only one out there that even like
knew the like she was fine. She just once she's locked in. She
just went out there did her thing. And I was like, what,
who is that child? So they can surprise you? Yeah, and with
all the other kids there, I'm sure that's going to be very comforting as
opposed to you know, like the Thanksgiving where everyone is just staring at them.
Yeah, be a little intimidating. How is Aila in her last year
of preschool? Yeah? Oh so next year kinder? Yeah, I think
it's kinder. Is a pre k I think it's kinder. And the way
that you know Blake is well, when is she five June, end of
June. Okay, so no, she'll be in kindergarten, in kindergarten,
but it'll be but Blake because she was born in August, she can you
know, move over to pre k, Like, if we find a school
for Isla, she could just skip into pre k and go to Iola.
Yeah, so that'll hopefully be helpful. And yeah, we should probably start
looking looking at schools. Yeah, I mean, you don't have just like
your local neighborhood school. We do. But you know, Amy's a teacher
and she's been hearing not so great things about the local schools. So she's
been asking one of the parents at the soccer games her kids were going to
some like Catholic school, And me and Amy are like, again, you
know, we don't care. We'll put them in a religious neither of us
are religious, but you know, if the school's good, and I think
it's about the same price as we're paying now for you know where they're going,
yeah, we'll send them there. So we've been thinking about just sending
them to like a Catholic school and this one that this girl recommended, seeing
what that's like, yeah, I mean, definitely goes see it and oh
yeah, because some of them are more religious than others. Yeah. I
mean again, we don't care about their religion. But I wouldn't want it
to be too heavy, you know, as long as it's you know,
every now and then whatever. You know, it's kind of cute whenever we
pass, you know, the Christmas decorations and island, like, oh look
it's baby Jesus. Yeah, I know, so Julie case we were you
know, Julie and I were friends when the kids were really really young,
LB and Bella before they were even two, and we went through the whole
like where are we going to send them to? You know, elementary school,
kindergarten, elementary school? And we went to this one school that we
both really liked, but it was a private school. And I was like,
okay, if I pay for this, then I got two more coming
up behind. I can't like pay for one and then go, well you
two or shit out of the Look, you guys can go to the local
school. Not good enough for my LB, but you guys will be fine.
But Julie went. We all ended up sort of scattering my little mom
group and I we were all like it was like every man for himself because
some schools were hard to get into. We were on like waiting lists for
schools. So I got my kids into the what is Valley Charter, which
was like the independent charter school that then I went on to have a love
hate relationship with that. Our audience would be like, go put them in
the regular the public school, and I was like, no, I'm not
going to anyway. But Julie sent her kids to this private school that was
like a Christian school that has a really good reputation, and they lasted like
a few weeks until her daughter started coming home going, mom, what's hell
Fire? There was a kindergarten she was learning about going to Hell, and
Julie was like, oh hell no, puled her out and moved her to
the first school that we'd all gone to see that we liked that private school.
Yeah, that's that would probably be my out as well if they came
home talking about Hell. It was funny because Julie's funny because she so she
had liked this other school that she ended up at, but she got talked
into it by her friend who was like, oh no, I've heard such
great things about the school. And they were all going to those two were
going to put their kids in together. So she bails and doesn't have the
heart to like even tell the friend. She's just like, doesn't say anything.
And then the friend was like mad for like a long time, but
she was like whatever. And then at the school that she was at that
where she now teaches, this elementary school, her kids are out of there,
and ironically her kids go to a private Catholic school. Oh yeah,
yeah, which is I don't think very religious. But anyway, so there's
good and bad. Yeah, this school wasn't a Catholic school. It was
a Christian like elementary school. Yeah, so yeah, you know what,
I'm so dumb and just don't pay attention to any religion. I just go,
oh, Christian, Catholic, what's the difference, They're like the same
thing, right, I don't even like the Christian or Catholic. I got
they like pretty much the same thing. I don't even know, I think.
I mean, wow, I'm going to sound really dumb. Well,
there's Catholicism, which is not It isn't Catholicism a form of Christianity though,
You're you're asking me. I went to school with mostly Jewish kids, so
I know, Judy ism more than anything else. Ye went to a lot
of barmbomb metzas in middle school and that was uh, yeah, that was
tough to say. It was like every single week end was you know,
as like a thirteen year old. Every single Saturday another bar bought mitzvah and
the parties were fun. But yeah, I kind of felt like you were
sitting at that that show for five hours every Saturday. I just sit there
watching the same thing with all my energy in my add is driving me crazy.
