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nice? What's up everybody? Thank you for tuning in on our Memorial Day,
for going out loud. Yeah, even though you guys are at barbecues
and we are slaving away in the studio. Our job is so hard.
Why do we have to work so hard? We never really miss a holiday?
You know what I mean? I said that I've been about of ourselves
but we are pretty we have a good work ethic when it comes to this
show. Yeah, I think we do pretty well. Like I was thinking
about it this morning, and I always forget. Every Memorial Day in our
neighborhood, there's a parade and I have to go around and out of my
way. Although this time, and I was still late this morning, and
I'll tell you why. But this time I'm my new neighborhood. Where I'm
at, I don't have to there's still the parade, but I'm on the
other I'm by the freeway, so dam a problem. As I would say,
go to Patreon. Yeah, if you want to know more about that.
Yeah, yeah, so that's good. Yeah, you're able to just
hop on the yes. Just yeah, easy to get on the freeway this
morning. Though spoiler alert, Phil's got ailments once again. Now he had
to have surgery. I think I told you last week. But one thing
I didn't I forgot to mention is in our new backyard, we have like
a lot of grass, but then there's a big area and then there's a
dog run of woodchips. Well guess what. Phil loves to eat woodchips and
guess what is can be fatal for a dog woodschips. Yeah, that's crazy.
What did you do? Did you so? Well? What I did?
At first, I was trying to Okay, so it's a pretty decent
size area of woodschips, and at first I was like, okay, do
I fence it off? But then I'm like, you know, there is
a way he could get around the fence. It's hard. We're on a
slope and there's a concrete wall, but it's like waist high and he could
there's ways. It goes high and then it goes lower, you know,
it goes down to like knee high where he can just jump up and go
around anyway. Basically, oh boory you with the details. But I decided
to put up a fence, and so we put up a temporary fence to
keep to separate fill from the wood chips. Okay. So then he has
his surgery the other day and he had this thing on his eye removed.
He had a he has a couple lumps that are not tumorous, and they
I thought they were gonna drain it, but they had to cut it out
instead. But they didn't get all of them because he was under anesthesia for
like two hours. Because he also had that infected molar. So he's a
mess. He's a hot mess, and he's got his handsmade tail hat on.
It goes, you know, it's what he looks like. It's,
you know, the big cone of shame. And I want, you know,
I wanted to get him one of those flop I think I'm gonna get
him the floppy ones. I got him the I've had it from other surgeries,
the inflatable yea thing. I like that. And I asked the doctor
can I put that on him? And she said no, it's best to
just keep this on because he could probably you know, get to one of
his stitches. Yeah, because he's got stitches on his side his and then
he's got to eat soft food, which is fine. I mean I can
soak his food. And then I have to put the eye drops in it's
just a hole. And then this yeah, and then this morning. The
thing with Phil is he's got that cone on and he goes into like you
know, if he's outside, he goes sniffing around the bushes. He gets
leaves stuck in there and then he drools so his it's like all of his
hair is stuck into it. Like I'm constantly just putting it in the sink
and washing it down, and then five ten minutes later, all hair because
he's drooling, and you know, as long as you have to wear it
two freaking weeks. So I got to admit with Pepo, we did the
inflatable one. But then also like I would just take it off when I
was with her, I would just take it off and make sure that's what
I did, because I just couldn't take it. I used to do.
I know, I used to do that, but this time around, I'm
like, and then I would leave it on at night when she went to
sleep, Yeah, and then I would take it and then when she woke
up in the morning, I would take it back. When I was watching
her, yeah, I would take it off. Yeah. The thing is
with him is he's got a couple areas that he could get at in a
second, right, So I'm just like, I'm just leaving this thing on
him. All the kids had their friends over. They signed it like a
cast. Get well, get well, get well soon, Phil, have
a great summer, see you next fall. It's really funny. But yeah,
it's just he's just uh, yeah, he's a full time And then
today I wasn't gonna be home right after I left here, so I didn't
want to love him be in the house. I took him on a little
walk this morning, got him his exercise, but you know, the kids
are gone today all day, so I didn't want him hanging around by himself.
I wish I could to bring him here. You should have, I
know, I was thinking, like, you know, it'd be nice.
I don't. I don't want to do that to Patrick, but you know'd
be fun as if, like if you you know, we could have like
a doggy play date once a week. People not great with that, right
with other dogs in a place. Probably if we left them like in the
yard, they'd be okay, they should be fine. But she gets territorial.
So what she would do is she would jump up on the couch and
have to sit next to me, and if if Phil came over to me,
she would get mad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I could
see that. It's a quirk. Yeah, that's like why try to train
it out of her? I just like we just don't have people bring their
dogs to our house. Yeah, yeah, I wish Phil would get a
little more territorial with me, Like you know, walking at night and stuff.
You know, he just wants to talk to everybody, wagging that tail.
Well, Penelope's like that too. When people, oh, forget about
it. She know, she'll just walk up to She has to stop by
every person, and sometimes it's kind of embarrassing. It's just like some random
guy that right. I know, we just keep walking, keep walking,
and she's like has to walk over and start sniffing their legs. And you
know, nine times out of ten they'll just be like, oh, hello
there, and and I'm like, sorry, she's pay attention. Horror,
Gotta gotta gotta say hi to her. And they'll be like, no problem.
