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you said. You were like, he can come in and do a show
with us. Yeah, but I didn't ask you why you had been talking
to him. Well, so yeah, he's like nobody talks to me.
All I do is work. I'm very, very tired. I was doing
my other podcast with Cecily and something came up about like something very or America
or something, and I was doing doctor Bruce. But then I couldn't stop
down and explain to her because it was our private joke, right, so
I just had to pretended. Yeah, yeah, very very, it's a
Hurlin problem and America Ris Raffol rist raffol st Rich, Strea whatever. And
he also does yeah, and he does this. He has like he has
like a huge file of papers, every trail of papers I brought in this
article, got in this article. He hasn't heard of email. Now.
He's old school. Just he'll just drop by, Yeah, yeah, I
brought you this paper, just read it. Uh. He is doing well.
He's working all the time. That's why he's verver retired. He's still
living with his ex wife Lois. Yeah, she's married, I think,
but they get a lot like I hear in the background I'm telling it.
I said, I, Yeah, she's remarried and he's still in the house.
Yes, that's you know, talk about nesting. They exactly exactly.
But he's doing good. I had to reach out to him because of this
issue with Sonny's overactive bladder is not getting better and the kid is suffering,
like he can't sleep, it's he can't sit still. He's eating standing up,
he's doing his podcast standing up. This is terrible. It's terrible.
It's terrible. And so I took him to the urologist a few months ago
and they just never So I called Bruce and I was like, what you
know, Bruce, you're smart. What what should I do? And so
you had put him on this medicine. He's been on medication, but it
didn't work. No, and so what the doctors recommend is up up the
medication. So I asked about a lot of the listeners told me about physical
therapy. I asked about that. So, but this just shouldn't be happening.
And no, I know, no, No, he shouldn't need physical
therapy. This doesn't This sounds like something's wrong. So I don't know,
but The weird thing is the very first time I took him the urgent carriage
put him on antibiotics and it went away for months, but then it came
back. So then when it came back, they were like, no,
we're not going to give him antibiotics. He she goes to a urologist,
and that's now here we are, okay. But but can I just say,
listen, I'm not no, you're not. I didn't go I didn't
finish Did I tell you I didn't finish medical school? Right? But then
I've been practicing medicine for a while without a license. It's going fine,
and practicing I'm not. I don't know everything. I know a little bit.
I know a little bit about a little bit. What I do know
is that when I remember when I was having the uties all the time,
and my freakin' doctor was like, I'm not gonna you need to go to
the urologist, and I didn't because I was like, no, I just
need a different antibiotic, because I'd gone on the antibiotic and it hadn't solved
the problem, and then I'd gone on a different antibiot. Long story short,
I really just needed a longer run with a different antibiotic, and then
it it was it was a UTI And at one point she said there wasn't
coming up positive in the urine, but then later when they had said it,
it ended up I did have. So I'm just saying, like something
that's true, but it's not common for a teenage boy to get UTI's so
so. But the point is is we've already gone down this road with this
urologist. We went back a couple of weeks for a follow up, blah
blah blah. So now I'm turning into Shirley McLean and I'm starting to call
him every day and going, what the fuck it's not working? Sun,
come on now again again, like we need to figure out what the issue
is. So then he orders this okay, And then I told him about
the antibiotic and he goes yeah, he goes, okay, I'm going to
order a quest lab for him to go and get. I need to get
a specimen so I can really look into it. So that was on Friday.
So here we are, clock's ticking. We got one week left until
we leave to go on a plane to Chicago, and Sonny can't sit for
long time, you know, And I don't want him traveling with this problem.
I mean, this's got to stop. It's got to stop. So
that's why I called Bruce, and Bruce is like, well, you know,
if I were you, I would get why this doctor hasn't prescribed an
MRI. That's what he should have to start ruling out in case something else
is going on. You know, he needs an MRI. And Bruce said,
I if this doctor doesn't prescribe an MRI, I will, And I
was like, good, that's what I wanted to hear. So it's this
is a fluid situation, waiting for the doctor to call me back with his
results from the quest lab so I can yell at him again and tell him
like, are you going to get him an MRI or do I have to
do it? Somebody's gonna have to And I'm going to get a second opinion
as well. And he's going to his check up tomorrow for the PEDIA,
the pediatrician checkup. But you know, I call like Children's Hospital of la
in you know, Pacadya Urology or whatever, and I give them all the
information and then they're like, Okay, when when's the next available February twenty
twenty four Oh my god. Click, that's not going to work. So
I don't know if this is a local problem, like a Los Angeles problem,
or if this is all over the country. But these specialists, it's
like, it's ridiculous. I have the same thing. I needed something for
Xander, and I was like, oh, this was like last month,
and They're like, okay, how's January. Yeah, oh it's October right,
Like no, right, so, and then I'm wondering if his pediatrician
can you know, prescribe somewhere around our I don't know, so hopefully that
so I'm working on like four different angles right now as we speak, because
this has got to get solved. This is ridiculous. It's been going on
too long. Kids suffering. You shouldn't have to suffer. That's that's awful,
right, it's awful to be suffering with that. Yes, yeah,
we all know. I mean I feel like I'm starting to had a block
construction just hearing about it. I feel like it could be all the time.
