Made a decision of peace Sunny Sue on Ihdurdasione nice week. Hey everybody,
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great guest special guest show this week. We talked Love is Blind, a
lot of Love is Blind. We talked Vanderpunk rules, we talked a little
bit of ninety Day, but mostly Love is Blind. And you'll be able
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on Wednesdays. Kailan's like, are we though, really you can do it?
Yeah? We could, just we can. I can put out Wednesday.
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Basically, it's the finale, it's the wedding. So why would you
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I've talked to her. She's so nice. Gabby and Missy still on
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Uhhaan Vosh still that ass? Well quit, Rebecca, Kelly Brandt's not your
aunt. Did we do, Alicia ask? Yeah, that's it. We
love you guys. So guess what I did the other night? What'd you
do? Judge a contest? Oh close close. I am just a girl
who can't say no everything. I go get them, I judged. I
chaperonned a school dance. Oh you did, Yes, I got school dance.
Okay, So I was. I was in a I remember when I
told you I had that Zoom meeting for the people that are available to volunteer,
And then I told you how I accidentally got sucked into being the fundraiser.
Yes, running the fundraising committee with another mom. Well that same meeting,
they were like, we really need some moms to chaperone the dance.
And it was like a Friday night. It was just the friday night that
just what dance was It like a winter school dance. It was just like
a I don't know when your kids go to a small school, it's just
I don't know. That's kind of like what the school I went to.
Yes, Friday night dance. Friday night dance. Yes, yeah, So
I said I would do it because they were like, we really need people
because this teacher is already having to do something the following day, so she
can't you know. It was like one of those like she can't. Everybody
can't be always be. There were really need some parents to step up.
So I was like, all right, I'll come. You know. So
that morning was staff breakfast. I was double. I was doing staff breakfast.
Oh yeah? Did people show up with coffee and coffee cups? So
I had to get I think my parents are getting a little burnt out,
so fewer of them are signing up. So nobody wanted to do the coffee.
But you know what, the I get it because the coffee is like
fifty bucks. You got to get two travelers, and it's hard to travel
with coffee too, Like you know, I know it's all packed and everything,
but it's like it's in those big cart and things right right right.
And by the way, this is this is a little side vent. I
tried to get it from Starbucks. Okay, so Starbucks travelers are like twenty
bucks. So the month before some mom was like, I'm going to order
it and I'm gonna have it at the Starbucks. There's a Starbucks that's on
my way to the kid's school, right, So I was like, oh,
okay, great, and it was really convenient and I just ran in
there picked up the coffee. So I was like, you know what,
I'm gonna Nobody signed up to do it this time, so I was like,
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna order the coffee to that Starbucks.
Okay. Well Starbucks is very difficult. So you try to log onto Starbucks.
You can't just buy something and put your credit card in on the app.
You have to well first, yeah, you frigot fourteen. Now I
know because I used to get when I remember this because I did the same
thing with the kids' school. I remember one time I was donating coffee and
I was like, oh, Starbucks is right there, and I think Sonny
was like they got an app. But then I remember it's like they won
my social Security and I mean it was just like really, And then then
how how often do you use the Starbucks map app? Right? So then
six months later you want to use it again. It's like I don't remember
my pass word exactly, and I don't remember what email account I signed.
It was like now it's like I gotta start over, right, And then
you try to put in your email and they're like, sorry, we were
already taking us and I'm like, I know, because it's mine. I
hate that. Yes, So I go on the Starbucks thing and I go
to try to order it, and they, by the way, they let
you get pretty far, so they've already wasted your time. And then they're
like, great, okay, here's the checkout page. What's your Starbucks reward
number? And I'm like, well, I don't have a Starbucks reward number.
Well you gotta get one, so get the app. So then you're
like okay, so you try to sign into that, but here's the problem.
Even when you're signed into the Starbucks thing. Then you got to load
your Starbucks card or whatever. You have to load the thing with money.
You can't. I'm like, just take my fucking or my credit card or
my bank account at this point like something that other than me having to So
now I have to figure out the exact amount load a card like I don't
go to Starbucks that often. Also, I have the kids are signed up,
like, the kids already have it. And by the way, it's
through my credit card. So now you're probably thinking, well, then why
don't you just have the kids order it through which is already goes to my
credit card anyway. The reason why is because I was trying to do it.
It was kind of like at night. I didn't know where the kids
were. I didn't want to, you know what. I didn't want to
start texting them and going, hey, I need you to put that.
I was like, no, fuck it, I'm going to do it through
Western Bagel. There you go to Starbucks. You lost my business and guess
what it took ten seconds, Right I did Western Bagel. I put in
my credit card, you know it auto filled it. I put in the
thing by there you go. The coffee's right in the next morning. There
you go. Anyway, Yeah, that's a lot of brain power. So
my new thing is that using the fund from the school, because I'm like,
I'm not spending fifty dollars a month on the staff breakfast. Right,
You're not supposed to though, Right, you're supposed to have everybody, right,
but if people don't sign up. The coffee was fifty dollars because it's
two it's two travelers. They're each like they come to like twenty five dollars
each. So anyway, whatever, I got reimbursed for that, and but
I bought other stuff too, It doesn't really matter. The point is I
had that first thing in the morning, so I had to get up at
the crack of dawn because the breakfast for the staff has to happen before school
starts. Yes, so I'm there early. Then I go home, I
do my other stuff, and then I go back to school at night with
the kids for the dance. Here's the thing. You think chaperoning a dance
could be kind of fun. I was just gonna say, like, what
you wear? That seems like a good time? Yeah right, yeah,
yeah, not so much, No, because guess what I got designated?
