Made out decision O pace sunny sune on. I had a vision. NIC's
night week. What's up? Everybody? Welcome to a sunny, bright sunshiny
for crying out loud, it's sunshine day. I think I'll go for a
walk outside now. The summertime is calling my name. I hear it said
all day. I want to get up sunshiny day. Everybody's laughing sunshine day.
Everybody's smiling sunshine day. Everybody's hung the troubles away. It's a sunshine
day. We're showing artage change and I've got to change. Oh my god,
I know we are showing our age memories. I beg you a million
bucks. Kaylin has no clue what we were singing. I mean, I
don't know the name of the song, but it sounds familiar. It does
because it was from the Brady Bunch. Oh yeah, the Brady Bunch.
You know that. I sound like a love the Brady Bunch. Oh my
god, me too. I was all about the Brady Bunch. Oh wait,
yeah, Brady Bunch. Happy days, even though that was a different
era. But happy later, yeah, a little later, Happy days.
La Vernon Shirley, yep. I was just thinking about those shows. The
other day, Happy Days was first. It was like Tuesday night lineup,
I want to say, and it was like Happy Days at eight o'clock Laverne,
And so that was already pushing it for me a little bit because I
was a little kid and I really wanted to stamp for Lavern and Shirley.
Yes. Do you remember what was on at nine what Three's Company? Oh?
Yes? And then at nine thirty too Close for Comfort? Yeah.
I think I wasn't allowed to stay up that late because too Close for Comfort.
I was more into in reruns. Uh huh, right, so I
would have been a little bit older. Yeah, yeah, I just I
remember that those were Tuesday nights. Yeah. My favorite was the cartoons and
it was after school and it was Channel fifty six and it was Kimba the
White Lion, which was like my all time favorite show I watched. Was
obsessed with Kimba the White Lion. And then I do remember there was controversy
because later The Lion King the movie came out and I was like, this
is like Kimba. Oh it was, yeah, and the lion's name was
Simba oh Cima, and Kimba. It was a Japanese cartoon. I mean
I can't. I think they got sued. Oh really, yes, but
I don't know who won. But anyway, it was Kimba and then I
want to say it was Underdog. Oh, Underdog and Rocky and Bullwinkle Yeah,
and uh speed Racer. Yeah, here he comes, Here comes speed
Racer. He's a demon on a wheels. He's a demon. Then it's
on to be coming after someone go speed Racer. Do you remember that?
I do. I do a big those cartoon fans. But I did watch
it because there was nothing else to watch, right. I like the Warner
Brothers, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Oh yeah, I like that too.
I was a big TV addict too. What about Saturday morning cartoons?
Did you watch them? Land of the Lost? Yes, with the Land
of the Lost and there was another one. Yes. That's why I buy
those old T shirts. I go on a uh tea tea spring or tea,
I can't remember, and you can look up anything you want. And
that's where I got my WITCHI poo, the one with uh Liddsville and hr
puffin stuff, which poo gave me nightmares. I've heard this Sid and Marty
Croft where like Big Time did a lot of asks, that's what I hear.
Yeah, one of them just away recently. I know, I know,
but I to me, it's like Disneyland. It's like when you go
to Disneyland and you're a little kid, you don't see any of the wires.
You know, you're on the Pirates of the Caribbean, and you're just
like, this shit is real. This is real. You're scared, and
then as an adult you're like, oh, there's I can see you could
see the ceiling right right if you look, So you have to kind of
try to keep the magical life. Well, it's like that. I feel
like as a little kid, you know, hr puff and stuff, it
didn't feel like cheesy puppets. I felt like, yeah, my friends,
right, your friends, Yeah, because I would be left alone. Well
you were just talking about this in your book. Because I'm listening to your
book, which is really good, which, by the way, gives me
comfort when I'm out on my construction site at night smoking cigarettes, because I
like, it was raining last week and I was out there smoking. I
was like, you know, things were coming to an end with the divorce,
and it's like listening to your book sitting out there. It was nice,
but I pictured you send me the sweetest text telling me that, and
I was imagining you like alone in the dark with air pods on, so
with noise canceling air pods so you can't even hear when, like you know,
the rapist comes. Yeah, when Lessay tries to accost you. Yes,
yes, I was like Lynette, but take one ear AirPod out.
Be aware of your surroundings. I am my back is up against a brick
wall, okay, so I do have my my peripheral vision going on.