I mean, he makes me anxious, Like I'm talking to him last
night. He's telling me all about football. You know, the football stuff
goes in one ear and out the other. But you know, He's standing
up and like, I feel like I got to go to the bathroom.
Now. Natalia has been like all up on football because she's now got a
boyfriend who's telling her everything about the San Francisco forty nine ers. So Sonny's
like quizzing her and she knows her stuff, which is really cute. And
he had a great weekend with Natalia, which was really nice. What'd you
guys do? We what did we do? We would frott sat We went
and got Manny Petty and we talked a lot about college and you know what
her plans are. And then so all her apps are in now right,
Yes, she's done. Wow. Yeah, so hopefully we should be knowing
pretty soon. You know, same with Sonny. Did she apply early decision
anywhere or just early action early decision? Oh? To what? Which place
did she pay? I think it was TCU? Oh or was it Miami?
Yeah? It was TCU. She was going back and forth, but
then she just did that. But then she has to go to TCU,
Yes, which is fine. She would love to go to TCU, oh
she would. Yeah. I thought Miami was her first choice or that the
secure for it is her very first choice. But she think she thinks she
has a better Her counselor said she had a better chance of getting into TCU.
She was going back and forth, but yeah, but if she doesn't
get into TCU, she's got another you know, she wants to do community
college and then got it okay, but Miami's harder to get into. Yeah,
got her okay. So so we did that on Saturday, and then
oh, we went she wanted to cook dinner for her boyfriend, so we
went to the grocery store. I taught her how to make baked chicken.
She's cooking a lot lately, which is nice. Yeah, she's buying all
her stuff at you know, Trader Joe's. She's making all her lunches.
She makes her breakfasts every morning. She's very disciplined. Yeah. Yeah,
she makes avocado toast with a fried egg on top before school. And tell
me more about this big chicken though. The chicken, Well, I said,
what do you want to make? Because her boy friends very picky,
and she's like, well, we should probably just have something simple like chicken.
And I was like, well, you know we get that what's that
brand? Soy hoy? Oh yeah yea, Sove Sove yes, marinad,
the tariaki marinade. And I showed her how to really wash the chicken good
and she's like, I go, you got to get the feathers off.
She goes, it's got feathers on it. Still I thought I didn't know
that either. Now you you have to like pluck those little hairs off the
chicken skin. Oh okay, but you keep the skin on. We kept
the skin on bone and you know, so she just made did you do
chicken thighs, thighs and legs okay, okay, yeah, and then she
marinated it during the day and then when he came over, she just popped
it in the oven and she made a salad fifty degrees three seventy five for
forty five minutes, covered how many pieces of chicken, like it was probably
like six, put them all on a piratex. Yes, yeah, yeah,
you got it. You didn't think i'd know pyrox. Yeah, like
cookie sheet no okay, pyrox okay yeah. And then you did you cover
it? No? Uncovered? Yeah, so it gets christal any sauce like
under it or just just just chicken all the chicken like coate it with that
sauce a little bit of lemon pepper. Oh, okay, she likes lemon
pepper, okay. And then just baked it and it was delicious. Oh,
it was so good. Oh. And then she made rice pealof h
and then from a box from the box okay. And then what if I
said, from scratch? And then she made a salad yeah, oohah.
What kind of salad she makes, like an arugula lemoni salad. O.
Yeah, with like parms stretched, shredded parmesan cheese, a little cut up
like cherry tomatoes. Okay, yeah, okay, girl. Sometimes she puts
raisins in it, but no he lost slice almonds okay, no raisins.