You know, she won't keep walking. I'm like, not that one.
She's like nope, nope, you'd think she was starved from it in
our house. That's cute though. I love dogs. And then Phil got
out. The other we thought Phil got out. I don't know what happened,
but like I the garage door was open and I was closing up the
house and it was, you know, like ten o'clock at night, eleven
ten thirty, eleven o'clock. Stephanie's trying to tell you it's fixed the time
or Kalen and uh It's like ten thirty and I'm closing up and I'm like
calling for Phil and I'm like where I'm whistling for him. There's not a
lot of places he can go, and in the dark in the backyard is
pretty like that have motion sensor lights come on, but but there's a certain
part of the area that's dark. And I'm calling for him, looking for
him, asking Sonny like is Phil with you? No, Like, can't
find him. I go, well, now Phil's out. How did he
get out? I don't know. I was I was taking the trash out
and the door was like once in a while he'll follow me outside, but
he doesn't really go much. I mean, he stays, but I could
not find him. I was like locking up the house, getting ready go
to bed. So I get in the car. I start going, like
Sonny gets in his We're driving around the neighborhood like whistling for him. It's
it's dark, he's black, it's hard to see him, you know,
screaming like where's calling for him and stuff, and it's also quiet, like
you don't want to be like yelling his name. At eleven o'clock, I
don't know. We were looking for and then I called study. I go
nothing, and he's like no. And then I go back to the house
and I'm like where, like, is he in the bushes somewhere? And
he's stuck behind the fence I just built. Oh no, he was behind
like I said, that wall, he got up, he went around and
he got behind eating and then he was probably he was probably eating. I
didn't see it, but he was probably there for a while eating wood chips.
But luckily it was the night before his surgery. So I told the
doctors and they're like, all right, we'll check him. But yeah,
he's just it's he's a full time job. Wow h Yeah. Does Adam
ever want like her? Well, he's parcial custody. He wanted to see
him today because today is Adam's birthday and the kids are with him today and
he wanted them to bring Phil. But I'm like, he's a mess,
Like, yeah, you know the doctor. I mean, this is just
days after surgery. Yeah, he's got a red cone head. He's a
conehead. Yeah, he got his hat on. Anyway, did I ever
tell you about the time that this somebody insisted on bringing their dog to my
house? And that's weird when people do this. I was doing a thing
with this person. This was years ago, and they were like, yeah,
I need to bring my dog over because my dog is like old and
blind and deaf and I can't leave him alone for too long. But I
was like, well you can't though, because my dog is just very weird
about other dogs being in space. And she's like, well, is he
gonna like is she? And I'll be sorry, I just misgendered my own
dog. Is she gonna like attack or whatever? And I said, honestly,
she's just kind of unpredictable, Like she's a really really sweet dog,
but she just acts gets weird when another dog is in her space, and
I can't be We were going to be basically teaching a class, and I
was like, I can't be like having a monitor, right, you know.
She was like okay, brings her dog anyway, and she was like
I'm sorry. There was nothing I could do. I didn't have anybody to
watch him. And I was like, well, I mean, what do
you say? I know, and I was like, well, do you
want to put She's like, can you put your dog in the backyard?
Oh? Please? I'm like, so I'm going to put my dog in
the backyard. Who's then going to be pawing at the door and crying outside?
And I was like that, and she's like, well, I can't
put my dog in the backyard because he's blind and you know, in a
strange place. So basically, well, chasing her dog around the house,
tried to corner her dog, and she had the whole time, had to
be like I forgot my dog's name, right, you know, Stanley,
you know, you know the whole time. And I was like, bitch,
I told you not to bring your like, I know, I don't
get it. It's so crazy. And I had to feel bad because Penelope
was acting like an asshole, yeah, and being a bully. Well but
yeah, gave her fair warning. I sure did. I literally made a
boundary and said don't please don't because here's the problem. And she did.
Anyway, Yeah, I don't know what's up with the people people I know?
Anyway. Wow, that's hot dog talk, so uh this weekend?
Yes, well okay, first of all, let me start with this today.
I'm going to be going to speaking of dogs. Yes, I'll get
to I'm going to a party. Like, don't get too excited. It's
not like you know, a rager. But I'm going to a friend's house
for a Memorial Day like barbecue, you know. But like she asked me,
if I could make this pasta salad that I make Oka you have told
you about this pasta salad before. I'm getting a little famous for it.
I think I know. Can I say? Yeah? It's like the squiggly
pasta And it's got the mozzarella ball pearlsza and the pearl tomatoes, pearl tomatoes,
cucumber, Oh, cucumber, Okay, mozzarella balls, yeah, mozzarella
balls, mozzarella and uh yeah. And I put some pasta and then I
put lemon juice and vinegar and olive oil and salt, pepper, and it's
really good. Nice. So except that I love it, John wants there
to be a protein in it. I'm like, hi, it's called cheese,
right. He likes there to be chicken or something like the cubes don't
want chicken in it. So then it turns into like a fucking taco bar
where I'm like, Okay, here's some cube chicken, here's this on the
side, here's that on the side. You know, I have my own,
little, uh salady thing. But I didn't I didn't put it was
it's more like a I put avocado and the mozzarella and balsamaic and olive oil
and oh and basil. Like that's that's the kind of salad like I'll make.
