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Made a decision. I'll pace sunny
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everybody, welcome to for crying out
loud. We're still flying solo without our

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producer, Kaylin, so it's just
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our guests. Thank you for having
me. Thank you for coming and

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joining us on a Saturday afternoon.
This has been the best week of our

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lives. Yeah, and it really
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a long time. I'm so happy, very happy to see you both,

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very happy to see when you guys
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same time. By the way,
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What town is this? North Hollywood? North Hollywood? Technically, when you

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guys pulled up with this and you
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same time, I just like my
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no, I sometimes I which I
still lived in La so I could have

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a more I could have a more
relevant career. Well, I, miss

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I remember we used to go to
MEXICALI yes, get the Jessica Simpson Margarita,

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Yeah, that's right, No sugar, what's going on with her lately?

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I have no idea. I think
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for a while. Is that the
thing? Are people upset that she's too

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thin? Yeah, I know she
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weight or whatever. But yeah,
I interviewed her once. She was extremely

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nice. She seems very nice.
Yeah, her sister was there. They

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were both very sweet. Yeah,
oh yeah, her sad. Remember the

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high to our fabulous people. Okay, Stephanie Stinker Wrinker, Krista, get

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the strap, Sandra, it's not
easy being green. Jennifer, get up,

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Jennifer, Sarah Stefan Leslie, stop
coughing. Alicia from el Monte Aaron,

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who did this? Amy? Nice
girl? Yeah, Kelly Brand,

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she will take you to plan parenthood
and hip hop class refect. Sean Vagres

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got on a hat ass, sweet
ass. Missy and Gabby are still having

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a make up to us. Yeah
they're Shenanigans. Um, Katarina, you

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gotta check that molar because do not
be like me. Don't wait, No,

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Valerie hits out of the park,
Polly, we love your pancakes.

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Athena Ginshirt is a great dancer.
Elizabeth Williamson has too many kids, one

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too many? Um, Hero,
Everybody Love, Everybody loves you, Get

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ready for father everybody yep, Rita
has a nice bassinet. Jacob, it's

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not he's Growley Grawley, easy being
Jacob. Yeah. Leslie accosted some people

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outside of Ikea. She's following them
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chic. Yeah. We love you
guys, thank you. Yeah and uh.

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We got Teresa studio and we're talking
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book out and we went home.
We were talking at the end of Patreon

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about something that I was like,
this will be good for the beginning of

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the show. Is about the book
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making it home, life lessons with
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about your book, and like,
you know, what we really should just

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bring up is like the pr It
really is like do it yourself. Yeah,

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So where are you You're making the
rounds right, Yeah? I mean

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I just slide into people's dms.
I had a big victory getting on the

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MLB network, which might not be
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No, that's great. But speaking
of Stephanie has been very supportive,

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and that's not always the case with
women. To each other sadly. But

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Stephanie is that girl. Like I
reached out to her, she got right

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back to me. She wrote a
beautiful blurb. She never hesitated, she

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took a lot of time, and
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completing her own book, Drunkish coming
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did that? But iaster so I
just googled, like list of hosts for

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MLB Network and I reached out to
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to be the Dodgers, like in
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now she's at MLB Network and I
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to me and all business and she
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show Wednesday. Wow. I was
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getting my roots done. I was
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god, I'm so excited. Awesome. Then a weird thing happens to me.

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Where is she? Well, this
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valuable a talent that she does not
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in studio. Because when I did
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enough, she was like, come
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was via zoom and she was like
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she just lives wherever she lives,
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zoomed, were zoomed to zoom.
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they had broll, they had photos
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looked really good. That's great.
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a victory for me. And she
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it's nice. Now did your book
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to go for this or try to
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they did do, which is I
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was huge. They got a review
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didn't get that. It's not easy
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but it's real, Like it's real. I'm not being funny. I

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honestly part of me thinks Publishers Weekly
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why I have barely talked about it
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don't want them to decide that they're
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a beautiful review. But you understand
they can't, right. I yeah,

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rationally, I understand a lot of
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my nervous system is like they're gonna
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about it. Oh. I believe
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like the Jews are people, Stephanie, thousands of years of pain and suffering.

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But you can't. This is a
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give life life. I need this
hold on pulling up. You can't always

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be like hat in hand though,
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your greatness and just be like I've
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out into the world that I worked
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all other people do as well.
Like if you spend all your time just

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comparing yourself and go on, that
is worthy as that person. Like Publisher's

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Weekly's job is to review books,
so like they're not only going to review

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like and La mot or like I
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somebody that you and I would Mary
car Mary Carr. They're not only doing

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those baby, you can drive my
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One word no no did you help
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no, no period no can dot. What was the book lit?

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What was her big hit? Liars? Liars Club Club? And then there

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was Cherry. She wrote she she
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and uh yeah, well there's one
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that's her thing. No, no, no, no, How do

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you get? I got a question
for you, guys. How do you

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get on New York Times? How
does that happen? Bestseller? I wish

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I knew, but my therapist told
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I see it because definitely it's right, Like I'm not. I know on

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some level that I'm confident about this
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hustling pretty hard because I genuinely feel
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well to it. So if I
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been the case. So on some
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my default setting. Can I tell
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the first show, and I just
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like, this is this is hard
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not everybody, well of course not
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other authors, can't write with the
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that you phrase things. And I
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Publishers Weekly would read a book like
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like as in Succession, you're not
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two planes spoken. Oh that's funny, because I either got in beauty in

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these words. I'm like that.
I feel that way about myself. I

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feel that I'm pretty plain spoken.
No, but you're not. Here's how

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I feel. There's a Bob Dylan
and there's a Billy Joel, and I'm

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a Billy Joel. But Billy Joel
sells a lot of records. Yeah,

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you're going to sell a lot of
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emails, The answer, my friend, is no, no exclamation points.

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You should feel so proud every time
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so polished every every there's not an
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it. Every sentence is like,
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that one? It was very,
very hard. Have you guys read this

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book called The Dip. It's a
great book. I've heard of it.

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It's really short, you'll read it
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a self help book that I'm not
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But basically, The Dip is going
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your life. The Dip. Basically, I don't know if you have this

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experience, but here every doing something
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too hard, This is actually too
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oh, this is great because if
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probably this hard for everyone else,
and everyone else is giving up. So

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if I keep going through this hard
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Like I'm at mile twenty five and
everyone like sat on a bench and

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they're rehydrating and they're having like a
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So I'm the only one here and
that's how I'm going to win this

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race. Like, so you just
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it because you go, this means
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going. So I should relish this
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going to be good, and it's
it's more likely to succeed. So I

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had so many instances writing making it
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my family left, Like my husband
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That's what I was thinking of.
Cooper's Faperstown. Um Nate, my

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oldest was playing, and they took
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husband took my dad and both the
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loves Daniel. That's a good husband
loves him. Yeah. But you know,

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it's kind of cute because Daniel's dad
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warm, like he was a good
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like he's just not that into Daniel, kind of like in that he's just

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not that into him, whereas my
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love Like my dad will just gush
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his dad want to come out here
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like he's the great. So I
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and my dad like it's a very
it's a good's beautiful thing, especially since

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my dad lost his son, you
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loved Like, well, ask Daniel
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also Daniel because my dad has a
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has literally until he has nothing.
He's been bankrupt twice. So Daniel like

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has his literally like his three thousand
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and Daniel keeps it for him.
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go to the dentist, like Daniel
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they love each other anyway. They
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fast writer generally because I started out
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mercenary for me, Like I was
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when I was a little kid.
I was, you know, a journal

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writer. And I started writing for
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six dollars an hour. So I'm
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this out. I'm like, I
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they were gone, like I don't
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days, I thought, I'm gonna
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eternity with no kids for me,
like with no responsibilities. And I took

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the week off my other job,
like all I'm gonna do is write,

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and at the end of that time, I had written zero pages. Oh

