Made a decision of face sunny sune on. I hadurdasion night. I guess
we're long. What's up, everybody, It's our Thursday episode with special guest
in studio in studio from Palm Springs, Gina Kimmel. Whoay, my old
friend, my old pal. How long have we known you? Gina?
I known you well, let's say you were twenty five. Oh yeah,
it's right even now, known you as long as I've known years, about
two years, that's right. Yeah, I've known you like my whole adult
life pretty much. No, yeah, yeah, we were just talking about
that. How freaky it is, Like the second half goes so goddamn fast,
right, the first half is slow and miserable, I know, second
half fly by. Next thing, you know, it's you're going to be
seventy I know, not well, I know, I know when you start
taking advantage of that AARP stuff, Like at first you're like horrified, and
then you're like, wait, fifteen percent off, it's fucking amazing. You're
like the movies were expensive, I know, right, yes, And I
can't eat the popcorn anymore because it gets caught in my dental work. It
gets win and win. I actually have not been to a movie since before
COVID. Oh really, Yeah, I used to go every Friday. I
saw everything that came out, good, bad, and ugly. Yeah.
And they used to go to movies all the time every Friday. That was
like date night thing or whatever. And let me ask you this right right
out of the gate, speaking of movies. Yeah, the Oscars were last
night. Yeah. Can you not watch it? Do you have to not
watch it? Or has it has it been long enough that you can watch
it? Or do would you start watching it? Like fifteen twenty minutes in?
I don't watch it? Okay, understandable. Part of it is because
the co host and I have a history and uh, and I don't really,
I don't know. I feel like television has gotten so much better than
movies lately, so I think that's more what I'm addicted to is the television.
Me too, so even though I don't watch the ems either. But
but you do like a good Netflix. I do like a good Netflix.
A true crime, yeah, yeah, I do like true crime. Yeah.
Yes. If we used to go to the movies every Friday, I
remember seeing so many movies with Gina. One of them I really remember was
that movie with Richard Gear and his wife cheated on she was his wife was
having an affair and it was called unfaithful. Oh that was Diana Dan Lane.
I don't remember, Gina. I totally remember sitting in the theater because
you screamed at the screen because he was such a doting and nice husband and
you're like, oh, place, that doesn't it doesn't. I feel like
I remember somebody getting rolled up in a rug in that movie. Remember,
don't know Lane's having like all stop and watch the movie really quick, so
can't talk about it. Dian Lane is having an affair with Oliver. Yes,
his name is Oliver something, and he's freaking hot, right, Okay,
well I forgot his name. Kaylin is a young producer, yeah,
because faithful. He's a young actor. We need to know he's been in
Actually who the guy named Oliver Well? Richard Dreyfus is Oliver Martinez. Oliver
Martinez. He was hot, hot, hot. You don't remember seeing them?
Who? I wonder what he looks like now Diane Lane's sleeping with him
and Richard Geared as her husband them, yes, because and then they have
to roll them up in a rug and Gear was it a comedy? Super
funny. Yeah. Yeah, that was a great movie, wasn't it.
I loved that. Oh my god, Gina, you would love it.
I was on a plane once, was Richard Gear to Martha's vineyard. Yeah,
and I just happened to be on my honeymoon at the time. And
uh, that was when it dawned on my husband at the time that Jaws
was filmed there like that. That was the connection seeing Richard Gear. So
and it was a little prop plane. There was six of us on it.
It was Richard Gear and Jaws. You're thinking of Richard dreyfe Ah,
you very very Who the hell would cheat on Richard Gear? I I know
that's kind of like with the like we that's why we were. He was
a doting husband. He was because Richard short. Yeah, no, no,
it wasn't Richard Dreyfus, who oddly stupid, right, that's my boy.
Like you and Melissa, we were like you guys were yelling at the
screen like oh please, this is plait, Like he's kissing her goodbye and
like, you know, he was just a really sweet husband to her and
then she goes off and cheats on him. Well, the guy was younger
and cuter Oliver, I mean Oliver Martinez. I don't know what he's done
lately, but he was really he was hot. I sound like a lunch
I just keep going. He was so hot. But at the time,
at the time, yeah, yeah, then he I know, let's see
what he looks like now. Is he got a dad? Bought in our
sitting Caroline. I mean they all do eventually, I know. That's what
it always gets me with the women. You know, they're always like,
oh, I broke up with my wife because she put on twenty pounds or
whatever. I'm like, Okay, well when I met you, you had
a five inch forehead. Now it's seven. Okay, let's just say that.
Yeah that's true. Yeah, that's how did you meet your current guy?
Great question? Great question. We met playing a video game? Wait
what like online? Yeah? Online? Like it was the Stems Online.