My god, you're the You're the person outside of seven eleven that my kids
are scared of. I got my down smoking against a wall, like my
kids are like, mom, stay away from that person. Now. I
know it's pretty apathetic. So you were going to say latch key yes,
like yes, like when just being alone every day after school like and then
after school though, I would watch like General Hospital, okay when you got
a little older, assuming Yeah, when I was older, i'd watch General
Hospital than Oprah. Did you ever watch General Hospital? I didn't watch General
Hospital, but I watched The Young and the Restless. Oh you are CBS
fan, I guess ABC. I wanted to get back to the Brady Bunch
for a minute. Oh god, So I actually did watch. I watched
like the Brady Bunch in Gilligan's Island because when I was really little and I
had my first just like crappy TV in my room, that's what they would
play on, like Nike at night. Those But other fun facts about it
is I lived right around the corner from the Brady Bunch House. It's studio
city. I did too. I lived on Aqua Vista and it was like,
so, yeah, I lived on Valley Spring Lane, which is kind
of on the other end of the neighborhood or whatever. But as I got
older, there were two places in the neighborhood that me and my friends would
park outside of and smoke weed in the car. We had this one spot
that was kind of like a dead end, but then you know, we
saw like a cop drive by one day, so we had to find another
one. So we used to smoke weed outside of the Brady Bunch house.
And that's what we would say, like, we're burned, Let's go to
the Brady spot to go smoke weed. Oh my god, classic la Yeah,
and uh my dad dated one of the Brady girls. Oh really,
Yeah, I forged. I think it's the older one, Marcia Marsham Marsha
was okay, The younger one was Susan Susan Olsen. The middle one was
Eve Plumb. Yes, what's look at what? You got a look at
Plumb? And then she was a Marine McCormick, Marie McCormick. Yeah,
he dated Marine McCarthy. And think he went on a few dates with Marie
McCormick. If I'm remember it right, yeah, grooving, I think so.
I think I'm remembering that right. I don't know. I'll ask him
for like one minute. When you first said it, I was like,
what are the chances? And then I was like, oh, because he
was a famous actor, of course he did. Of course he did.
Yeah, that's so funny. It's funny. I think Adam went to improv
class with Eve Plump. Yeah, she looked like she was like doing walking
around. Yeah for a while. And then I don't know what happened to
little Cindy. I think she's doing fine. Yeah. And then I used
to love that when when they go on vacation, like when they went to
Hawaii. Oh that was the big episode. And then they had like the
talisman they get they got like a tiki torch that they had a curse.
Yeah, it was cursed. Yeah, it says I feel like a lot
many people would say it jumped the shark around that time. I would say,
O contrere got better? I got better? All right? Now,
I could still hear that sting that every time they'd show the tek Yeah,
speaking of that, what about Bewitched? Were you to Bewitched? I loved
Bewitched because I was thinking of that for when she would move her nose.
Right, it's so funny and I dream of Genie. Oh yeah, I
used to watch that too. Isn't it funny that back then that high concept
like people with magical powers, right, was big and we all bought into
it. Yeah she's a witch, sure, right, she's a Genie in
prime time? Yes, yeah, those are the biggest shows. Yeah,
it was, yeah, on the primetime schedule and then And I know this
is a an Adam thing, but it's mine too. I'm taking it back.
Love Boat, I was love love Boat and Fantasy Island me too.
Fantasy Island was like and I feel like that was Saturday night. That was
a Saturday night Saturday Fantasy. It was a love boat Fantasy Island and and
what was the two like their husband and wife? Oh us with Stephanie Powers
and the yeah, oh something and something. Yeah, look up Stephanie Power.
Power is gonna drive Crazy And it's spelled with an F because that's why
I think I was named after her. Yeah, and it was a drama
show in the eighties, and it's not hard Castle and McCormick. It's like,
right, I was gonna say heart, heart to heart. Yes,
love Boat Fantasy Island, Heart to Heart. That was set. That was
a good time Saturday night for me. Oh me too. Yeah, my
dad would watch those with me and a lot I loved, like right from
the beginning when they would when Fantasy Island would open, You know what,
it reminds me of uh White Lotus, where you're like, what's gonna happen,
Who's gonna who's gonna come gonna face which? How is this gonna fall
apart? Like what's their fantasy and how's it gonna go dark? I remember
trying to figure it out, and you'd always be surprised. My dad was
on Fantasy Island really played an Italian ambassador of course. Really. Yeah,
he had like one or two lines in Italian, and I just remember him
like throwing his napkin down at a dinner table and storming off. Yeah what,
that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's so cool. And I know,
I know that was like the only he did that. And he did
a music video with Jermaine Jackson. That's hilarious. How did he get that?
He had an agent? Jack Scagnetti was his name, Oh my god,
classic, I know, and he was his agent for years in the
in the San Fernando Valley. But you know, he never went on.
He got an agent when we moved to California and then just kept him and
went on like maybe an audition here. But he was always like the Italian
guy or whatever. But not always because he really didn't work, but that
that was like his thing, what he would go out for. Yah.
