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Sunny sumorn on iheadasion night A right, Happy Friday, Yay, Happy
Friday. Yay. It's a great week. Yeah we had such a great
week. Uh huh Yeah, let's say hi to our people. Uh we
got Christa gets the strap. Sandra. It's not easy being green, but
you make it work. You make it work. You gotta work, Jennifer,
get up. Aaron is a dirty Sanchez. Sarah Stefano, she I
love her. Stephanie is a stinker wrinker. She's so supportive. I love
Steph. Yeah, Leslie's been supporting us since the very beginning. Yeah,
not really replying. Never heard from her ever. Alicia also the other Leslie
with the cough. Uh huh, she's still Oh no, that's the one
with the cough. The other one's a Costa Costing. Yeah, still here.
This week I heard from a mommy friend of mine that she was standing
outside of Costco richer frolicking around and Dick frolic Rachel's a newcomer. Ashley she
Kelly Lady d Amy, Lauren is a golden lady, Katies rolling on e
Aaron, who does Nikky call your girl? Uh? Jacob is so Crowley,
Rita with the bacinette rocking every sleep and Elizabeth's got a lot of kids
Athena. We love your dancing, Polly, we love your pancakes. Valerie
hits it out of the park, which she's got the picture to prove it.
Katerina's got a bum Moler. Gabby and Missy, oh my god,
it's you know. They they were Memorial Day. They were out, the
two of them, just wandering around lighting fireworks off at the pier. Rebecca.
It's so cute. Sean vage Pay is still hot. I love Sean.
He reaches out to me. Everything he does I wonder about, Like,
isn't I still listening to our show? He is him. We love
you, I know, we really do. And Kelly Brandt, we like
you. You've been around forever. Uh you spell your last name with it
ends with DT, like the dts. Uh huh, she's yeah, she's
got the DTS. Kelly Brandt has the DTS. What's going on? KK?
Nothing much, I uh, you know, just kind of hanging out,
you know, although in my free time, I really like to play
video games. Yeah, So for my birthday this year, I went out
and I bought myself like a new PlayStation. Hey, birthday present to me.
There's a there's a game I really wanted to play that's only available in
the new PlayStation. So like, I'm gonna get it. It's called Hell
Divers. Hell what Hell Divers too is what it's called. You're like,
you're like a space marine and you like shoot down onto an alien planet.
And of course yeah yeah yeah uh. But it's like an online game.
So the thing about you know, video games is you can have like a
single player game that has like a story in the beginning and an end and
then you finish it then that's it. Or you can have a multiplayer game
like this one where there is no ending. You just play round after round
after round, and you play with other people to us as the team before
you communicates fun. Is that sort of like the idea of Fortnite? Yes,
Fortnite is a multiplayer game. Miss round after round after him you can't
ever beat the game. So that's where my problem comes in because I can
play these single player games, and you know when I when I start playing
these games, I get like super into it. Yeah, You're like,
I'm just gonna play for like an hour, it's fine, and then like
four hours goes by and I'm like, oh, geez, okay, that
didn't work out. But then I beat the game after a couple of days,
and then I put it away. Well, now I can't beat this
game and I love playing it. So I have literally had to and I've
done this multiple times. Now I have to physically unplug my PlayStation, drive
it over to my storage unit, and like put it away and then drive
back. Because relatable to me, yeah me too. You have just helped
a lot of people because yes, a lot of people would be like,
well, why don't you just stop playing? Mm hmmm, because it's there
like staring me in the face. I'll be sitting at my desk with like
work to do, and it's just like I can just hear it. Just
come on, just half hour's half hour and let's go. And then again
four hours go by, go God damn it. Now it's I love video
games. This is how I am with stuff though on my phone, like
with playing threes, It's like it hypnotizes me and then I just can't stop
playing. That's how I was when I was discovered Fortnite on my phone.
I just could like it was just something. It's just you know, like
late at night, lay in bed instead of watching TV, play some Fortnite.
I loved it. It was like my it was my treat at the
end of the day. But I love video games, and I actually,
now that you're talking about it, Sunny and Italian, I used to have
we bonded playing like the Wii Mario games. You know, Mario and Luigi.
What do you call that? The on the on the Wii? Yeah,
do they still have that? Like that would be fun for me to
get in the new house for the three called the switch now, so it
doesn't have the kind of like well, I mean you can still get a
Wii, but it's a much older version. It upgraded to what you call
a switch now. That's like the newest Nintendo model. Can you play it
on the TV? Yeah? Together, Yeah, but you're not holding like
a h holding the stick like you are with a controller. Dude, that's
you know how long it took me to get used to that stick thing.
Oh, we still have a Wii. They might have some kind of My
kids still play week we though I don't have one. We We've I've found
the Wii that I have the box, I found the Wei games, So
we still have the games. But I'm I'm wondering if they're like outdated or
I don't know, I gotta you get a new If you just go get
a Wii, they'll work on that week Okay, Yeah, that would be
so fun to do in my new house with the kids. This summer.