They said, okay, you go watch the bathrooms. So there's like this
hallway, so every the dance is happening. I'm like, why can't I
be the one that walks around and watches the kid dance, make sure that
nobody's biking the punch or anything, right in a John Hughes movie, right,
like a John freaking Hughes movie. And then maybe I pop in maybe
a good song, maybe I do the curly shuffle or something, you know,
along with the kids. You know, I'm just a part all part
of watching them chaperoning. Yeah, right, that's how I That's how I
saw things. Get them dancing out on the dance. Come on, everybody,
girls, don't be shy, you guys, move together, everybody mixed
together. Yeah, hyping them up right, do the sprinkler, your head
back with your knee up. Yes, that's not kids, that's how I
that's how I foresee Yeah, running man, Yeah yeah, yeah, nay,
nay, yeah. Teaching the grinder, I don't know's some kind of
grinder thing, not the gay dating app at the there's really kind of I
don't know, different moves right right right exactly, No, No, I
get there and uh they're like Oh, we need somebody to go hang out
by the bathrooms. Oh my god. So I'm like, it's all by
myself. You know that boys do not go to the bathroom, so it's
just the girls bathroom. So I'm situated. I'm outside the girls bathroom.
I'm at a table. I was like a bathroom attendant basically because I'm not
inside the bathroom, but I'm sitting outside, Which how am I supposed to
know what's going on inside the bathroom from outside the bathroom. It's not really
chaperoning because nobody, Like people don't smoke, They don't sneak and smoke cigarettes
like they did in the old days. As you know, they vape.
You can't smell that. I'm not going to and even and even if they're
vaping pot or using their wizzle sticks or what is their stizzle whatever they're doing,
I'm not gonna be able to smell it, right. And also they're
not doing it. They're not doing it outside of the bathroom in the corridor.
They're doing it inside. So yeah, you needed a bench to go
sit inside the bathroom and get some mintce and some gum. So there was
there were rays and hairspray, and MAXI pad. There were stuff, but
outside of the bathroom. So I'm outside the bathroom, sitting on a sitting
in a chair with like it's like with with the stuff, and I'm like
as people are going in, I'm like, okay, don't vape, and
they're looking at me like kind of laughing, yes, yes. And again
it's the same people going back to the bathroom. And I don't even think
they're doing anything wrong. Nobody's getting drunk. It's a small school, Hi,
I can't tell they're all they're going to gossip and whatever. So I'm
sitting there. At some point this girl that I do know from I feel
like I'm speaking really slowly because I'm trying, you know, I'm in my
mind thinking what I can say and what I can't say. Okay, So
I remember this girl from an activity that my kids did, but many years
ago, when they were like eight, okay, okay, so I don't
know her anymore. I haven't spoken to her and since they were little kids.
She comes walking up and she goes she just stands in front of me
and she's like, Hi, how are you? Oh? And I said,
I'm good, I'm so good. How are you? And She's like,
I'm good and like Sandie and Xander are having a good time. She's
one of these kids. She's a little bit like Tracy flick an election.
She's just like she's like a right, she's ass kissing a little bit like
or she or she just really likes adults, you know, right, and
then she just proceeds try to make conversation with me for like fifteen minutes.
But did you I'm trapped because I'm just I'm literally in a hallway. Where
am I going? Yes? Like so it's like when you're playing peekaboo with
a baby and you're like you're done way before they're done, right, I
feel like, okay, we did that, and then there's still still going.
Yeah. It was like that feeling where you're like, well, I
don't want to be a bit like this is like a teenager trying to make
conversation with me, Like I can't be like, okay, we're good,
we talked, but at some point you want to be like on your way
beat it. Yeah, right, you have fun? What are you doing
with me? Right? Plus the fact that what do you think I was
doing? I was on my phone. I was like practically going to listen
to a podcast. Although I was like, she's interest. I should keep
my ears open. But I'm like looking at Facebook. You know, I'm
trying to make the best of a bad situation. Now, can't they switch?
Can't you switch out? Like I could have? But at that point,
I'm like, I'm going to go. Fine. I would have had
to leave. I would have had to go and really start asking people,
Hey, can I do something else for a while. And at that point,
I'm like, do I feel like doing something else? That's true,
it's so stupid. It was unnecessary for me to be there, right,
But I just I wish you would have been inside the dance for just a
little bit. I know, And I heard. I heard how it went.