Yeah, yeah, because they need somebody to speak fluent Italian. So right
right, listen, getting an agent is no small feat. Like the fact
that he got an agent is pretty big. Yeah. Back in yeah,
I mean when we moved here in the seventies, they got me an age
and everybody in the family got an agent. My brother Dave got an agent,
my mom got an agent, really yeah yeah, but then nobody worked
and then it was just me going out on auditions right until you were like,
yeah, I'm done. It's I got old enough. I'm gone,
what the hell am I doing? Like this is ridiculous. I did I
ever tell you the story? I know I've told this story, but of
my first time I got I was am seeing at the improv and this guy
came up to me and said, I want to send you an audition for
a big show that's coming out on NBC, which was called Townies, which
was a show that came out and Mollie ring Will all want to say,
wasn't it Jenna Elfman, I don't know, Oh yeah, the town was
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. I remember that show.
They were both in it, and oh okay, okay, Well,
so here's what happened. Oh my god, maybe you just popped up on
Google as part of the cast. I don't know how that's funny. So
I guess this isn't even really a spoiler alert. No Stephanie Wilder and not
Cat, not Stephanie. Uh. But so I'm at the improp so I
get I get offered this audition and I'm like, oh, Okay, Now,
something to know about me is I was not a good actress, like
at all. I could do stand up and I could you know, I
could be me, but I didn't know how to act. And I had
taken I want to say I took a few some acting classes. I mean
I don't want to I think I took them before that, or maybe it
was anyway, and I did not do well in acting class. It was
that whole thing where it lay on the floor and pretendia bacon and I was
every single thing. I felt full body cringe, was just like this is
so dumb, oh and doing scenes and also my acting teacher was kind of
mean. I mean, you're not always mean, right are they always?
So let's take the stick up out of your ass? Like why do they
got to be so mean and like embarrass you in front of you, like,
you know, so embarrassing And that's once they feel like the the what
they want to do is like tear you down or something. Then they can,
but where's the building back up part? Like good cults, they tear
you down, but then they build you up. Then they brainwash you into
being part of the cults and make you feel good. There's no feel good
part. It's all negative. So and I hated that, which is why
when I teach writing, like I'm the opposite. It's all about like making
you feel good, because even if you suck at first, you're not going
to get better by being told, well, this kind of side, like
you're going to get better when you're like, here's what's great about it,
and here's what I want you to work, you know, So acting class
I just really didn't like it. And I always even even if like I
was getting a private which I sometimes had an audition and I would get privately
coached, I never felt like, oh I nailed it, Like I still
always felt like this is this is bad. Yeah. So I get this
audition and I go into for the read and apparently, and I can't remember
this casting director's name, but she was a big casting director. She booked
big, big, big shows. And I go in and I read the
lines, and I think I'm good at reading but not acting, so I
can give almost a pass, like it's like, so she listens to me
and she goes, well, there's something there, but you're not you can't
go like you can't whatever the thing was. I'm trying to remember I don't.
I did get the acting I did get the audition for this Townies thing,
and I look on the list and it is like the biggest names that
are going in for this, and I was like, this is so sad.
So then I do not get that job. Catherine hair I want to
say, her name is Catherine something Harris. So I get another audition,
though, and I go in for her and she says, no, I
can't. I can't send you to producers. But do you? But you
have no agent. She's like, so I want I have a friend who's
looking for people that you can go in And I know I've told this story
before, so I'm like, okay, great, I'm going to have my
first interview with an agent. So the agent says, you need to learn
a monologue. Come in and do You're going to perform a monologue and like
meet the guys. I'm like, okay, So I go to Samuel French
bookstore get monologues. I'm not an actress. I know really nothing about it.
At this point, I probably hadn't gone to acting are in my twenty
early twenties probably yeah, so early to mid twenties. I'm gonna say I'm
I'm like twenty four maybe. So anyway, I get this book and I
look up. I learned this monologue. I memorize it. I am not
good at it, but it is memorized now that I'm thinking about it.
I watched the CBS Morning Show thing and you were so cute with your pigtails,
like up on stage. If that was it, Oh that was stand
up, I know. But like, if that's the age you were,
like, you could have gotten a lot of acting that. I was older.