Yeah yeah, let me talk to her, okay, tk her. So
it was a nice And then they watched like, uh did they watched like
the Disney No, this isn't Disney the heat Miser cartoon. He's mister he
Miser. Isn't it like Chris Santa Claus's. Yeah. They watched like holiday
movies and ate dinner. It was really cute, cute. Yeah. And
then the next day we got up and we went to Target and got holiday
decorations and decorated the house. Nice me her and Sonny, it was fun.
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mm hmmm. So got the decorations decorated, the house decorated, the house,
had a fun bonding. Yeah, it was really nice. It was
really nice. Yeah. You do you ever feel like just this thing in
the pit of your stomach sometimes when you're hanging out with your kids, where
you're like, this is so limited. Yes, exactly. It's heartbreaking.
It's heartbreaking. When I told Natalia, I was like, it's like five
more months and you guys are going to be done. And she's like really,
She's like, that's so sad. I could I could, Like I'm
feeling emotional right now because Elbe just turned nineteen, and although she's home and
I'll tell you a little bit about her college journey, there's just something.
It's not even the leaving for school, which sucks, and if LB was
gone right now, it would be even worse. But it's just they're just
growing up, like they're just their own people, and I don't like it.
Yeah, I know, I don't like sad. Why do you think
I made her lunch for so long? Because I want to think of her
as still like my baby. I know, I love it when i'm you
know, I can only be a certain amount of days at the house with
them, So like this morning I was at the house with that, I
get I want to make her breakfast, like even though she does it on
her own. I was like, I'll make it for you, like absolutely,
I loved I used to remember like when they were younger, I mean
I would every morning was like fun with for me because that was my time
to be with them and make them the breakfast, drive them to school.
You know, it was just us and me and the two of them for
years, you know. But now that they're teenagers and now I'm not there
all the time, they're doing it on their own. They're getting to school
on their own there you know, Sonny's driving. It's like it's it's sad.
So when I'm at the house, I'm like, I'm making your breakfast,
lunch, and dinner, like I'm tac dancing. What else do you
guys need? I know, I know, I I can't believe. I
mean, I can believe because it's me, but I cannot believe how much
complaining I did and still do. Don't get me wrong, I complaining is
just part of my like, right, what gives me energy. And it
was really really hard and I'm not taking that away with having a baby,
but it is amazing how I would have made fun of people that are like,
it goes so fast, but it really goes fast. You see,
Kaylin, it goes fast. It goes my ass for you right now,
it goes really swew. It's that thing where they that we always say that
people would say to us, it's like the days are long, but the
years are short. But it is so true. It's crazy. It's like
that these kids, you know, And no shade to anybody that doesn't have
kids, because like, if I didn't have kids, then I wouldn't know.
I wouldn't even know what I'm missing, you know, I mean,
you know what I mean, or I'd be a great freaking aunt. Right,
I'm not a great aunt for so long, right, I'm a shitty
ant. You are knowing that because I have my own kids. It's like,
you know, they come there there. If I was only an aunt,
i'd be awesome at it because I care, you know, But I'm
not a great ant because you know. But I'm just saying it's just I
know, and I know I over a parent and probably have for years,
but because I just like having kids. It just gave my life so much,
so much meaning, right, you know, like purpose, sense of
purpose. It makes less pressure on your career too, when you're like,
oh, but I have this thing that I have to do every day.
And as much as it was so hard when they were young, I know,
I mean, it's much better looking back at the pictures because I'm like,
I don't have to do anything when I'm looking at the pictures. Yeah,
nobody's whining or crying or like meaning wanting to be entertained twenty four to
seven. You know, they're just cute. Yeah in the pictures. Yeah,
yeah, you know what I'm kind of it's crazy because I'm surrounded by
grandmothers now, because Olga is a grandma and Wendy is a grandma, and
I'm like, I'm starting to think like, oh my god, that's gonna
be kind of fun. I know too. I mean like slow down,
not anytime soon, right, but yeah, that's gonna be fun. I
swear to God. Lynette I was having the same thought. I was like,
God, only a few short years ago, I would have been like,
oh God, I need a long break between kids and grandkids. But
now I'm like, hold on exactly, not crazy fun, I know,
I know, because then you can take the baby and like like Wendy does,
like she's there, you know, they let them sleep, Like,
I'll stay up. What do I don't have to get up in the morning.
You guys do the morning, boring time. I'll stay up with the
baby all night, right, and then let me sleep during the day,
right, and you guys can sleep at night, and then everybody's refreshed,
right, right. It would work out. It would be nice if I
had that easy to say though, when your kids are seventeen, right,
I know, right, because we're like hopefully we have a few years,
yes, but yeah, but then I'm like, well, don't wait too
long, right, because I don't want to be old, right, And
oh okay, I got something to talk about. Oh all right, since
we're talking about young girls having kids. Okay, because I was telling the
tally about this doc menory I watched on Amazon and it's called it was called
Buried with Love, and it was like it was like an hour worth of
doc. But there was the one it says like season one, season two.