My kids will still bring out the Wii and like tennant, Yeah they play
really. Oh yeah, we Sports is the best. You probably still play.
You can endlessly play WE Sports. I know I used to. And
then I bet there's like exercise programs on that thing too, probably like some
pilates maybe and stuff. Probably that would be cool. I just went to
the y m c A the other day. Back to the Y, I
really, yeah, I love it. Yeah, you inspired me because now
remember I was doing the workout here with the with my with Suzanne's with right
Carlos. Right, and but now I'm not like in that neighborhood anymore,
right and so and I used to love going to the y m c A.
So now I got my new new routine now, like I'm gonna take
the dog for a walk and then go to the y like in the in
the evening probably and uh it was fun. Yeah, just you don't go
to Equinox and bring like a small dog with you and and your Burken.
I don't know, yeah them all, I mean, yeah, I guess
I could just get a lot of lockers and we have to get a lot
of lockers, yeah, to hide them to take care of my birken.
Unbelievable. Yeah, but I love the why though, like, and they
have classes and stuff, which I get a little intimidated. I don't know
if you're this way like at the gym and stuff, Like if I walk
in the room and there's like a bunch of dudes working out, I get
like I'll come back. I don't know, I get a little intimidated,
like you know, well, I go to like a full on ghetto gym
and it's the classes they only have, Like you know, you're not gonna
get like your selection of hip hop classes. There's gonna be like a non
hip hop class once a week on a third I now, yeah, and
it's gonna be like old people and their parents. Scary. Yeah, that's
fine with me, except that I told you about the time many years ago
that I took a zumba class and like these like old ladies from Palm Springs
were kicking my ass. Yeah, and I was like ugh and you know,
having to take breaks and the teacher had to literally stop the class at
one point and go it's okay, it's okay, like just you'll just catch
up when you can. And I'm telling you there were women like eighty,
you know, with like saggy behind and stuff that were just like what are
you tired? Like come on, I know, you know those I was
like having to grab a bar for support in the back of the room and
they're just like waving their arms weights over their head. I got to add
weights to this challenge me. Bit, yes, I know. And then
you know, I remember, like I would see the same person at the
gym when I would go all the time. You'd see the same people and
their bodies never change, and they've been there for years. Yes, but
it's like good for them, like they're working out, but it's just kind
of funny, you know, like you see the same people all the time.
Then or you see the like hot shot dude that think you know,
he's like, oh, you know, breathing heavy and lifting those weights,
and it's like, all right, I'm just here to get my my h
stare climber on. I actually moved my resistance. I went up a level,
but only the last ten minutes. So I do thirty minutes on the
pre corp and I listen to a podcast and play a game on my phone.
Oh I do it to entertain my brain. I'm bad. I'm feeling
Kaylin because I will have to delete the app off of my phone or I
will play it all the time, Like I'll just if I'm holding my phone,
I'll just like start playing and what is it? What is it that
you play? It's called threes or Bejeweled. It's the same shit I've been
playing jeld. It's just you can't beat it. I can't get like it's
really hard. I can't ever get a higher score. Like it's hard to
explain. It's just mindless. But it's like enough that it's I do it
while watching TV. I have to. Sometimes I'll be like, oh my
god, stop, so I'll delete it off my phone and that will last
for like sometimes a week, uh huh, and then I'll be like,
ah, but I'm at the gym. I feel like I need it to
like get through this workout, so I'll just I'm just gonna download it just
while I'm at the gym, right, And then I'm like, well,
it's already on my phone, so I'll just leave it for like the rest
of the day, right. Yeah, I know, you know I've been
you know. The second phase of the moving now is like, you know,
actually going through everything and just weeding out shit I don't need and just
trying to like really organize, you know. I mean, I got drawers
of stuff. I'm just just doing that, Like, Okay, this on
today, I'm gonna I'm gonna tackle those two boxes or whatever. And it's
like I after a while, I'm like this is so fucking boring, you
know, so like I gotta go, and then I then I end up
being on the phone talking to my friends for a couple hours and like all
right, now it's five o'clock. Time to make dinner, Like what do
you guys want to eat? And then after that it's like, well,
I got to clean up dinner, and now it's like I'm tired, loud,
and then I got like one thing, like nothing done, you know
it cause it's just you know, and that's why it's like it's tedious.
And that's why, like my girlfriends are like I should just come over and
help. I'm always like no, you know, so many people have offered,
which is nice to come and help and stuff, and I'm like,
it's really something I need to do that I got to go through, like
you know, a lot of drawers and just things that I just need to
weed out and get rid of. And it's just tedious and it's just I
mean, but you don't really want somebody at your house going what do I
do with this? Yeah? What do you want do you want to keep
this bra? You know right, it's that's too much? Yes, yeah,
I feel like there's so much crap in my house. I live with
a bunch of hoarders. I personally am a minimalist. I think we've discussed
this before. I don't keep anything. I'm like, I don't. I
don't have a box full of old like greeting cards people, you know,
yeah, kids, I do, I do. I don't because I'm like,
it'll just never end endless. I know, I don't need everything.