Oh you could hear it. They play good songs. No, that
was an inner thing. Some kid goes walking down the hall and he's like,
I wish they could played some house music or something I want to listen
to, And I was like, I understand. They were playing basically like
wedding music. That's why I made the curly shuffle reference. I mean,
they were doing they did the they played the wobble and they play it was
like a you know, like you know it was basically like a wedding really,
so they didn't play like it takes two to make a thing go,
right. I think they did play that song because yeah, yeah, it's
like whatever would be palatable to old people. But also it was not music
that I feel like that generation actually really likes and likes to dance too.
But I heard that Xander was out on the dance floor the whole time.
He was the hype man. He was. He was, Yeah, Sadie
was like the only reason people were dancing was because of Xander really danced like
the whole time. I could see that. Yeah, see that. So
he had a great time. He had a great time. Oh I love
that. Yeah. And Sadie, Yeah, she had a good time too.
I mean it's like it was like a couple hours, you know,
it started at six thirty and it was over. It was totally I think
it was over by nine, and like we were out the door at nine
thirty and they and then I got on. I got roped into like I
had to help clean up. Oh of course, who's gonna put the chairs
and stuff? Oh my god, I'm gonna stack that chair we're doing.
I don't know why I'm yelling on agaphone. But that's yes, we're stacking
freaking chairs. We had to bring chairs from one room into another room because
they'd been moved out in the room where the dance was. We had to
stack these other chairs, and I was like, how do I get hurt
bringing the second crew for clean But at least you got to get home early,
right, You got home in a decent time. Yeah, I did,
but I was tired because I'd been up in the freaking morning, like
holling Warfi. Yeah, other things into school? You had a lot.
Yeah, what's your next gig? So glad you asked Friday? This Friday,
I'm judging a speech competition. I knew you were going to be judging
something and then all day Saturday. No way, but this one, I'm
excited. I'm kind of excited. Yeah, okay, So where what is
it? Where? So it's the state qualifier competition, which Xander's not going
to qualify for the state competition, which would be if he did, that
would be a trip. We'd all have to go to Fresno, which you
know I'd be all about, Yes, but I don't think he's gonna make
it. He's too new to it and his Okay, he's up against really
really good people, but he gets to compete for two days. That's in
the qualifying thing. So it's Friday night, it's like from six thirty to
like I don't know, ten okay, and then Saturday it's all day.
It's another one of those all day. I'll come home with lots of stories.
So didn't you the first one you did was in an all day all
day? Right, yeah's the same thing, but this time it's two days.
This time it's a Friday evening and a Saturday all day. This is
interesting because a lot of parents complain about like their kids sport and like which
sport is the one that takes up the whole day, and it's like the
track and field. You're there and early in the morning, like when I
was with Sunny all day and you got to get their first thing in the
morning and then you can't leave until it's done at four o'clock. Blah blah
blah. But nobody talks about speech and debate like this thing seemed this kind
of seems like an activity for kids that's like really, I mean, yeah,
you're there all day. Well, first of all, you don't have
to judge though. That's the thing. It's a total volunteer thing. It's
not like you're and you don't get to watch your You don't you get to
watch your kids anyway, So it's not so I think it would be weird
if parents were in there and having judged it. It would be awkward.
It's just the kids, it's all. It's just kids, So it would
be weird if parents were you'd have to stay watch just your kid. I
don't know. I mean, I'm sure Xander would be fine with it.
And I just picture it kind of like the movie with Tracy Flick, Like
I just picture like an auditorium they come about debate. So no, so
what happens is what happens happened. You're all the judges are in this war
are in like a judge's room. So it's it's so similar to jury duty.
If you've ever done jury duty. You're all in like a holding room
and there's like coffee and there were snacks and stuff, and you wait to
get called to an event. So the events all in different classrooms. Okay,
so they give you like a map, which, of course, you
know, made me nervous because it's like I feel like it's my first day
at high school, Like how am I supposed to How am I supposed to
find? So you have a map and then you have to go like,
wait, let me turn it around, because wait, where are we?
You're here, But if you're looking at it this way then because then you're
like, well, I don't know where to go somebody, and there's no
one to really ask because most of the kids are not from that school,
right, like it's from all surrounding areas. So you go to another high
school or some school something out of school exactly. So we were at yeah,
some school in Valencia. Oh it sounds about right, yeah, yeah,
So we're at whatever, this big high school and then or middle school,
I don't know, whatever it was. We had a map and so
they go, okay, So your first event that you're judging is this event.
Here's the instructions, and then you have to go to this classroom.
So you go to the classroom and basically you're like a teacher. You let
the kid. The kids have to wait outside. They can't go in the
room without you. So when you get to the room, the kids,
all the kids competing. The second one, I did a couple of the
kids had friends they're watching, but not parents, so the only parents were
judges. And when the judges aren't and you can't judge anything that's your own
school. Oh so you're never going to see kids from your kids school.
Yeah, because it wouldn't be fair because you're judging kids against other kids,
so you have to be impartial. So I'm only judging kids that I've never
seen or heard of before, and you are you have like basically a ballot
almost and you have to rank them. Wow. Yeah, and it's it's
so it's interesting because you're like, well, a lot of people found it
very frustrating because if they you haven't done it before, and you're not a
teacher and you don't really know anything about speech and debate, it's hard to
know what And also what's interesting is that Xander was frustrated with his notes.