But you're making a pasta salad, which is different. Yeah, which
original The original recipe was my friend Cecily's, and she didn't do it with
pasta in it. It was just it was just the mazzarella and the tomato
and the cucumber. Yeah, which is great, but it's very dense,
and you have to have a lot to make a lot. And I'm like,
well, I got five people to feed, so I'm going to add
pasta to it to fill it out a little any more. Right, Okay,
so this but here's the problem. What's the problem. This morning?
I have to come here first. I get to come here first. Let's
give it a little gratitude, and then the I'm already gonna be late for
this party because the party starts at twelve thirty. We're not going to be
out of here until at least like until noon, so then I have to
run home. I'm like, well, now I have to make a pasta
salad. You would think that when I say to John also, but then
I so I can get up early, which I did, but I also
have to walk the dog. Yeah you think that John would be like,
wow, that sounds like a lot. And I just get to just wake
up whenever and go to a barbecue at twelve. Let me walk the dog.
No, not so much. Not no offer there, no so and
I don't like to just be like John, get your ass out of bed
and offer to walk the dog. So because I'm like, well, you
know what the dog walking part is the part I like exactly when I get
to go roll calls and like get some exercise. So I'm like, so
how do I get hurt? Like I got to give him the good job?
So like I'm like, you know what I'm gonna do is when we
go to record our last show and be like I need you to make the
pasta Yes, so I got up early, cut up all the tomatoes,
cut up the cuecum you know, did you cut the cue? Did all
the prep which is like a lot. But the whole time I'm like cursing,
like why did I fucking agree to bring this past salad? Why didn't
I just buy something? Yeah? Well because you're afraid to bring the cookies,
like because this this mom that's invited me over was like, hey,
do you mind making your salad? And I said, of course, right,
I didn't think of how labor intensive it was and what I had to
do in the morning, right right, Yeah, no, I know,
well, at least you got invited to a barbecue. Yeah, I have
something that I have nothing, but I have a lot. Actually, you
know, I'm still like, I'm like in the phase what are you doing
today, Klin? I am doing well. One of Amy's friends is having
a little party, but I don't think we're gonna go to that. So
nothing that's work taking kids over there. My god, you are in the
throws of it right now. This age is like horrendously hard as far as
like planning things. Mm hmmm, nap schedules, You got to think about
food, you got to you got to you got to think about their moods.
Yeah, it, it definitely gets there. But you know, we
went to the beach on Saturday and that was really nice, and we kind
of underprepared for that one, but you did well. Well, there's a
there's a like a Mexican place that we like to go to sort of like,
let's go get lunch there and then maybe we'll just pop by. The
beach is supposed to be cloudy, so maybe we'll just walk along. But
then you know, Andy brought a couple of toys. Well, we have
lunch, we get to the beach and it's beautiful. It's not cloudy at
all. It's totally sunny out. So like we still had towels and toys.
But the kids weren't wearing bathing suits. Oh so I was like,
well, I guess we'll just trash their clothes then, so they just got
all wet and muddy and sandy, and like we still had fun, but
yeah, nobody had any bathing suits on. But we still spend like,
I don't know, hour or two. There are the days. Remember Kaitlin,
I don't know if you were our producer back then, but remember Stephanie
and I would talk about going like outings like that and how we would like
forget like the we would be the one mooching off of the other mod diapers
at the park, right, yeah, the diapers at the park we had
and snacks but all shown up with no snacks. Beach. I was the
queen of not having any sandtoys. So then my kids were all like,
come, we don't have like a bucket and shovels. And it was like
because that was a bridge too far by the time I got the sunscreen and
made some goddamn sandwiches, and you have to bring up practically have a tent
exactly. You see these families and they're like protecting their kids from the sun.
Right, Well, when we were kids, No, we can't say
this enough times, but when we were kids, you did the anti.
Not only did you not protect yourself from the sun, but you put oil
all over yourself to Yes, it's a hasten the burn right right, Like
my pee coach Don would sit out in his uh in his shorts and his
chair and he would have that like the reflector, the reflector, Yeah,
get out of my way, you're black. And my son yeah, so
we didn't. It was and you know you had those ads for the suntan
lotion with the girl the copper toe ad that wasn't sunscreen, that was having
a burn slash tan and how white her butt was. She was lowering down
the little pants to show you like, look how dark I am. Whereas
now we know better, right, than that, so you have to bring
like a pup tent and like and slather them with sunscreen. And then it
better not be the aerosol kid, you know, I mean, it's we're
all about that. So by the time, and then you got to have
food because you know, you don't want to get down there, and you
didn't pack, and then all of a sudden, you're like you got to
go. Either send them to the snack bar, which you know, French
fries are like fifteen dollars or you're screwed. And there was never a snack
bar either, Like there's there's one maybe like few miles down if you want
to walk to that one. And the bathroom is another issue. That was
another problem. I hated the beach. Yes, but you are, Kaylin,
you are in the throes of you're in the mailroom. Yeah, yeah,
it's your rolling calls. You're somebody's bit. Well, I don't you
know, a lot of Amy's friends, their kids are all grown up,
so that side, they don't have a lot of like little kids to play
with mine. So you know, the kids, aren't they really gonna have
that much fun at this Memorial Day party with no other kids to play with
either, then I don't feel bad not going to it. Yeah, too
bad he didn't live closer to to Patrick. Yeah that's a shame. Well.