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my god, really wow, it
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I don't I'm not I don't talk
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movies and on TV. I just
think, like that's so unrealistic. People

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don't do that. But I remember
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kind of crying and like hitting,
like doing this this is a visual for

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like it was so it was too
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too hard. Yeah. As I
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previously written essays. That's what I'd
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wanted it to read like narrative fiction. A beginning, middle, and end

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scenes dialogue. So I was trying
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games and keep score with outs,
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I again, and then go back
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technically extremely difficult. It was like
a Simone Biles, like I don't know

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if I can land this vault too
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I was like, I need forward
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hair and I'm just like walking and
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And I bought like some bulletin boards
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then I was like, um,
like in my office like Carrie Matheson,

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like really like trying to solve a
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then I had bulletin boards and index
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like this piece has to come,
like the puzzle pieces. I was the

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same. Sometimes it helps to have
a visual right, like Okay, I

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have to like this character arc,
Like I'm trying pulling a bunch of threads

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through and I just couldn't get the
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And um, at the end of
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an outline, that's all I had. But I didn't have one one word

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written. Wow, how long,
I mean, it's so long i'd take

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you to write this book. I
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of notes, and my husband had
kept notes because he's this guy, it's

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a spreadsheet moneyball guy. He had
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was able to reconstruct actual games because
he kept stats. Baseball is all about

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that stata, so I knew like
what Nate had done in that game.

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to me. I was so emotionally
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you have a visual yeah, and
you know it was helpful. Is my

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younger one is now playing in Little
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So I was at the field.
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like, oh, this is more
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like this, and it feels like
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in the dirt, and the little
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wheel and left field and the snack
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really helped. But I did have
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one second where I thought, I
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you ever had that feeling? Oh? God, every book, every book,

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there's a moment. John was really
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that I'm writing, I only had
I had that moment twice out of the

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hole. But I wrote the book
in six months. That's and I had

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to beg for extra like, okay, well, because the way she did,

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the deadline was going to be five
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I just can't write a book in
five months. I've got three kids,

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yeah, their jobs, And she
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Well, okay, I know that
you're probably your listeners probably know all this.

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But let's just say someone's tuning in
that hasn't tuned in a long time,

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or somebody hasn't seen you guys in
a long time, like me,

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But like, how can you give
me the update on everyone's kids? Yes,

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let's take a break. Good time
to take a break. Have you

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heard of zok doc. No,
it's great. This is a service.

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I can't believe everybody doesn't use this
because it's so genius. So, you

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know, sometimes you're like I need
to go to a doctor, but I

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don't have like a regular GP,
and I need one, but like do

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they take my insurance? And I
don't feel like going down to like googling

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and calling a million doctors. You
go to zok doc. You put in

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the search terms I need a GP
that's well reviewed, that's like close to

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my house that does this specialty,
and they will give you names and they

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will even book your appointment for you. And they have patient reviews too,

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so you can see the reviews.
And it's a free app. I've always

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got a rash of some kind,
right, yeah, But they also do

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like dentists, therapists, psychiatrists,
whatever kind of geologists, you know.

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thing that you're like, oh, I

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don't have a doctor for that,
And so instead of like going on Facebook

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and vetting your crazy friends who you
know terrible recommendations, go to like actual

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zoch doc. I've used it.
I used it for Natali as a dermatologist.

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I got her dermatologist because she was
breaking out so much. And yeah,

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it was easy simple. You download
the app, you look for,

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you put what your area is and
it's it's simple. Why can't you do

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zoc dot com slash f cool.
That dermatologist must have been good because her

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skin looks really pretty in the pictures. Thank you. You know, she's

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she's very particular about her skin,
like you got a whole regime going because

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I like to know what people do
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face before she goes to bed,
and she she uses my cleansers and my

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stuff. But yeah, so my
kids are you know, they're just finished

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eleventh grade and they're going into senior
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Their their grades have been up.
They had a hard time after COVID getting

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back in the swing of things.
And then Italia got a concussion she had

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to stay home. What. Yeah, she finished out last year in online

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classes. She can go to school
because she had a pretty bad member that.

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get that playing a sport or no,

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she got it doing TikTok video?
No? Yeah, well probably also

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some volleyball injuries too. Yeah,
she has been she's she's been injured.

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Have your kids ever been injured?
Yeah? Yeah. Nate took a baseball

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to the face and took it,
took a bad hop in practice. He

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finished practice, to his credit because
I'm teaching him to have toxic masculinity.

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Is that good? Uh? No,

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he finished out the practice, and
he at the time he had braces,

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so I kind of didn't think anything
of it. Then when he got his

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braces off six months later, he
had a two spooky teeth and were gray

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right in front. Not a great
look, but apparently the braces kept them.

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and like this is they didn't have
to pull the teeth. No, but

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the teeth, I don't know what
I'm gonna do. I try to.

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Am I a bad person? I
you're not supposed to bleach your teeth until

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you're like fifteen, but not try. I got I got the trays and

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everything, and it did help a
little bit. But if you put ice

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on those teeth, he can't feel
it, so they do dead. They're

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dead. Yeah, oh my goodness. Yeah, So you're two boys.

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How old are they? Ten and
thirteen? Yep, yep. Nate's going

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going to be in eighth grade.
It's like almost five ten. Is he

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doing? Is he having a bar
mitzvah? No? I feel awful about

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that, Like I've really failed to
teach my kids they're Jewish Heritan. If

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I had a do over, I
would do it different. What happened was

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baseball, right, and we pray
at the Church of Baseball and Sunday school

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Hebrew schools on Sunday, and there's
always a baseball tournament on Sunday, right,

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And that's just the like, I
don't feel like I made that conscious

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choice. But then also it's expensive
to join the apps. I just walked

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into that stereotype. I'm like,
can I haggle? Can I do you

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guys down with your synagogue news because
I'm just gotta pay for braces and all

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kinds of stuff and I'm already driving
an old Ford Explorer, So can you

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guys not charge me five or six
grand because I'm only going to come here

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once a year? Who are we
kidding? Yeah? Yeah, they're like

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you're on TV. Yeah, people
think that that pays a lot better than

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yeah. Right. Yeah. I
feel really bad about it, especially like

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my younger one, who's ten,
is much more or like dialed into my

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feelings and he knows it's important to
me, so he'll say things like,

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mom, even though I'm only half
Jewish and dad's Catholic and everything, Um,

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I'm more Jewish, so I'm really
Jewish and I'm I that's like that's

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what I am. And I'm I
do Hanik and I don't do Chris because

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he knows I care, Nate could
care, it could give a fuck,

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right, Like he's not like that, like he loves me and and and

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you know, like but he's just
not is more is like tuned in right.

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Um. But I'll be really sad
sometimes because he'll ask like really stupid

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questions that he should know about Judaism. He knows nothing. He went.

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They went to Jewish preschool until like
they were five, and then they went

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to a public school. Now they
don't know anything about their own history.

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Well, it's interesting. You guys
are both Jewish and you're both married to

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non Jews. Yeah, and I
wish I was married too, and you

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you know, it's not too late. I know it's not too late.

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At him loves Jews, he does. That's why. That's why one of

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the reasons I fell in love with
him. That is a good carl the

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same pa, because most people really
hate us. Now yeah we don't.

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We're big fans. I wanted to
um ask you if Nate how he feels

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about being like kind of one of
the stars of this book and every game,

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like he could give a fuck.
He hasn't read it. He doesn't

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care. No, he cares about
in baseball. He cares. He's very

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interested in girls. Is like you
know in the puberty is happening. Like

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I say, he's gangly. He
wears like a size eleven and a half.

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Does he talk to you about like
I gotta crush on a girl?

