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So what's up everybody? Heyse listen you guys. We're about to record
the we're recording for Tuesday, yes, but we already recorded Patreon and our
Thursday interview show and our Friday show. Right so, right off the bat,
I just want to tell everybody the Thursday Interview show with our friend Laura
House is going to be here on Thursday. And she's so funny, she's
great and so interesting. Could have talked to her all night. She had
so many great story You guys are gonna love our stories. Yes, so
you got to tune in on Thursday for sure, because you're not going to
understand the Friday show unless you listen to the Thursday show. Right, I
know, we'll give you guys a lot of work. Sorry, sorry,
very sorry. Let's say how to some people such as Sandra Green it's not
easy being Green and Stephanie Stinker Wrinker. Stephanie was there, she was on
the Zoom. We had our Zoom get together, Krista, you make me
want to stoop, But she wasn't there. No, Jennifer get up,
wasn't there Sarah's the fun O the fun. She might buison Leslie? Why
why stop with the coughing? Although COVID is kind of back, it is
coming back. Yeah, it's come back. I know a lot of people
who come right now, Me too, Gosh, Alicia, I mean,
I mean Leslie. I hope you're okay. Kelly Brandt, she'll take it
as a COVID clinic initial cut. She was there, Yeah, she was
Shvashpe not there, miss that ass, missing Gabby not there now, missing
in action, you know, Katarina, check your mother and she was there,
yay. And Valerie Bubba Fenwick was there. She was there. Polly
pancakes, No, she's making pancakes. Athena Gin shared he missed you.
Yep. Elizabeth Williams and she a fucking with her husband in the kitchen.
No, that was Angelie. Oh that was Angela. Elizabeth was was needing
to put the kids to bed because there's so many of them. There's like
an eighteen did she say something around yeah, close to twenty. Yeah,
Hero, your kids love you, but you don't come to our zooms.
Rita rocks that Bassinett, but she doesn't rock our zoom. Jacob is so
growlly and he was there. Loved seeing Jacob, Yes, he was shared
with us, did Yeah, I love you Jacob. Leslie she accosted somebody
outside of Ikea and then she got arrested and she couldn't missed it, right
yeah, Ashley's so chic. Nick, you call your girl Lorie Sagory.
Laurie was there, right, yeah, yeah, Laurie was there. Hi,
Laurie. And Randy may Aimes not there. No, No, I
guess she has too many names. It's just cool for us. Rachel newcomer.
She wasn't there, but I see her all the time on my writing
class. And Aaron, who is not there. So I saw on Facebook
that you went somewhere. Yes I did so okay. So, as you
might remember Xander's friend Lyla Crocodile, friend of the show, loves Queen,
big queen fan, big queen fan, and this band, Queen Nation,
is like an amazing queen. They do they basically perform like their queen.
I want to see them. I was driving down the one on one and
saw that they're playing at the Canyon Club and I was like, oh shit,
And then I look on Facebook and now are you guys on so that's
where we saw them last time, and that was Lyle's first concert ever and
Xander's first concert. But now they were playing at the Starlight Bowl in Burbank,
which is a kind of a big concert venue. It's not small,
it's kind of like the Hollywood Bowl, but in Burbank, and they were
playing there and opening for them was not Yati Crew and not Yati by Nature,
but k Tell called the k Tell Band, which they play all like
hits of the seventies. Oh my gosh, so like that's my sweet spot,
as you know. And so Robin and I were like, we have
to get tickets, and I was like, we should bring Xander and Lyla
Crocodile so little last Harrah Saturday night because school started on Monday. And so
we went out there and it was so hilarious because when we get there,
it is like old people and their parents, you know, old people.
It's like how I imagine like a cruise ship to be. It's just like
everybody is so old. But we're laughing because it's like, but they're seeing
Queen basically, yes, But a lot of them were there to see the
k Tell Band go first, and they did not disappoint the kid, the
kids. So the kids were just like, oh god, like this is
embarrassing. Like they're like, please, I hope nobody recognizes us, you
know, and they're laughing at me. And Xander finds it amusing that I
love seventies music, and you know, I make him listen to yacht rock
in the car all the time, so he knows a lot of the song
of songs. So what songs were? What are some of the song they
sing like Captain and tnil Ye keep Us Together, And they did Brandy,
You're a fine girl, What a good wife? You would be such a
good Yeah, it's about a cruise ship. It's about a ship. Yeah.