Do you remember that? Did you? Of course I didn't play it,
No, but I do, of course I remember. Yeah. So I
was playing it because my ex mother in law, not no fault of her
own, but she just didn't understand the rating system of games, and so
Kevin one day was playing Grand Theft Auto at the age of six. Yeah,
Mike son Kevin. So we had this rule in my house, right,
I had to play the game first, just to make sure there were
no prostitutes and murder. And so Katie came home with this game that she'd
gotten her and wanted to play, and I was like, oh, here's
a pedophile like hot Spot, right, So I played it and it was
like a rack. I mean it for I was hiding in my house double
fisting rock Cookie Doke. I was depressed, right, And so I met
him like and you had to like earn money or something, and I met
him. Of course in the game, I had a huge gambling brother,
not unlike reality, but uh, and so he, I don't know,
he was the best at playing this game that earned you money. I had
the Simmafia after me, so I needed so I latched onto him, and
then I know, we just started chatting and like the same day that you
met him in the game or was it the kind of thing where you could
log on it, yeah, and be in the same world. And he
was, you know, sloughing off at work, so it was like mostly
during the day and we just you know, would like chat about well life
and stuff. And he was also going through a divorce and oh so we
like talked a lot about that, but you had no idea what he looked
like. No, And I didn't want to know because I literally plucked him
off of a hill in Alabama. So you know, he was so smart
and he corrected my grammar for typing. This is the days of aim.
This is twenty years right, this is how I met my husband, by
the way, on line on AOL. Yeah, instant messenger. Oh my
god? Really yeah, isn't that crazy? And did all your friends John?
Right? But no, Chris? Oh okay, sorry, mine's John.
Did all your friends think you were gonna get axe murdered and stuff?
Yeah? Yeah, so did you know? I was the aggressor by the
way too, Like he was not really flirting with me, he but so
I had to. I was the one who was like, do you want
to meet? And he said no at first? Oh really believe it?
But did he live local or did you pluck him off a hill to No,
he lived local, But that's because I went on on AOL. There
was like a search thing. This was in the very early days of AOL.
You could be in your AOL community and you could put in other accounts
like you could search for accounts that were sort of in LA and I put
in mail writers or TV like writers. Oh gosh, bring this back for
dating, by the way, why don't they just do that? It's the
dating apps. Oh, I know. But I had no idea what he
looked like or anything. But my whole thing wasn't really that. I wasn't
trying to date. I was trying to like have fun, like mess with
people. I thought it was funny to like send people odd and instant messages.
You know, you could randomly instant message somebody. It would to just
pop up on your It would make a little ding and pop. Actually never
ever used AOL and I don't even think I well, I didn't download it
till I met him, and then we kind of started talking off the game.
Okay, so wait in SIMS did he have his Yeah, you make
a little character. But I mean back then, you know, it was
this head this. Yeah, there wasn't it. So it didn't Yeah,
and I didn't want to know what he looked like because you know, I
was in a down time in my life and I was like, oh my
god, it'll be some Bubba with a crew cut and a gun rack and
you know, and like I just want to keep this fantasy alive and stuff.
And then he was doing something to his house and I was like,
oh, take a picture show me or what it was the outside of his
house, and he did, and the reflection was in the window member and
I was like, holy fuck, this guy's good looking. Yeah. So
then I was like, hey, what a swap picture and stuff? And
uh and then he so we did, and then then that's when it got
flirty and stuff. And so then we decided he because what are the chances
that you're just on some random game and that the person is like semi age
a program. And I don't recommend this for people at home because I think
it's a fluke, like people are like start playing video games. You know.
I was. But when we decided to meet in Ohio, Uh to
where were you? I was in LA He lived in Alabama. Oh jeez.
So I didn't really think it was going to go anywhere. But we
decided to meet. Why meet in Ohio? He had to go there for
like a work conference, because this is then I became the aggressor. He
had to be work conferences. Like I go to Ohio and one of my
best friends from high school lived there, so I figured I had an out,
you know, like a reason to go, like I'll go visit my
friend that I haven't seen it twenty years. And then meanwhile, you don't
even contact your friend. You're like, that's all I'll contact her if things
go so and I didn't, and so uh, but the best was he.
So we decided to meet and I'm like, all right, I better
tell him that I'm going through this divorce to somebody famous. So I tell
him and he's like, well, who is it? And this is all
you know on a like whatever, And so I tell him and he's like
I'm really embarrassed by this. And I was like what And he's like,
I don't know who that is? A I'm gonna fuck this guy right,
Oh my god. And then he told me he's like, I was really
afraid you were going to say it was al Pacino. Why he's a big
fan, I don't know, I get, I don't know. I never
asked him that. I was like, of all the people, boy,
he's the same age as my dad that even back then basically looked homeless.