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If I ask him, we'll be
like my Hi, Yeah, I don't

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want to time but hey, I
had a couple of girls. Like he

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played baseball for the junior high baseball
team, and there was a very cute

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moment. It was Norman Rockwell and
I was desperately trying to get a picture

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of it without embarrassing him. But
he was in the dugout and he had

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this little girlfriend at the time,
and she looked really cute, a little

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tank top and short shorts. And
I don't know if you've seen a dugout

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lately, but it's like a fence, right, and so he's like all

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tall, and he had his hand
like up on the fence and she was

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on the outside like talking to him, like twisting her hair. Well,

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you know, puberty's like had some
has thrown him a few curveballs. Sure,

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that's tough. He's how he does
he like like I had terrible acne

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as a teenager. And even though
he's young, he's definitely like he can

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he could be a little self conscious
about, you know, uh, doing

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everything we can about it. But
it's like a hard it's a hard thing

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and heart. It hasn't like hit
any of his friends yet, right,

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So like it's tough. Fu.
You know, it's funny when you see

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these kids, they like I've seen
them grow up and they come to my

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house and then all of a sudden, I haven't seen him in a while.

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Now they're like big, tall dudes
with like hair and shit. And

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then they got the acne too,
and it's like, oh my god,

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I forgot about this age. It's
so tall, it's so tough. And

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then the spooky tea. So there's
like a lot going on. But I

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really got to hand it to him. And also my husband was like,

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you don't have to, Like he's
good at sports, He'll be okay,

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he's gonna be He'll be okay,
and like these are temporary problems, Yeah,

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will pass. But I just personally
am scarred by my own junior high

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experience of having an awkward phase.
It just ended twenty minutes ago, so

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I feel it's going you guys are
bullying me, Well, okay, And

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then how Sonny. Sonny's great.
I mean he's a little film buff.

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I mean he watches he just watched
a film that's like almost one hundred years

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old. He's watched. He's just
so into film. He's into music.

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He loves like led Zeppelin, Pain
for all the seventies, but he's a

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he's a huge film buff, like
watches all these different movies, not like

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Adam who watches like you know,
uh, face Off, you know,

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Red Dawn, Red Dawn, that
kind of shit. Like Sonny's taboo too.

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Yeah, exactly, I know all
his favorites. Well Sonny, I

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mean he might be watching some tabooto. I don't know. But he's taller

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than me and he's doing his podcast. He does his podcast once once a

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week, bench warmers talk sports sports. Yeah, he's all about a lot,

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I know, probably a little bit
more sports than Sunny, but yeah,

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he's a little savant with that.
It's crazy. He knows, i

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mean, the history of football and
NBA and he's really into it. But

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um yeah, and they're they're getting
ready for college, thank god. They

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both want to go. They hang
out with each other, like are they

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they started now. They used to
butt heads for a long time, but

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now they they sort of have like
the same friend group comes and goes,

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and um there they look out.
They look out for each other a little

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more now. They definitely gang up
on me. If I'm arguing with one

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of them, the other one will
come in and defend that. Yeah,

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United against a common sucks to me, but but in a way as part

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of you, like, yeah,
I do love. I was just saying

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it, and Sonny was like,
you always tell us we need to look

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out for each other, and that's
what we're doing, so you should be

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happy. I'm like, yeah,
but with your friends now with me,

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like, don't gang up on me. If my kids fight, Um,

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this is a problem. If your
mom's sibling died, it really sucks for

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you if your mom's sibling died.
Because with my kids fight, there was

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about a two year period. I'm
not saying this is good where I'd like

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cry and be like I wish I
had a brother, do you guys?

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See, guys, at least you
should appreciate each other because you one day

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you'll be all you had like mom
had you late in life. I'm not

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gonna be here forever. You have
each other. Yeah, Yeah, they

406
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love that. I bet that really
works. Yeah, they really love like

407
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,680
thinking about like me and their dad
being dead and other That's what I think

408
00:27:53,759 --> 00:27:56,759
too. I'm like, you,
guys, that's it. You guys have

409
00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:00,240
each other. We're gonna be gone
someday, that's it. And now year

410
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,759
three, you have twins and twins. Yeah, they're pen and my and

411
00:28:04,759 --> 00:28:11,000
then my older daughter's eighteen. She's
graduating high school next week. What I

412
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,000
know? And then what then?
And when I first was a guest with

413
00:28:15,079 --> 00:28:18,079
you and Lena on your show,
I believe my kids were like five and

414
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:23,279
two. Yeah, my twins were
two. Yeah, yeah, crazy crazy

415
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:30,160
and then so graduating and then yeah, and then she's probably going to have

416
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,079
to do a year of community college. It's a long story. Yeah,

417
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,200
my kids might have to do.
My mom who was like a genuine math

418
00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:42,119
genius and like it was um,
like a little bit of a rain man.

419
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:48,640
Um could do all kinds of stuff
like write a sentence on a bulletin

420
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,519
board one letter at a time with
both hands from the outside of a Yeah.

421
00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:56,039
But she went to Santa Monica Community
College for two years to save money

422
00:28:56,039 --> 00:28:59,759
and then to UCLA. That's a
really good school. There's nothing wrong with

423
00:28:59,839 --> 00:29:03,000
it. Yeah. Yeah, so
yeah, but Elbie didn't. She she

424
00:29:03,119 --> 00:29:07,319
got rejected from a bunch of schools
that she should have gotten in. What's

425
00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:10,480
going on where no one can get
into college? You could have like a

426
00:29:10,559 --> 00:29:12,640
five point out. Yeah, she's
had a very high GPA. Yeah,

427
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:17,359
she's a great student. GPA was
like four point three or something and she

428
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,519
took ten AP classes what and she's
never gotten to see in her life.

429
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:26,039
And she didn't get into most of
the ucs any she got rejected. She

430
00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:30,079
got wait listed for Santa Barbara and
she really wants to go there so she

431
00:29:30,119 --> 00:29:33,279
can get in off the wait list. Right, Santa Barbara as a community

432
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:36,519
college, Yeah, I don't want
to know, but she doesn't. But

433
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:40,599
she's like, Mom, what I'm
gonna go to? This is her thing.

434
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,240
A bunch of our listeners wrote to
me and they're like, have her

435
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:48,039
go to Santa Barbara Community College.
But she's like, that's just ridiculous and

436
00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:49,759
embarrassing. She's like, I'm not
going to Santa Barbara Community College. I

437
00:29:49,759 --> 00:29:53,480
could just go to community college here. Like it's embarrassing that I'm not actually

438
00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:56,440
in at Santa Barbara. I'm like, Hi, no, I'm it shouldn't

439
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,559
be because that's the case with that, I shouldn't be. I have friends

440
00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:03,720
in Arizona that have paid for these
college consultants, and I don't know how

441
00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:07,359
much it is, but I feel
like the way they were describing it,

442
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,440
I'm in a guess. It was
like between twenty and thirty thousand dollars for

443
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:15,079
a consultant to help you with your
college. That's I could be wrong,

444
00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:17,799
but the way they were talking,
they were saying it was very expensive.

445
00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:22,319
And I gauge their wealth level with
how much they were stressing it, and

446
00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:23,559
I'm like, oh, it must
be a lot. I could be wrong.

447
00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:26,799
Maybe it's five grand, but yeah, but nobody got in. It's

448
00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:32,680
about it's between I think people pay
between like four and ten. Okay,

449
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:37,960
yeah, well, same story.
Like my one friend, Uh yeah,

450
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:44,160
I couldn't get into any of the
places she applied, high GPA of sports,

451
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:48,440
volunteer work, everything is it?
It's too competitive now? Yeah?

452
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,759
And then also like I think Elbe
got some bad advice about she applied for

453
00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:56,799
a very competitive major, not realizing
that, and so if she had applied

454
00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:00,039
for a more niche major, she
probably would have gotten in with her grades

455
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:06,200
and rigor and extracurriculars. But she
didn't. She didn't know, we didn't

456
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:11,960
know. So anyway, it's it's
she's been feeling a lot better about it.