That's why I had already had LB at that. Okay, so I
was that me in that orange shirt. I was thirty nine, oh,
thirty eight probably still yeah, but still you still look young. Yeah,
So in my twenties I was I'm sure you were cute. Then I was
cute, but that's all I had going for me pretty much. And I
was a decent stand up but I was not. I was just like so
always felt so self conscious. So I go into this, I go in
to meet and I'm so nervous. I'm like the most nervous I think I've
ever been in my entire life. And I completely choked. So it's two
guys and they're like, Okay, so you're ready, and I feel so
stupid. Oh and I need to add I'm waiting outside to go in all
by myself and everybody that's auditioning. I can hear people. They're seeing a
bunch of people and people are doing the fake orgasm scene from When about Sally,
So you just keep hearing people going like and I'm like, oh god,
like that was the hot right model and I'm doing like I think it
at an accent. It was like some girl talking about her boyfriend at a
bowling alley and she's like, from the fifty It's just like what am I
thinking about? Not modern at all? So, oh my god. So
it's my turn, and they're like, okay, like whenever you're ready,
Like they say hi to me, and and I'm like, my mouth is
so dry, so my mouth is like I could barely talk. So so
I I start right and it's oh and I'm shaking. I'm shaky. I
get like a few words out and I'm like, can I can I stop?
I was like, can I do you have any water? Linette?
This was one of the most embarrassing experiences of my entire life, and and
they everybody was so uncomfortable it was like two guys that ran this agency and
like their assistant, right, so there's three people. And then the guy
goes of course, of course, yeah, and he brings me like a
Dixie cup full of water and I like take it. It's like I remember
it being a really small cup. It was like a Nike weell and I
just remember thinking like this is not enough water. But like I take some
SIPs of it, and they're like, okay, anytime you're ready to you
ready to try again. They're so nice, but they're looking at me like
I'm an orphan, you know, like all poor thing. We're not going
to adopt you. But like so I get through somehow, I get through
it and it is terrible, and they both they're like, thank you for
coming in. Then I never heard anything from any like really, yeah,
so you never got an agent or anything. I eventually did get an agent,
but yeah, no, not when I was just a comedian, right
right, not interested. Let's take a break. Yeah, that's for already
twenty minutes into the Yea and Kaylin has a pretty big story, but it's
oh, yeah, but so but you had an agent. I'm an agent
when I was Yeah, well, students I turned seven, Dorothy diotis agency,
and yeah, I mean my dad got me an agent, got me
into SAG and AFTRA, which is good. And I've still been paying my
dues all these years. But you have yeah, oh yeah, which is
great because I have to get health insurance, so I think there and I've
had health insurance through SAGIN after it, so I don't know, we'll see,
but but yeah, I've been with I enjoy. You're going to have
to book something because you have to make the minimum. You have to make
the minima. Yeah, unless you made so much money as like a child
actor, that you paid so much money into the guild, they get lifetime
and health benefits. Otherwise, no, yeah, they should put podcasting on
there, you know, I know radio and television like radio. Who does
radio anymore? Yeah? But but and I remember going on getting these little
jobs and then as soon as after I did the job, my parents took
me to the unemployment agency to get on unemployment. I would get an unemployment
check. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy? Yeah, because I worked
like a day. And did they put any of that money away for you?
I think they did. I mean I got my first car from right
right, But that was about it. No. I mean, I don't
even know how much money. I didn't really make anything. You know,
you should have sued them. I know I did that too. I was
in one episode of my dad's TV show when I was like six, and
it ended up getting my first car. You did, really see they put
it away for you? Uh? Wow, that's nice. Yeah, and
I just threw old any money i'd get over the years into that and then
that ended up getting my first car. Well, see that footage is out
there somewhere by the way. We watched it a couple of times. What
TV show is called The Magnificent Seven. Oh yeah, yeah, we saw
him. Remember we saw pictures him on the set. Yeah, that was
on our old Instagram. Yeah yeah, I know, I know, so
do we. We didn't say hi to our peeps, not yet. We
didn't. You could do it right now. Let's say then, I want
to hear Kaylin's story. Yeah, It's it's a sad story. Uh,
ash Ashley. I'm like, it's really sad, Ashley, So share bear
the I wanna Hershey, bar Kelly Latti da Amy is a cut not Anna
faris rollan Oni Aaron who is uh Nikki, call your girls. We already
we already shouted out. Leslie Acosta, Jacob is so growley and charming,
uh Rita Rocks, Elizabeth Williamson's kids in her basinet. We gotta maybe,
we gotta check check change it up, change that up. Rita is a
basset hound. Why you look at so sad? Rita? Why you look
at so sad? That's hilarious. Athena, we love your dancing, and
Polly, we love your pancakes. To Zerrup and Valerie, Bubba Fenwick Katerina.
Seriously, though, I can't change that up. You gotta check your
molar. Everybody check your molars. Gabby and Missy ooh those two. Yeah,
I'm worried. No award shows this week, so no, they're out
of work at the unemployment office. Ishan vashpe that ass. And Kelly Brandt
is not your aunt, but she will give you a mentos, Yes she
will. It's in her purse. Check her purse, Rebecca, Alicia Cante,
Leslie Corona's back as you were going to find out. Sarah Stefano,
she's our Paisano. And Aaron is a dirty Sanchez. And Lynette does know
what that means, Jennifer, get up, Sandra. It's not easy being
green, but you make it look easy. Chris to get the strap.