They did jaw to the World, all the busy Girls. It was
they were. They were so good. I mean, way more songs that
I can't think about my head, but like every song was just like,
oh, they did Carrie on o waywood Son, and they did Lady,
let Me take a look at You, you know, yeah sticks oh oh
yeah, la lady. Yeah. I think it's only I should say to
you. Don't be thinking that I don't love you. They sang one song
that I knew, but that Robin was like this is the one song I
haven't heard of. But she's kind of stupid anyway, so dumb Robin,
so stupid. And then we met this woman. There was a woman that
was wearing this like a k Tell shirt, and I got really obsessed with
it. I was like, I need a k Tell shirt. Yeah.
So unfortunately and so anyway that I was, so we kind of tapped her
on the shoulder, were like, how do we get your shirt? How
do you have that shirt? And she was friends with the band. So
then they said they were going to have shirts at the merch table. So
there they made this thing total seventies fun. They were shooting T shirts out
of a cannon. They put beach balls into the crowd. Really really fun,
and I know that Xander and Lyle Lyle Crocodile were into it. Then
Robin and I go down and we try to get some merch, but they
only have the Queen Nation merch, no kay Tell stuff. So then the
lady that we met says, oh, I'm gonna get I'll get you some
they have merch. She leaves. Anyway, then it starts to finally get
dark out and then Queen comes on. Now meanwhile it's this place totally filled
up. It was started to be packed with people, and now it's like
I think it was mostly old people for the early part because now it was
really like kind of all ages and younger people. This Sonny would have loved
it. Oh my god. Yeah, let me tell you. This band
is so freaking amazing. And the guy who plays his name is Greg.
Greg Finley is the So this is not just like some guys that got together
and they're like, we kind of sound like Queen. This is one of
those like a production company found people did probably in auditions from all over all
over the country, probably all over the world. I think the lead singer
guy might be British, right he if you he's they sound exactly like Queen,
right, And he comes out and is so like Freddie Mercury, like
it's you if you just close your eyes or if you open your eyes,
you might as well be at a full on Queen concert, except that it
was like eighteen dollars, right. But like they come out and they're doing
it's not like they just performed the hits, right. This is not the
same as like going to see like a tribute, like a seventies tribute.
It's like this is a show where they have certain songs that they open with
and there's dancing, and there's like there and every and he's playing the keyboards
and he it's like it's like if Freddie Mercury's came back and performed. And
the whole concert was so good and it was so cute to see Lyle Like
he's very low key because you know, kid's been through a lot, right,
takes a lot to get him to like look like he's even having fun.
But it was like he just he'd never been to a concert like that
before. And later when we asked him, he was like, yeah,
I mean it was really fun, like when we went to the club,
but this was different. This was like being never I've never seen anything like
this, Like it was a concert, like we had goods outdoors, but
like if you look behind, you know, it's a whole like like a
stadium with people light with like lights and their lighters their phones, but also
like you know, they had those like you know, like glow ones and
so glow sticks and glow ones and like just everybody was so into it and
everybody's singing and dancing and like on their feet that I was amazing and I'm
amazing thing to take this and you know, I think Xander just felt really
excited to be able to show Lyle like a really good time, right,
and it was so sweet. It is sweet. I went like when I
took Sunny to see lad Zepp again at the Roxy, they are like they
travel all over the world. Yeah, and they're British and they look like
them, you know, and they do. It's a whole production. And
it was like, but it's inside a club, you know. Yeah,
it's different to go and see a band that you love, even if it's
not the real band right in the outdoor set it, you know what I
mean. Like that's awesome, especially at summertime. That's great. That's so
it's an incredible show. And it was long and it was like they did
so many hits and they also did like some deep cuts where you're like,
it's not just a band that kind of looks like Queen, you know.
Yeah, And did did you see any like other bands coming up that are
going to play there, like sometimes when you go like coming, so I
didn't see that. And also they were I guess they did a summer series
of bands and this was the last show in their series, but I feel
like they probably have shows there at other times. Yeah, I don't know.
We'll have to look at We'll have to look it up. Yeah.
Yeah, it's super fun. That's awesome. Yeah, that's great. So
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with you? So? You know, schools starting tomorrow senior year. It's
really messing. I'm feeling really sad about it. Both of my kids are
going to be seniors and then that's it. Yeah, I feel I just
feel like this pit in my stomach, you know. And it's tough because
I'm I'm there some days a week, but not there some days a week,
so I don't get to be with them all the time, you know,
And it's tough, but it is what it is. But you know,
it'll be different, I don't know once we sell the house maybe,
but anyway, but so it is, it's just it's it's a sad feeling,
you know. And also Sunny in Italy have two different schedules, so
they're now Sunny he's got his driver's license, he can he's ensured on my
car for now and then he's gonna Adam's gonna have to get him another get
him a car until then, so he can use my car when I'm there,
but after, I mean most of the time when I'm there, but
then Natalia is going on. Natalia's getting to school early on time. He's
on the late, you know, he can miss I don't know. They
got a different schedule in senior year, so they're gonna be on different schedules.