I mean, I keep a few things, but like also just stuff just
piles up, and like we have a closet in the front of our house
that is just filled up with like basketballs, And like if you if you
say to John, do we need eight basketballs? Do you know how many
basketballs we need? Zero? Because nobody plays basketball in our house except for
once a year. Xander gets like a wild hair up is asked to go
to the park and like play basketball, at which point he always wants a
new basketball play because it's flat and we can't find the pump. So I'm
like, so, what is the point really of having eight basketballs? Filling
all these sports? Equipment like knee pads from all played basketball when they were
eight. It's like a bag of like protective gear. It is from when
they were eight. So I'm like, can we just like and John will
always be like, yeah, yeah, we'll sort through it, but like
I'll do it, you know, but no, you're never going to do
it. Also, we have so many books in our house that are unnecessary.
Yeah, like you are never going to read that book. And John's
like, you don't know, I might, I know, I know,
And that's what I'm going through, Like i' that's what I got. I
got the kids stuff, I got my stuff. For years and years,
it's just been piling up, like stuff like sports equipment and books and stuff
like. But then I have like all these like yeah, cards or trinkets
or here's a random picture of me and my girlfriend Jennifer who passed away,
and it's like, you know, so I frame that one and you know,
just like things like that, just like or my mom's old broken down
like jewelry box that's empty and stained, but it's my mom's from Italy.
Where where do I put this thing? Right? Where do you put a
jewelry box? But you don't want to toss it. Just that kind of
shit. It's purgatory. It's all shit that's living in purgatory. Purgatory is
a really good word for it. And there also needs to be I have
a purgatory chair that I need to get act from my condo because you know,
like when you either wear something like a sweat jacket or yoga pants or
whatever and they're clean and only wore it for a couple hours, they're not
going back hanging onto the hangar or folded into the drawer, but they're not
going to go into the hamper. So I put them on my purgatory chair.
Yeah, I think everybody has that, and then it piles up.
But yeah, so for some people that's their like treadmill, right, that's
what they used that for. But John has a pile that's next to the
closet that's neither a hamper or a drawer, right, And it really bothers
me because I'm like, but then if it's piled in a pile, it
gets dusty and then it's basically dirty, right, So just put it in
the hamper, or I say, put it back in the drawer. But
then I know what you mean, because like I have like a hoodie that
I kind of wear everywhere, or sweatpants that I'm going to put back on
if I'm in the house, right, but if I go somewhere, I
might change into g But then like what do I do with I know?
I know, yeah, yeah, so I don't know. It's just it's
so what I was doing that and I was listening. I was I put
on some crime. It was on HBO The Jinks. No, I've been
watching. I save that for the end of the night when I get in
bed, but it's taking me forever because I fall asleep about me too,
that art bit, Yeah, and you have to like really pay attention,
right, you know, it's Bob. It's Bob. It's Bob. If
you don't pay attention to that one, it feels boring, right, But
then you're like this is kind of boring too slow. But then if you
go back when you're awake, you're like, what do I missed all?
I know? I know, Yeah The Jinks it's good, but yeah it's
not. I gotta learn my lesson, Like, but when else am I
going to watch it? I mean, Hollywood, did you finish Hollywood con
Queen? Oh? I loved it. Did you finish the whole thing?
Yeah? Episodes three. I think it's only three. Okay, I'm in
the middle of two. Oh my god, it's so good. It is
really good. Crazy what this guy's done, I mean it was. The
first episode was really insane when they're talking to these independent contractors or actors,
photographers and what they went through the hoops and you're like, who is this
person? So one guy spent like seventy five thousand dollars traveling, yes,
to like Thailand or wherever, like our Jakara like it, yeah, back
and forth, like several trips the guy had to make and and of course,
like they are, they're not paying for it, so he has to
be it's crazy. And then the other guy, the actor, who had
to like take a shirt off, then his pants off right right, and
like pretend to kiss him. But while I was If you guys haven't seen
this, tune in. There's also a great podcast by our friend Josh Dean
right on our show, right he did the original that I'm working Hollywood Concouin.
It's great. It was a great series. And one of the guys
was like at the gym or something and he's getting the call from the casting
person going I really need you to act out the scene, and he's like
all right, like let me go outside. So he goes outside and then
she's like okay, like sound like you're turned on and like the whole thing.
And he's like this is like super awkward, like you know kind of
and then she's like, well, if you're not into it, then you're
probably not going to be able to act it. And he's like, no,
no, no, give me a chance. You know. Yeah,
this guy was so he's talking about how and then and then she was like
can you take off your pants? And then he was like, I guess
I can. I mean the camera's only getting me for she can't see anyway.