I grew up here in the valley, and the valley is hot and
I hate the heat. So as soon as I moved down to Long Beach,
I was like, oh my god, this is so much better.
I like this so much better. And even speaking of the beach, growing
up in the valley and going to the beach, that's an event, I
know, is an absolute all day event. Now that I live in Long
Beach, you can just just pop over to the beach, spend an hour
or two there, come back. It's great. Yeah. So I do
like living down there at nice, but it would be nice if you know,
yeah, you were close and we could just come hang out with Patrick
all the time, which we do hang out pretty often. I bring the
kids up here, but yeah, you know, bringing the kids all the
way up here is it's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah. The
drive is a is a big thing. I get it. I know at
that age my kids got carsick, so it was really difficult. Remember the
time I told you we just went to Santa Barbara, which is not even
that far and they get the zoom. I'm puked in the car. Yeah,
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I remember this reminds me of this reading this, ad I just had a
flashback of back years ago there in our well. Adam's grandmother had all these
love letters and letters that she had me transcribe, which was it was pretty
interesting like back in the day, it would have been nice to have this
is what she no, no, no, sorry, she wanted them.
They were written in like she had them like tons of them in a box,
and then I typed them out for her and put them together. I
did my own little story work. Oh yeah, I just remind remember that
it was years and years and years ance like another lifetime. But yeah.
Yeah. One of John's favorite gifts that I ever gave him was I took
a bunch of his old photos that I found and remember this I I found
he you know, for our generation, all of our photos are not on
our phone, right like from the pictures that we had when we were younger.
I still have like piles of just photographs that I got developed somewhere and
then had them all together. And John had a bunch of photos of his
parents and his sister, like family photos, but plus he had a bunch
of photos from his dad of like World War two stuff. And I had
somebody digitize all the photos and put them on drives. It's a great gift.
And it was, you know, there were tons of them. Yeah,
and he loved it. See that's nice. Like it's funny we're talking
about it because I was thinking this morning, like on the way in here,
you know, like I'm so not good, like you know, just
some people are so good with gifts. You know, they're good gift givers.
You know. I'm it's not it's not I mean, it takes I
have to really think about it. But so the kids are turning eighteen,
and I was like, I don't I get them something like sentimental something like
that, because I'm going through boxes and I have so many things that have
been in a box for since my whole adult life practically, and you know,
and I'm like what do I do with And then I have all these
pictures of the kids when they were little, and like, oh, I
forgot about this trip or whatever. You know this, But are my kids
sentimental that way? Like, I don't know. Well, okay, I've
thought about this too. I've thought about going through a lot of photos that
we have and making each kid a photo out their own photo album. Right.
I remember how special it was to have a photo album of my baby
pictures, yes, which I don't no longer have, right, But I
thought about doing that for the kids. But I'll tell you why. It
probably isn't a good idea, not to tell anybody what to do or what
not to do. But I the other day I sat with Sadie for hours
and we look through all the photos that are on my phone, like from
the and I have a bunch of baby photos on my phone. And she
was interested, but there were a lot of pictures that she was like,
oh, God, look at that. I hate that picture. Yeah,
yeah, Natalia, I bet you a million dollars. If left to my
own devices, I would be like, oh, this picture is so cute,
right, And the kids would be like, uh, yeah, why
did you put that photo in them? Now? I don't want that I'm
not or and they maybe look at it once and go, oh, oh
yeah, I can't believe I look like that or whatever, and then put
it away and never never. I mean, maybe they'll appreciate it when they're
older, that's what I think. And I think they're a little now.
As a gift, maybe the thing to do is make the albums, but
don't present it to them until they're older. Yes, that's a good idea.
I don't know. I know, I don't want to shot on your
idea. No, I know that. I was like, I want to
give them something special for their eight times I mean, did you what did
you so? Well? LB not for her eighteenth birthday, but we kind
of combined it for her graduation was a car, right, So all of
her friends were talking about what they were going to get for their graduation gift,
and I was like, you're you're going to get a car. Yeah,
and that's it, right, that's a huge gift. Yeah, that's
a big gift. That's why it's like, you know, I have to
go. I have to do this mother daughter's trip. I have to but
I guess I get to the Cabo trip. Yeah, for a couple of
days. So I'm doing that. I mean, that's her big gift.