So basically, you get to give them comments, okay, like how they
give them better. You get to give them notes like individual notes, so
like, of course mine were all nice. Yeah, I know it's going
to be hard, like stand up straight next time, like you know,
only little like so one of the kids was not good. Most of the
kids were amazing. One of the kids was like just not good, and
then you have to figure out, like what do you say because you don't
want to like these kids, Like some of these kids are on the spectrum
they have like they're they're overcoming odds and obstacles, and in my mind,
I'm like, it's just phenomenal that they're doing doing it's hard. They're giving
like an eight to ten minute speech, like you know, you can't like
if a kid is even terrible, I still think like a for effort,
man, like you showed up. That's hard. I wouldn't have done that.
So I'm not going to sit there and go like you were not good.
But it's hard because you're like, well, what can I figure out
to say constructive constructive to this person? So basically the one they're bad,
I was like, you know, I think if your volume one of them,
I did say, I found it a little hard to follow with the
like maybe reoutline this or you know something, but but like I loved your
move. I love your util how you utilize the space, like you know,
you want to give a positive and you know if you're criaking right,
But like one of them, I was just like I don't know, dude,
this was phenomenal. I got no notes. That's why I give you
one hundred. Wow. Yeah, what are you supposed to say? Yeah,
Well, like you are judging them between seventy. Seventy is like the
absolute worst and a hundred is obviously the best. And but you don't give
somebody like a seventy unless you know, you give them a seventy if they're
a no show, because you have to give them some number. But everybody
else, like I didn't give anybody lower than like an eighty five, because
even the one that was terrible, I gave an eighty five. And one
of them just brought notes, which you're not supposed to have any notes.
It's when it has to be one hundred percent memorized. You're not allowed to
use any kind of notes. But one girl just read off her whole thing
like and didn't even was literally like like reading word for word, not even
with a lot of feelings. So I gave her, I gave her a
lower score. But she gets disqualified anyway, because it's a violation. I
see. It's so so it's speech and debate, so I don't know what
the debate. So there's no debating. It's mostly just they give speech.
Debate is something else. This was all speech and all speech. So basically,
you get your assignment, you go to the room. You're the only
judge. Really yeah, so you, like I said, at first,
I was like, Okay, this will be fun. I'll be with other
parents. No, you're by yourself. Oh my god. But the kids
do three rounds with their speech, so you're in front of three different judges,
and then I think they average your scores. Okay, So like,
because what was really interesting was the kid that I gave one hundred to.
I gave two different kids one hundred. That kid was not even did not
even win or even wasn't even first or second place in his event. Wow.
So I judged one round of it, and obviously somebody else judged him
in around, and somebody else judged him in around, to which I was
like, that's crazy that. I was like, he was absolutely by far
the very best, and somebody else obviously did not score. And now are
you able to talk to some of the afterwards, Like there was one woman
that I was talking to, m M, sorry, my phone is like
buzzing. Sorry. There was one woman that I was talking to who had
judged that kid in a different of like not that day but like another time,
and was like, oh my god, yes I remember him. He
was great like I was. You know, you can kind of compare notes,
but so you make your notes and you rank them. So like if
you have let's say you have five people in the event, then you pick
who's first, who's second, who's third, who's fourth, who's fifth.
They only do places one through four, So some of these events have like
one event I did have like eight kids. Oh, you only place them
one through four. You can rank them, but they don't know. They
don't know they came in eighth. They just know they weren't in your top
four. Sometimes it was really hard because kids are so good. Yeah,
because like many kids were good. And then I would I would say that
as a note, I feel like even though you were in fourth place,
trust me, like it was really close. All the places were really close.
And this is just how it shook out for me. And then are
they are they are the kids watching each other or no or just yeah yeah,
So they come in and they watch and then what happens after like did
they so you winners the right? So basically you you do your judging,
you go back to the judges hangout area, you make your you put in
your comments if you want. This is why it sucked, because I didn't
have a computer with me and my phone, and then somebody let me their
kindle. So this time I'm going to take the computer. But you do
your stuff, you put in your notes, and then you get a signed
then you do it again. Some of these people got to do three.
Remember I had a conflict on my first one because it was my friend's daughter.
Oh yeah, it's I couldn't judge hers. And then they gave me
the same one that I'd already judged, so I couldn't do that one.
So I ended up doing two different things out of the whole day. This
time I'm hoping to get to do three or four. But anyway, then
after everybody's gone three times, there's an award ceremony at the end of that.