And I was like, now you know how every fucking woman feels exactly
because when you're like, well, why'd you do it? Because that's how
they get you. Yeah, I'm just like, well, good, but
do you run the part or not? You know, well we have to
see what your tits look like. Yeah, for this part, you just
have to have a certain look. Like it's all on the up and up.
I'm Amy Pascal, like a gal's asking you to get into your underpants
in a parking lot and talk dirty to her on the phone. I mean
hello. John was watching this with me and he was like, it's actually
kind of believable because some of these female studio heads you could imagine would be
like, listen, you gotta get it together, right, either meet me
here or not. Like He's like, it's kind of believable that they would
be like, yeah, and he sounds like a woman. He can totally
sound like a woman on the phone kind of you know. When I heard
it a few times, I was like, you know who, and he
does different voices right right, like like an English accent. Yes, yeah,
yeah, hello. Well yeah, it's crazy, Hollywood crazy. What's
it on? It's on Hulu or no, it's Apple TV Apple. Yeah,
yeah, that's right. I love those kind of shows. I was
like, I love to After I watch it, I'll go and look underneath,
like if you like this one, you maybe like this one. It's
always like Lulu Row or Lula Yeah. So there's the next Lularo thing that
you said, But what's that on? I can't remember, but it was
underneath. The first Lularo that we all loved was Netflix, I'm pretty sure.
Yeah. So there's an I think it was Amazon. Maybe. Okay,
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kids, this is just funny. Sadie and Xander, you know they do
not have Neither of them have a driver's license yet We're gonna take Sadie to
try for her license soon. I'm screwed. Doesn't do they need to do
like a I have to have a couple hours on the books. The certificates,
so Sadie have to take a year ago got her permit. July of
last year, she got her permit, so she did the online thing.
Okay, she passed that, she got her certificate in the mail. Then
she practiced practice practice. Remember I told you about I was like a hard
ass about it, and I'm like, I'm not taking you to take the
test unless you've really like put in the work. So she did. Then
she did her behind the wheel lessons already and the last and then I ordered
an extra behind the wheel lesson because I was like unsure of her ability,
and then that instructor was like, I don't think she's ready yet, Like
I give it fifty percent chance of her passing. I think she needs more
practice. But I don't know why John doesn't love to practice with her,
and I definitely don't love to practice. Does I know. It's just like
it's cosinity inks. Yes, used to give me aguda. Yeah, so
neither one of us. John's always like, I know I should take her
driving. I will, and then we don't. But she has to try
to get her license before July, otherwise she has to re apply for her
permit. So we've committed to like, we're going to start taking her out
a lot, and then we're just going to make the appointment, bite the
bullet. Yeah, and she's going to go take her testy. Hopefully she'll
pass. Xander has not even done the online that's how far behind he is.
He didn't even do the online right thing to get so that he could
go get a lot of kids are that way. I've seen them. So
they can't drive, so we still My point of saying that is we still
have to drive them places. But it's so funny how like I still think
of them as kind of younger. Yeah, you're sixteen. So they've been
going to music shows a lot. They all they have friends from school and
they have friends who have friends who have bands, right, and last night
one of these bands they had this they have this friend who has friends are
in a band that was playing at the Whiskey. Ooh, I love last
night. I love it. So I don't know if you know this,
but a lot of these shows are all ages because they'll have people that are
younger, so anybody can go. Yeah, but it's so it's like a
lot of teenagers. Yeah, but it's still the Sunset Strip. So I
was took my kids and they're still by themselves because I remember you took Sunny
to see that blood, but you were with him right right. But now
I'm dropping my kids off on the Sunset Strip. Sunset Strip, have a
good time. This has been a lot of shows. They've gone to the
the Bourbon Room, They've gone to there's a called it's called like Ziggi's some
there's new there's new places, yeah yeah, but there's still the Roxy,
the Rainbow Room. I'm driving my kids, Yes, I'm driving my kids
there. And I'm like, all right, so like this is the Sunset
Strip, right, And they're like yeah, we know. And I'm like,
I don't think you understand, Like how much how many hours mama put
into the Sunset Strip in my twenties, Yeah, yeah, I was so
drunk at the Rainbow Room, Gazari. Yes. I would see like a
lot of like celebrations. F Yeah. EVAM Station was in North Lleig,
Yeah, and EVM Station and uh the one the country Club, the country
that was in Mesita. Yes, okay, I went to all those places
and the Palamino, the Palomino, yeah, yeah, all those places that
got bands. But I oftentimes and I lived in Hollywood for a brief period
of time, and we went to like at nineteen twenty or two. Old
meartied hard at the Rainbow Room too, with all their hair bands and the
and I remember being so drunk in a bathroom, like doing coke in a
bathroom, the Rainbow Room, you know, so typical. I don't remember
like how we got there or how, Like, well, I my friend,
I'll never forget. So my friend Jennifer who passed away, God rest
her soul. She had. She was always ahead of the curve. She
worked at Tower Records, so she was always getting us tickets to shows.