So Sunny's gonna have to walk sometimes sometimes he can take my car.
I don't know, but we'll see. But it's just it's sad. It's
like it's bumming me out. And then but it's really cute though. Over
the weekend there was parties like Friday night Saturday, so Sunny in Italia they
go to a party to get like I'm looking at them like find you know,
on my Find my Kids app and they're both somewhere in Glendale, and
I'm like, what are you two doing in Glendale? Like we're at a
party and Italia. The next day, She's like, oh, oh my
god, it's so much fun with Sunny. I was like, Sunny,
come dance with me. She's like, I was twirling around on the dance
floor and I was like, Sunny, did you have Funny goes? Yeah,
ad a good time. So like they're going to parties together. Then
there was a party last night, which I talked a little bit about on
our zoom but it was a white trash themed and like a fake wedding.
I guess, like seniors were pretending to get married, but it was like
a white trash wedding and Tally went dressed as Snooky because she loves I'm like,
Mitch, Snooky's a guidet. But anyway, because she loves Jersey Shore
now and she loves and all her friends love it in fact, so so
when we have Vinny on our show, she should come. Oh my god,
I told Vinny when I reached out to him, I said, my
daughter has gotten all her friends hooked on Jersey Shore. They're watching the whole
early seasons and she's a huge fan and you know what he wrote back.
He goes, I'm a huge, a huge fan in Italius. Tell her
and she's like screen shotting that and sending it to all her friend She's like
dying, but yeah, because we're gonna get Yeah, we're gonna get Vitty
soon on our show. By the way, quick interjection, I talked to
Mark Wahlberg, not not Marky Mark. I know you were this this many
years old when you found out that there's two Mark Wahlberg's right. Mark Wahlberg,
who hosts Temptation Island, said absolutely, he'd love to come on our
show. I love it. I can't wait. Yeah, I can't really
have some good guests coming. Yes, we are, we are. Thursdays
are lit. That's right, They're litty titty, litty titty Thursdays. That's
our new slogan. Yeah so okay, yeah, so uh yeah, so
they did that. She dressed as Snooky Sunny dresses a vinny. No,
Sunny just went as himself. The situation. Yeah, there's a situation,
A situation. He I it's great now because I can say those sayings at
home and they know what I'm talking about. And then she cringes and goes
mom, please stop because her friends getting to the door. I opened the
door. I go parties here, that's all He's like, Mom, please,
I can we get it? You like jerseys and the other. Okay.
So the other night I think it was it was okay, it was
the night after we did our podcast last week. So uh, one of
Italia's friends, her best friend's mom decides to get all the her like four
good friends together and the moms together to go have a dinner one last like
hurrah, I guess before school starts. Which was nice and it was fun
and I met something. I mean, I know I knew the other the
other two moms, but there was one I never met, sat with her,
had a great time. They were really sweet. Okay, but there's
one there's always one person in the group that knows everybody. Oh you know
the Thompson's right, Did you know that I went to school with them?
Did you know that my son is in the defense the group where they travel
around on bikes, the bicycle group, Like and then did you did you
ever meet the Razzi ears? Like like like you know? And I've I've
experienced it many times in the past. And when I sat down at dinner.
I was like ten as in my head, counting down until how soon
is she going to start talking about everybody, name dropping all the people in
our neighborhood. Why? Like, I don't get it? Anyway, the
lovely dinner. We had a great time. It was nice. You know,
Natalia loves that shit. She loves that shit. But I'd be like,
for me, that kind of thing would be very restaurant dependent, yes,
like is there something that I love to eat at that place? Right?
If there's not, no, no, I'm gonna pass. Right.
But I could not pass because she said she sent a group text to all
the girls and the moms, right, and Natalia was the first one like,
hey, that sounds great. And I know Natalia, she always wants
me to be hanging out with the parents and Tana. But I'd be like,
but can we go to cheesecake Factory because they have really good bread?
Right? Well? You know what? The first place she picked was Houston's,
Okay, which I haven't thought. I know, I haven't been.
I didn't even know it still was around. There's there's one in Pasadena.
They wouldn't take a big party of eight, so since you eat a huge
part, right, now they're a freaking chain restaurant. I guess in that
time maybe I don't know. So we had to go to some Italian unknown
restaurant in Pasadena. All right, well Italian was good. Yeah, and
it was great garlic role. Yeah, I got the risotto. Though it's
like a little too much, you know, by the way, Okay,
hold on a second, I'm gonna say something pretty controversial. Okay, I
could get canceled, especially by you two. By embracing yourself. Yeah,
don't don't get too mad. The TV show The Bear, Uh huh.