At the end this is what take makes it go to so late,
And then they give out pride. Then they've they've ranked it, tabulate all
the results, and then the auditorium auditorium. Then everybody's in there, all
the judges, and then uh, they start announcing like who and then you're
and then you're excited because you're invested. It's almost like finding out the deliberation
or going to the sentencing hearing if you were on the jury, because you're
like, oh, well, now I get to see whether it was agreed,
whether we all agree, and whether that person won. And sometimes you'd
be like, oh my god, yes, I made that person was my
one, and they oh good for them. Everybody agreed. And sometimes you'd
be like, what the fuck are these people high? Right? That guy
was so much better than the other one. How did you let have that
person the winner? Right? Yeah? And then it was fun because at
the end I got to debrief with Xander and I was like, okay,
so I was doing this one category because a lot of them do get to
see each other. So Xander, there was like this one kid that I
was like, and Xander goes, oh, that kid's like that kid's like
an icon. Everybody loves that kid. And I'm like, yeah, but
I put that kid third, like I didn't even he wasn't even my favorite,
right, And Xander would be like, really, what did you think
about this kid? You know, so they know about kids at other schools,
they know their names at this kid at this school is Yes, Xander
made like a ton of friends. That's amazing. Yeah, that's great.
I know it's really he should keep going next year, he could, you
know? Yeah, who knows. So well, let's take a quick break
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speech and Debate is I'm excited and it's only it's only like once a month.
Ohso it is, and it's only if you can judge, so like
if I which is different. First of all, I'm really excited about it
because I loved going to LB's basketball games. But it does get to be
a lot, like you don't want to miss any now because you like it.
But then you're like, do I it's like three times a week?
Yes, I know, And you're driving all over the place and you're you
know, abandoning your other kids and seeming like you have picked a favorite because
you're like, Alway's got a game, you know, and Sandra's like,
what about me? You know what? Am I chop liver? But you're
like, this is the important thing. We got to watch Lbie. So
this is different because you know, I get to say the Basically, the
teacher sends you the thing and says, listen, I need judges. I
need four judges. So it's only four parents, so four no one else
goes. Other parents don't go, so you don't feel like you don't.
You wouldn't feel like if other people were. If she had enough judges,
you would never feel like, oh, I should go drive out there anyway,
because you wouldn't. It would be weird to go. Let me find
out where my kid is and then go follow them around. I think the
other kids would think it's weird. Yeah, I didn't know how it was
set up. I thought, you know, it was like in an audity
because you hear debate, like you know, you think right, if you
think there's an audience, it's weird. That was It was very I thought
the same thing. I was expecting to totally this and I thought I'd be
on a panel of judges. That's how I imagined it, And I imagined
that some of these people are so used to doing it, so I would
ask them like, what do you what kind of what do you look for?
No, he's gonna ask you if you've got talent, Yeah, your
own little TV show. Yeah it's weird. Yeah, no, that's pretty
cool though. It's really interesting. It was so fun. I bet I
was going to do that day. I was like, this was a great
time. And I just got so into it that as soon as I got
the email that we need judges, I was like, I'm in. I'll
do Friday and Saturday. That's great. Yeah, Oh I can't wait.
I can't wait to other stories. I know that's gonna be fun. So
Alvo John was like, no, you're not. When I said so,
I'm gonna do Friday and Saturday, he was like, no, you're not.
And I was like yeah, I am. I was like, but
then, but then I think that's the last thing, because then it's make
the state. If he doesn't make the state event, it's yeah, it's
done. Okay, so then they'll be working on their thing for next year.
But like this is this is this is it? Like it's a short,
little short season, A couple of events. What else you got for
Friday and Saturday? It's what I'm saying. What am I doing? Yeah?
Yeah, wow, I'm excited. I can't wait. Now. You
I feel like you must have a bunch of stuff coming up because it's senior
year with your kids, Like, what do they have going on? Well?
They have they did, you know, they're they did their Disney whatever
Disneyland. They didn't do a like senior like yeah Senior Senior skip day.
It was a it was a school senior Disneyland outing for the day. Yeah,
so they did that and that was fine. But now so okay,
so then I don't think that they really have anything else on. Natalia had
just been there. She had she did just go there, right, yes,
and then she didn't know when she originally asked for that weekend that that
the school was doing that the same she didn't. She didn't put you in
two together until we until we got closer to the date. But yeah,
but Sonny was excited because he was you know, he loved going there.
But they don't really have anything coming up. What I got going right now
with the school is this parking situation. So in the beginning of the school
year, Natalia did not have her license yet Sonny did but really wasn't driving,
didn't have a car. So there's this lottery for parking. You gotta
like the but you got to do it in August before. Did you have
this at school? Any parking issues with LB driving? No, LB just
had to apply for a parking space, but then they just gave her one.
See, they have a limited amount of space for students to park.
So every year and before the school starts in August, you have to sign
up, but you have to have your license. You have to sign up
for the lottery and then they put you in a lottery and then you get
your whatever. Okay, but these two were not driving in the beginning.
Well, now she's driving and and he's driving, although he gets picked up
and whatever by his friends once in a while, but or they'll drive together.
But her because she's got as soon as she's done with school, she's
got to go to work, or she's got her work. Whatever she's got,
it's on the go. So she didn't have a pass, so she
would have to park at like a park which was like adjacent to the school.