457
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,920
I think I could be wrong,
but I think it's good. Anyway.

458
00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:18,240
It feels eighteen feels hard to move
away from home. I don't think

459
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,720
any semester or even two still at
home is so bad. And then go

460
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,160
when you're nineteen. What happens is
though you want to do what all your

461
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,000
friends are. So we may see
that as a good thing, and I

462
00:31:30,039 --> 00:31:33,279
certainly do, and I certainly see
the money saving as a good thing.

463
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,880
But Elby sees it as all of
my friends are leaving to go to college,

464
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,680
and I'm not. So yeah,
I've wondered this because I'm far from

465
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,519
this, but like I wonder.
And when you're at that moment where everyone's

466
00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:51,240
kids are getting into college and then
they put their braggy posts about it,

467
00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:55,720
is part of you like, fuck
you, Yeah you're going. You're in

468
00:31:55,839 --> 00:32:00,559
your stupid Princeton's sweatshirt right, Like
I know I'm going to be jealous already,

469
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:02,200
Oh I know. And then they
all announced like, oh look at

470
00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:06,480
yeah, like Chloe got in like
where she's going, and you know he's

471
00:32:06,519 --> 00:32:10,240
always in the school sweatshirt right with
some balloons. Yeah. I don't like

472
00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:14,920
that making me feel bad. It
makes everybody. Yeah it's not good,

473
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,640
but you just quietly succeed. That's
how I feel. But people, but

474
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,640
I can't, like I have so
many friends whose kids genuinely worked really hard

475
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:28,319
to get into those points. They
busted their asses, they got there,

476
00:32:28,599 --> 00:32:31,000
they got into Berkeley. I'm like
a blos for you, but it is

477
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,599
it gets a lot when your kid
is not's shining yes, and you're

478
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,759
like oh here, it's just like
I'm happy for you. But then that's

479
00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:44,559
like, oh that's a pain.
Yeah. It was constant and for the

480
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,319
kids too, because the kids social
media, they just blow it up with

481
00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:51,680
all their college acceptances and it's just
like then, my kid sits in a

482
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:54,720
room and cries. I've seen some
of those where the is it of like

483
00:32:54,759 --> 00:33:00,400
a TikTok where they're finding out live
and they're so happy and they or they're

484
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,920
like get you know, they's telling
their dad and everyone's crying. I'm like,

485
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,240
I'm crying for the kid that's going
to community call. Right, yeah,

486
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:12,519
so I'm crying about Yeah, it's
like it's so expensive. I live

487
00:33:12,519 --> 00:33:16,240
in Arizona. Asu is really expensive. Like you don't think of that.

488
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,319
They give a lot of money to
out of state kids, Oh do they?

489
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,000
Yeah, Oh okay, yeah there's
some state and then you have a

490
00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:30,119
yeah, yeah down love like California
kids. That's where an Italian wants to

491
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,279
go, Well, she would get
in there easily. Well, she can't

492
00:33:32,279 --> 00:33:36,799
come to my house and do her
laundry yet, I'm like fifteen minutes away.

493
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,319
Oh wow, that's great. You
know that reminds me of another question

494
00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:45,400
I wanted to ask you, which
is, so moms, other baseball momsy

495
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:51,240
writing this book, you are as
you referred to it, like you you?

496
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,480
How do I put this in?
Am you like me? Like Lynnette

497
00:33:55,519 --> 00:34:00,119
too? We all feel feel like
ourselves as a little bit of outsiders,

498
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,440
right, we have that outside of
syndrome. Ye, So, but I

499
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,680
wonder if like other moms see you
as like, what are you talking about?

500
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,559
You're gorgeous, like you fit right
into this town. You're on TV,

501
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:15,519
but you're painting yourself a little bit
as like because you're scrappy, right,

502
00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:21,400
your upbringing was different. So how
do you feel the book will be

503
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,039
received by some of these other moms. Well, I've stayed away from some

504
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:30,800
baseball tournaments. I write about this
a lot in the book, making it

505
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,639
home. Um, I have I
don't want to be like this, and

506
00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:37,559
I would like to take some psilocybin
and change my brain. But I have

507
00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:42,079
to accept right now that this is
this is how it is. I do

508
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,280
get really nervous. I did get
really really nervous, like not so much

509
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:50,079
with my little one with my older
one. I don't know if it's the

510
00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:53,880
relationships different, or he's very intense, like he's a very competitive, intense

511
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:58,760
kid, or it's just my wiring, or it's connected to my brother because

512
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,639
they were born on the same day, both lefties, both based. But

513
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:06,239
I don't know what it is.
But I used it as an excuse that

514
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,119
when they were going to baseball tournaments, I was writing my book. Well,

515
00:35:08,159 --> 00:35:12,079
now my book's over, so I'm
gonna have to figure out how to

516
00:35:12,159 --> 00:35:15,280
go. Nate loves to meet to
be at his games, which is really

517
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,400
sweet, like like you think he
wouldn't care because he's not that into me,

518
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,440
because he's a thirteen year old boy. He loves it. And I

519
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,360
recently got a camera because it was
one of my dreams to learn how to

520
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,320
take real pictures. I got like
you know, Cannon Rebel, and I'm

521
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,880
terrible, But he loves when I
take pictures of his games. I take

522
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,920
pictures of his friends that he sends. I take pictures of him, you

523
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,760
know, pitching, sliding, whatever. He like he loves me to be

524
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:42,800
there and like that's my purpose,
like in this life, I want to

525
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,000
be there for him. But sometimes
I'm like, I'm so I can't separate

526
00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:51,000
myself emotionally, and so I'm like, so, I'm a nervous wreck.

527
00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:52,199
So I think I'm a ghost.
And a lot of the parents are like,

528
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,519
who's Nate's mom. He actually joked
last year, He's like, mom,

529
00:35:57,559 --> 00:36:00,320
the kids on my team say that
you like, they never see it,

530
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:05,280
and I'm like, God, I
feel you, because when Natalia was,

531
00:36:06,079 --> 00:36:09,360
you know, in volleyball, I
just was I'm not that. Like,

532
00:36:09,519 --> 00:36:13,519
I'm not like Stephanie who's outgoing and
wants to talk to people. I

533
00:36:13,559 --> 00:36:15,320
just want to be left alone.
I just want to watch Natalia play and

534
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:20,679
enjoy, and she wants me at
those games, and so I would but

535
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,519
like, but then Natalia would be
like, mom, go sit with the

536
00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:27,199
parents, go stit with the parents, and I'm like, oh, okay,

537
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,800
you know, and then I'm forced
to socialize, and then we're like

538
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,559
we go out of town for tournaments, I have to socialize. But I'm

539
00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:36,719
like you, I'd rather just be
like I just want to listen to my

540
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,760
podcast and watch your play. It's
a nightmare to me. It's very hard

541
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:44,960
to be around other people a lot
because I'm just introverted. I'm not shy.

542
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,400
But it's two different things. I
was just thinking, I've always wondered

543
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,519
this, but I don't think I've
ever articulated the thought inside my own head.

544
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:58,480
It's probably somewhat alienating to be that's
Adam Carolla's wife or now ex wife,

545
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,159
right because like, you don't you're
not a stranger. You're not going

546
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,599
to be a stranger. People are
going to know things about you. They're

547
00:37:04,599 --> 00:37:07,280
going to know things about your family
and like, so you kind of can't

548
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:12,000
ever really blend or be like other
people, right, But I don't want

549
00:37:12,039 --> 00:37:15,760
them to think that I'm like,
I'm too good to sit with them.

550
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,679
I just I'm not that, Like
I don't really want to, Like,

551
00:37:20,159 --> 00:37:25,280
I'd rather just watch her play than
talk about na schmooz about who's good and

552
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:30,119
who's should get more playing time and
what team are we playing? Oh,

553
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,840
I want to talk about I'm like, you see what you see? What

554
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,440
I'm seeing right, has hardly been
in the game. Like, it's crazy,

555
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,719
Like, why don't they put her
in? Who's this? What is

556
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,960
this? Bullshit, dad ball right
right, puts his own kid in.