And then Sonny wants to go to Japan again with his friends. Right,
they're going and this time they're just staying in one spot and that'll so that's
his gift. But I don't know. I was thinking because also, you
know, what do you do with all these pictures that you that are just
in a box that are framed. They used to be they are framed,
they used to be up on a wall, and now they're just in a
box. And they're beautiful pictures. I mean, there are some of them
when they were like at the Sears studio that I would take them to,
right, And then you know, it's like, but what do you eh,
I don't know. I'm not like, I'm just I don't know what
to do with all that stuff. I guess you got to get it digitized.
I think that's the answer. I think that's it. That's what you
just gotta do. And then there there's another thing, as we have the
home movies too on DVD. Now that's something I think that they would love
to see. Yes, that would be cute. Yeah, but it is
on a hard drive which is still at the well. We have to get
our tech guy to come get it and taken out of the system that he
put it into. It's this whole thing. But I need to get that
back and then. But that's not going to be happening by next week,
two weeks from now. Yeah, well, I don't know. It's hard
because there's things that they expect that they're getting. Like I always think,
like I remember years ago when Lbie graduated middle school, her gift was a
new bed, was a queen's size bed the headboard. So it was like
we were going to have to get her a bed anyway, yeah what I
mean, But it was like, well, let's save that, Let's wait
until the graduation from middle school, and then that could be her middle school
right gift? Right? You know? Yeah, even though in my mind
I was always like, wh fucking cares about graduating middle school? You talked
about this, It's like, you can't not graduate middle school. You have
to be real fucked up to not make it through eighth grade, you know,
I mean, things have had to go real sideways to have it your
schooling end at the eighth grade or seventh grade, right, So you know,
I feel like, do you need congratulations on that? And by the
way, high school too. Yeah, Like I don't know why high school.
Graduating high school should be such a big deal. Graduating college is a
big sound like my dad would. That's how my dad a little cares about
high school and go to go That's the thing about high schools. You have
to go to high school. You can't not you can't opt out. Oh,
you know, we should get a congratuate. We should get a gift
for waking our kids up and get every day every day and them go to
school even when they're like I have a sore throat, Like, yeah,
but your school has a really strict attendance policy. Get up, you're not
sick enough, go to school. Yes, yes, we should be getting
pad. Where's our graduation? I feel the same way about their birthday too,
the first five years of their birthdays. Like I gave birth to twins,
Like, where's my birthday present? Right? I birthed them right?
Right? Well, I always say that too about the birthday thing. It's
like when And this is going to cause controversy because you know I've always said,
but it's worth repeating. I don't care about adults birthdays. Yeah,
no, And I and you know what, this is going to lead me
to another to what I did this weekend. I'm all about my friends celebrating
their birthday, our little mom group of friends, because it's an excuse to
get together with my girlfriends, right, and you know what we like to
Some of us are like no gifts, and others are like, you can
get me a gift to you, and then we kind of have fun with
it, you know, get them like some silly fun stuff and like go
and you have a girls night out. And there's a big group of us.
There's like nine of us, so it seems like it's always somebody's birthday,
and then we look forward to it. We're like, oh, where
are we doing the next one? And it's a good excuse to go out
for dinner, but at what age? But there's a lot of people like
I don't really wish people happy birthday on Facebook that much either, just because
I'm like, I barely know you, Like I probably wouldn't if I don't
know it's your birthday in life, right, I yeah, come on,
I know, like it's get over it. We're adults. You have a
birthday every single year, and I don't know that it needs to be the
only reason why I celebrate my birthday at all is because the kids like to
celebrate my birthday because it's an excuse for them to like get cake, get
go out for dinner, right right. So yeah, So the thing is,
I guess you celebrate the birthday of the people in your family and your
family, but even then, like when do you stop making a big deal,
like what is the age? What's the cut off? Well, I
know you don't have to go like twenty one in the morning, twenty one,
you think, Yeah, I think I don't know. Yeah, I
was just thinking of like the couple my close girlfriends, I don't even like.
I mean, we wish each other happy birthday, but I don't know,
I don't think we make it a point. I only think with just
like Susanne and Melissa, I think are the only two even like down,
I don't like we'll make it up like hey, your birthday or the three
of us will be like, oh, so and So's birthday, let's get
together and it's an excuse to see each other, like we haven't seen each
other, right, but other than that, like oh and we went to
Pearl Jam the other night, which was fun. Yeah, saw Melissa the
other night. Oh, it's so fun because I haven't seen Carrie Simmons in
a long time. I know, did you invite her on the show?
You know I shouldn't do. Yeah, I was gonna say, did you
tell her that I liked her husband's thing and that I remember that Tony yes,
which I reached out to So did he get back to you? No,
but I reached out to him on Facebook, so we'll see. Okay,
But because I thought, I don't have his email anymore. But yeah,
Pearl Jam was fun. It was you know, it was the same
sets as Vegas. No, it was different. It was totally not I
wouldn't say totally, but there was he was Eddie Vedder seemed more animated in
La like he was jumping and doing splits in the air and stuff, where
in Vegas he was kind of mellow. I think, I don't know,
maybe because the arena was smaller or something, or maybe it's just a different
night. But it was great. It was a really it was a lot
of different songs, you know, some of the big hits, but like
a lot of deep cuts too, and a lot of like songs from their
new album. It was fun. Of course, we saw Jeff Rock Like
I every time I go to a concert, there's Jeff Like, what a
life this guy? Leaves Jeff Ross, Jeffrey Ross, the Roast Master,
He just like goes out, you know, hits the road, does his
comedy and goes to freaking concerts and hangs out with Eddie Vedder backstage, you
know what I mean. And Bruce Springsteen Like what a life this guy?