Well, you remember I told you even my nephew's bar mitzvah went on
for way too long, and I was just like, dude, you guys
are not that Jewish. Stop already, Like it was a conservative. So
there's Conservative, which is not Orthodox. It's like one step down from Orthodox,
and then there's Reformed, which is like the looser, hippier form of
Judaism, a little more kumbaya, a little less rules. So but my
sister in law goes to a conservative temple for whatever reason. But yeah,
that's the thing. It's like, you're culturally Jewish, but like, is
there any reason why this service needs to be three hours? Yeah, there
really isn't any reason for it. And they're mostly friends with people who are
not like super juice. So you look around and we're all just like checking
our watt like pulling our phones out furtively and like, oh my god,
how long has this been going on? I wish and and circling back checking
the program like a hundred times. Like with Jewish stuff too. Some of
these prayers like they go on really long. Like you'll look at it and
it'll have one line of the prayer, but then that will go on for
fifteen minutes because it's repeating, right, It's like a thing, and then
it repeats. So just when you think, oh, this should be wrapping
up, like we've said all this, and it's like no, it's starting
over, and then that one prayer thing will go on for ten fifteen minutes
and you're like, I thought we were going to be moving on to the
next part of the program by now, and you're like praying for an interner.
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and it was it was just like, all in all, a fun thing.
I do love and look forward to seeing my kids, you know,
perform. Sure it's so different now because I used to just love the basketball
and watching my kids play basketball and just watching like how hard they worked.
I mean, Sadie took her basset foketball like real, seriously, they all
my kids did. And I don't know, I really really loved the basketball,
and I was really sad when they quit, Like there's something really fun
about just seeing your kids like score a goal or you know, make a
shoot a basket or I mean, I still think it was one of the
high points of my life when Albie scored her first like three point basket because
she was always so little, yeah, so just and she worked so hard.
But she was never amazing at basketball. She just was you know what
I mean, she just wasn't she was. She was a hard, hard,
hard worker. And but just so when those moments when you're like,
oh my god, she scored three points and I'm freaking out and screaming,
and you know I would, it's like a little high you get. I
don't know if I ever talked about the end of Isla's soccer season, No,
the thing so she started out real strong, like doing some and you
know, she loved practice. Practice was a lot of fun. And during
the games, I think the first game she scored one goal and that was
awesome. Second game she scored two goals. Third games she scored like three
goals. Like she was kicking ass. Yeah, I know, it was
a lot of fun. And then I don't know what happened, but something
kind of came over her where I think she realized, like, oh,
I don't need to like really like get the ball and kick the ball and
try and score it in the goal. I can just kind of follow the
group of kids running around as long as I run with them, and it
seems like I'm doing something. So she kind of stopped trying, but she
continued to just run around because she was like, Okay, this will work.
And so then I was constantly getting more and more frustrated. And on
top of that, her entire team. There was one other girl who was
very good and very into it, and she would play like with Aila,
and all the other girls like just did not want to be there. They
were, you know, just holding hands and skipping around on the defense,
you know, sitting down, running over to their parents. And as the
season progressed, I felt myself getting more and more frustrated, and I'd go
to these games, like trying to get her motivated. Oh, you gotta
get the ball, and then I'd have to like I'd get heated. I'd
have to remind myself, like they're four year olds, don't get frustrated.
You need to calm down. I couldn't help it. I'd get there and
she come up, get the ball. You have to get the ball,
don't just run around. Get the ball. She goes okay, okay,
and then she would just run around somewhere, and I was like, I
can't even go to these games because I just get frustrated on the way home
and I have to like calm myself down or remind myself that their fort they
don't even keep score. Yeah, I know. That's the painful thing when
they're that young. They don't keep scoring, and you're like, well,
how am I gonna do? We got to account for these people, like
we got to figure out who's the weak link, and towards the end,
they're like some cuts. I'm kind of glad they didn't keep scoring because I's
team was just getting killed every single week. If they had kept scored,
been like thirty to one, yeah, forty to one. The other teams
would just score goal after goal after goal, and I and they were all
the same age. Yeah, that's so funny. Were the other parents What
were the other parents doing? They were cheering, They were cheering and relaxing
and there was they seemed into it. I guess the other team's parents were
always more into it than our team. Of course. Uh even like I
saw one team, like the dad had them all set up and he was
teaching them like proper like formations and soccer rules, and I was like,
is that what our teams should be doing? Are we supposed to be doing
that? Because we don't look like that at all, And yeah, he
had them disciplined and yeah, needless to say, they kicked our ass.