I think season one is remember the dad that killed the wife. I
think she was pregnant in like Arizona and then the two kids and buried him
put them in the oil tanks. Oh that was Chris Watts. Chris Watts
and oh she was pregnant kids. Yes, okay, so not that one.
There's I think there's only two. No, I don't want to talk
about that. That's been we've talked about. Yeah, now there's it said
like season one is Chris Watts or I could be flip flopping or something,
but one of them. There's an episode of a cheerleader teenager. Her name
was like rich Kyle richards because I wrote not Kyle, but no, but
I remember the last name is Richardson, like Riley or Kim something. Richardson
doesn't only matter. She's a teenager from the Midwest. So I'm just watching
it and she gets pregnant and then she's she's in her senior year. She's
a great student, she's a cheerleader, going off to college. And she
turns eighteen. In her senior year, she's got a boyfriend. She suspects
she's pregnant, so she tells her mom she wants to go to the doctor
and get put on the pill. She goes and gets and then when she
goes to the doctor, they're like, you're pregnant, and she was like
absolutely, nobody can find out. She was very she had eating disorders.
She was and they're interviewing the parents, the mom and the dad, and
as soon as they say eating disorder, I'm like, something, mom,
something's going on. This girl's name Melissa. I don't think it's Melissa,
okay, but the last name is Richardson. Okay, anyway, Uh,
Cayln gets to googling. Yeah, google me right. It's called Buried with
Love on Amazon and like two episodes once she's a cheerleader anyway, Skyler Brook
Skyler Richardson, Thank you Brook Skyler Richardson. I think I uh does sound
familiar. Yes, I know this story. I know this story. It
was there was an episode of I want to say Invisible choir. Oh,
I did a very early episode about this. Yes, I know exactly what
you're talking about. This is crazy. So I'm watching this episode and they're
reporting on the story. So she gets pregnant, she doesn't want anybody to
know, and then she gives birth in the bathroom and then she buries the
baby in the backyard. And then the doctor's like, what you were pregnant?
What happened? And she was like, well, I gave it was
a still birth, and he was like, well, what'd you do with
the baby? And she's like buried in the backyard and start crying, and
then of course the doctor's got a report to the police, right, and
so she gets arrested and gets and then they show her in the in the
in the interrogation room and she's, you know, she's got like a baby
voice, and she's crying and she's scared and her parents don't know what's going
on, but her parents are outside, and we need to tell the parents
what's happening. And then, you know, then the parents come in and
the mom like gives her like a half hug, sits down. The dad
is just like, why didn't you tell us? You could have come to
us. This is not the way, and she's like, I didn't think
I could come to anybody. And then she's kept going like her mom was
quiet, wasn't saying anything. And then she was like, Mommy, you
still love me, right, you still love me right? And she's like
crying holding her mom's hand, and like one of the first fucking things out
of the mom's mouth is you know this is gonna be all over the news
and your boyfriend's gonna break up with you, okay? Right then and there,
I'm like, this mom is a fucking problem, and why isn't this
episode addressing the fact that this mom? So then I start doing a deep
dive and it's like this mom. The text messages between her and her daughter,
remember this was like you know, she's like, Mommy, I'm trying
to I'm trying to lose weight, and she's like, you can do it.
You can shed those five more pounds, like she's creating an eating disorder
in her daughter, right and then her and then her daughter felt like she
could not tell her mom that she was pregnant, and then as soon as
she gave birth, she got on that treadmill and she's telling her mom like
I had a belly, but look now it's like she's showing her like pictures
and her mom is just like feeding into it, encouraging it, and it's
like, what the fuck with this episode? Like they're reporting, it's like
they should be talking about this mother, Like why isn't anybody pointing out to
the fact that this mom created this, like you know, have she's but
she's acting like she had nothing to do with it, you know. And
it's like no, no. Then I find some TikToker or somebody finally on
YouTube somewhere. It's like, let's go through the text messages between the mom
and this girl, and I'm like, thank you. At least somebody.
I think forty eight Hours did a story on them. I don't think,
and they interviewed the mom. I don't think they point their fingers at the
mom, but it's like it's glaring that this mother was part of the problem.