Yeah, he's just ends single and just a man about town. Not that
talented either, by the way. He doesn't write his own jokes, you
know that, right, Like he goes out to like he'll go on Facebook
and be like, hey, who wants to write the jokes? Yeah?
Yeah, and then he thinks that they're gonna be excited to, Like I
don't think he pays. He really pays some people, but he probably gets
a bunch of people to send him jokes just so that they can feel like,
hey, I got a joke on the roast even though Jeff got credit
for it. Right, I'm just saying he's never gonna hear this podcast,
I know, but I am. I've known him for now, I was
thinking about for like twenty six years. Yeah, and he still dates women
the same age exactly six years later. Yes, And one of my favorite
jokes is such a hacky joke, but it's that he says is like he
he's I don't know how the joke goes, but he says, it's his
antique. His aunt. Her name is Teak, and I always bring that
up to him when I see him, but it it Yeah, he just
this life. This guy live was like it's crazy, but yeah, we
had a good time. We went to like the Forum Club before and it
was an opening band, and nobody wanted to see the opening band. So
now nobody I heard of or anybody the three of us are well, there
was four of us that Carrie brought a girlfriend too that she's friends with another
like mommy friend and uh, and so we went to like yeah, we
went to the Forum clubforehand and it was fun, you know, like getting
caught up having seen each other in a long time and like that's our birthday,
you know what I mean, Like that can be like Melissa just had
a birthday a couple like a month ago, and we haven't seen each other,
so we like cheers to her birthday, bringing them back around to the
birthday talk. That's what I like, I like, just like, hey,
cheers to your birthday. You don't have to go shopping for it,
right. I have to say it was a little bit. My friend Cecily
listens to this show. It's not Cecily, my other podcast partner. I
have two friends named Cecily. Now this is my mom friend named Cecily.
So my friend Cecily was like, hey, this is our friend Sharon.
Love Sharon. Sharon's the one who's having the barbecue today. Oh so Sharon.
So a bunch of us are friends from This originated with my friend Lara,
whose daughter Lily, who I met at Mommy and Me when the babies
were six months old, right, been friends with her ever since. I
talked to her like almost every day. It's like really cool. Yeah,
so we've been friends for twenty years. And then I met Cecily through Lara
when the girls were like four or five, yeah, like kindergarten age.
And then I've been friends with her ever since. And our kids are all
still currently friends. This whole group, so my friend Sharon and then all
the kids. Oh yeah, I went to exam together. That's awesome.
This is how it became like this kind of the jew group. Then there's
another mom in that group who LB is really good friends with her daughter,
and I'm friends with the mom too, but this is the carpool mom,
the mom who was like, I don't want to carpool with you. Always
had a little grudge about that. But anyway, she's in the group.
And then there's just a couple of other all of our kids are around the
same age. And then somehow I started even though I'm as they always say,
I'm not that Jewish, Like they all went to temple together, but
now two of them have dropped out of that temple, so only a few
of them still go to temple and they're all kind of more Jewy than me.
But I really like being included in the group. Yeah, but every
once in a while, I'll be like, yeah, last Christmas and Rhankah
for you for you Jews, you know, you know, but it's just
kind of funny because they're more culturally Jewish than I am. But it's just
fun. But Elbie did go to Jewish sleep boy camp for years with all
of their kids. Our kids went together. So anyway, this mom,
Sharon, her son and Elb are friends, and so she started like inviting
me to stuff like a couple of years ago, and so it's like really
nice. So I see all these people. So yeah, So anyway,
it was her birthday and we went and celebrated her birthday on Friday night that
just passed. But she was one of the ones who was not like no
gifts, so we're like, okay, so gifts. So then I felt
prep like I was like, oh fu, like what I have to go
out and shop for her? And I don't know her all that well,
like I don't know her taste, you know. So a lot of these
women have been better friends with each other, and I've been friends with a
few of them individually for a long time, right not do you know what
I'm saying, Like some of them on more acquaintances with but they know each
other well. So I'll have to call the mom and be like, oh
what is Carol? Like They'll be like, oh, she loves puzzles.
So I'm like, okay, good enough, go to Target get her a
puzzle. She's like how did you know that? Yeah? Okay, So
with Sharon, I was like I don't know. So my friend Cecily's like,
well, you know, I went. I actually went shopping for her,
and I went to World Market and I got her like boh, this
and this and this and this, and she goes by the way like do
you want to just go in on it with me? And like you,
I'll put your name on the car. I love when that happens, right,
And I was like hell, yeah, you know how many how many
gifts I got? You know I leached myself onto in the past. Yes,
Like that's the best when somebody goes out and goes I got to cover.
Just slap your name on it. Yes, give me twenty five bucks.