But she freaking lived for music, okay, And so she worked at Taylea
Rex. So she had this mustang. It was a not a like a
like a cool you know, retro mustang. She had one like a hatchback,
you know, and it was like burgundy. Yeah, this is your
mom's mustle yes, like they don't make that style anymore because it's dumb.
So anyway, it was, yeah, like had a hatch bag. It
was burgundy and white inside. So and her hair was just out to everywhere.
And so we would she and she lived out in like Chatsworth. So
we would go to her house. I don't even know. I think I
took the RTD bus to get there, and then she would get her Mom
would be like did you eat your hunger? You know, totally Jewish mom,
like you know, and then we'd get in the car and we'd be
out and we'd go to the Sunset Strip and we got hot butt. Okay,
So we called it because her car, because at the time, you
would cruise down the sunsets, you would just we just cruise right now because
sometimes we had have money to get into the clock. We're broke, so
we would just cruise down the Sunset Strip and she would make fun of everybody,
laugh at them, and we would smoke cigarettes in her car and everything,
and we would complain because her car was running hot and we would get
hot butt in the back seat. So we called it, and she loved
it, like hot but it's your turn to get hot. But like we
had to rotate, you know, like I got shotgun. No, my
ass is on fire. That's how long. Like that's how bad her car
was and how long we would be on the Sunset Strip. But yeah,
I mean we saw like guns and roses and like I mean just of course,
like Motley Crue and all those people. But like I remember seeing bon
Jovi like crazy, all these bands, up and coming bands or just the
members of the band hanging out. They would hang out at those clubs,
yes, and there'd be special like celebrity like a booth where they'd all be.
But and I don't think we thought of it back then. I wasn't
like a groupie of it. I not much. But I just remember like
constantly seeing celebrities right right, and so and so is there the girls just
alone. We just walked in, yeah, and the girls in the bathroom
would be freaking out, like, oh my god, tell me yeah,
yes, yeah, yeah. Like the band members were never anything that I
cared about. Really, I love to see them. My friend Craig Dollinger,
who I love, was a drummer of a band called Tomorrow's Child,
and we, oh my god, we saw Tomorrow's They played all the time,
everywhere up and down the Sunset Strip. They were so freaking good.
We had their album, you know, and we just we hung you know.
He was our friend, like in our group, you know, so
we would go see him and I remember he would jump, he would drum.
He was so cute. He was the cutest guy ever. He was
Like I think I've talked about him before. I had a big crush on
him, me and my friend Emily. When we first met, we didn't
know him, but then we became like he was like a brother to us.
But he would drum and because he couldn't, like if he saw you
in the crowd, he'd like, uh, do it like a thing with
his tongue, like like a thing with this doug Like that's how he'd say
hi to you because he's drumming, you know. But we would see,
yeah, Tomorrow's child. We play the music. It was great. And
then there was one out by in Calabasas or what was that. There was
a club out in Calabasas, not the Sage Brush Cantina, but there was
a club where bands would play out there too, And I think there's one
still out there where, Like I'm like, when I'm driving down the one,
i'll see, I'll see like the Canyon Club club. He's not around.
Back then, they called something else. I don't think that's even it.
There was a venue on like, well that's the one that you'll see,
Yeah, that's people play there, like Rick Springfield. They have a
lot of tribute bands. Yeah, I like that. I like that.
Yeah. Yeah, I was when I was like in my very early twenties,
maybe like twenty twenty one. Uh. I lived across the hall from
this guy named Mike Ward Michael Ward, and we were all friends with him,
and he was in a band called School of Fish because with his best
friend that they were School of Fish, and I would he lived like our
apartment doors were literally across the hall from each other. So we were friends
and I would come over there sometimes late night drink whiskey and listen to He'd
be like, oh, I have a new song. One night we ended
up having sex. He came back to my place and I slept with him,
and we'd been really good friends. So then I was like, is
this going to be awkward? And it totally was because then he didn't want
like a relationship or whatever. But so I was like, this is doesn't
have to be awkward, Like let's just go back to being friends. And
he's like, okay, cool. So we were friends and I would go
to remember coconut teasers, yes, cocin it cocnu teasers, Yes. So
I would go to Coke. He would he played at some point, he
would play around town and they would put the flyers. I'd help him put
flyers up, and I thought his band was so good, you know.
So one night, I've told this story before, I was working, I
was tempting at a record company and I went to the head of the I
brought their tape and I tried to drop it off at the head of I
think I was tempting at RCA Records. I tried to give it to this
guy, I think his name was Bennett Cohen, and I remember and I
told Mike, I was like, I brought your tape into him. I
don't know if he ever played it. But eventually they got signed, and
then they had a big hit. Oh my god, Kalen, can you
play a song that's great? Look up three Strange Days. It was a
big K rock hit. It was a very big hit, and they got
kind of famous. That's a while. And then they it ended because his
partner, his name was Josh Clayton felt he he got diagnosed with cancer and
he died in three weeks. It was very very sad. Oh my god.