Yeah, this early if you go to the all the way back in
Visible Choir, it's like one of the first like ten episodes. Did they
really good episode? Yes, they talked, they did the text messages.
Yeah, yeah, Like this this episode, I'm like, they're not They're
interviewing the mom. So they're like, you know, usually when they interview
the parents, they don't point the finger or you know whatever, right,
but like they don't even ask her no, no, they don't even address
it. They don't And I had to like go like, okay, hold
on. So then I was watching more of the interrogation and how she just
sat there and she was just like, your life's rue and you're not going
to college. You're gonna go to Oh the other thing right out of her
mouth was you can go to go to jail. You're gonna go to jail.
No, mommy, are you telling me this? She's scared. This
girl scared out of her mind and what she did was absolutely, of course
wrong, and I think she knew this, but still, like the mom
like is like that's the first thing I it was like, what the fuck
is wrong with this mom? And then when you dig deeper, you're like,
oh, okay, so she's part of the problem these text messages and
shit crazy. Yeah. Yeah. What I take out of that is like,
I'm doing good as a parent, right, thanks for going fine?
Exactly? You find do you find that? Like you probably I don't think
you do, but I feel sometimes like I am constantly measured, like going
like okay, how am I doing? Because I'm dealing with some sort of
big stuff with my kids, right and I'm always like okay, like with
the call, like am I am I doing too much? Am I doing
too little? Am I standing back too much? Am I wife? Am
I do I need to support more? Or supporting not making her able to
handle? You know what I mean? And it's like a constant dance of
like I don't want later for her to be like when I needed my mom,
she wasn't there for me, you know. But I also don't want
her to be like my mom didn't let me handle any situations myself, like
she crippled me, you know. Yeah. Yeah, it's so hard to
find that balance, it is. Yeah, So how is she doing?
Do you want to? Uh? She okay? So I don't. I
don't even know if I've kept you totally up to date. So she was
going to community college. She's doing a program. There's so there's there's a
program called the TAG program, which is where you can pick a UC.
It's all for UC where you can choose a UC. They don't all offer
it, but Santa Barbara Irvine Davis, and a couple other ones. You
can choose one and you're guaranteed admission if you cover these certain your major requirements
and your general ed requirements. Okay, because LB had all these uh you
know, AP classes, and she'd already taken it's called dual enrollment. She'd
she'd take it a Pierce English one on one oh one o two already in
her senior year. You know, as we know, she was a total
go getter. Yeah, not a no getter like me. She did all
this stuff and yet didn't get into the schools that she wanted. So this
program guarantee if you have a certain amount of so she was going to be
able she is able to tag the school that Santa Barbara for just going for
one year to community college. But there's also a program called TAP TAP,
which stands for something like Transfer Admission Preferred. I don't, I don't,
I don't remember. I'd have to look at it. But anyway, and
it's for UCLA, and it's a special program that you take where you do
the classes that you need for your major and for your general requirements, but
you take them as honors classes. You take five honors classes and then you
are automatically preferred admission for UCLA. It's not guaranteed, and you can have
a second pick a second major when you apply to UCLA that they will consider
equally, so you like doubles your chance to get into UCLA. So she's
this is what she's been doing. She has met with several counselors because it
was so devastating coming out of yeah last year that or early this year that
she met with one, two, three, She's met with four counselors.
So she did what's called an ed ed plan right so that she knew exactly
what she was taking, what she's signing up for for winter classes, for
spring, everything's all set. She took an honors class in the summer music
appreciation. Then she took Sociology one and Sociology two which is in relow anthropology
and history, all honors. Okay. So the other day she had a
meeting with the counselor just to answer a few of her questions so that she
can send her applications. She still has to do these four essays for the
UC's, which I think I was telling you she's so not wanting to do.
It's a lot very triggering because she feels like I just went through this
and got so disappointed, and she really wants to go to UCLA and she
has a good chance. So she meets with this counselor. I am trying
to be a little bit hands off. I'm like, because she's getting very
shut down with me. She's like, doesn't want to talk about college or
the process or applications. I got it, I got it. I got
it a guy. But I'm like, Okay, but do you got it?
Because you have to write these essays and they need to be good,
and you have to rewrite them because the ones she wrote last year are not
going to show what she was doing this year. Okay, I got it.