However, you can only park there for certain amount of hours otherwise you
get a ticket. But then at lunchtime she'd move and like kind of she's
just kind of moving it around, right, wouldn't you guys, only like
a couple of blocks from school though as it is, eh, I mean,
if you had to, like Sonny loved to walk, but it's a
good probably twenty minutes. Oh it is, Yeah, it's not. I
was picturing that it was a couple of blocks. No, it's not that
close. And there's a huge uphill, like there's this big incline right before
the school, which again, if you liked but Natalia with her makeup and
her hair, she ain't in her book bag like she's you know none,
No, the girls are not walking. But anyway, so now she's got
the car, so she is, you know, moving it. Then one
of her friends, one of Sonny's friends, has a parking pass, and
he doesn't need it anymore, which I don't. I don't know why or
how that happened, but he gave it, or maybe it was his sisters,
I don't know, gave it to Natalia to use, and apparently the
kids do that all the time, Hey can I use your whatever? Gave
it to Natalia. So Natalia parked in a weird like so she was parking
in the senior lot and one day she kind of parked weird or she parked
blocking something, and they went and called the kid Elliott, you know,
hey, your car's blocking. And then he comes out and there's this guy
who's like, you know, a jarhead like beefy, you know, dude
that like runs the you know, he's always in his golf car and keeping
kids in line, you know, one of those guys right out of Central
Casting. He pulls up the parking lot, you know, move your car,
and the kid Elliott's like, this thing my car and he's like,
well whose car is this? Uh Italia Corollas and so paging the Tali Grolea.
So then they get her out there and they're like, give us that
pass that's not yours, and she's like, dude, mister. She knows
him, and she's like, but everybody uses each other's you know, parking
passes, and he's like nope, and he takes it. And she's like,
now she's all bent out of shape. So and so took my parking
pass. Blah blah blah blah blah. Now so now she is getting rides
to school. She got her a boyfriend picking her up. Now, but
now she's got the job. So now she's got to be able to,
you know, get out as soon as she can. Blah blah blah.
So now she's parking in like the church, there isn't a there is another
church that they will let you park there. But again everything is a certain
amount of hours. Can't park between this time and this time you'll get a
ticket. So she's like moving the car. So now she switched cars with
Sonny. OK. So now she's driving Sonny's car and just parking it and
hoping for the best. That they don't like look for passes because they usually
don't. They don't go walking through the parking lot looking to see who's got
the you know, senior pass hanging from the thing. So she's now hoping
that but there was another lottery that they just did. Okay, so she
applied for that. So I talked to the assistant principle and I saw him
the other day and he was like, oh you don't. Yeah, we
got Natalia. She's hopefully she you know, she'll she'll win the lottery and
then she'd come back with her car. That's the same. It does suck.
It's like, when did she get a car? Did I already know
about this? She had the car for a while. Yeah, yeah,
they used the used car she got, so Sonny got his own car and
got Sonny got Yeah. It's kind of a like Adam had another lease it
expired something, and he gave it to Sonny, so they sorry, so
they both have leases okay, yeah, two used lease cars. She's had
the first. She's had it first, so Sonny did. Yeah, he
has like what like a Mercedes, Yes, and then he's got I don't
know some I think it's a it's a it's like a small SUV, Cadillac
or something. Okay, but again it was one of his cars that he
gave re up the lease and gave it to Sonny. So now they both
get now and they both need cars because I know both now and he's going
to I'm going to do his podcasts and stuff. So now we got to
wait to do another lottery or whatever it is what it is, but it
is, it does suck because these kids they don't have they only have a
certain amount of place and they have to like they're constantly scrambling moving their cars
at lunchtime. It's like a thing to tell you. It's like she's like
every lunchtime all the they have to carve out an extra ten minutes in some
places are far and they got to walk and stuff. It's like it's a
pain in the ass. But uh, but she is enjoying her new job,
which is fun. And then she wanted us to come and have dinner
at the restaurant because she's bored. She's like standing and now they're hiring,
so like now she's trying to get her friend, I don't know, like
another. I think they're hiring for a hostess, you know, because she
works part time. Get somebody else. So, but she is enjoying it.
She is enjoying it. She does like it. Yeah, and so
and we talked and it is like our favorite restaurant and she's like, you
guys should come in. So I took Olga and Sonny to dinner the other
night and we made the I had her make the reservation and we come in
and she's like, here you go, would you like your table? It
takes us to the table, and then I got to watch her in action.
Of course, she sat us at the table right next to her stand,
her hostess stand. And every time people come in, you're like,
hi, welcome, you know how many in your party? And like you
know, and then there's a lot of people that are always like you know
when you go to a restaurant and you're like, you know, we don't
have reservations but table for two, and they're like, okay, sure we
can take you. And then they take you right past a booth and you're
always like, can we have the booth? And I asked them to and
I asked her, I go, why don't you give the booth? And
she's like, that's person's station has already has too many tables. Oh,
you used to work in a restaurant. No, she told me. The
people made reservations and required a booth. But it's kind of hard because they
could get the booth, but they got to wrap it up by like a
certain amount of time, you know. But it was fun because she's sayings,
there's a lot to it. There is a lot, just a lot
to it. Yeah, you got open table where people call, you know,
going online and making their vivations. But so we took them out.
Yeah, it was it was nice. We had a nice time. And
I got to meet her bosses and everybody that works there. And she's like,
you know, our waitresses that she's bonded with and stuff like that.