Then Michael Ward went on to play with what's the the Wallflowers? Wow?
Oh the Wallflower Yeah with the what's his Dylan, Yes, Dylan's son,
Yes, yeah, Dylan son. Yes, Bob. I think Bob
Dylan's son, Jacob Jacob Dylan. Yeah, isn't that Bob Dylan Son?
Yes, and he played guitar for the Wallflowers for a few years. Yeah,
that's great. I love that. Yeah, here's the song. See
if you remember, it does sound familiar. Give it a minute. He
won't get mad if we play his song School of Fish. School of Fish.
Yeah, you could stress a little bit. Totally sounds like a little
bit more last sounds familiar at all? It does? Yeah, absolutely,
it was. I probably saw them. Yeah, I probably saw them at
like Weenie Roast or something. Yeah. Yeah, they got like yeah,
they got signed to Capitol Records. It's all right, that's all right.
That's that. I was like, I know you when. Yeah. I
love Facebook friends with him. I love that about the old days. Yeah,
I'm still friends with Craig Dollander. His son. His son is like
a big Disney kid, like on Disney Channel. Oh really yeah, I
can't think of his first name, but yeah, his his son's doing a
lot of stuff like on the Disney Channel. Looks just like him really cute.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's cute. Craig Donder. Those are the
days, like you know, like hanging, you know, just and Jennifer,
like she introduced me to hmm. She took us to the clubs to
see all these bands. But I remember, because she worked at Tower Record,
She's like, records are gonna be gone. There's gonna be this new
thing called CDs and you gotta listen to after because well there was I remember
she had like a whole wall of albums and we would go to her house
and she would we put head like she always had the newest you know,
headphones, Bow's whatever, and we'd play, like listen to albums. But
now she's like, CDs are the new future. You gotta and so I
remember the very first time I heard a CD. It was Purple Rain and
it was and she put it. She's like, you gotta let's just listen,
you know, got stoned in her bedroom and I was like, wow,
this is really cool. Like she she introduced me to TVO. She's
like, dude, you have you gotta get TiVo. Like she was always
on the cutting you know, always like, you know, on the up
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Yeah, Tiva was amazing. It was great. I was never ahead of
the curve on any like. Wait, I was always dragged kicking and screaming
into new technology CDs. But what am I gonna do with a listening to
it in a car? I know, it's so funny, you know,
when we were young, do you ever think about the idea that, like,
sometimes I'll be at the this is gonna seem like a jump, but
it's not okay because I see myself as being younger, you know. And
then sometimes I'll accidentally take a picture, go to take a picture, and
the cameras turned towards me. I'm like, oh God, I didn't know
what things had gotten as bad. I've been ignoring it, like you know,
but like when I'm at the gym, sometimes I'll see like a cute
guy, and I'll have to catch myself because I'm like, oh, that
guy's pretty hot. And then I'm like, that guy's probably sixteen. I
know. That's the crazy thing because sixteen year olds, like my kids' friends
look older, and I'm like, that's like what I was attracted to when
I was young. I know, I'm the age I am now. Doesn't
mean like guys my own age look like old men to me, I did
an age with my I don't look at older guys and go Michael mcdonald',
do you know I'm still attracted team? But other than do you know what
I'm saying? So I totally yes, I just I feel like a perv.
I know. Okay, it's funny you say that because just the other
night, you know, it's senior you know, activity time. So there's
like parties going around all around town, like so and so is having a
kickback and this guy's having this thing, and Sonning and her tally they're going
to like the same parties their friends. So one night all of their friends
came together and it was the two of them with their friends and I know
everybody okay, But then you see one of these kids, and you're like,
wait, that's Jack. I remember when he was in fourth grade.
How did he get to be like he's a babe. And then then the
next night, Natalia had friends from like cause there're other schools have already graduated.
My kids still have two weeks, but other schools, so there's like
so they had like to get together at our house because they were going to
go to this other house. And these boys come over and I have never
seen them before and I walk into my living room. They look like preppies,
like like they look like college kids. Right, I'm like, who
are these men in my house? And half of them are good looking,
and I do feel like a perm like in my I'm like, all right,
I gotta go. My hair's in a ponytail, and I'm like this
is weird, like and I'm like, Sonny, do you know who these
kids are? He's like, no, I don't. They're not my friends.
I'm like, no, they're not your friends. I know your tweeby
friends. This is a whole beat, like like a nice now, I
know how like older guys feel, you know, like younger women. Right,
but like Natalia's prom date her boyfriend, Yes, he's very hot.
He's my type. I freaking love Griffin. I know really, I tell
his mom all the time. I'm like, I would have totally dated.