Okay, but you should meet with a counselor. So she doesn't get
an appointment with the counselor until, like, I don't know what it was,
a couple of days before, a couple of days ago. So I'm
like, she doesn't want to talk to mir or. So John and I
decide we're going to go to the gym during the time that she has her
counselor appointment. John says, Okay, you know what questions do you want
to ask? You know, and she's like aha, Like and I told
John, she gave us kind of like fish on a deck, you know,
just kind of like dead eyes, like don't like like a night right,
right, Like Okay, so we go to the gym, I start
getting I get a text from her while we're at the gym. Mom My
last counselor fucked me. She's like, none of the classes that I was
in were honors classes. What. Yeah? So she's like, I don't
qualify for the TAP program and she's like I'm so upset right now. I
don't even know what to do. And I was like, is she punk?
Is she punking me? You know? Oh my god. No.
It turns out that she went through with the last the counselor before this one,
all the classes, and she the counselor, helped her choose Okay,
here these classes are honors classes, so she signed up for them. But
this new counselor was like, yeah, but the class you signed up for
wasn't the honors version of it. You just signed up for the class and
she's like yeah, because I was told it's an honors class. Like,
here's the classes you should sign up for, and she's like no, but
it's a different section, you have to it's a whole different, like Jesus
part of the website just for honors only, and always like, well,
nobody told me that. And then the counselor goes, well, it's on
the website, and Alway's like, no, it's not. I looked at
the website and she's like, it's on the website. So she's always said
while they're there, she looks at the website. The counselor doesn't. She's
like, oh, it's not on the website. It used to be on
the website. She's like, oh, sorry, apparently this happens to kids.
So she no longer qualifies for this preferred admission to u c l A.
And that's just she's dying. God, I want to cry, I
know. But here's the okay news. Okay, there's a I was I
almost like, I was like having such bad anxiety. But the good news,
Okay, there is good news some kids. This counselor told her listen,
of all the kids that this would happen to, it's it's good that
it's happening to you. Because she has so many classes. She she although
she didn't take honors, and she doesn't she doesn't qualify for that program.
She still has a very good chance of getting into UCLA. She's like,
you have a really good application, write some kick ass essays, and you
have. She's she's graduating from community college in one year with two AA degrees
because she's going to have one in sociology and one in behavioral health. And
she's like, your application is still really good as a transfer student. It's
just you don't really have honors classes, so you know, and what I
know people might be thinking, well, can't she can't she do some honors
classes in the winter and the spring. The answer is yes, but not
enough because some of the classes she was were already going to be honors,
but like there were like three or four that she thought were honors that weren't
honors. So it's like, some of the classes, it's such a dance
you have to do because the classes that she that cover certain things that she
needs you are not offered as an honors class. So she was kind of
taking extra classes that were honors too so that she could cover all her bases.
But now she can't cover those bases because some of the classes she took
her aways. This is insane, but she had enough aps and between that
and the English one on one on one O two that she has, like
you have to have like sixty credits or more to apply, and she already
has beyond that. So we're just we're hopeful. Yeah, but like there
were there were tears, There was like how is this? How does this
keep your eyes? And this is not her fault. What the fuck is
up with these counselors, like they're not exactly you can't just rely on I
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I think she's going to be okay because what's today. Today's date is
the thirteen, and basically by the thirtieth, all the apps are due,
So she's working on her They're called piqs Personal insight questions, right, so
she has to write four of those, and you know, m she's also
but you know, in general, she's been in better spirits and she just
I've never she loves her job. That's good. It's so funny because we
were talking about like some a lot of her friends. She's she's really realizing
that for a first job, she's got it made. Like she makes a
lot of money. You know, she does these parts. She does parties,
these laser tag parties, right, and so she makes tips. Yeah,
those and they put one person on a party, and sometimes she makes
like a hundred bucks, one hundred for just for the tip. That's great.
And sometimes she'll work two parties in a day. And she like her
friends. She's gotten some of her friends jobs there and that have had other
jobs. Like she has friends that have worked at like Chick fil Ates that
are just miserable every day. Yeah, like they freaking hate their job.
And I'm like, yeah, like I hated my job. I think I
liked going to work at Burger King. No, I lived in fear of
the days that I had to shift there. I only worked there because my
mom made me have a It was horrible, right, horrible. I know,
work in the freaking grill and like just flipping burgers like it wasn't fun.
I didn't like any of my co workers. They were all assholes.