And Stephanie is a stinker wrinker. So Caylin, what happened? What happens?
So last week I spent three days in the hospital with Blake. What
yeah, And I'll just say now that she's fine and back home. Still
has some lingering effects. Oh my god, what happened? Uh? So
Tuesday, we woke up and Blake was kind of like off balance, Like
every tenth step she would take, she would she wouldn't fall over, but
she would, you know, kind of like jolt and like catch herself and
wear her Amy's mom kind of noticed it in the morning, and then as
I was taking her to school, I noticed it a little bit when we
were walking to school and she got out of school and uh, I noticed
her do it again, and I picked her up from the classroom and walked
away to go get ila with her. Did the teacher say anything that's I
was like, I should go ask the teacher. So I went back and
I said, have you noticed Blake? It's been off balance today? And
this teacher only had Blake for like an hour because she stays extra and the
teacher was like, yeah, I have noticed, Yeah, she has been
kind of like off balance today and I was like, that's weird. So
I pick up Ayla go home. She's still doing that thing where she's just
kind of catching herself every once in a while. Amy gets home and I
say, there's something going on with Blake, Like she's not walking properly.
And we test her, like we have her walk back and forth and back
and forth, and she's clearly like something's going on where she's just kind of
a little off balance. So Amy's like, okay, I'm taking her to
the er. And then I was like, oh, this is I guess
this is like more serious than I thought it was. So Amy stayed with
her at the er for hours. I ended up driving over there later after
her mom got back watch Aila, So like seven thirty I got there and
she was like in you know, she was in the er, in that
big giant hospital bed, and her little body was so sad. Yeah,
very she's three now, right, she's three. Yeah, but she was
happy. You know, she wasn't acting strange at all. She was still
cute, but it was just sad to see her and there and uh so
then we waited a while and then the er trauma doctor came in and was
like, all right, I want to see her walk. So he put
her down. She walked like a couple steps and he was like, oh,
yeah, there's something wrong, and she's okay. Yeah, she's okay.
And but but when we put her down, then it might have been
she was a bit traumatized from she had to get a cat scan so they'd
put an ivy in her, so that wasn't Yeah, that wasn't good for
her. They took her blood, blood work, both of those came back
and you know, nothing, They didn't find anything. But when the doctor
put her down to walk, she was off balance. But her legs were
also like trembling. So the doctor's like, all right, we're gonna admit
her because we don't know what this is. It could just be the result
of a virus or a cold, or it could be the early stages of
leukemia. Oh my gosh. So I was like, oh fuck, like
now that's all I can think of, right, So they admitted her,
and then another doctor came the you know, the pediatric wing doctor came in
and he was very nice and intelligent, and he helped kind of calm us
down, like it's most likely just a result of a virus. But she
wasn't sick, Like there was no days before where she was sick. She
had a little cough one night, which she coughs at night all the time
anyway, because she sucks her fingers and ends up making her off, So
there was no indication that she was sick. Doctor made us feel better.
And then the next day she tested positive for coronavirus, And so then I
go like, you mean like COVID And they're like, no, like the
original coronavirus, not one of these, like mutated like the first one.
Isn't that crazy? What the which was gone? Which, of course,
selfishly, I was like, wait, so does that mean Corona's back again?
She was never sick, She never seemed to be sick. People have
been vaccinated though against the original one and mutated. How does it what I
don't understand. I was going to say, it mutates, Like how does
it? I have not you know, like did she get the original?
No idea? Okay, but so they so they then they were going to
take her in for an MRI and a spinal tap. Oh my God.
And then another doctor came in and was like, well, let's put a
hold on that. I want a neurologist to see her first. That took
all day. Then just came in like at night when I was at home,
and the neurologist said, yeah, I've seen this before. This is
most likely just the result of a virus. Like this thing happens where there's
some kind of inflammation in their brain, it's sending the wrong signals to their
muscles. It's like, this is probably just the result of a virus and
it'll go away on its own in like one or two weeks. And this
is after you found out she had the virus of the coronavirus, Okay,
and that's kind of making sense. Yeah, And so that calmed us down
a whole lot. Then she had an MRI the next day. They didn't
find anything, so then they go, yeah, this is just the result
of the virus. She's going to be off balance for like a week or
two, but those she'll just get over it. So we came home and
she's still been kind of falling a little bit, especially when she wakes up
from her nap. She's very kind of unstable. Other than that, she's
doing pretty good. But yeah, oh my god, Caitlin, how scary?