Yeah, it was really nice. We had a good time. Good.
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col And we're back. Did I tell you? Did I tell you about
my experience doing Wife of the Party doing that podcast? No Burt Kreischer,
No, Burt Kreischer's wife, LeAnn Kreischer. It's out now. It was
like two hours. It was super fun. It was really fun. Yeah,
and it's I didn't I wasn't sure if we had much crossover audience,
but a bunch of our listeners were like, oh my gosh, are you
I know that wife of the party is doing your book. They did my
book as their book club. Oh that's nice. So my friend Kirsten,
who was friends with Leeann Kreischer and as a big reader, she came on
our show one time and we when we did our book club, we were
almost at book club, remember, and we read Demi Moore's book and my
friend Kirsten Blonde came in and that's the book with us, right, So
she does that for Leanne's podcast, and she's known lean for a long time,
so she suggested my book and Leanne read the book and their other friend.
So it's Leanne, my friend Kirsten and another friend, and then I
was invited in to talk about the book, right, And it was so
it was it was like a really fun I walked in and to it's like
a house. She does it not that far from here. Well, it's
not her house. They rent this house, I guess or bought this house
and they it's their offices, but it's like this huge house and they do
the podcast in one of the rooms, but the whole bottom floor is like
their office. So Bert was there. I said hi to me, super
nice. He was like, uh oh, I've heard a lot about this
book, like it's really nice to meet you. And they have these two
big dogs like hanging out. Yeah, And so then we go to do
the podcast and Leanne was talking about her upbringing a lot of weird stuff with
her mom, like and so we started bonding and it really became this whole
conversation about I told stories that I maybe have told you before on our podcast,
but like a long time ago. But I was spilling the beans on
myself, like nothing that I've talked about in other like just because she made
me feel so comfortable that we just and also because it was so long,
I feel like I know what being on a reality TV show would be like
because you just eventually forget there's cameras because it was a YouTube show. But
eventually I was like forgot, Like I've just felt like I was in the
I know, I know, I know that feeling I had that when I
did the Paulil Martin's show because you just forget you whence you get set,
you could get going and the show is like and by the way, it's
different when you do somebody else's show than doing your own show. Right,
you feel like you're away from everybody and you're like, you feel like you're
just you and them talking. Yeah, there's exactly element feeling like it's very
intimate. And then especially if it goes on for a while, you know,
then you know like you can get into it. It's well, that's
I want to listen. So she hasn't spoken to her her mother in many,
many years, and so we started talking about that, and we started
talking about how that came about. And I told this story about my mom
kicking me out when I was sixteen and how I went to live at that
runaway shelter. Remember that story, yes, yeah, And anyway, I
was telling that whole story. Well I didn't know it, but Bert had
been listening, so I guess it was being broadcast, right. You know
how when we were doing it at Adam's studio sometimes I'd have to ask them
to turn it off so that not everybody was listening. Well it was like
that, I guess. So all of a sudden, Bert pops into the
room and he was just like, oh my god, I have questions.
Really. Yeah, so he came in and apparently he never does that.
That's what my friend person's like, that's that's not happened. That's very odd.
So he was like, I have questions. What could you have possibly
done that would make your mom kick you out of the house? And then
he was asking me, asking me questions and then like kind of telling little
stories and yeah, it was like super fun and interesting and I don't know
if if you feel like hearing me. Wife of the party and I really
want to get her LeAnn Kreischer on our show. Yeah. I reached out
to her to their producer and I said, we want her on our podcast
because she's super open. Yeah. She was just like did not care.
Was she was like us, She was like, well, and this is
what happened, and this is how my mom is and this is you know,
what was in my childhood, and so her mom and your mom.
You you guys have a lot of similarity stuff in common. Yeah, it's
different, but I feel like the result is a little bit the same where
we both yeah, but yeah, yeah, shun away Shelter story and in
great detail, because you know, she was just asking me it would It
turned out to be a very very deep, deep die. I love that
and it feels good. I know it feels good to do. Yeah,
And like I said, he was really like a nice guy. Yeah,
I've heard. Don't you you follow him? Right? Calin Oh, I'm
definitely aware of him. I see clips of him and Thompsoner's podcast a lot
online. He came by Adam Show when I was still working there, and
he couldn't have been any nicer. Yeah. Just he's that guy that you
on all this clips, just the ball of energy, laughing, having a
good time. And yeah, he just seems super nice. Oh well,
we got to check it out, check out the podcast. Yeah. Absolutely,
I feel like I had something else to tell you before we wrap.
I got stuff, But we can, I can. We can talk on
Friday. Yeah. I also on Friday. I want to talk about that
Wendy Williams. Yeah, I do documentary. Have you seen it, Kaitlin?
No, but I watched that new Adam Sander movie last night, The
bar Mitsville One, No Space Man. Okay, all right, well we'll
have some content stuff and I want to talk about a little bit of Beverly
Hills Housewives reunion. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fuck for
sure. But I just wanted to say that because we have like a couple
of minutes left, a couple minutes, yeah, because our timer was off
and I did my my glasses and I thought it said sixty minutes, but
it says oh six. Yeah, I don't want to go short. Yeah,
what do you got something for a couple of minutes? Uh, just
that I think that we I have our own mobile muffin. We have a
mobile muffin situation. Well, you got a broken vacuum, you better get
that ship fixed. If you've got a mobile walking around, you gotta walks.