557
00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:46,159
Yeah, it's not even good.
Oh, and then I end up hanging

558
00:37:46,159 --> 00:37:51,000
out with more of the dads that're
always because it's saying the dad's there too,

559
00:37:51,079 --> 00:37:53,840
and then they're always like, where's
Natalia's dad? Relack them, you

560
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,400
know, because he never really went
to any of the tournaments. Oh,

561
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,679
because those are weekends and he's traveling. It's yeah, I mean he's busy,

562
00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:06,039
he's worked. Whatever it was,
it was my I took her to

563
00:38:06,039 --> 00:38:08,239
the tournaments, especially every time she
had a tournament. It wasn't like up

564
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:12,199
the street. I mean he would
go to the high school games once in

565
00:38:12,199 --> 00:38:15,079
a while, but every time she
played, it was always in freaking Orange

566
00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:21,760
County or like, you know,
halfway to Mexico practically, so I would

567
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,039
be the one take getting up at
five thirty d slam by the way,

568
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:30,400
that's literally listen, I'm in Arizona
and I'm like halfway to No Gallus,

569
00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:34,440
like there's I've been to tournaments far
away and at times because we have two

570
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,400
now that playing at times, if
Daniels with one of them like it that

571
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,000
I've had to go as I really
try to also avoid the games where he's

572
00:38:40,039 --> 00:38:45,719
pitching. He's really really talented,
and it has a lot of potential,

573
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,000
right um, like the you know, who knows what can happen, like

574
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:52,159
puberty and peace something. It really
is going to be in the hands of

575
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:57,639
genetics and fate ultimately. But um, I do get wrapped up in it

576
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,280
in a way that I know is
stupid, and I kind of can't like

577
00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:05,280
I can't control what my nervous system
is doing, and I don't really understand

578
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,360
it. But I do feel good
when I make myself go like, you

579
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:12,320
know what, this is not threatening
an urgent, This is not life or

580
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,119
death. This is not a big
deal, and this is not a problem.

581
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,760
These are thirteen year olds throwing and
catching a ball, fucking shit together.

582
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,519
Yeah yeah, yeah, But I
just like and and then I also

583
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,000
in a way and it was like
I write about this too in the book

584
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:31,920
Mike. My mom was loved us, but she wasn't didn't love parenting,

585
00:39:32,079 --> 00:39:37,920
and she was yeah, she was
like pretty benign, lean, neglectful,

586
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:43,880
and wasn't like really around a lotus
on the Greyhound Yeah yeah. At age

587
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,679
eight, age through the prison belt
of Central California from La to San Francisco,

588
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:52,320
many times, like not once in
the book test which would not be

589
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,039
legal, not be legal. Now, I flew by my shelf. I

590
00:39:55,360 --> 00:40:00,840
flew at age three, from three
to eight. I I think I was

591
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,639
flying monthly by myself. Again,
it's not allowed. I was like a

592
00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:10,119
full time unaccompanied minor like ever in
life. So I feel good when like

593
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:15,400
I feel good when I'm there,
like, oh, I've look, I'm

594
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:19,199
here, I even though it makes
me nervous and like, I guess my

595
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,719
point is I've in a way,
I'm relieved that I'm over early attached and

596
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:29,400
that not like my mom where she
sort of didn't connect on a primal level

597
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,639
with us. But your whole book
is about the season with your dad,

598
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:37,760
where you were like every game.
Yes, so I was very nervous and

599
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,519
it's gotten worse. Are going to
see themselves in the I'm pretty nervous about

600
00:40:40,559 --> 00:40:45,519
it. Yet other kids, So
you talk about the parents and the other

601
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:50,719
kids and stuff. Huh. There
is nothing fictional in this book except the

602
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,199
names. I change the names,
and in some of the cases of the

603
00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:00,440
kids, A couple of the kids
are aggregates of kids from different seasons,

604
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:06,079
because like, they're kids, right, and they should just maybe they aren't

605
00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:08,280
good at baseball, right, And
I'm not gonna throw a kid under the

606
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:14,599
bus. But my editor actually had
like really great suggestion, which was like,

607
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,960
you can write the real truth and
it's totally real, but give them

608
00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:21,960
a physical quality that they didn't have. So like, this kid is exactly

609
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,840
another kid, but this kid's pigeon
toed with glasses and the real kid wasn't.

610
00:41:25,079 --> 00:41:29,639
So I don't think people will exactly. Some people will probably figure it

611
00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:34,960
out, the coaches, but nobody's
really a villain, Like I'm a I'm

612
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,079
like, you know, the flaws
that I dissect are mainly mine and my

613
00:41:39,119 --> 00:41:45,719
evil stepmothers too, but she's dead, so and dead people can't sue is

614
00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:52,039
so good. I have like a
couple of stories in my book about a

615
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:55,360
couple of moms that one in particular, I was just telling my editor this.

616
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,360
I was like, there's this one
mom that I had this thing with

617
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:05,159
that basically I hung up on her
on the phone because I was so mad

618
00:42:05,199 --> 00:42:08,239
at something that she did. And
so I was telling my editor the other

619
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,519
day, I'm like, yeah,
I'm starting to like think because I read

620
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,039
you know, I'm you know,
you read your own book. A bunch

621
00:42:15,079 --> 00:42:17,519
of times. So I'm doing the
copy at it. I've done the copy

622
00:42:17,559 --> 00:42:21,719
at it, but I like,
I'm like, oh, that that mom

623
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,920
is going to recognize herself. Even
though there was a situation that happened,

624
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:31,320
I changed the situation. It was
a gossip situation where she was gossiping to

625
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:36,400
me about something that was like so
inappropriate for her to be gossiping about that.

626
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,840
I got really offended and I was
like, you could fuck up that

627
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:44,760
person's life if you're spreading this thing
around. So um, I changed.

628
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:49,880
I totally changed what she was gossiping
about. But I hung up on her

629
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,039
and then I called my sponsor afterwards, and I was like, you're not

630
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:57,119
going to believe this and vote and
I'm so mad. And then my sponsor

631
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,480
was like, yeah, but you
can't like be behaving like that, like

632
00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:02,400
you can't hang up on people.
And I was like, oh, do

633
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:07,480
I have to apologize and she was
like yeah, but only for like your

634
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:13,719
part, Like just apologize for the
behavior and then stop gossiping with her,

635
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:20,360
like don't have don't let her believe
that you're somebody that So that happened.

636
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,440
So I told my editor. I
was like, ah, I just this

637
00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:25,320
mom is going to totally reck She's
going to recognize herself. She's very intelligent

638
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,840
and she reads a lot, and
she probably will read my book because we're

639
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:34,719
very we're acquaintances. Still, like
she doesn't know, like okay, And

640
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,159
in the story I call her and
I say like, hey, um,

641
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:43,360
okay, I want to apologize,
and she was like thank you. Where

642
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,000
She's like, yeah, that was
you were waiting. She said you were

643
00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:49,719
way at you were way out an
she didn't see it that like how she

644
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,119
was acting was so bad. So
anyway, my point is I'm like,

645
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:55,960
okay, so she's going to recognize
herself. And then my editor goes,

646
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:00,760
well, is it possible though,
since you changed enough stuff about her that

647
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,079
she might think Wow, Stephanie really
gets in these kind of squabbles with people

648
00:44:04,159 --> 00:44:08,239
a lot. She sure hangs up
on people a lot, you know.