Yeah, right, like al Pacino was not. I don't know. Look,
oh, my god, what is it? Yeah, maybe he was
trying to say something about you. He was cute in like this late sixties
and probably early seventies, seventies, and then my father and then that,
Yeah, very tell you that. I ran into him at like an agent's
office, and I mean I thought it was a person, like a bum
walking around. It was like William Morris or something. And I'm like,
what is this guy Who's wearing like a leather trench coat but not nice,
like a really tattered and his hair was crazy and he just looked so unkempt,
and I'm like and then somebody that I was with was like, that's
al Pacino and I was like, oh geez, what happened? I think
that's there incognito decide right, yeah, well they really commit to it,
then they're incognito in their own mirror. I never understood that. Yeah,
okay, go on. Oh yeah, so you guys are talking back and
forth and then you see said at the picture. Yeah, well yeah,
and then we met in Ohio and so was he acting excited to meet you?
Though? But yeah, yeah he was. I mean, he's a
little bit younger than me, and he's cute, he's a very handsome guy.
Handsome guy. Uh yeah, he is the first guy I've ever been
with this better looking than me. That sounds bad. I usually like him
not that attractive, don't we all? Yeah, so tell us tell me
about so when you first met Okay, so you get to Ohio. Well,
so he at any point where you're like, oh my god, I'm
well everybody remember you were like, oh my god, she's gonna die.
I know, we were like, you know, we were calling you the
devil woman because his ex yeah and so yeah, because his ex wife is
very religious and uh so we but we were. But I remember, like
I had to call one of you guys like every fifteen minutes, like,
so I had to check in with somebody to make I was alive. So
that made it awkward while we were having sex, like to call a friend.
Okay, So he picks you up at the airport, pick me up
at the airport, and then we had a romantic dinner at White Castle of
course, and then you so did you have chemistry right away? Oh?
Yeah, right away? But by them, weren't you guys on the phone
talking? Yeah? By then we yeah, we had been on the phone.
Yeah, so you don't know what the chemistry is going to be like
a person. Yeah, and it is like it is awkward because like especially
as you probably know, Like so I don't know about how long before you
met, but like this was months months of chatting and you know, and
then you feel like, oh, I'm never I don't need this person.
Don't even know who I am or what I look like. Like that was
the cathartic part because I was going through this trauma, so here was somebody
I could like spill my guts to and he didn't know who I was or
you know, and all that kind of stuff and so he so it was
a little it was awkward at first, but then it did just slip right
into like total comfort. Yeah. Yeah, it's that you too. Like
then, No, mine was a little bit different because I had built it
way like I had never seen him and he had never seen me, but
I knew because we talked and we lived near each other, we were in
the same industry. He knew a couple of people that I knew in common,
one in particular, and I asked this guy and he was like,
oh, JT, I haven't seen it in like four years, but like
he I think he's like a good looking guy. I think he'd probably like
him. So then I had in my mind that he was cute. He
didn't know anything about me, but when so when we met, I literally
hadn't seen a picture. He just told me I'm going to be carrying a
red backpack. And when I saw him, I was I was kind of
disappointed, but it was not because he's a very good looking guy. But
it to me, you built up built I built up like Lynette and I
have talked about this, like kind of ethnic I like I liked kind of
like Jewish looking guys and like brown hair, br and he he was very
waspy looking. He like like like brown hair kind of and like blue eyes
and looked really young even though he's two years older than me. But and
he says my first words to him, which I don't remember this were just
like, oh my god, you're a baby, because he looked young and
he and he was kind of skinny, and I was like, oh,
this is not gonna work out. But and all, but I think also
I was just really nervous, and because I'd been the captain of this ship.
So and then he had no expectations. He thought that I was.
He always tells me he thought I was gonna look like fran Lebowitz because I
was really funny because I was being funny with him because I had it was
so low stakes. I kind of flirt with him but wouldn't flirt back,
so I would just say I was just being funny all the time. And
he liked that, but like for a friend, like he could not that
he didn't. He really liked that I was funny, but he didn't think
he thought funny like home all the time, like I'm probably like like very
not attractive like somebody that he but he kind of had a pity date with
me because he was like, well, he was like, well, maybe
she'll make a good friend. I'm saying he wasn't thinking I was the one
going like should we meet and he was like, yeah, you know,
I'll meet this girl, like maybe we'll I'll make a friend. But he
so he says that when he saw me, he was very shocked because he
was like, oh gosh, like you're you're pretty, Like I mean,
this is also ours was a different situation because at this point we had like
told each other all our sex fantasies and all that oh. Sorry, So
we were basically meeting to have sex and go our separate way. Oh,
is not meant to be like a relationship. It was meant to be,
right, remember, I like, yeah, I was waxed and sprayed in,
I had all the underwear. I was ready to go. Hold on,
let's take a quick break and then get to that. So you were
thinking this isn't gonna be a relationship. No not. I mean he lived
in Alabama, he had really little kids, and uh, you know I
was going through this divorce and uh no, we didn't, and so so
you know, like and then we had this weekend that was ten days long,
and then we just so did he extend his work trip? No,
I extended my trip. Oh I missed my flight. And so then,
uh, but then it just went back to what it was like, just
chit chatting. I mean, it was definitely more flirty and stuff. It
was, but chit chatting, and I was still kind of dating, I
guess, for as much dating as you can do in l A. And
so, because but did you, okay, who liked to more? Though?