Season two huh, don't like it? The hell's going on? Listen.
It's not for every If you love it, you're just love it. And
if you don't like it, I know a lot of people that it leaves.
They're like, I don't it's not doing anything for me. Well,
all right, I'll be that. I love the characters. But I'm on
season two and it started off strong, and then there's like season episode like
three and four. I love the girl that had the chef. She's they've
had chef that works under KARMI. I love him. I love his cousin.
There's a nut job. He's hilarious. Love, the nat his sister.
I like all the characters, the woman in the kitchen, the other
guy that went off to Norway to study love all at Yeah, but there
was like episode three is all about her just going around town trying. All
I want to do is eat at ten o'clock at night. Yeah, that
episode was like a little bit boring, back to back with the episode of
the guy going to Norway or wherever he went. Yeah, but then it
gets really good. Okay, because that's the last episode I saw, so
you see Forks No now, so those two episodes are definitely the weakest of
the season. But once you get to Forks, yeah, and the Christmas
episode, Christmas, that's what everybody's telling me this Christmas gotta keep going.
He got a slog, all right, But like again, I I it
took me a little bit to get in the first season. The first season
was like chaotic. Every first episode was like everybody screaming at each other.
Yes, I'm like, oh my god, I can't. I'm trying to
go to sleep here. I watch it when I get in bed at night.
I got guys, relax a little bit. Kicks everybody. What's everybody
up tight? Four why's everybody got yell yes, chef all the time,
chill out, go sit down here, a cigarette or something. I'll have
a beers, have a coke and a smile. Shut the fuck up.
But then okay, So like this first season and then it then it got
good. Like towards the end, I was like, all right, I'm
in. Then second season, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna wait
until it's all done so i can watch it back to back, which maybe
I should. But then I was thinking to myself, damn, after these
two episodes, I'd be pissed if I sat down on a Thursday night whenever
it comes out watch this episode and then okay, that was dude. And
then next week of that episode, that was kind of a dud. I
mean, I got family in Chicago that's getting like Chicago hot beef sandwiches and
watching the Bear like appointment television, and I'm like, I can't wait to
watch this ship. Well, you have to let some episodes pile up,
all right, That's what I thought. Yeah, I mean I watched a
lot, so you guys binged it. I did, oh okay, and
then John and I tried not to watch, like at one point towards the
end, we were like, Okay, we're gonna watch two episodes and then
we're gonna stop. And then we watched two and then we took a break
during the day, and then we were like, oh my god, we
can't stand it. So we watched the final two episodes in a row and
it was like, oh my gosh, it's so good. Okay, I'm
sure when I come back next week, I'll be like, Wow, Hey,
have you guys heard of the TV show The Bear? He should be
watching it? Are you okay? This is okay, remind me because I
put a pin in this, But have you guys seen the new season of
Winning Time? Because we watched the first episode. Is it good? Okay,
it's the same. You know, it's like the first season was so
good. This just picks right up right, just picks right Okay. Okay,
So, because because John and I are about to watch that, but
yes, first I have to watch stupid mental all of The Bachelor tonight.
But anyway, go back to what you were talking about. Okay, So
you're at this dinner and name Droppy, name Droppy or whatever. But you
know, it's like, I was like, oh God, I've been craving
Italian food. First of all, I'm watching The Bear every night, so
I'm hungry for like good cuisine, so I'm looking forward to this dinner.
I also watched Jersey Shore sometimes with an Italian, and they're like eating Italian
food every other episode, ordering pizza, ordering sandwiches, and blah blah blah.
So I'm like, oh, I'm looking forward sandwiches. So I'm looking
for I honest to god, thought it was sandwich until I was like in
seventh grade. I really did, because my mom that's how she pronounced it.
And then the time came right to write it out, I was like,
wait, it's spelled with a D, not a G. I thought,
I swear to god, I remember vividly that time in elementary school when
I was like, it's sand sandwich. Say I thought it was sandwich.
We'll just call it sandwich to make you feel great, thank you, So
give you a little taste. They'll taste the home. And I'm craving like
hot beef, chicken, like Chicago hot beef. Say, how you guys
add any of that? I have never had that. It's it's good.
There's a deli next to me that does the best, like Chicago beef sandwich.