Done, It's like score. Yeah. So let's take a quick break
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conditions apply. Yeah. So she basically said, why don't you get a
card? And I was like, I'm gonna be Why don't I go to
seize candy and just get her like a little thing of chocolates. I think
she likes candy. Who doesn't you know besides me? So I got a
card and the chocolate and then I added that to the get I handed it
to her in the car on the way over, and then she wouldn't let
me chip in for that. She was like, yeah, you got her
candy in the card, don't worry about it. Of course I was like
no, no, no, but here put my name on the card,
like let me split it with you, and she was like no, forget
about it. So I was like score on score again. Wow. See
now that's how birthdays should be in right, yeah right yeah yeah so then
everybody else. But then, of course her birthday present was a surprise to
me as well, so I got to watch her open it and she was
like thanking us both because she put the card and I was like, no
problem, no problem though, no problem, Yeah of course you love uh
right that? Yeah that you just opened? Yes, yes, you know
what. I love a good candle. That's what I love. I do
too, but some people like don't care find that to be impersonal? Yeah
I love it. Yeah, yeah, we have a candle our girl from
I know, I know which will we'll give her a shot out of it,
but we could give her her shout out now fern candle. They smell
delicious. I just brought you, I thank you, and they smell so
good. I feel like everybody appreciates That's what I think. Like, that's
a good candle. Yeah, it's like a nice candle. It's kind of
my goat ferncandle dot com candles and they are they look super gifty. Yeah.
You can get candle paraphernalia with it, like a little snuffer, the
wick and and uh and they have the little wax melts, so wax melts
and matches and it's all like it's really really nice gifts that is very gifty.
But then you got to think that you've got to think ahead on that,
Like you got to be like, oh, Fern candle, I should
I should order some candles for my friends her birthdays coming up. Whereas I
don't think ahead now, I'm like, oh shit, a nice target,
right right, Yeah, I'm like, oh another thing I didn't do.
Another thing I forgot. Right. We had so much fun at this birthday
party we did where'd you guys go? So we went to this sushi place
in Woodland Hills called Red Ginger And my first thought, I have to say,
was like, going to sushi with a bunch of people is going to
be so expensive? You know, I like cheaper versions and Also when I
go to dinner with a group of women that are drinking, that's for you
that I know, because I know. I think when I go to dinners
sometimes and there's one person that doesn't drink, and it's like, you know,
like, why do they have to pay for it? Why should they
split all of our costly cocktails? Mostly I don't I don't mind, to
be honest, because especially with Jewish women, they don't drink that much anyway.
So if everybody's having a drink, I'm not like, oh, well
I didn't have I shouldn't have to pay, because you know, will I
order an extra appetizer so that they may get to get them back. No,
I'm just saying I normally don't really care. But if you're going to
a place where it's more cocktail focused, like when you're going out for drinks
and have a few appetizers, yeah, then I'm like, really right.
But if it's my friends, I'm never going to say anything. But if
it's like I did go to dinner with this group of women that are part
of a part of a group where we we all have kids with something in
common, and we have a big group of these moms and we'll go out
and they'll be like ten of us and they'll start ordering drinks. And at
that point, if I don't know the people that well, I'll be like
and they go, hey, should we just all split it, you know
ten ways. I'm like, no, I'm just gonna pay. I got
it. I'm just gonna look, I'm just gonna pay for mine. Yeah,
and then I will be generous. I'm gonna overtip. I'm gonna put
in right. I'm not gonna like skimp on the tax or I'm gonna be
a generous tip. But I'm not gonna like, go, sure, I'll
give you sixty dollars instead of you know, twenty five exactly. Yeah.
Yeah, but if it's my friends, I don't really care. Yeah.
But the point is the sushi ended up being like not that expense. Like
we ordered a bunch of sushi and they had some sake's and it didn't it
wasn't more than like going to a nicer restaurant, right right, Well that's
nice, yeah's nice. So there was a guy. So it's like a
fun sushi if you ever want to go somewhere. It's called Red Ginger.
And it was like kind of a party atmosphere. Now, at first we
our reservation was for six thirty on a Friday night. So at first I
was like, oh, it's just old people time, like who goes to
dinner on a Friday night at six thirty. But surprisingly this place is pretty
happening. So it started kind of filling up around us, and the food
was really good and there was entertainment. There was a guy like this Asian
guy playing the guitar guitar, and we were like, oh, what's this
going to be, like, like what kind of music is he going to
play? You know? Well, he played all like hits of the late
seventies early eighties that I was in my elements. Oh my god, I
love that, and we were all having the best time, and he played
like Neil Diamond, he did Sweet Caroline. Oh I know, so shit.