649
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:13,360
And I was like, yeah,
I don't know. And then she goes,

650
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,639
well, how much do you care
if she's mad at you? And

651
00:44:15,679 --> 00:44:20,519
I was like, I mean,
I guess not much. I don't think

652
00:44:20,559 --> 00:44:22,840
I care. I only care if
it's going to affect my kids. I

653
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,519
don't care if somebody's matter. This
won't affect my kids yeah, then I

654
00:44:25,519 --> 00:44:30,480
don't think it matters. Right if
she calls you, you should be like,

655
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:32,679
I'm gonna hear you out, and
I want to hear your side,

656
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:37,280
and I'm going to give you time
and space to air your grievances with me

657
00:44:37,519 --> 00:44:45,400
fully and then four words in hang
up. Oh my god, there's another

658
00:44:45,519 --> 00:44:50,679
mom that I told a story about
two that I use this exact example,

659
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,800
and I'm going to tell you what
it is since it's coming out in the

660
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,559
book. Do you remember that time, Lynette? I think I'm sure we

661
00:44:54,599 --> 00:45:00,480
were podcasting at the time. I
came into help with teacher appreciation Day and

662
00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:02,320
uh, you know you all the
kids bring in a flower, and then

663
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:07,400
our job as parents was to gather
all the volunteers, gather all the flowers

664
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,519
together, and then separate them into
little like cute, little cute little arrangements

665
00:45:10,519 --> 00:45:15,840
in vases for all the teachers.
Well, apparently I wasn't doing it right

666
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,480
because I took one of the flowers
and I cut it so to match the

667
00:45:19,559 --> 00:45:22,199
length of the other flowers. And
this mom, I don't know if you

668
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:27,239
remember this this month peaked out on
me. She's a very type a like

669
00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:30,599
perfect perfectionist mom, and like,
you know, always had her shit together,

670
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,559
and like she'd have parties at her
house that I was invited to.

671
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,400
She was like, we're friendly anyway. She yelled at me. She was

672
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:44,440
like that wasn't you weren't supposed to
cut back those weren't that's flower We're supposed

673
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,840
to stick out above the other ones. And of course me, I have

674
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:51,079
the thinnest skin. I was just
like, okay, well whatever, I

675
00:45:51,119 --> 00:45:53,079
mean, fine, I'll just do
something else. I didn't like loose.

676
00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:55,679
I didn't go like, wow,
you're being a bit. I didn't act

677
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,800
that badly, but I was mad, And then of course I just couldn't

678
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:01,599
let go in my mind. I
was so mad, and then I got

679
00:46:01,639 --> 00:46:06,800
home and then I called my sponsor
about this, and my sponsor was like,

680
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:13,039
okay, but like you're volunteering,
Like are you there because you want

681
00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:15,400
to feel really important, because like
my work as a flower arranger is like

682
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:20,239
super important, like and I was
like no, but like she didn't need

683
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,039
to act like that, Like I
was there because I'm trying to appreciate the

684
00:46:22,039 --> 00:46:27,199
fuck out teachers, Like I'm there
for the right reasons. I'm on your

685
00:46:27,199 --> 00:46:30,440
team, Like you don't have to
go off on me, and she was

686
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,000
like, okay, but that just
seems like your ego is like who cares.

687
00:46:34,639 --> 00:46:37,519
Yeah. It was so freeing to
go like, oh my god,

688
00:46:37,559 --> 00:46:39,519
you're right, Like she's there,
she's got her own ship going on,

689
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:44,559
and she's there to appreciate the teachers, and she's like takes pride in her

690
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,639
flower arranging ability, like I don't
need to take everything so personally, and

691
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:51,960
so I was like, yeah,
okay, whatever, but I don't feel

692
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,320
about that. I wouldn't send to
any conclusion in there, like she's a

693
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:59,840
wonderful mom and a great person or
friends, and that situation literally happens.

694
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,559
If she reads the book, she's
going to be like, oh interesting.

695
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,480
I was the person who's going to
be like that bitch is still bad,

696
00:47:08,199 --> 00:47:14,320
Like letting got it. I was
at work maybe like a week and a

697
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:20,119
half or two weeks ago, and
I was on location at a restaurant interviewing

698
00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:23,360
a chef right and there was a
new producer and I had never worked with

699
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:28,159
him before and never met him before. I was like, oh, it's

700
00:47:28,159 --> 00:47:30,719
really great to me. It's kind
of weird to meet somebody and you're like

701
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:31,840
out in the field, like where
now we're doing it, you know,

702
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:36,760
so he's producing the segment, but
you know, I I've been on this

703
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,519
particular show for eleven years, so
I kind of have like a spiel like,

704
00:47:39,519 --> 00:47:43,280
oh, I go, look,
we're not live. Don't worry about

705
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,719
it. You literally can't do anything
wrong. There's no mistakes. You could

706
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,360
be like, hey, fuck you, and it wouldn't matter because we could

707
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,519
do no. I just I try
to put people at ease because people there's

708
00:47:52,519 --> 00:47:54,079
a lot of lights and three cameras
and people who aren't used to it.

709
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,800
I can like sometimes I can see
them physically trembling and they're like, so

710
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,960
I'm trying to have a spiel I
do, and then I just say,

711
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:05,920
like, you're gonna want to look
into the camera because that's just a human

712
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,599
impulse, but just don't. You're
gonna want to, and it's okay if

713
00:48:08,599 --> 00:48:10,920
you do, but it's gonna look
weird, so don't do it. Look

714
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:15,039
at me and just pretend we're having
a regular conversation. You know. It's

715
00:48:15,039 --> 00:48:19,320
like a forty two second spiel that
I do. And this guy, who

716
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,599
I didn't don't know very well,
I didn't really like he was like okay,

717
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:25,000
you know, he was saying something
that he wanted us to do,

718
00:48:25,039 --> 00:48:30,559
and I thought that he was done
talking, so I was, you know,

719
00:48:30,199 --> 00:48:36,639
launching in spiel and he said I
wasn't finished. O god. And

720
00:48:36,679 --> 00:48:43,960
the tone was like, oh,
that was in front of like this person

721
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:49,920
I'm about to interview, and like
the publicist who's here and the cameraman.

722
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,639
And I know that I don't always
trust my reactions because I will have an

723
00:48:54,639 --> 00:49:00,599
exaggerated emotional response to somebody snapping at
me. Yeah, but I was like,

724
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,199
I think that was really fucking bad. Like but then I just you

725
00:49:04,199 --> 00:49:07,239
know, I went on with it. This is crazy. The very next

726
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:13,000
day, I'm going into Good Morning
Arizona to promote my book and it's just

727
00:49:13,039 --> 00:49:15,280
like you know, local news live
and I go in. Who do I

728
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,719
see but the chef. He's doing
a cooking segment on the same show.

729
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,360
And I'm like, hey, chef, Oh you were so great yesterday.

730
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:27,760
I go, hey, Um,
was it just me? Or did my

731
00:49:28,039 --> 00:49:30,719
producer like stab at me a little
bit? And I thought he was gonna

732
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,000
be like, I don't know what
you're talking about. He goes, oh,

733
00:49:34,039 --> 00:49:39,320
you mean let me finish. I
was like, thank you, And

734
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,760
then I could have I wanted to
talk about it for like forty seven years,

735
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,360
but he wouldn't. He was like, yeah it was He's like,

736
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,159
but like so what so you know
he was in a hurry and whatever.

737
00:49:49,199 --> 00:49:52,519
But I wanted to be like,
no, I don't know that way.

738
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:57,800
I didn't know him. It was
in front of people. He humiliated me.

739
00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:01,039
He condescended, Yeah, fuck you
you just started this job. I've

740
00:50:01,039 --> 00:50:06,280
been here eleven years. Like why
are you dick to me? You know?