Were you like into did you want more from it? Were you really?
Because usually the woman I mean, no, I had a stereotype,
but like I feel like we women get attached. Yeah, and it's hard.
Well, I mean he was really nice every aspect. One thing is,
though he does not think I'm funny. I tell him all the time,
like I am the funniest person I'm going to meet, and he's like,
I don't see it. Oh my god, can you Oh that's insulting.
Yeah, I know, I just think he just I don't think.
I don't think I could see that different. He's very analytical and so uh
so. No, but what it was was like this relief that like you
think, oh my god, I'm never going to be like in a relationship
again. I'm already alone for the rest of my life. Oh I may
never have sex again, you know that kind of stuff. So it was
also because also I was my whole life was serial monogamous, right, so
this is the first time in my life like I'm alone, and so it
took that pressure off, like, Okay, here's somebody I can have sex
with and whatever. But then I have to clean my own house, right,
I have to take care of myself. So we didn't see each other
again for a little while, and then he came here. Remember he came
fourth of July. Then we kind of got on this routine where every like
three to four weeks we would meet in Atlanta. Oh right, that's pretty
frequent, yeah for a not relationship. But I started, Yeah, but
I mean it was still no real future talk. It would more be like
the next trip or whatever. And it was a lot of you know,
because he was also going through a divorce. So I feel like we were
like using each other as a bad term, but you know that, like
it was just nice to each other. Yeah, and that's just what it
was, right like, and we didn't really let too much of the outside
world in during you know, the weekend and stuff. And then it just
sort of slowly progressed from there. But when he did move to l A,
I made him leave all his clothes behind. He needed a makeover.
I gave a little bit of a makeover. And that's what I say,
girls, you can change anything but his personality and keep them. That's my
hot tip. So yeah, so, like, how how soon into it
was there like I love you, like, let's do this. Gene is
not very warm and fuzzy. Have you noticed? It was probably a year
and maybe wo Yeah, like I said, it was like, we were
pretty upfront that this is you know what it was. But you're both going
through our like divorces, and he his daughter was like two, you know,
I mean he was very yeah, committed to being with his young children
and like that kind of stuff. So I didn't meet his kids for years.
Oh wow, okay, and he didn't meet mine either, Like it
really this that's this is what it was like a little it's kind of like
having an affair but not really having an affair. Right, It's nice and
it was nice because it felt the relationship built. Yeah, it was very
slow. We had to cut that some pepper this morning. No, my
sneezes are adorable, GENI cut them out. They're a lot better than mice.
So then, was it smooth sailing from then on? Or have you
guys had any huge fights? No? Really get along really good yet along?
Pretty yeah? Yeah, I mean we've been living in a car for
the last three year. Tell us about that. Yeah, so I last
how long have you guys been together? Now? Twenty one years almost they've
been together, Okay, And I mean we were pretty upfront, like neither
one of us every want to get married again. We hated it neither one
of I mean, and so we you know, we spent so much time
in the beginning dissecting our marriages and what went wrong, right, So I
feel like when we decided to go forward, I don't know, we like
worked out a lot of that stuff, but I don't know. What'd you
ask me? So, well, how long you guys have been together?
Like twenty one years? But then now you guys are traveling the country we
have been. Yeah, yeah, that was a COVID. I think everyone
has their co god stories and that was ours. That his company didn't go
back and so he can work remote. We're like, oh my god,
we could totally do this. Oh his company never went back. They're all
remote, I think eighty five percent remote or something like that. Wow,
he's a tech guy. Yeah, he's a tech guy. So we sold
the sims, yeah, sold thet yeah, sold the house, sold everything
we own and got an r an RV and we've been traveling for like three
years. It's been fun, but I mean we're getting ready to that also
hybrid Yeah yeah, yeah, three years. You guys have been traveling the
country in the RVY three years. Wow, What are some great cities and
what are some bad cities. Well, so everybody always asked me, like,
what was your favorite? So I don't really have favorites. I have
stuff I hated more than I thought I was. Well that's right up my
alley. Yeah, like I like so I'm a huge, like history buff,
like I love westerns. Okay, so I was very excited to go
to Virginia City used to do the Civil War reenactments. What that's right,
Yeah, that's so cute. I did it for my son, and she
used to sew costumes for it. Yeah, Oh my god, what a
go getter. No, the absolute opposite. I don't think sewing costumes for
your kid's Civil War reenactment is no getter, right, trust me, Gina
is a little bit of a no getter, but she could be a go
getter though. That's a new term. No getter. That's what we say.
That's that's what we call. Yeah, we caught every trade market.