I had it, like was it yesterday? I was yesterday, your
mother. I would love that. But yeah, when the first season of
The Bear came out and even this not so much this season. When the
first one came out, I was going there all the time to just get
the Chicago beef. Yeah while watching The Bear. Yeah, like that's the
other thing. I'm watching it at ten o'clock at night. And then I
get I get the munchie. So now I gotta go downstairs and get some
salami with some crackers and some sour cream and olive oil and salt and pepper
and mix that up, make a little dip SALAMMI some cheese fills drooling next
to me in bed watching The Bear. So I'm looking forward to this dinner
and there's so many things on the menu, like chicken poccata, chicken Parmersian.
I'm like, oh my god, should I get the pasta? Should
I get Linguinian clams? Like ooh, like what should I get? And
then I was like, I'm craving something with mushrooms. So then I never
get the risotto. So I was like, mushroom zoto sounds good. Everybody
body else gets like the Linguinian class and Italia gets the chicken palm. This
one on the on the on the right of me is getting like, uh,
you know, some kind of like pocata something lemony, caper thing.
I'm like and then my risotto comes. I was like four bites out of
it and I'm done. I'm full. It's all it is is rice and
mushrooms. Well, how'd you already had like a bunch of bread or did
you start with the salad? I had bread? Did I have a salad?
I don't think so, because she had. Natalia got a salad and
I shared a little bit from her, but no, And then I was
just bummed and I took the rest home because I was so full. I
felt jipped and I gotta hear. I had listen to the mom talk name
drop. So it was a bust of a night. Oh you didnn Italia?
How fun? She had a great time? Yeah, she had fun.
She had a good time. Yeah. So my kids had their first
day of school, so they're only sophomores, and it was kind of cute
because their first day of school was we're recording on a Monday. They had
their first day was today, and I forgot how much my kids complain.
Yeah, you forget school because summer they didn't have a lot to complain about
it. I still believe me, they still found complaints. But you know,
I was expecting this is going to sound a little crazy, but I
think that it's hard. My kids don't live in a like, they don't
go to a neighborhood school, right, so a lot of the kids don't
see each other over the summer because you really have to go out of your
way to make plans with somebody to get together because everybody lives all over the
city. Kind of it's like a you know, a school that you can
drive from all different neighborhoods to go to. So I thought it would be
kind of nice, like, hey, you've been talking to these people,
you face time with them, you're texting with them a lot. But now
you're all back at school. How fun. You know, y'all get to
sit together at lunch and you, you know whatever. But like, and
it was, I think it was. I barely got to talk to them
because they came home and I was leaving. But Xander looked totally distraught,
like and he was like, I mean yeah, a lot of my classes
were good, but then this one class really made me sad, and it's
just focused on the negative, you know, and there's nothing you can do.
It's like, all right, like they're past the age where I could
be like, well, let me write a strongly word of email to that
teacher and tell her that you're not going to enjoy your time in their class
unless you get to be you know, it's like yeah, to just go,
well, I don't know what to talk to your teacher, right right,
It's like and then you just I get like, okay, well,
did anything good happen? And he's like, well, yeah, like my
other classes were really good. I think they're gonna be fun, but this
one really bummed me out. And then it's like Sadie. Immediately okay,
well, Sadie, did you did you enjoy it? Well? I like
one class, but and this just complaints. And then I gotta go,
hey, guys, I'm glad you both loved your first day school. I
gotta go, I gotta go to work. Sorry, I'm out. And
I'm just like, oh God, because here comes, here comes the school
year. Right, We're gonna do this every day every day. They're gonna
come home and be like, hang on, I know this person said this
to me and this teacher I know, I know, I already got the
Italian gets her schedule and she wants to be in a class with her best
friend. Can you email missus so and so and ask her if I can
switch my English to government and then I could have AP psych. She wants
to do ap psych now, which is great. Oh she wants to drop
so because she's an She wasn't an i EP. I don't know if she's
still gonna be an IP. But they had directive studies, which is home
room basically where they sit and there she's like, I don't need that anymore.
I want to take AP psych, So can I can I? So
now I'm like eat, I'm like, can you email her? Well?
I did, but they're not getting she's not getting back to me. So
I gotta sit there and email, you know, and then she emails me
back. She has an email in Italia. Anyway, She's gonna work something
out about the AP psych thing, but as far as her getting into the
other classes that she wants to just because her friends in it, and that
ain't happening, like her schedule's pretty set. Sonny has no complaints because he's
starting school an hour late, which is he's fine. He's like, don't
rock the boat, don't tell anybody. I don't want anybody onto me or
anything. I don't want to fuck this shit up. I get to go
because you know, he's still with the sleeping issues and blah blah blah.