741
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,280
But like he didn't want to.
He was like, He's like,

742
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:13,119
I don't want to you care right, so yeah, so test Yes,

743
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,599
I hate that. I It's happened
to me before too. Actually recently on

744
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:22,599
a phone call on a conference call, like I and I usually am very

745
00:50:22,639 --> 00:50:28,360
like aware of when people are talking
and I try to let them finish,

746
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,880
and I guess I jumped into and
the other person was like, well,

747
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,960
I wasn't. If you would have
let me finish, I could, And

748
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,679
I was like, okay, Jesus, I know you just take it so

749
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,039
personal. Now listen, I don't
want to interrupt you, guys. I

750
00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:42,159
know you have a lot of important
things to say, but I want to

751
00:50:42,159 --> 00:50:45,320
talk about organify. Yes, yeah, really fast. And I know later,

752
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:46,440
you guys are gonna be like,
oh my god, I was talking

753
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:51,559
about something and she interrupted. But
this is very important. Organify as a

754
00:50:51,599 --> 00:50:58,199
line of organic superfood blends that offer
plant based nutrition with high quality ingredients.

755
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:01,000
And did you know this, let's
three grams of sugar, right, that's

756
00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:05,320
why we love it. Yeah.
Um. The green juice, Yes,

757
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,280
there's the green juice for healthy,
keeps you healthy. It's like a salad

758
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,760
or veggie just in a drink,
which I don't know about you, but

759
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,880
I don't get my good share of
like broccoli. Who does? No,

760
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,559
nobody does. And that's where the
green juice comes in handy. We don't

761
00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:22,440
have time. Nobody has time to
make like a huge salad every day.

762
00:51:22,519 --> 00:51:27,519
So that's why I like the organified
green juice. And then there's the organified

763
00:51:27,559 --> 00:51:31,199
gold. Yes, right, he
helps you promote good sleep. You put

764
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,880
it in your tea, which I
love. It's calming. Yes, it

765
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:38,559
tastes good. It tastes like a
nice little dessert. Yeah, it's not

766
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:45,159
milk. Yeah. Yeah. They
also have this Berry of the Red juice,

767
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:50,079
which is really delicious blend, and
it gives you some good energy without

768
00:51:50,159 --> 00:51:55,599
that caffeine jittery fatil Yeah, so
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769
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:01,519
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770
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771
00:52:08,559 --> 00:52:13,440
Ye to go bridy pack. Yeah, absolutely, the Sunrise to Sunset.

772
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,280
You're gonna You're gonna love it.
Trust us on this. Try it?

773
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:21,360
Yeah, I feel very thirsty,
now, would you like a water?

774
00:52:21,599 --> 00:52:28,159
It was the suggestive sales that made
me want it. This this somebody

775
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:34,320
sent us this on for Crying Out
Loud to our Instagram. They messaged it

776
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,639
to me and I thought it was
so funny that I wanted to play it

777
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,119
for us. But I have to
just find it really fast. Okay,

778
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:45,039
um, no, I have to
figure out how to do. This show

779
00:52:45,079 --> 00:52:51,519
is in grave danger of being overproduced. I would have had my favorite Okay,

780
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,039
okay, listen to this, you
guys. Poucie's uncle, Poucie's uncle.

781
00:52:57,519 --> 00:53:00,320
Okay, okay, ready, now
this is how do you pronounce his

782
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:05,880
name? Nate Borghaze? Oh,
the comedian? Yeah, okay, I've

783
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,079
only seen it written. I don't
know how how you say it. I

784
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:10,480
think it's Nate Borgaze now this is
really funny. This is a funny bit.

785
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,960
It's a little clip from his stand
up. But I don't know if

786
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,920
you're going to totally relate. This
is kind of but it's it's really in

787
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:22,280
the realm of default parent. Yes, okay, ready third grade and for

788
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,480
first grade she started taking the bus
and it was the first time she ever

789
00:53:25,519 --> 00:53:28,880
took the bus. So if you
know, as a parent, you welcome

790
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,280
to the bus stop. It's very
fun. And so we got her on

791
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,599
the bus. She went to school. At the end of the school day,

792
00:53:32,679 --> 00:53:36,880
someone from the school called my cell
phone. They have my wife's cell

793
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,239
phone. They have my cellphone.
They called my cell phone and the teach

794
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,400
she said, hey, do you
know what bus number your daughter's supposed to

795
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,159
be on? And I said,
I'm her dad. I said, are

796
00:53:46,159 --> 00:53:47,960
you create? Like? I was
like, this is how you thought you

797
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,559
would give this information? Was?
They called the dan? I saw a

798
00:53:52,599 --> 00:53:54,079
mom and dad's cell phone. You
go, I bet the dan knows.

799
00:53:57,599 --> 00:53:59,679
I was like, do you have
parents? You ever seen a family before?

800
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:07,159
A list? There's two husbands.
You should never call us, I

801
00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:12,079
would read, you ask a lady
that doesn't know her. I think I

802
00:54:12,199 --> 00:54:17,119
can so true. I had to
go get her. Go alright, I'll

803
00:54:17,159 --> 00:54:20,039
come get her. What's tell me
the name of the school, and I'll

804
00:54:20,039 --> 00:54:24,760
come get her. That is this
is true in our house, except it's

805
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:30,360
reversed. Like when somebody asked me, like, can can Andrew do this

806
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,000
at four pm? I'm like,
are you really asking me? When you

807
00:54:32,039 --> 00:54:37,400
know that Daniel runs that They people
call him cmd calendar man Dan. Really

808
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,920
he knows what the number buses and
what time shit is and who the orthodonist

809
00:54:42,039 --> 00:54:45,679
is. Oh, he fills out
forms. He does portals. I don't

810
00:54:45,679 --> 00:54:50,559
do port portals. I can't do
a portal. God, the portal portals.

811
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,119
It's a nightmare. It is right
now. I am in this nightmare

812
00:54:54,199 --> 00:55:00,480
because Sonny is taking a trip to
Japan with the school. He's leaving like

813
00:55:00,559 --> 00:55:04,320
in two days, and it's a
nice opportunity for him to do. And

814
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,760
then it's you know, school whatever
teacher sends out this thing last night.

815
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:13,239
Go to the Japan web site.
And then you need to put in like

816
00:55:13,639 --> 00:55:16,079
their itinerary because they're not staying at
one hotel. They're going to one hotel.

817
00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:20,400
Then they're taking a bullet train to
another hotel for for ten days.

818
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:24,239
Put all that stuff in and I'm
like, and then there's so when you're

819
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:29,000
filling it out, there's like there's
a thing called oh god, I can't

820
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:34,880
think of the projector or something where
because Japan is divided in these different like

821
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:40,039
cities and call you know, uh, provinces. Yes, but it's called

822
00:55:40,159 --> 00:55:45,119
something. I've never had to google
it anyway, it's a specific it's it's

823
00:55:45,159 --> 00:55:50,440
a nightmare. Like I'm like,
and then if you click on the hotel,

824
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,400
everything is in Japanese, so I
can't figure out what the zip code

825
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:59,800
like, you can't read, Yeah, I can't. I can't. He's

826
00:56:00,039 --> 00:56:01,400
I'm like, my nephew when he
was a little used to goes this japan

827
00:56:01,519 --> 00:56:07,239
food. Yeah, it's yeah portals, like so anyway, that's what I'm

828
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,920
Yeah, I had to get his
passport. So yes, that sounds awful.