Well years ago, Stephanie was making we were making fun of my mom,
and you were saying like, oh, saying like my mom was making fun
of the guy was dating like he's a brick layer, he's going to be
a nobody, he's a and you said, he's a no ghetter. And
just think how you'd be happily divorced from a brick layer right now. Follow
up your dreams, now, miss. That's what I always say. I
could be happily divorced from a firefighter right now if I had just not followed
your dreams. Yep. But I just followed my dreams. So okay,
So some cities you hated. Oh so we went to Virginia City and it
was like Maga land. Oh yeah, and uh so we left like I
think we were there like twenty after like a horrible long drive up a windy
road. I think we're there like twenty minutes because you have to find an
RV park right to go. Yeah, Chris does all that stuff. Yeah,
so then you meet the people in the RV park. Yeah, so
we've met. Yeah, and not a great crowd. Not always. There
is a support group for liberal r V yers that we are there. We
joined, I've Chris found it actually, and it's a and we have a
secret sticker that we put on our r V so you can recognize. Uh
my god, god, that's like that's like the upside down pineapple for swingers.
You could be just a secret liberal that's our v thing too, upside
down pineapple and their sticker. Then a lot of swingers in the art a
rocket don't come a knock or do come a knock in? Yeah, that
one means coming knocking, right, So there have you, Like, have
you ran into swingers? And uh no, No, maybe an urban legend.
I don't know. I have personally not seen the pineapple, but people
tell me to keep a lookout for it. Okay, so you're in a
secret liberal society? Are more people liberal than you would think? Or less
less? Okay? Okay? Interesting? I mean it depends on where you're
at. So, like last summer, we did the whole Northeast, like
up to Maine and so that was very liberal and we met a lot of
lovely Canadians and stuff. And then and then we've been down like in Florida
and Texas and yeah, that's a lot of not a lot of liberal,
not a lot of liberals down there. No, so we sort of stick
to ourselves. Yeah. But but like I loved like Asheville, North Carolina,
I had no idea, Wow, you love beat. I have friends
that have. I have several friends that have moved there and love it.
Yeah, it's very liberal. But I was just like surprised that I would
like anything in North Carolina and then but otherwise it's just been you know,
what was the city you told me to go to? Savannah? Savannah,
Yeah, which I knew I would love. But it's a good shopping eating
city. Yeah, two things I like. Yeah. So now you're settling
into Palm Springs. Yeah, now we're gonna rent. We rented a house
in Palm Springs and we're gonna do like a hybrid thing. So yeah,
six months on, six months off, go see Woman frieda our pals.
That is my favorite restaurant there. They make the best eggs Benedict I've ever
heard. Yes, tell tell you that's our friend. I know. I
was very excited about that. Yeah, I was like, can I get
a tape because sometimes it's hard to get a table. Uh huh. So
I'm hoping for some pull. You just say, col you're crying out loud,
They'll give you a free mimosa or a free the pop. There are
pop tarts. Oh, they do have pop makes they're homemade pop tarts.
Yeah delacious. Yeah. Yeah, So Gina and I were talking, should
we take another Okay, Gina and I were talking right before the show,
tell us the story about throwing a baby shower for our friend Melissa without Melissa
there. Yeah, so has Melissa been on your show? No, but
people know Melissa. She's my friend I talk about So this was our third
friend and well I guess she still is. But uh so this was her
second kid and she I was, you know, I was the party thrower
in our group, so I was baby shower. She's like, You're not
throwing me a baby shower for a second baby. That's so techy. I'm
not doing that. And I was like, don't fucking tell me what to
do. So I threw one without her, and I registered her for everything
that I would want if I was having a baby and everybody came to my
house and did you invite her? No? No, We printed off a
picture like a picture of her page to a pillow her face. I feel
like, though, if somebody if I said no, I don't want a
baby shower, and somebody through and anyway, I still want to be invited,
it gets better. Never mind, I want to come so that everyone
had to come all dressed up. I feel like we had a theme,
but I can't really remember. Of course always I am a theme sort of
a I can't really get through life. I need to think just to get
through the day. And so, uh so she registered reis. We opened
all We played the poop you know where you eat the chocolate out of the
diaper and you have to guess what candy barre it is. And we opened
all the presents and all that kind of stuff. Videotape videotaped. I think
Sal, no, Sal wasn't. I think Jimmy did. Jimmy videotape the
whole thing. And then like a few weeks later I invited her over and
she comes over with like a buck and a Kentucky Fried chicken and stuff.
Oh to watch movies, and then everybody started coming. That was at the
first shower, the original the shower, And then I was like, oh,
I got this new movie. And so we played her shower for her.
Oh, we just handed her all her open gifts and then said,
fuck you bitch, don't never tell me what to do. And to this
day I think she will say it's the best baby shower. She hates that
she doesn't like. So she got all the stuff as you didn't have to
participate right right. You see when I imitate Gina by the way, you
hear her voice, Like, I can't talk about Gina about imitating her voice.