Which by the way, I'm taking them both to physicals. They're getting their
physicals coming up, and I'm gonna talk to the doctor about something for Sonny
for his sleep. And I've seen a lot of people on our Facebook books
say that they have teenage kids that have taken some kind of sleep medication that
gets prescribed to them, you know. And so I think we're gonna go
down because we did the stupid you know, the sleep study sleep study,
which got us nowhere, just wasted a whole night, got like he got
like an hour and a half sleep and came back inconclusive. So like,
well, it's just, you know, it's so hard. Some of these
things are just so hard to explain or figure out. But yeah, hopefully
maybe they could put him on something that just like sort of gets him back
onto a schedule. Onto a sleep schedule and the like, and then he
can wean off of whatever it is. Yes, yes, but they need
to sleep, these kids. Yes, he definitely because you know, I
mean, he was, he's he's it's hard for him to focus. Although
both of them got really good grades last year, so I'm hoping that continues
into this year. And they're both working with their colge counselors, which is
great. And I'll tell you what Natalia wrote her essay about after I tell
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Natalia is writing an essay she tells me and it's about her dad, okay,
And I was like, rich, you got a mom about me?
And she's like, well, she's writing about the fact how he didn't have
much growing up and uh didn't go to college. And I guess her her
point is is he didn't have much, he didn't go to college, but
he made a career for himself. And he's always told her, you know,
not necessarily collegism for everybody. Maybe you want to go straight to work
after maybe you want to go to a trade school. It's not for everybody.
And she had a lot of she thought about it, and now she's
she wants she's she's convinced that college it's going to be for her. She
wants to go to college. She wants a degree. She wants to study
journalism. That's what she's saying. That's so cool. Yeah, I'm excited
about that. You know, maybe it'll change. I don't know, but
that's what she's saying. And then so yeah, and then she's writing,
she's writing her essay and she's tweaking it and changing it, and then I
get to read it pretty soon, all right, And then she tells everybody
at the dinner, She's like, I think I want to I want to
follow my mother's footsteps and do podcasts. Wow, I'm you know, going
to school and taking classes. I was like, but she says, you're
her mother's footsteps, Like she doesn't even say that about her dad, Like
that dad, I know, isn't that Well at dinner, yeah, she
mentioned me instead of her dad. We weren't talking about her essay at the
time, so she was just saying she's talking about journalism, and she's like,
maybe I you know, maybe I'll do a start a podcast or her
and her friend, I don't know. I was like, well, if
you want to, I can help you. I know some people. I
tried to talk at Elbi into doing a podcast, but she was just like
never I know. No. Telli was the same way. I'm like that
shit would have looked good on your college application, but I couldn't get her
to do it. Yeah. Elbie was just not much of a joiner for
anything, right. I mean she was in a couple of clubs at school,
but I'm like, there's so many things that you could be doing.
I mean, listen, the volleyball is gonna look really good for the time.
And though she's stopped, Yeah, she definitely doesn't want to do it
this year. Well we'll see when school starts. I'm trying to get her
to do you know, but I don't know. She's done the same coaches
there, yes, yeah, yeah, which is a shame. Yeah,
but it's so interesting that to have you when you're behind. So you saw
what happened with Elbe, right, but right now I am in the situation
that you will be in next year, where like my friends are all my
friends are dropping their kids off at college. Like I've got all these heartbroken
all my whole little mom group. One of my mom my friend Laura,
whose daughter Lily is one I Elbe like, she's she I always repeat this,
Stu. But she was like my first mom friend. I met her
and mommy and me the girls were six months old. Still friends to this
day. I talked to her almost every single day. Literally tomorrow she's they're
driving her daughter got into Berkeley and they're driving to Berkeley, and she's like
on the edge of like a nervous breakdown, just because like she's total Jewish
mom, super overinvolved in her daughter's life. Like you know, like you
think you people think we're bad, like making the lunches. She's she's like,
I mean, she'll We've had things where if you think I'm bad,
I'm always like Laura stop, like you have to stop doing everything for her,
and she's like, I know, I know, I can't help myself.
And then she'll be like, oh, I'm doing so much better.
I'm really not doing stuff. But then she'll be like, Lily, Lily,
you're leaving right now. Do you have your medication? Do you have
this? Do you have that? I'm like, oh, dear lord.
She's like almost nineteen years old, like right, but she's but she's like,
I just don't know what I'm gonna do, like I mean. And
then my other friend, Cecily, she her daughter is going to Kansas and
she's there. She's just flying home. They got her there, settled her
in dorm. She's flying home. That's her only kid. Oh my god,
she's like already empty nester. It seems very weird to me. And
I know that I'm old actually for this, but like it seems very strange
to have friends that are like legit empty too, because I raised my kids
with these people, right, so like, yes, Elbe's my oldest,
and yeah, I still have sophomores. And it's weird that I'm like,
you know, eligible for AARP, but I still have sophomores in high school.