Yeah, it was pretty scary. Well, as soon as the er
doctor said leukemia, then it was like a whole nother thing. It wasn't
until the neurologist saw that we were all finally like, okay, this,
we can kind of calm down a little bit, right And how long until
the neurologist saw her doing it? Like what the fuck? I had the
same thing happened to me. I was telling Kaylin literally exact same thing with
LB when she was a baby. She's probably like fourteen months she and one
morning she woke up maybe she was like eighteen months and she couldn't I can't
remember exactly how old she was, but she was had been walking plenty before
that, and she just couldn't walk. Like I put her. We put
her put her down from the crib or whatever, and she just fell down
and we were like, what the fuck? So I called the pediatrician.
Scary. I brought her to the pediatrician and he said, you need to
take her to the too urgent care. No, he said, if she
doesn't, if she's not better by tomorrow, bring her to urgent care.
She wasn't better. Somehow, we go to Urgent Care Urgent Care Caesar and
they're like, you need to take her to the er. And John and
I were like, wait what And they said it could be a virus.
It was the exact same thing, and they said called They said it could
be something called toxic cinovitis, which is basically happens in little kids when they
have a virus or a cold and then it goes into their joints. They
said, like her head, which is making her then she was walking,
but she would yes, she wouldn't walk, So they said it could be
but but it also could be leukemia. Same thing. And I was crying
and of course just catastrophizing and thinking the worst. And then we brought her
to the er and then they couldn't get blood because she was so anxious,
even as a little little little kid, that she wouldn't let them take her
blood. And they were trying to hold her down and she was screaming,
and then I was crying and it was like a freaking nightmare. And I
remember they had tabloids. It was early enough that you we didn't have smartphones,
so I couldn't just like read my phone, so they had. That's
another thing like that I forgot when Blake first went to the er and I
was home just watching Isla. I just googled, like what could make my
toddler start, you know, being off balance, all the bad idea like
brain tumor, neurological. I just put my phone down, like that was
a mistake, right, right, yeah, yeah, And then we were
in the ear and Amy was like googling things. This is after the doctor
came in, and I was like, don't stop googling, just stop just
that. Google'skno going to know more than this. Doctor just talk to us
like this, don't do that. So, yeah, don't do that if
you want to, but don't, right, Yeah, Well, my thing
just came out that they eventually they had to They had to medicate LB to
get her to relax enough for them to take blood. So they gave her
verse said, right, they calmed her down, They calmed her down,
she flapped her arm out for them. They got blood. It came back
all negative and then she started walking on her own and they're like, yeah,
it was just a it was just a result of the virus. But
it was the scariest. It was off like traumatizing a couple of days.
Really, I've never heard I've never heard of this, like these kids can
get They called it blake with blake. It wasn't what Stephanie said. They
called it viral ataxia. And then it was funny actually because I was servicing
one of my pawn clients who's a nurse, and she was asking me like,
oh, how's it going, And I was like, oh, yeah,
my daughter, she's something called like viral ataxia. I don't really know
where it is that I forgot she was a nurse. So she just looked
at me. She's like, yeah, I know what a taxia is.
I'm a nurse. I was like, oh okay, So she was like,
yeah, I've seen that before. Wow. Oh, I guess it's
kind of gosi. Yeah, but why do they have to say leukemia?
I know exactly. That's like the thing, like right out of the gate,
I want to be on a need to know basis, like if if
it's probably not that, don't put that word. Don't say that word out
parents, right, and let's say he's an er doctor. I'm sure that
you've seen it before. Like why yeah, why, I mean, come
on, that's Fuck, that's just I mean, it's on the one hand,
it's good that they're taking it seriously and not just like, oh,
your kid's walking funny, I'm sure it's nothing. But on the other hand,
yeah, I mean, I feel like they would have to give some
kind of more serious option as to why yet we're going to admit uh them,
you know, because otherwise if they're like, oh, yeah, it's
probably just a virus, they'll get over in a couple of days, and
they wouldn't admit him to the hospital, right, that's true. Wow,
And they can't give her any there's no antibiotics now, virus yeah, no
anti virals for the corona nothing, no pack slovid. It's so crazy.
That's so crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Wow. How's Amy?
Was? She really stressed out? She actually was handling it very well.
She was very very you know, calm and you know, straight to
the point at the hot spittle and is doing very well. I think you
kind of hit her more when we got back and it was all over.
She kind of you know, waited for it to hit her then. But
she's doing well now. Still worried, of course, but uh yeah,
no, in the hospital, she was. She was definitely more calm than
I was in that er room. Ah, poor Caitlin breaks my heart.
I'm sorry I went through it. I was just sad seeing her in that
big bed and in the hospital room with the IVY hooked up to her.
And then when they they had to put her out for the MRI too,
So that's weird to see her just kind of like, yeah, you know,
she was resisting it and then one second she's resisting. The next second
she's just like passed out. Yeah, it was clunk clunk. Give her
a little propofol. She was probably like, that's the best nap I ever
said, Wow, I love a little propofol. So jealous. Maybe I
need an MRI. No, they'd probably just make me lay still like I
can't, I can't do it. You gotta give me prom a fall.