I do have a distinctive she does that's at high voice, though she
does sometimes when I drink and I have the worst Chicago accent. Heard the
Chicago a little bit. Yeah, awful, that's so funny. Though.
I do not like baby showers either. I hate them, so I didn't
I had one, but I was like, no games. I did not
allow anybody to do. I wouldn't fly by me. Gina loves a game.
I love a game. My friends were fine with it. Chelsea Handler
was one of the people that threw my baby shower. Yeah, okay,
she's edgy too, so she was like, yeah, that's fine with me.
I don't want to play any fucking games. You know, different circles.
I see, we're not friends anymore. Oh, I'm not on my
account. She's just not. It was just back in the day. She's
just not interested in me. No, it's fine. Yeah, But at
the time it's funny because it was so it was my friend that i'd been
friends with for like twenty well, I hadn't been friends with her that long
at that point, but you know whatever, fifteen years and then uh Chelsea,
and my mother was supposed to take part in it, and my sister
in law since your first my mother in law was late. My mother was
late. This was my first kid, yeah, my second kid. I
had a little baby shower because my friend insisted, and it was just really
casual at like with different different friends. It wasn't like a big deal.
She invited up on from my comedian friends to like this Italian restaurant and she
ordered a couple some pizza and people brought me little gifts. It was yeah,
but I was also having twins for the second one, so I do
think I needed like more stuff. Well, I feel like every I mean
it, pregnancies. It's tough, so everybody deserves a party, That's true.
Gina threw my baby shower surprise surprise, and my bridal shower and so
but my baby shower because I was having twins. The invite had the picture
of the twins from Royal ten and bombs because Adam with the curly hair,
that black curly hair, and then she connected their eyebrows like made one long
eyebrow in between both of them and they were wearing like the track suits because
Adam wears the tracksuits. Put your head on the oh you did put our
head. We put our our face with the afro with the two mine and
Adam's faces with the afro one long eyebrow and track suit. And it was
like, you know, come have you know, come to Gina's and she
threw me the baby shower, which was nice, and then she threw me
my bridle shower at the Beauty Bar. Is that still there? It is,
but I don't think it's called the Beauty Bar anymore. In West Hollywood
on coin that was like a fifties That was a fifties thing and it was
very I met her cake. I remember it was the barbie cake, you
know the little girls where the dresses the cake and the barbies in the middle.
Yes, very hard to find really yeah back then, I know,
I wish I had a picture of that, but I should We should take
another quick break at this point where kaylen okay, So, was that a
big was it? That was? That was fun? That was a big
one. Yeah, that was at the bar even I mean it was during
the day, so it was kind of I remember you had a signature cocktail.
We did have a signature cocktail. Everybody was dressed like fifties housewives.
Yeah, yeah, because I like that era. That was. That was
fun. Everybody take Black Beauties, what is that? Remember that speed?
It was as housewife I think dolls, Yeah, and Valuum. Yeah.
Black Beauties speeded you up in volume. Black Beauties was more of a West
Coast thing. Really, we didn't take that in Chicago. Nobody wants to
speed up in Chico. No, I much preferred downers. I'm not a
speed person. Yeah, I want to I want to relax. Yeah.
So did you also have a bachelorette party? Oh? Yeah, well we
tried to recreate it. We went, we had we recreated it a few
times. We did. We went to Vegas and we stayed at We had
a double bachelorette party because Melissa got married a month before me. Okay,
so we stayed at the hard Rock Hotel and stayed at the hard Rock.
We always stayed at the hard Rock because across the street from the hard Rock
is the Paradise of Paradise, the Strip club, of which every time we
went, Lynnette would go. My name is Paradise for Free and no one
thought that a person thought she should get shipped because her last name is right,
even if she was born with the stripper name La La Paradise, Like
can you see it, Oh my god, coming up on the stages La
La main stage, mainstage. You know what though, to Bruce Springsteen,
all dancing, Yes, but Paradise is not a common name. So I
feel like I would like to go back in time and grant you free admission.
Thank you, because it was twenty five bucks to get into that place,
I know. But we love it for women, yeah, because I
never learned crazy girls out here in La and they would let the women in
for free, and a lot of times there'd be people lined up outside and
if you were a woman, even if you were with guys, they would
let the girls in. They loved having women there. And in Vegas they
gave it sh Yeah. But yeah, we would go there and we would
sit I think that we would try to find a bachelor party to you know.
It's kind of like the girls sorority, the boy fraternity. You got
to find a group to hang with, right, Yeah, So did you
do the whole thing for your for the bachelorret party? Did you go there
and have like penis, lollipops and sash. We never we didn't wear anything
like that, but we did do games. We were sitting by the pool
and I remember they were making me and Melissa play games. And one game
is I had to go up to a bunch of guys and say real or
fake. Oh yeah, that was a good one. Yeah, that's funny.