But it's just bizarre. It's a bizarre feeling to have really close friends
that are crying about like leaving their kids at college. Oh my god.
And it is wild that like, because I thought it was wild when Elbe
went to camp for I thought it was wild when she went to camp for
eleven days. I was like, wait, what, Like I'm not gonna
I'm just not gonna see year for eleven days, Like I could only look
at pictures, like I can't just call her, like that makes some sense,
it's so long. Then I got used to that because that was like
every year. But then like last year, when she was gone the whole
summer, not this summer, but last summer, I was like, this
is crazy. It's just like she's just not doesn't live here anymore. And
so I feel I feel so sad for Elbie that she doesn't get to have
that experience. But at the same time, like selfishly, I'm like,
Okay, I don't mind having one more year where she's in and out of
the house. Yeah, yeah, it's I don't see. I mean,
i'd have been seeing her lately, but normally now she has a car,
you know, right, and she goes to work, and she's going to
be going to school and I'm not going to see that much of her.
But still at least she's home. At least she's you know, my friends
are jealous in some ways. I would be too. Yeah. Well,
you know, my two are are not big scholars, so hopefully they'll be
going to junior college next year. I want to jink. So, oh
my god, Kaylin, do you have any stories the Winning Times? So
you're saying it's good, yeah, okay, yeah, something feels the same
as it did the last season. We took the girls to Sea World for
Blake's birthday and she just turned three. Yeah, okay, just turned three,
and yeah, not as fun as Lego Land. Kind of sad,
really, yeah, I mean, you know, especially after that movie Blackfish.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, And so you see the Orcas and they have
their like their fin is like hunched over. Really yeah, so it's kind
of sad. And the kids didn't really care. They didn't they wanted to
go on rides. They didn't. They didn't. Okay, they were okay
dolphins, fine, Okay, there's no rides there. There is. Yeah,
there's a lot of rids, but a lot of them are like they're
kind of like roller coasters, like they're too they're too big for really.
They have a couple like little kid rides, like the three of them,
and that's kind of all they wanted to do was just play on the playground
and go on these little rides, and a lot of them. I would
totally get along with your kids, I know, because I'd be like,
I don't want to just sit on bleachers and look at the fish show.
The Orca show was so I mean, it was hot and uncomfortable and sad,
and they didn't care. At one point, Blake sneezed on the back
of someone's head. I was like, let's get out of here. We
left that show in the middle. Yeah, that is sad. I didn't
know they still had the Orcas like that. I thought after Blackfish that ship,
I know, I had to change. I'm shocked that they stayed them.
That's so sad. And when you do stuff like that because you have
young young kids, do you like, are you and Amy on the same
page with stuff? Yeah? Yeah, she doesn't go like, no,
the girls are we have to stay for the show? Like are you by
do you have that kind of frustrated that they're not as into it as we
want them to be because we just hauled our asses all the way down here
for this, and it's like, Okay, you don't really seem to care
that much. But you know when we talk them to Disneyland like a year
ago, they didn't really seem to care that much then, but then they
wouldn't stop talking about it afterwards. Yeah, that's interesting. This time,
they Yeah, they haven't really been talking about it. Yeah, but again,
I guess I was just seeing them, you know, all the all
the animals in the tanks. They just didn't really care for it. So
have you brought them to the Museum of Science No? Oh yeah, gosh.
I've remember being a little kid because I was in LA as a kid.
That museum is so freaking fun. It's a very interactive museum. Interest
ye, Like it's not just it's it's the most interactive museum I think in
Los Angeles's favorite place to go on Earth. It's all like cool stuff that
is going to wow. That is they're going to be like wait, what,
Like there's there's like I can't even explain it, but there's very cool.
So everything is like pushing buttons and seeing how things work and like yeah,
going into things and huge animals that are stuffed behind the glass. Like,
well, that's the Museum of History, Natural History, the museum.
They're they're both together, like you can do rom in the same day.
Science part science. Museum is science, the Museum of Science and Industry,
right, it's called it's all interactive stuff. Yeah. But then, like
I said, you just go down there. They will love it and you
don't need to stay as long as you want, and you can go sit
outside, need a sandwich, and then it sounds good. Yeah, So
it was okay. It wasn't like it wasn't totally miserable, but it was.
It was. It was still nice. It's still fun. Yeah.