I So all of us were just like, what what's that? Oh
my god, I love this song. He did like the bee Gee's How
Deep is Your Love? That's so cool. But when he was doing Sweet
Caroline, like we all just because it's sort of like an anthemist, you
know, we all start singing, you know, sweet Caroline, and then
everybody goes bum bum bum. Yeah, so we're doing that. We I
look around and I'm like, oh, we're like the youngest people here,
like oh really, it's a but it's a it's a weird feeling when you're
like, oh my god, I love this song and it's like, uh,
I really love to see you tonight. Yeah, I'm not talking about
moving in, right, you know. And then you look around and the
other people that are really into it are like in their sixties and I'm like,
oh shit, like that's me, Like these were my contemporary right,
like what's happening? And they're out at six thirty eat dinner too? Yes,
And I'm like, oh, I think because I still think of myself
as right, I in my mind, I'm like in my late twenties me
too, maybe early thirties if we're stretching out. But I'm like, I'm
still fun, like this is still my music. And then I realized,
oh, my music is from literal seventies, right, that's what gets me
excited. Yes, you know what? So And I love when like my
kids will go like our teacher, look like she's younger than you, mom,
Like how do you how old your teachers? She's younger than you,
but she looks she looks like she could be your mom, and I love
those. I'm like, I love that comment. But wait a minute.
The song I always I know it's not the but you know, you get
lyrics wrong and how people like sing there. I always thought they were singing
I'm not talking about the living, right, It's not those It's not.
No, it's one of those ones that nobody knows what the lyrics are.
But it's I'm not talking about moving in. I'm now talking about moving in,
but I don't know what he says. He says, hiven your life.
Yes, but there's a cool wind blow in the stars. I really
love to see it tonight. It's if you look up the lyrics, it's
I'm not talking. I thought I thought he was talking about dead be it
sounds like because he's not talking about the living the living, I just want
to hunt your life exactly like a ghost. Yeah. I love living in
that nostalgia. Like I there's nothing I love more than like somebody starting to
strum a song and I'm like, oh shit, it's guitar man. It's
the guitar man, and I'm like, who comes to play? Baby?
It's the gits and I'm like, shit song, and then I go,
oh god, I've just aged myself, Like I know, but it is
fun. And now that that you know, that could to go to a
restaurant and have somebody playing songs that you know, hit songs from like the
seventies, that's the Taylor and yeah, the Bread and I'm like, oh
my god. Even sometimes embarrassingly, even sometimes yacht rock is too modern.
I'm like, oh, that's from the eighties, Like, yeah, take
me back, go back another five years, yeah, and go deep.
I'm like Toto, that's nineteen eighty four. I want to hear something from
nineteen seventy eight. Yeah, it's kind of embarrassing, but it's because when
I was ten, you know, those like really young formative years where I
first started to really like music and like Azided you you know, Franky Valley
and like where it was just it hit your parents. But it also like
you'd hear a song and you'd be like, oh, I really like that
song, you know. And then I had those k Tel Music Express albums,
Oh my god, Kato John and like Daniel and your Song and you
know, Benny and the Jets, and those songs would be on those like
hit like top forty albums, and I would just play the shit out of
those. Now, it'd be great Jackie Blue, Yeah you do. It
would be great to get one of those old record players and get like the
k Tell records. I have a k T. I have it because a
long time ago, this guy I was talking about these songs and I was
remembering these songs on this one album from nineteen seventy five. Huh, and
this guy found it for me. I'm like, yay or something. I
bought it for me. Wow, not even someone I was dating, just
like a friend of mine at this job. It was so sweet. That's
awesome. I what a great gift. I know. Well, now a
good gift for you would be a record player. I know you actually we
have a record play I was like, I know, and then I'm like,
well, yeah, John has one hours. Okay, play a record
on it. Yeah you could play a record. I should while you're doing
your least favorite chores vacuuming, and I won't be able to hear it.
Right, you gotta get it. Then I got it. It's like if
you give them mouse a cookie, Like if I'm going to vacuum and I
want to listen to something. I gotta have the air the AirPod pros so
they're noise canceling, right, and then you know, yeah, anyway,
all right, this has been super fun. Yeah, but let us we
never said hi to our people today. We didn't know, we didn't so
doing now we have a new one. It's Richard. Uh, it's frolicker,
but it sounds like frolicker. He's frolicking with Richard and frolicking yep,
and ahoy, Meg malloy and Rachel. Still she's still a newcomer even though
she's in my class. So she's kind of an old timer to me.
Okay, not age wise, but like I've known her for a while.
Okay, so she's now, But Ashley is still chic, and Kelly Laddy
Doe and Amy is really really nice, she stuck her and Lauren as good
as gold, and Katie's rolling on e with all those ease and Aaron,
what is or Lando? And Nikky call your girl? And Leslie, Oh
my god, which one is she coughing or she coughing? And acoustic Well,
yeah, she's still coughing. Which COVID's not you, that's no excuse.
You don't have COVID anymore. My girlfriend Jody just got over COVID really
yeah yeah, oh damn. And Leslie was she outside of Pearl Jam?
Did you see her? She was scalping tickets but they were for with also
Gabby and Missy out there too, no scalpers. They had t shirts too,
but it wasn't even Pearl Jam. It was like some band like Pearl
Jim Yes spelled it wrong. And Athena Ginshird. We love your dancing and
Elizabeth Williamson has I love seeing her on Facebook always with the pictures of the
kids. She never runs out, and Rita has a face like a basset
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and Karna check that Moeler and Ishaan voshpeg oh no one is so cute and
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