It's funny how one big titted girls to make fun of another big titted
girl. True. Yeah, trauma share trauma. Yeah. And then we
almost got kicked out of a casino because we didn't almost kick I got kicked
out because I was swearing, how do you not? We were playing craps
and I was calling her by her mafia name, Gina fucking Ah. She
was rolling high, was winning, she was winning, and I was like,
yes, Gina fucking a. And they kept going like, man,
stop swearing. What's the bellagio? Yeah? Like what this is Vegas.
So then they took her chips off and she flipped die. I go,
okay, okay, we're all leaving. Then she's like that's fine, we're
all leaving. No, I am winning, turned around, just talk all
by herself and were like, see see if the pool tomorrow. I'm up
twenty seven dollars for godsakes, I can't leave now. Yeah. So yeah,
and then we got kicked out. Oh my god, I remember we
got kicked out of uh in Vegas. Yes, what was the oh the
Russian restaurant. No, the it was at the Top and House of Blues
and the private club at the House of Blues, Yes, foundation room.
Yes, and you got us in I think, yes, I did get
called or whatever. And I was wearing sneakers. Yeah, yeah, And
but then they had a dress code. They had a dress code, they
know. Yeah, they were like no jeans, no sneakers. They were
very expensive sneakers, and I felt like they should take an exception. They
were weren't they Boomas, No, they were the other ones. I can't
remember. No Gucci, Gucci snoos. I got kicked out of a casino
ones. I feel like I've brought this up recently. Remember when it was
very in style to wear shirts that had logos like Coca Cola, but it
would say something else. It would look like it says Coca Coke. Mine
looked like it said coke. It was the sat looked like the logo,
but it said cunt. And it was a white shirt with red like swirly
lettering and it said cunt. And I was in a casino and they were
I guess somebody complained about me because they're like, ma'am, your shirt is
there's an obscenity on your shirt. You can't wear that in here. And
I was like taking it off and turned it inside out right then and there.
But I think I got mad and was just like, you can't tell
me how to dress, Like, you can't even tell that it says.
You have to be staring at my tits to know that it says figure.
But I guess enough people, but if you're staring at my tits, you'd
think you wouldn't be the type of person that would be offended seeing the word
cunt on there. Well it could have been the wife of the person.
Yeah, true, Well anyway, I was booted. That sucks. Yeah
yeah at the time. Now, were you winning? I'm sure not?
No, vega, Yes, he's a gambler too, Yes, yeah,
what's your game at poker? Like, oh, that's a lot of in
your head. Can't you have to keep track of like too much math?
Well? The math is there is a blackjack That's why I can't like back
because I can't add in my head and I get I'll cry if someone accuses
me of stealing their car. You know they do that like you hit on
a twelve right right, and then you duck my ten and I'm like,
oh so uh. And then poker, I can never remember what beats what?
Yeah, so I have to have like the cheat sheet on my hand.
Like I've just been playing it for a really long time. I started
playing with a group of comics like in my twenties, so I've just been
playing it forever. So it's yeah, I like that poker thing. It's
actually mostly guys. Oh there's been a few women have played. Yeah,
that's fun. Yeah. And then I love craps. I do love craps,
but I mean I have have played craps in a long time because poker,
I can play online, you can play well, we played craps VR.
Yes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah the story?
Did you tell the story of the v R? Yes that we got our
VR. But it doesn't work anymore. I know you. I can't help
you with that. You have I know, you have to come over to
my son's house. Yes, he has to help me updated. Yeah.
Yeah, I was just telling my daughter. I was just only ILB the
other day that because she was talking about Vegas, because there's some big,
huge music festival, but not music. It's like a house music. It's
like the Coachella of it's like a rave, a giant, and it's happening
one Vega guy? Was that? Which guy? That was the country music?
Oh? Vegas? No? No, no, this is like a
DC. What's it called DC? It's very famous. It used to be
out here actually, and then I think a girl overdose and died and they
moved it to Vegas the US to have it at the coliseum. I know
I used to go. Really, so, what do you do like mash
pit stuff? No, you just take ecstasy and give out a lot of
hugs. Is that dating me? No? They don't watch pit it raise.
It's actually the exact opposite. Stands in the corner. They all give
each other hugs instead of throw fists at one another. Yeah, well everyone's
in ecstasy, so oh yeah, well I'll be like, well, first
of all, she really likes house music. Well she's she's nineteen, she'll
be twenty this year. She does what she wants to do. But she
went to one called I can't remember, but it was in sam Bernardino that
was like a month ago or two months ago whatever, and a lot of
people stayed overnight. It was like a two day It's a big one.
I mean there's thousands of people there and they ubered and then ubered home as
a group. And now she's going to one called Oneunderland you can in Vegas.