Like I don't remember any camaraderie at work, right, She's like all works
with all everybody. She's best friends with everybody. They're constantly there are a
lot of people come in when they're off just to hang out, like they
hang out. They're bringing them in coffee. Like a place to be,
man, that's the place to be. Yeah, yeah, it's it's funny
to drive around town. I see like Sonny and Natalia's friends working at like
the grill behind like a chop stop or whatever. They're working by in the
salad bart and it's just like they're there and it's like eight thirty at night,
nobody's there and they're just on their phone, miserable. Yeah, and
uh and Sonny I was like, you know, I was like, you're
gonna get a job anytime soon, and he's, I guess he's gonna.
I don't know, He's gonna apply at a few places around town. But
he also said that Adam mentioned that he might have a job for him.
I don't know what, but maybe something at the warehouse working on podcasts.
I don't know, doing like maybe what Caylin did because he was like putting
together bios for guests. Yeah, that's researching guests, that sort of thing.
Yeah, So I don't know that's good because it would be like in
his field. Right. I feel like every kid though, should have a
shitty job at jazz. I agree, just so you know how the other
half lives. Oh, you know what I mean, because because it ain't
easy. No, I work in fast food, work in these like I
always tell Elb, like sometimes we'll be at the mall because remember when before
she got this job, her dream was to work at pacsun right, I
remember, yeah, And she was all about it, although she wasn't doing
anything about it because she has social anxiety, so she wasn't going to the
mall to like ask for an application. She was just right, you know
she would. But then when she finally went online, this is what happened.
She went online and there they were hiring, but like at a store
in Northridge, which is kind of a drive. You know, she wanted
to do the one to paying them all at Rthridge, right, So she
was like, hmmm, I don't know about plot. I don't know,
like maybe I'll wait. But then this other job came up where we were
at this place and seeing how all the employees seemed like they were having fun,
and I was like, this could be like this seems like a cool
place to work. I think I told you that the employees were playing the
like arcade games they were employees were and then one guy flipped the other guy
off and they were like joking around on the louds on the over the intercom,
you know. And I was like, they look like, this looks
like a relaxed place to work. And then she applied and then she got
the interview, and then she got scared because like, well maybe I want
to work at pac Son And I was like, no, you don't remember
that you do not want to fold sweaters. That's that sucks, and do
like I don't know, and then and no tips, no tips, it's
just minimum wage and that's it. And she's so happy that she didn't do
that, yeh see. And she keep yeah, she keeps getting her friend's
jobs there and they love it. But like, well, your first job
was coffee being coffee Bean? Yeah? Yeah, and did you did you
like it? Was it fun there? It was very dependent on who was
working my shift with me. So at the beginning of the week, I
would look to see my shifts and I'd go, oh, this is going
to be fun. I'm working with him and her and we're gonna have a
great time. And then I did see this shift and be like, oh,
that's gonna be a fucking drag. Because it really was dependent. But
I had a lot of like friends there, a lot of good time with
a lot of the coworkers. But the one thing about Coffee Bean, which
I go into like Starbucks and Coffee Bean these days, is we didn't have
to deal with online orders. Yeah, so I go in these days,
I go, oh, that must suck, Like you don't get any downtime
now, any downtime is just right. And on top of whatever rush you
get in the mornings, you're making like online orders. On top of that,
it must be a lot more hectic than when I worked there. But
do you get did you get tips and stuff? Sure? Yeah, tips,
yeah, discounts on food and I just you know, we're supposed to
like make a drink and then ring it up and do that that. I
wouldn't do that, just just make the drink, right, that's it,
Oh for you? Yeah, yeah for me? Right. But I always
feel like a place like that is going to be too corporate, like there's
too many bosses, like too many managers. Well, my boss was just
super cool, like he was a really nice guy, and I really liked
working with him, and all my shift supervisors above me, they were all
generally very cool too. We would like we would all kind of hang out
and do you know, one of them would have like a baby shower and
we'd all go hang out. We'd do like a Christmas you know, like
what do you call like a white elephant or whatever. So we'd have like
little parties and stuff, and no, it was it was very fun.
And as long as I wasn't working with really boring people I had, I
had a lot of fun working There was a good time after that. Where'd
you go? I was doing that while going to Santa Monica Community College and
working on whatever production sets. I could get a lot of like just one
day, one night music videos stuff like that. And I was just doing
that thing for two years or three years, until I started working with Adam.
How did you get over to Uh, my dad was on the show.
He was on Adam Show. Oh and they were like, oh,
we need we're looking for interns. Oh. So my dad was like,
here, my son, my sunt do it. Yeah. But was it
a paid internship? No? Oh okay, But then you got hired and
I was your boss. Yes, I worked from like a mean corporate boss.