Oh man. Well sorry, Cayln. Yeah, well you know it's I'm
glad it's nothing serious. Yeah, it's nothing serious. Well let's take a
quick break and then we'll come back. Yeah, and we're back. We're
back. So I had a book event. Yeah, I was just gonna
ask you, yeah, busy little bee. Yes, And some of our
listeners came down my friend Melissa, she's you can see her on the page.
And Heather pot came drove down from Thousand Oaks. They these are my
friends who have bad driving anxiety like I do, and also love yacht rock
like I do. I love I love both of these women. They're so
nice and anyway, so they braved driving anxiety to come from Thousand Oaks and
our friend Alex and Janet oh, and Janet came with her twins, her
twin boys. People that's so oddo see me? Yeah, And it was
really really nice, it was fun. It's I don't I don't have like
a lot of in person stuff books because the problem with doing stuff in person
is you do have to bug people to come otherwise. I remember doing a
book event for sippy cups, uh where I was at this huge like Barnes
and Noble. And if you ever go to like Barnes and Noble where they
most big Barns and Nobles, they're all big, have an area where people
come sign books and it's like a big space with all these chairs. One
guy came to see me and he was homeless. So and that is not
like a stand up joke like that is a true story. He was like
sleeping in the back, like you know, yeah, nobody showed up,
and I mean it was some Barnes and Noble out and I'm traumatized by that,
so, like, I mean, pretty much more traumatized than Kaitlin was
taking his daughter to the hospital. That was a really bad experience. So
I just don't like, I'm not interested in like if people go, oh,
come to a book signing at like in Arizona. No, no one's
gonna come see me, but you like the person we're asking for me.
It's just it's a weird thing. But so I'm just mostly doing like guesting
on podcasts. There's a great podcast that I did hosted by this woman named
Casey called Hello Someday. Oh yeah, it's really good. Yeah, Hello
Someday is a great one. And the Sober Mom podcast, which I'm going
to tell you her and those are both out already. Those are out,
yeah, and those are like those women, uh Suzanne Wherry. Her podcast
yes is called oh she I think sure. Her instagram is my kind of
sweet, so I think she has another one, but her hold on a
second what And the CBS Morning show is the Sober Mom Life. Yeah,
link to it. Yeah, yeah, that's on our Facebook. But anyway,
yeah, those those so many like people like us. Yeah yeah,
and great just just fun, good podcasts that have like really nice communities,
right like ours. So that's like, as I'm saying, compared to when
my other books have come out, podcasts weren't a big thing. Yeah,
so now it's it's different. Now. Yeah, it's almost like doing a
book reading, like resting. I'm going to be on another podcast early in
February called The Last Day. I think I mentioned this last week. It's
a pretty big podcast and it's a it's a really it's a good podcast.
Anyway, whatever does it? Keep looking for your episode of that other podcast
and he won't he's I don't think he's put it out. Oh really,
I know I want it is going to ask you when is that people are
waiting? I wonder if. I wonder if because I didn't kiss his ass,
he was so and you a kind of challenged it a little bit,
and maybe he doesn't like the fact that I was like, I have no,
I don't understand what you're talking about, because you'd think it would definitely
be out by now. Yeah. I have such a backup of but I
kind of don't want to like email the company and go like, hey,
are you putting my show up? Because I'd almost rather than don't. But
you're right, it is kind of like for would be funny at this point.
Yeah, it would be hilarious. I'd put it on our Facebook page.
I know, I'd promote the hell out of this. Maybe I should
write to the guy and just go like, hey, what happened to it?
I have a lot of people can't wait to hear it. Unless somebody
heard me talking about it and was like, no, but I think that
would be a great story too, though you should. You should email him
and report back and see what he says. Yeah, that's that'd be a
good Okay, Yeah, okay, I'm going to do that. Yeah why
not? Like I mean, didn't you say he had a staff of people
working for him, so many people? You never know, maybe somebody listened.
I did this other podcast that is a top podcast. I'm not going
to mention what it is. And here's why, because I was when the
guy mentioned me on his Instagram or whatever. I went to his Instagram and
I I you know, if you look at somebody's followers, some of these
people have like so many followers, and then you start investigating a little bit
and you realize these are all bots. Rights I telling you about that now,
every single one of his followers was private, and every all and and
they were all a lot of them had the same like a different picture but
the same description. You could just completely tell that it was really they were
all fake. And I was like, and they all see and I'll tell
you why. It's these all these people in this like business community and they're
all like so and so's podcast, thank you for putting out such a powerful
like they use these certain key words that are almost like seo words that and
they all anyway, I was like, Wow, this person bought a shit
ton of followers and probably buys downloads to his podcast because there I don't think
they're real downloads. And I'll tell you why. His podcast is in the
top one hundred. So when I got booked on it, I was like,
this podcast seems super boring and like not my audience, and it's all
like business development kind of thing. And he uh, it's similar to the
guy John whatever his name is, right, the one that we were just
talking about. What's that guy's name again? John Edmunds Cosma Cosma, Yeah,
the Unimpressed podcast similar to that, but this guy super super boring.