They sell a lot of alcohol at Sea World. It's like every like five
feet there's like a margarita stand and a mimosa stand and a craft beer stand
and it's like, wow, Jesus get plowed and roll. I asked back
to the motel. Wow, it was fun. And any any updates on
the swim lessons? Uh? Yeah, they had one today. They did
They did fine. Good, they did fine. They're Blake is reluctant,
but she gets in there and she did it, so all right, So
they're learning to swim. Yeah, it doesn't really take that long. I
mean for them to be good swimmers, but for them to be safe in
the water. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. I just remember too, like
they had the swimming well, they didn't go to swim lessons because Auntie Wendy
todt him in like a weekend. But then there was like a time where
they got a little older and everybody in our neighborhood was signing there's kids up
to go to the Malibu Lifeguard you know for kids or whatever. And Archie
Melissa's son, he like graduated as a lifeguard. He went the whole like
every summer from like age I don't know, seven to sixteen. Wow,
he's like a lifeguard. Yeah, now he's going off. She's just dropped
him off at college. The thing about anything that has to do at the
beach, like when Xander a couple of years ago did the surf camp right
driving to Malibu, fuck that. I mean, it's that's why my kids
didn't do the same drive. Like, and you have to be there at
like eight thirty in the more like nine o'clock in the morning. I think
one of them nine or nine thirty, so you have to really leave by
like eight fifteen at the latest if you don't want to be late. Uh
and like who it's like school it is, I know, and then you
gotta go back and get them and you gotta and then yeah, and then
that drive at three o'clock back brutal, brutal. Yeah. So I like
just the same way I like my murder shows. Yes, I like my
activities to be really close. I agree. Like, if ever my kids
are interested in something, I google that whatever it is, and you know,
right, I'm so glad. It's nice to live in a place where
there usually is stuffuff. Yeah, but even if it's like and I know
not everybody lives in LA but if something's like Woodland Hills, which is like
ten fifteen minutes, but I'm still like right, right, because the one
on one is awful every day. Yeah, and it's just the whole going
back for like the groundlings was a pain in the ass, yes, because
either you stay down there, but then with with my foot being fractured,
it was like such a pain in the ass because uh, you know,
like I couldn't go because what am I going to do? For two hours.
I didn't even walk around, right, you know, so John had
to do it and then eventually I was able to drive. But it's like,
so I would drive, I'd be like, I'll drive one way,
drop them off, and then John would go get them. But it's like
that's your whole day. It is. It is, oh yeah, all
right, let's go eat dinner. All right, hey Darving. Before we
go, I honestly want to tell you guys, because today's Tuesday, Thursday.
Our guest is Laura House as I we endore her so great, I
fell in love. Yeah. She has a podcast called Tiny Victories. If
you want to introduce yourself to her before you listen to our Thursday show.
It's a podcast. It's fifteen minutes once a week where they celebrate people's tiny
victories like mailing a letter. Right, they're they're no getters. They are.
I love it, like they're so up our alley. Yeah, it's
Laura House and Annabelle Gerwich, who is an author and they do this podcast
together. But she's also a stand up comedian and once a month she does
a sober comedy show in Santa Monica called Party On, which is really cool
and she had so many great stories that you guys, oh my god,
please, you gotta listen to Thursday show and leads into Friday show. She
was a cast member on the MTV show Austin Stories that right years ago from
the nineties. If some of you guys remember that. Yeah, But before
we go completely, let me give a couple of shout outs for one.
Christine Black is with Storybook World Travel. You can find her on Facebook or
Instagram Storybook World Travel, or email her. Christine with the c HRI S
T I n e. B at Storybook World Travel. And she is not
just like theme parks. She does any kind of travel you want. She
can help you and find you like discounted rates and all that stuff. I
mean, old school travel agent. It's really cool. Yeah, no cost
to use her services. It is free. Also, Kelly will oh No,
I already talked about that last time. The Family Skeptical is a podcast
about raising kids with no religion. So if you're any kind of non believer,
you're welcome. You're their people, and they do an episode every three
weeks so it won't cut into your fcol times. So check them out.
And yeah, I can't, I can't only say her name because she doesn't
want to like get any fine for being non religious, which I get it.
Yeah that's fine, but I don't care. I'll say I'm not religious.
Yeah. Also Basic Becky, she'll get you t shirts, mugs,
mouse pads, anything you want on it. She like remember Lynnette was talking
about how she loved the poster from Goodfellas, the picture, Yeah, the
guy on the boat. It's like, Ulysses got it for me. You're
looking this way, you're looking that way. Oh yeah, and then she
put it on a mug. I have it at my condo. Yeah,
thank you very So. She can do anything. She's awesome like that.
Yeah. So go to just basic Becky dot com or go to find her
on Facebook at basic Becky. And then every week every show Adam Learner.
He's a car broker. He's so awesome. Nobody wants to shop for a
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to Adams got acar dot com. Awesome. Thanks, thanks everybody. Thanks
Cannons. You're a parrot now. Don't have it up, letting go.