He's got a little seventies eighties throwback, doesn't He don't know if it's the
hair, the eyes. Yeah. Look, he's like I was like,
was really cute. He's a babe, and his personality is so funny,
Like he's very like dry witty humor, you know, and he's kind of
like, you know, happy. He knows how he looks and he kind
of plays into it, you know, he's like, uh, we're going
to Disneyland this weekend. I you know, like you'll It's just he's just
so endearing and he's so sweet. Then he does look like a young John
Ham, Like when I saw that, Yeah, now you see, yeah
he does. And I tell his mom all the time. She knows,
I'm like, I love your son. He's just he's totally my type.
She's like, did she ever go he's kind of my type too. It's
funny though, because if you dare say that to like your kids, like
the times when ELB was like a senior and I'm like, there's there'd be
a guy and I'm like, that guy's really cute. And then she'd be
like mom, and I'm like for you, I'm saying for you, like
you you know, secretly I'm like, well, for me too. And
then I remember, like when they were younger, I'd see these like these
kids and I'm like, you know, girls are always pretty or whatever,
but like these there's some boys you would see and you could picture them as
a man and I would always be like, Oh, that kid's going to
be hot. But now it's these kids are growing up and I'm like,
shit went sideways for this one. He didn't get as tall as I thought
he'd be or whatever, you know. But then you see other kids and
you're like, wow, did you clean up nicely? Like wow, I
knew you since you were in second grade. Now you're a senior. And
look at like he's like, you know, over six feet tall, and
I mean it's crazy. Oh there was one for lb. This kid when
he was in like fifth grade. I was like, this kid is going
to be so hot, Like this is going to be a looker. You
got to get in on the ground floor on this one, calling it right.
That's what was like. Well, cut to when they were in high
school, every single one of her friends was like in love with him.
They were like, oh my god, could you And I was like,
Elby, I fucking told you. Did I not tell you that that guy,
let's call him Dean, That's not the same. But I was like,
did I not freaking tell you that Dean? In fifth grade? I
called that shit in fifth grade you didn't want to listen to because you weren't
interested in boys yet. Yeah, I was telling you. I did the
same thing, the same thing when they went to a I have a dance,
Like Natalie was dancing like I don't know, in third or four trillion.
They had the katillion and I was like, that's her first dance.
He is gonna be I'm calling it now. And I was right, like
cut to now. Yeah, to see everybody. He's like the star basketball
player and stuff. But her boyfriend, we've known him since like he was
in Yeah, in fifth grade they met and they've always had a little like
thing, you know. I remember them being on the phone late at night
talking when they were younger. I don't know, it's gonna be interesting.
Is this the one that she got dramatic with? Well, yes, this
is the same kid. That she got d like was really being dramatic on
the phone. Yeah, And he's like, I tell you, I really
want to get off the phone. But yes, he'd be like, I
really want to get off the phone because it's late and I'm tired, but
I don't want to. I don't want you to be upset. And she's
like, well, I'm not upset, Like she's just you know, laying
in to him. She's like, but my feelings are you know, And
he's like, all right, but can we talk about it tomorrow please,
Like you go please. Yes, that's him. So they've been kind of
you know, they're very special to each other, and he has I told
Natalia like he set the bar for her, like, you know, this
is how you should be treated. You know. He's a he's a gentleman
to her. And they communicate. Now they're really like they're they get along
really well. They have good you know. Sometimes I can't help but hear
them, you know, and I listen sometimes, but I hear them like
arguing in the part and sometimes to not hear it. And you have the
glass up against the Yeah, it's easier if you just push your if you
push your ear all the way to the wall that you can hear a lot
better. But he mumbles a little bit, so it's hard. But now
they like, could you speak up a little bit? This is hard for
me, but you like I hear them like having a disagreement, all right,
but they're in they're doing it in an adult way or what. So.
Yeah, he's just these is a great kid. And I don't know.
I hope that they stay in touch when they go off to college,
and maybe they'll stay together. I cannot see them breaking up anytime soon.
Like they're going strong, yeah, but long to say do stuff, I
know, a relationship. Yeah, so she's going to Santa Barbara. Where's
he going? Did you say he's going to Oregon? Now? Oh,
he he was going to go to San Diego. But he's going to Oregon.
Yeah, so not so close, not too far. But I don't
know. I think that they'll I think that they'll always have like a special
part. Maybe they'll come back together. I don't know, but you know,
you know, it's so sad. It's sad. It is sad and
not just like boyfriend girlfriend, like they're friends. Like everybody's gonna be going
different ways. It's gonna be sad. It's the empty nets coming for it,
just like the end of an era, you know. Yeah, it's
just I told him kids, I mean, they're going to be upper classmen
now next year they're going to be juniors. Although I do feel too old
to have kids in high school period. Something changed once Elbe was kind of
now that she's a little bit right, it's not really launched. Yeah,
I mean no, but I know you mean living in her room, which
is a shithole, right, but you're likening then you look at these two
and you're like, all right, come on now. Yeah. Yeah.
But at the same time, I don't want to know. I'm trying to
be like, Okay, you don't, don't rush to get a driver's license.