But I was like, I think, I think that's how it's supposed to
look with our team. You know, two of the girls are just running
over to another field while it's all happening. I have been so. I
live right by Bulbo Park and h I'm sure you've been there. They have
the battle tennis courts there, Yes, they do, so, I'm always
in the morning there are there are like well on the weekends there are these
coaches out with these little kids, doing little soccer clinics with the little little
ones, and it is always very jarring to see some of the coaches are
like, mean, you know, it's like watching little Russian kids with their
Russian coach, you know, berating them at like four or five years old,
like you know, straight legs, point your toes. Well, I
mean, these coaches kind of yell at these kids, and I always think
like, well, I don't is that like is that what you're supposed to
do? Are they supposed to be getting? I mean, I don't want
to say like abusive. I'm not like calling like CPS or anything, but
but like you know, like kind of harsh. But then I'm like,
well, maybe these kids are going to be good soccer players. Yeah,
I don't know. Go in there kind of made me want to play soccer.
I you know, I watch a couple of sports. I watch football,
I watch basketball when I can't, I do not watch soccer. I
mean, I think it's just the most boring and I'm so boring. And
I'm half English too, Like every time I go over to England, all
my family they all love soccer. It's all soccer soccer all the time over
there, I like, I can't. Every year or every four years,
when the World Cup comes around, I go, I should watch the World
Cup. I should get into it. So this past when that happened,
I go, I'm gonna watch a World Cup game. I'm gonna get into
soccer. I watch it, no bullshit, ninety five minutes goes by,
not a goal is scored, and I go, fuck this. I I
am not doing it, but watching is love play. Go you know what,
it seems like it would be kind of fun to play against four year
old Against four year olds, You're like, I would do so well.
I'm like, you know what, I kind of want to find some like
pick up soccer game and go play. But I don't know how you do
that after twenty years of no I used to play all the time when I
was younger, but after twenty years of not playing, I just go to
the like, you know what Julie's husband plays. I feel like grown grown
ups. Yeah I could, Like, I'll check it out for you.
Yeah, okay, I'll find out. Yeah, they're really into soccer.
Yeah, I think it'd be fun to play, not fun to watch,
but yeah. After that, I was I've been thinking, yeah, I
could get into that. I used to have a thing. Well, so,
when I was really young, I was a gymnast. But I and
John always makes fun of me because I'm always like I was on the pre
pre Olympic team, which was technically true, but I was not good at
all, right, But but I could like barely do a backhandspring. But
I was really into it. I really really liked it, And I've just
carried that in my mind. I was much better at it than I know
that I know realistically I was, uh, but and I only did it
for I think like fourth, fifth and sixth grade. But I trained a
lot, and I was at a real it was called La School of Gymnastics,
and there was an Olympic coach. They did train kids for the Olympics
there, but I was nowhere, like right anyway, I always thought like
when I got much older, I was always like I would love to do
like I get still to gymnastics, like oh my god, And I'm always
like, I want to do like go to an adult gymnastics place. Ye.
So I my best friend at the time in sixth grade did gymnastics in
college and now she's a diver. So she's my exact age, in her
fifties, still really good at anyway. So she posted this thing on Facebook
a while ago, and she was like, Hey, you know, I'm
doing this adult gymnastics thing and it's like reminding me of like how much I
loved it, And of course my first thought was like, oh my god,
I want in on that, you know. And then and then I
went over to she had some videos of what they were doing, and I'm
like, when she says adult gymnastics, she means like ex like professional gymnasts,
and also like people in their twenties. That's what they mean by adults,
Like they don't mean me. And I was watching these people, I'm
like, oh god, I can't even do a backbend. I can't even
do Like the other day, I just decided to try if you lay on
the floor and put your hands like behind your head and try to archer back
up. Couldn't even do that. I was like, so, I think
that would be a shit show if I tried to go join an adult gymnastics
class, and I so I messaged my friend and I was like, by
the way, I thought about it for a few minutes, and I realized
I can't even do like a bridge and uh and she was like, yeah,
it's it's a little intense, yeah, even for adults. Yeah,
well, you know, I watched guys playing soccer in the park. I
go, I could do that. I could kick the ball around. Let
should be fine. And then when I actually do go to try it,
I'm probably it's probably not going to work out that way. But uh yeah,
now I finally got back into working out, so now I actually feel
like a little athletic, like I could do something else. Yeah, so
yeah, that's kind of my next goal. I know, I'm soccer game
at the park. Yeah, I'm sure that's the thing. I'm sure you
could find some guys to just like play some soccer. I'm trying to think
where you would like, where you would look, because you wouldn't look.
We live. We live like right on a park, like a big park,
and even at the park, they have like full size nets there,
so I see people playing every weekend. I just don't know how it's like
organized, how you get in there, right, it'd be awkward if you
like walk up if it's like a team and like no, dude, you're
like, oh, this doesn't work like that. Okay, next next,
like, I'll just be here if you guys need a guy, and they're
like, no, me, don't, sub you start yelling for yourself.
Amy comes down, She's like, sub put my put my boyfriend in me.