So I have noticed that in these days, once I started paying attention,
a lot of podcasts by uh follow I mean, I'm sure a lot of
people in multiple industries by followers and downloads. I don't know about their downloads,
but I've noticed a lot of by downloads. I know, but I'm
not going to be able to actually see that, you know, analytics.
But I have noticed small podcasts that seem rather boring that have just tens of
thousands of followers. And now I'm wise and go, oh, those are
those are gotten paid forwards. Before I was like, oh, this must
be big, It's like no, I've kind of wised up to looking at
that now, and I'll tell you why I do this guy's podcast. It's
like a top Put it this way. This guy is ranked way higher than
Adam, Like, he's in the top one hundred. Uh huh, he's
in the He's in the top seventy of all podcasts, right right. No
engagement. Not one person reached out to me, not one Instagram, nobody
said hey I heard you on this podcast. And I was like, this
is this something is so fishy about that. And if you go look at
the podcast itself, there's also no engagement on it, right, But there's
a lot of reviews and those seem bought as well. They're very generic and
it's and they're all like five stars like nobody's which is just not If you're
that popular, right, you're gonna have a lot of haters, right,
Anything that's popular has people that are like, why do you have this guest
on? Or that shocked or whatever? Right, that's what you know,
right, it's real. Yes, you have people that are like I didn't
like blah blah blah, No, this was just all what an informative podcast.
I feel so inspired by your your guests, And that's on iTunes reviews,
on the iTunes reviews, on the Apple podcast reviews. But then,
like I said, just like zero engagement, nothing back in like there's ways
that you can tell and I'm like, oh, this is all smoke and
mirrors, right, Wow, what the I did not know that you could
buy downloads? Yeah, you can make it. You can fake that.
That's crazy and I don't know, like so if you're getting even if the
downloads are fake, I don't know if that helps you make money, but
I doubt But here's the problem. Then, when you get ads on your
show, nobody buybody's buying because nobody's actually listening to the podcast. So then
you just get dropped by all the advertisement. Right, see, thank you
guys for buying all our stuff that we that we promote. Yeah, yeah,
because we don't fake any of our downloads, that's right, Yeah,
anyway we should. How much do I know? It's probably very expensive.
You have to really invest. Yeah, that's crazy. There's also there's certain
things where they call it advertising. So this is like hard to explain and
I don't even really get it, but you can. Basically it's buying downloads.
You can go to these like ad companies that say you're paying for advertising,
and it's like, let's say it's a campaign and you pay like three
thousand dollars and then they guarantee a certain amount of downloads or subscribers to your
podcast. But like, how are you guaranteeing that? Very grand? You
know what I mean, Like it would have to be a decent podcast.
People are not going to just click on links. So it's that I know
for a fact that that's also faked. It's like you in the old days,
and I'm sure still now. I mean, you can buy it's very
easy to buy Instagram followers, is it really? I know I always hear
that, and it's true. Like Kaylin was saying, like I see these
people I don't know, like sometimes they're TikTokers or they're just you know,
influence or whatever. I'm like, how the hell does this person have all
these followers? Like it just it doesn't make sense to me, like,
you know, like who is she? Like? I don't feel like sometimes
it does, though. I feel like there are people who have started podcasts
that buy all their followers and then other people see that they have a bunch
of followers and then they go, oh, this is popular, and enough
people have that is actually generated a you know, a sizable audience to make
it successful. So I don't think it doesn't like not work. I think
it probably doesn't work a little bit. Yeah, I'm sure it does.
But for the guy that I'm talking about, not the unimpressed, but the
other guy is not working right, Like I couldn't find any real followers right
right, and he's not getting the engagement yea. So like people I mean,
if you're doing a podcast that's that big, there's no possible way you're
not getting a few people reaching out to be it direct, messaging you on
Instagram and going wow, thank you for sharing your story something something. I
mean. I've done much smaller podcast than that one and gotten a lot of
like, yeah, people just going like, hey, I listened to your
episode. That was great. Just you know what I mean. Yeah,
yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, anyway, all right, all right,
god, this was super funny. Got a special guest Thursday show,
Alison Rosen. Yes, I'm your best friend. She's coming in studio.
We've been trying to get her for a long time and she finally was able
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