No, this is the same place in San Bernardino, but she's just
telling me about this one that's in Vegas. That anyway, The point of
that is just to tell you that I was. I was like, oh
my gosh, I used to love to go to Vegas, I said when
I was when I first moved to La I mean, I had like crappy
jobs, but we would save up like one hundred dollars and we would drive
to Vegas with our little like one hundred dollars and we would stay at I
don't know if you remember this. I mean some of these hotels were super
cheap back in the day. You could because they had all these specials and
it was not a popul it was not as popular, so you could go
stay at like this. There was this one Asian themed. Most of them
are not there anymore, but the Barbary Coast, some of these places had
hotels station yea pastation and you could literally stay for like nineteen dollars a night,
and at binions you could get a steak in shrimp dinner. Yeah,
I was just going to say yes. So we would go and we did
this thing which we called chip hustling, which was basically like you'd look cute,
you'd go to a craps table, and inevitably some guy would be like
here, like you, pretend you're out of money, and then some guy
would be like, here, here's twenty, here's twenty dollars and chips or
whatever. And at those days they were five dollars tables. I even had
one dollar table so you could pay play five dollars, five dollars on the
line, then like five dollars on you know, the hard ways or whatever,
and a guy would be kind of right, giving you some money,
a little bit of money, right, bill, a bit of a different
experience. But so then you would if you won, what you would do
is you would chip hustle yourself, so you would take you would sneak the
money. Usually the guys would be drunk, so you would keep enough money
to continue playing, but you'd squirrel away that some of your winnings, so
that so that then you could pretend that you're like, oh no, I'm
out of money again, and then the guy would either give you more money
or you'd be finished. But then you'd get back to your hotel room and
you'd we'd look at all of our chips that we chip hustled. Right.
We used to go play bingo because for ten dollars, it was forty five
minutes long, but you got free drinks. And that's how we would get
our buzz up. Bingo, Oh bingo, Wow, bingo, Hall bingo.
Then we would hit the casino, right, Oh, that's how we
would get drunk, well in those days too, And I'm sure maybe it's
still the same way. I haven't been to Vegas in so long, but
like if you played a like for a long five percent video poker machine,
they would come bring drinks. Yeah, but they're not that they're not Johnny
on the spot and especially now, but even then, like, yeah,
you know it's kind of hard. Yeah, I like to get down,
you know, shif faced, not ten dollars, right, right, because
you could drink a lot in forty five minute bingo. Yeah, a lot.
We gotta go to Vegas again, I know, although it's not quite
as much fun when you're not going to strip joints. That's true, trying
to get laid. But I don't drink anymore, so I can't I can't
picture it being as fun for me. Well, we like to go buy
the pool and go to the d I mean we had a whole like we
had for a formula, right, Like we would start at the Burbank airport,
Yeah, with our Bloody mary right. Then we would drink Bloody Mary's
on the plane to the point of being almost getting kicked off there. Then
somebody would lose their luggage. Then we would Then Gina would bring like the
Cosmopolitan Quiz Sex quiz on the plane and make play. Yeah, excuse me,
sir, do you get a heart on your wife is cleaning or if
your wife is cooking? Like whatever the quiz was. Yeah, I mean
I don't remember the answers now, but it was fun though. People were
like, Yeah, on a Friday night a plane on Southwest, a Vegas
iverybody was always like the five o'clock flight and then we would go to the
hard rock all up a little bit and then hit the craft tables, then
the club Paradise. Then uh, breakfast somewhere, Yeah, breakfast early morning,
and then go to sleep. Then we'd go to sleep. Then we
would wake up, and then we would go to the rent a cabana at
the pool and uh, get some sort of detox massage or something. Right,
he all hung over, and then go home and take a disco disco
nap and then start it all over again. Yeah, and then and then
be miserable. And then I could tell you all the best places to throw
up at the Vegas Airport. Oh god, yeah, I've thrown up just
about everywhere there. There's a good bath room. It's nothing worse coming home.
Well, Gina, this has been so nice. So where are you
off to? You're going to Ikea. I'm going to Ikea next. Yeah,
this is she just drove here changed. I told her she might get
sex trafficked, and she was like, bring it. Yeah, I know
nobody ever wants to sex traffic me. She's tried. You've tried. You're
just lingering outside of it. Put it on my LinkedIn, on my LinkedIn.
You and you can't look it up that way like you did on AM.
You can't look up like sex traffickers, only right, try to narrow
it down to some appropriate partners. Yeah, this has been so fun fun.
She drove up from Palm Strings. Thank you for driving up this morning.
It was fun. I listened to Stephanie Miller okay nice on AM Radio.
No I'm serious, Oh okay nice. I was wondering, like,
why am I not hearing from Gina. She's in the car for two and
a half hours, and I'm always afraid to call you in the morning.
I know, but that's not a morning person. Gina's up early. I'm
up early, but she goes to bed early. Yeah yeah, she's an
old lady. But anyway, No, I love you so much. It's
so funny. This is funny. You show. Oh we love the course,
super funny anytime. Yeah, all right, guys, he's everybody.
You're a parent now, don't have it up. Let Al