I worked from It was either January or February until August interning, and
then in August, I remember I got hired. That's when I started getting
paid. Right, Wow, so did you But you didn't graduate Santa Monica?
No, right, No, I think I've told the story before.
I was still going to Santa Monica and I was still working at Coffee Bean
while I was working for Adam. I just wasn't doing any of the production
stuff. And it was like the last class that I needed. One of
the requirements was statistics and I had already failed it once and I was doing
it again. And there was this big important midterm that the teacher scheduled the
day after Halloween. And this was like the first Halloween party. You know,
Me and Gary and Chris all went into this guy's house in the Hollywood
Hills and had this big, giant party. I didn't sleep. I went
into take the test the next day and got like a thirteen, and I
was like, I guess, I'm I guess I'm done with college. Wow.
So I just dropped out after that. I don't remember. I mean
I vaguely remember this, but the specifics. You got a thirteen. Yeah,
I think it was either a thirteen or twenty three. It was.
It was low like that, yeah, And I felt and I had like
studied the day before, you know. I was like, I'm gonna study
ahead of time, then I'm gonna go to this party then afterwards like I'll
still know it and be like no, no, aw you't Gary and Matt
when they lived together up in the hill. Yeah, they had like the
entourage pad. So you would have had to retake statistics again again, and
you just were like, but you could have just done that one class.
Yeah, But you were just like no, no, because at that point
you had the job Corolla. Yeah, and I was like, oh,
where am I going? I was kind of doing what Elbie's doing. I
was like, Okay, I'm going to go to Santa Monica and then I'm
going to transfer. But I didn't have I had like Chapman, I wanted
to go to a couple other places in mind. But then I was like,
Okay, well now I'm kind of already in the industry. I'm going
to go to school for film and television production. Like when I'm kind of
already in that job right now, that seems kind of like a waste of
time. Yeah, so I was like, yeah, why am I doing
this? Yeah? I get it. Yeah, I every time I thought
about, like when I dropped out of college, like I was wasn't really
in college, but yeah, I was taking the two classes and then I
was working, and I was like, I mean, I just can't do
every I can't get to these classes at night and do the homework for them
and get good grades and also taking two at a time. Like I'm never
going to graduate and I'm not going to I'm not doing it to go away
to college. So I had the same thing where I was like what am
I doing? This is a step and Yeane was like, now like what
do you what do you really want to do? You want to work on
TV? Okay, well this is what you gotta do. Right, and
that was that. Yeah, I just went to work and then I was
like, well, I'll just I really want to do stand up, so
maybe I should stop fucking around and actually try to do stand up. And
then what Once I was a comedian, I was like, but I was
always I never had like foresight, you know. I was always like,
Okay, then I'm going to be a comedian, and I didn't think about
what does that mean. It took me a long time, like a couple
of years of doing stand up to go okay, but what is my end
goal? Right? I was so caught up and like, but I want
to I want to be a stand up comedian, Like I love it.
My father was a stand up comedian. It's in my blood, Like this
is what I'm gonna do. And it took so long to go okay,
But who are like what is making it as a comedian? Mean, right,
there's only like at that time there was like Ellen DeGeneres ad a talk
show. But well they are like giving out development deals left and right at
the time, like that was the thing to do. I was just got
a development deal, I mean, but I wasn't a good actress, right,
So I was always like well even if I get like when I went
to Montreal, like just for laughs, and I got like some meetings out
of it. But I was like, they're gonna start sending me on,
like you know, I I'd done these acting auditions and was terrible, right,
And I was like, so that's a whole Another thing is like you
have to take acting classes and you have to be serious about it. And
I could give a fuck about being a good actor. Like I didn't like
other actors. I thought they were all pompous and like took themselves too seriously.
I wanted to hang out with other comics, none of the I just
like there was they were giving out development like DL Hughley, you know,
Grace what's her name? Great, uh Grace Underfire, Brett Butler. But
this was right before my time. I mean they they gave Carmen Electra development
deal, you know, like they had just stopped giving out development deals like
tic TACs when I when I went to Montreal, nobody got development deals.
I was there with Rehtta, who's like kind of big. Now Chelsea Handler
did a set, but she didn't even get into the new Faces. She
did a set and bombed and nothing had like she didn't get a deal from
that either, Like a lot of us, just nothing happened with such a
bummer. So eventually I was like, well, what do I like about
stand up? Because I don't know that I don't want to just be a
road comic. Paula Poundstone. They were like a couple of like road Reader,
you know, the people that were like, what am I going to
just play Vegas like? So then I decided to try writing and the rest
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