It's okay, I'll still drive you. Yeah. Yeah. So like
them having their it's just so much easier having high school kids, I have
so much more time, yeah, to do stuff right, Like, I
just feel like I don't envy Kaylin with every day is just like a monster
list of chores and things, and you can't they always have to be accounted
for. My kids don't have to be accounted for for long periods of time,
Like sometimes they come home and they go to their room and yeah,
homework or their own thing, and they'll just pop out and go like what's
for dinner and then that's it. Yeah, which is fine. Yeah.
There was like a time for a while where it was like, oh what
you know, like the drink, like drinking and stuff like that, and
like going to part at a younger age and stuff where I was like,
you know, I couldn't go to sleep till they got home. But now
it's like it's so nice, Like yeah, I mean they're they go to
parties, but they're not like getting sloppy drunk or anything like that, you
know, especially Sonny. I think he might. I don't know. I'm
sure he does stuff, but like I know they're friends and I know where
they are, and it's yeah, crazy, Yeah, it really is.
Like I'll just tell them, like lock up the house when you get home,
you know, shut the la you know, I told him leave that
light on, blah blah blah the alarm. Yeah, lock the door,
said the alarm, go to sleep, Go to sleep. I'm out.
But yeah, Caitlin hat On, you gotta yeah, I mean, you
know, if I'm being completely honest, it's really aiming that's doing a lot
of the the hard day to day stuff. Thank you, Thank you for
honesty. So it's not quite as hard on me. I help out,
of course, you know whenever I can. But a lot of the meals
and the laundry and the clean up that's not me, that's doing a lot
of Yeah, yeah, I get it's different like if you you know,
your spouse goes off to work, you know, and and and somebody was
watching some show and somebody was talking about having a baby as can be very
lonely. And it's true, like you know, I remember like feeling so
alone, you know, when I first had the kids, and it can
be lonely. So like, yeah, it's a it's tough when when they're
when they're young, but yeah, through it, they have to be accounted
for. You feel like you have to be entertaining them. M hm,
you're if you're not worried about how they're eating and if they're what they're wearing.
And but it's also just like am I enriching their brains? Am I
talking to them? Am I playing them the right music? Am I exposing
them to things? Are they having experiences? Are they even gonna remember this?
Am I getting them enough Christmas presents? Am I celebrating their birthday?
Are they going to write about me and their memoir or later when they're older,
you know. Yeah, it's just a constant guilt. Yeah, and
just like which I guess Kaylen saying the dads don't feel as much. Yeah,
or the default parent really is there's always the default parent, right,
yeah? Yeah? Wow, you know what. Enjoy it like, enjoy
I was talking to a friend of mine, he's a dad, and he
was like at his kids baseball games all weekend and complaining, and I was
like, I would just I would love to go to a volleyball game.
One more volleyball game, like I miss that, you know, Yeah,
so enjoy it. I know it's long and boring, but it's funny because
we were at a so you know, my father in law has a big
like Mexican family, so they did like a big kind of like is that
this big giant park and they all brought grills and food and everyone's hanging out.
But it was it was way in the corner of this park and like
we didn't know where it was for us, So our car was way at
the other end of the park and also in the other triangle corner of it
was the was the actual playground. So we have this little hack that's actually
really good where we keep like our Blake's potty like that we used to potty
train her and Isla. We just keep that in the back of the car.
Oh so instead of going to like this, you know, when they
say they have to go to the bathroom like at the beach, right when
we're at the beach or at this park because it's super grungy and filthy,
we can just go to the car, break out the potty. They can
kind of go there in their space, and then we can get rid of
it. Ah nice, So that's very soon. However, but where do
they where do you put the potty down into the bushes? I'll just put
it down, you know. I just find like a just a kind of
little hidden spot like in between two cars where no one can see her,
and she goes, she would just go potty there. Oh okay, Blake
goes, I gotta go potty. So I gotta walk her all the way
over to the car, sit her down. She's sitting there, she goes,
No, I don't have to go potty, get her up, pick
her all the way back. I gotta go potty again. It's like she's
fucking with you. Take her. Well, then Amy took her. She
went potty. Then she walked all the way back and said, now I
have to poop. Weren't you just going potty? She goes, no,
I gotta go in. And so then I take her all the way back
to the car. I sit her down, she's no, I don't have
to go. Wow, you sh doing yeah, so yeah. And it
was right before that that I was walking with them to the car and this
couple came over and oh, they're so sweet cherish. Every moment there go
by so fast. It was like she just walked me all the way to
the car for no reason. That's hilarious. Yeah, that whole cherish these
moments is not good. When the kids are really young, there's no cherishing,
no cherish. She didn't pick sures you'll you'll cherish it later. You'll
look back and go like, oh my god, they're so cute, you
know, but not during moments where they just like walk through yeah, or
just had a temper tantrum, or you just had to take walk them through
Michael's and go well, now, you're not getting the puzzle. You just
beg your sister. Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, all
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