I'm ready. Yeah, I I if I was playing, if I
was on like Isla's team. It reminds me of like when I would do
temp work and just try to look busy, like I'm not actually doing anything,
but I'm like running back and forth to the copier, and I'm sure
it was really frustrating to people because they're like, she's not doing any actual
work. Oh, Mike, I'm here, guys, make my hourly,
looking busy. I'm holding the file. Yeah, pretty important stuff I'm doing
over here, just literally like looking like I'm in a hurry at all times.
So when anybody's like, hey, can you get the phone, can't
do it, can't get the phone. I got a thing I'm doing.
Yeah, that's the ala that's just running around looking like you're doing something exactly.
She would run around and then inevitably the ball would just fall to her
feet and then she just stand there and like look at it, and I'm
screaming cat. She just look at it and just wait for someone else to
come by and get it. At least she didn't feel like embarrassed by that.
Because also when I was young and we would play anytime there were any
sports like softball. I was not athletic. I know, I just finished
saying, I did you ynastics, But as I also said, I wasn't
good at it. But team sports made me so anxious. I was one
hundred percent the last person picked for any teams. Nobody, nobody, and
I mean nobody wanted me on their team. I mean it was it was
sad. But if I was when you know, you have to go on
somebody's team, and they'd all be annoyed, like, ah, Stephanie's on
our team. And if we played softball, they would stick me deep in
right field, you know, thankfully, because I was like, my worst
nightmare was a ball coming to me and I wouldn't know what to do with
it. And every once in a while I have a painful memory of a
ball coming to me and then you see all the faces just looking like,
oh fuck this, you know, and rightfully so, because the you know,
if the ball would I mean I would kind of put my mit up,
but I'm never going to catch a ball, and I never did.
There's no there's no redemption story in this. It was all just like,
oh God, why is the ball coming to me? And then I would
just watch it fall put my mit up and I would inevitably miss it,
and everybody would go, ah, that's where they stuck me. When I
played baseball, and I hated baseball. It was the worst because I always
I never wanted to get hit with the ball. I was always at bat
and I was always scared of getting hit with the ball. So they just
stuck me in left field and I would just stand there and you know,
like crush fi, Oh yeah, what do I mean left field? Whatever?
Would the ball doesn't come? I think I was at well, I'm
left handed, so they might have put me over there because whatever. They
put me over there, and I was always yeah, So at bat,
I would always be afraid of the ball and so I'd hate that and then
when I was out in the field, I would just stand there out in
left field and not do anything. There was one time a ball was hit
to me and I made this great play like a running diving catch role and
I looked and I catch it my mitt and I roll on the ground and
I look up and you just see the ball kind of fall out of my
mit and uh. And then they still called it like a catch. Oh.
But then all the kids were like mad at me because that wasn't a
catch. You dropped it, but they still called it. So there it
was like a cheat or something. And it was the one great play I
made in baseball, and I fucked it up. Oh my god. Whenever
I watch football, I get so tense for like the players, because I
always think, especially like the kicker, you know, when they are gonna
have to kick a field goal. Yeah, And I'm always like, what
an awful feeling that must be. I've asked John about it. I'm like,
you know, do they just feel just like crushing pressure of like having
to kick the ball and not only is there, are they going to let
down their team? Especially when it's like if they make it, they'll win
the game, and if they miss it, you know, like an important
kick, Like how does anybody would stand? How does anybody function under that
much pressure? They get in these like rhythms too, where you know,
they kick a bad field goal and then they go on a run of just
missing every single field goal after that, and that's when I was like,
oh god, it'd be so terrible to just be in that mindset of just
missing every single field goal. You're kicking well. And now I'm gonna totally
butcher this these facts. But watching UCLA play football, and they had a
quarterback that was playing and then they replaced him because he was throwing too many
interceptions and he was a sought after right freshman that they had brought in.
He was going to be like they're they're winning quarterback. And then they pull
him out right away after making after throwing interceptions, which just feels like,
oh, like, you come in, there's all this expectation for you,
then you throw some interceptions and then you think maybe you try to convince yourself
like it's okay, They're gonna give me a chance, like you know,
I'm young, and then like now they replace them with another guy who who
they play for quite a few games. Then that guy is like fuck this
and he goes and puts himself in the transfer portal yeap, which John says
is like a crazy thing now that they're all just going in the transfer portal,
y'all want to go to schools to make more money. Yeah, well,
and they just want like playing time. Like I even just saw stat
yesterday that like five of the last Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks were all transfers.
So you know, if you're a quarterback and you're not getting played, yeah,
it's a transfer, I guess. Yeah. I don't follow college football
that, Yeah, I mean I don't really. I mean I you know,
I get my little like I'm really into it and then I forget about
it for two weeks. Yeah. Anyway, all right, well this was
like super fun, even though we missed urlan Net. But before we go,
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