Nothing bad. It's just really it's just it's actually kind of funny because
and I've I've been wanting my own mobile muffy. Ye, Like I wanted
somebody who's like always at our house. Who I got a kid who comes
over, Sadie's friend. She calls me Mama's stuff. It's like the cutest
thing. But she's it's become a right, She's become a regular. Like
on Fridays, Sadie goes, hey, can we pick up mobile muffin and
bring her home and then she it's over, yeah, so Friday, And
I'm always like, of course, what do you what do you don't even
have to ask at this, I'm expecting it now. So she's usually spends
at least half a weekend at our house. It's like, you know,
now you know it's for dinner? What what's where are we going? What
are we doing? You know? Does she demand though that she has a
vegan pizza? Well, no, no, no, no, it's actually
all good. This was all good. She's the sweetest, she's like adorable,
and but it's just kind of funny because I'm like, oh, are
we like her new parents? Like, she's just at our house right,
although it is a little different because she does get picked up like usually in
the morning. Yeah, but it is just but it's just she hangs,
she hangs out, she hangs. It's becoming very very regular. That like
it. But at this age it's a little different because as you know,
like you don't see them right like they handle It's so funny how much I
remember sleepovers kind of being the bane of my existence when the kids were younger,
and you're not there yet, Kaylin, but when they get a little
older, sleepovers are so difficult because first of all, it's just getting the
bed ready, like you know, if your kid doesn't have two beds in
the room or they're not sleeping at queen size bed. And then for a
long time my kids, once they had queen size beds, both kids could
go in the same bed, although the boys don't really do that so Xander.
Usually they end up on different couches. The arrowbed, right, yeah,
but when they were younger, you had to figure that shit. Yeah,
so you're like, you always have to have an arrowbed. And by
the way, arowbeds suck, so there's always a hole in it always.
So if you blow up the arrowbed the air mattress, by the morning,
some it's sunk all the way. The person's sleeping on the floor basically,
and then they're like the bed's broken. That's you know, I learned my
lessons. And then what Wendy Tommy is go just go get like foam from
I don't know, like home Deep, just that you know that memory foam.
Just have them cut a piece at that that's the size of the arrowbed,
and then put that on top. So then when it floats down to
the bottom and sinks at least the kid has a little bit of cushion between,
right, But then where do your that fucking thing? Right, that's
the thing to LOLd it up, bag it, put it in the garage
somewhere out of the way until the next time they come. Yeah, sleepovers
are like a full time job. You break your nail. You got to
figure out what they're going to eat for dinner, and who's got what allergies,
and like, you know, keeping them entertained, and then somebody ends
up crying, keeping you know, whether when you're doing the first sleepovers,
and I know some of you parents are going to be like, well,
I don't do any sleepovers until Okay, well I did. I loved sleepovers.
I thought it was great. My kids wouldn't sleepover. Remember LB had
her anxiety, so she was really hard for her to do sleepovers. Then
I'd have to be if it's at someone else's house, I got to stay
up until three o'clock because she's going to be contacting me to for a pickup,
you know. But when they're at our house, you know, you're
just it's just a lot to do and to arrange. It's so much better
when they're there. Because they're either entertained, they go they go walk somewhere
and get themselves dinner. You know, you don't hear from them, and
they like or they'll watch TV, or they'll they'll make their they'll make their
own dinner, they'll pop their own popcorn. They yeah, their kids they're
older, right, I love it. So I'm always like, oh,
sleepover course, yeah, your friends, yeah over. So the mobile,
the Mobile Muffin those shows she comes over like on a Friday, and then
she picked her up and then she gets there until yep, and then she's
there till whenever. Wow, they're either all the way through the next day
or yeah, have you met her parents? I met her mom once.
Okay, So here's the weird thing for me with Mobile Muffin. With our
mobile. When they were younger and into their teens, up until like last
year, pretty much she was at my house twenty four to seven during during
summertime, constantly taking her out to dinner with us, taking her to breakfast
with us, feeding her when we're like dinner, you know, oh she
doesn't I mean we know her diet, like, oh she Mobile Muffin doesn't
eat. You know, she's vegan. So she can't up, so I
mean to the point where like I'd have to go buy vegan cheese to make
the scrambled eggs in the morning, Like seriously, okay, right, but
never meeting the mom now, I know that was insane, the weird thing.
Yeah, like, hey, how about like a little venmo like,
hey, you know, thanks for having my daughter for the whole weekend or
the whole week right or the last month. No, that was crazy.
Yeah, that was a whole other situation. The only way that this relates
at all is just that we have we're having a lot. She already had
a like she's starting to be You're at our house all the time. It's
great, isn't it. It is? It's so nice. I'm liking it.
I'm like, you know, I want to be that. Yeah.
Anyway, all right, god kaylin uh listen before we wrap, go follow
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