829
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,960
Yea. Alby had an appointment with
her community college with a counselor,

830
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,800
which, okay, so I have
this is like, this is the kind

831
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,880
of shit that I get impressed by. Now I have a friend who teaches

832
00:56:23,039 --> 00:56:27,719
at the community at the local community
college who's like, listen, I'm gonna

833
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,400
give you the name of this of
one of the counselors, and she's awesome

834
00:56:30,559 --> 00:56:34,519
and like, you're gonna make an
appointment with her, so you're gonna email

835
00:56:34,559 --> 00:56:37,719
her. So I did. So
I didn't go through the channels. I

836
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,280
didn't go through any portals. I
just I just emailed this woman like you

837
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:49,719
yeah, yeah, I'm gonna side
dorit. Yeah. Other people have to

838
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,360
go through a portal. Yeah right, I know. I side door,

839
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:54,679
I side door And I got through
to her and then we had a we

840
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,480
had a meeting with her, and
she was like, listen, here's what

841
00:56:57,519 --> 00:57:00,840
I'm gonna do for you. You
gotta meet with a counselor. But you're

842
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:05,039
not officially enrolled in the school yet, but I'm gonna hook you up with

843
00:57:05,119 --> 00:57:07,480
the counselor. So she hooks,
I'll be up with the counselor. I'll

844
00:57:07,519 --> 00:57:09,679
be goes to the counselor. She
learns a whole bunch of stuff, but

845
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:14,440
in order to actually sign up for
the classes, she needs to meet with

846
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,719
another counselor, another counselor. And
now I'm like, well, I'm out

847
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:22,480
of ideas because I used it all
connections, Like I don't know, I'm

848
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,679
like, I know how to regular
people, how to non Madonna's Yes,

849
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:29,599
I don't know, Like I'm like, well, is like there's probably a

850
00:57:29,639 --> 00:57:31,599
portal, and then you go in
the portal and then you have to probably,

851
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,880
I don't know, sign up for
something your name, get a packer.

852
00:57:37,239 --> 00:57:39,719
Every year. I don't know what
it's like here, but every year

853
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:45,719
in Arizona with public schools, the
big thing is like a week before school

854
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:49,000
starts, you find out what teacher
you have and what class you're in,

855
00:57:49,079 --> 00:57:52,320
and then all the moms start texting
like, oh my god, yes,

856
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:59,159
And every single year, I can't
get into the motherfucking portal every and and

857
00:57:59,199 --> 00:58:01,719
then there's like a hell apline and
then I try too many times and it's

858
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:06,599
like you're locked out of Scottsdale Unified. I just want to know my teachers.

859
00:58:06,599 --> 00:58:09,559
And then I feel like such an
asshole because everybody else has no problem,

860
00:58:09,599 --> 00:58:12,800
and they're like, right, why
does everybody else have no problem?

861
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,000
I don't understand. And then I
have to have the default friend mom,

862
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:19,039
because then I'll text her and go, hey, how do I get back

863
00:58:19,039 --> 00:58:24,840
into the portal? I'm locked out. Also, everyone somehow magically knows when

864
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:29,840
the deadline is to apply to get
into certain camps like in Arizona, summer

865
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:32,960
camps a big deal because it's motherfucking
one hundred and seventeen degrees. I'm the

866
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:37,079
only person no pool, and I
can't have the kids just sitting around all

867
00:58:37,119 --> 00:58:42,159
the day in TikTok, right and
like eating you know, sunflower seeds in

868
00:58:42,199 --> 00:58:45,559
their rooms and these kids and like
this year, I'm like, oh,

869
00:58:45,639 --> 00:58:50,400
everybody's going to camp. What camp? And then I'm like, wait,

870
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,039
oh my god, it's June.
Yeah, like shit, literally, and

871
00:58:53,079 --> 00:58:58,239
then I email like hey, and
I try to use my power, my

872
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:01,519
superpower of writing a good email,
right, and I almost got my kid.

873
00:59:01,599 --> 00:59:06,119
But even they even I have my
limits because like it's full. They're

874
00:59:06,159 --> 00:59:13,960
like, well he can still do
um football or like arts and crap,

875
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:19,960
like swimming. Yeah, I'm like
the thing that's outdoors in one seventeen or

876
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,679
the other thing that's outdoors or the
thing that he's never gonna want to do

877
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:30,719
right oops, or math athletics or
whatever bullshit, Like oh my god,

878
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:37,000
that's abuse a camp. Like all
my friends are doing basketball and I'm doing

879
00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:42,239
math. Thanks mom. I know
that's the worst. The worst I did

880
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,960
resent some of the other people,
like you couldn't have given me a head

881
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,000
suck. I know, like you
know me by now you know me?

882
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:52,079
Like, couldn't you're going to register
your son? Don't? Doesn't he want

883
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:53,199
to have a friend with him?
Let me know, by the way,

884
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:57,239
last year I was on the group
text with all the kids that are going

885
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,840
to this one camp, and then
this year I wasn't. So I've given

886
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:04,400
I've shocker. I've given it a
lot of thought as to why I was

887
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,679
not on this year. I've decided
it was an oversight because people are busy

888
01:00:07,719 --> 01:00:12,480
and they're just thinking about themselves.
But I did have about two weeks where

889
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,280
it was like is it me?
Took it personal? Is it my kid?

890
01:00:16,039 --> 01:00:21,039
Is it us? Because it's definitely
not Daniel. So I ruled that

891
01:00:21,039 --> 01:00:24,239
out because everybody likes him. But
I think most of the time things it's

892
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:28,960
an oversight, like nobody's trying to
attack me, right right? And when

893
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,840
your kids get older like mine,
I think yours are still at an age

894
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:35,800
where you might talk to the other
parents. I don't know. Yeah,

895
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,440
nobody taught to know her. Yeah, when does that happen? At what

896
01:00:38,519 --> 01:00:43,840
age do I not have to do
anything? I would say for sure high

897
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,480
school? I don't know. For
me if they're in high school and they're

898
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:49,480
not in a sport like Natalia was
in volleyball, but my kids are not,

899
01:00:49,639 --> 01:00:52,360
so I don't hear from any parents. Yeah, and I do.

900
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,360
It's weird, like my like Xander
has one friend and the mom got a

901
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,840
hold of me and was like,
hey, so my kids coming over to

902
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:00,920
your house or whatever, and I
was once in a while, you'll get

903
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:04,039
that. But once they yeah,
once they get to height, then they

904
01:01:04,079 --> 01:01:07,199
start. They just exchange text messages. Some trouble's already happening. And I

905
01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:12,679
don't know if this is normal for
thirteen year olds, but girls uber over

906
01:01:13,119 --> 01:01:16,480
when the boys are having a sleepover
at two boys houses in the middle of

907
01:01:16,519 --> 01:01:21,400
the night, they uber over and
then they sneak out. They sneak out

908
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,400
their house and they take an uber
and they show up at boys houses.

909
01:01:23,559 --> 01:01:30,159
I love it. Hustlers, get
your hustle on, scrappy. It's it's

910
01:01:30,199 --> 01:01:36,360
crazy thirteen year old team uber and
then they sneak home and no one's the

911
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,679
wiser except for all the ring doorbells. That's crazy. Oby refused to do

912
01:01:39,719 --> 01:01:45,079
that because she has anxiety, so
she was like she had a thing about

913
01:01:45,199 --> 01:01:46,960
uber. She didn't like it.
She didn't even like it with other people.

914
01:01:47,079 --> 01:01:50,679
She was like, what if they
abduct me? What if they leslie

915
01:01:50,679 --> 01:01:54,559
accustomed me? Yes, I don't
want I don't want any part of that.

916
01:01:55,039 --> 01:01:59,280
And now she will uber but with
somebody she would never uber by herself.

917
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,800
Yeah too. Yeah, she wanted
to be with a couple of friends.

918
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:06,280
Yeah, she's like the idea of
a strange person. Pure thirteen year

919
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,320
old would be like, okay,
Like if he's in a sleepover, for

920
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:13,239
like, if he's out for four
days and not home, that's like the

921
01:02:13,239 --> 01:02:15,880
best four days of his life.
He just wants to be with his boys.

922
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:19,679
He loves being at other people's houses. Maybe because we don't have a

923
01:02:19,719 --> 01:02:25,039
pool. I don't know. He's
very he's not attached to being at home.

924
01:02:25,239 --> 01:02:30,760
Niece does no fear A little fear
is good. The sports probably helped

925
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:34,760
with if that's a thing. You're
always like, you travel, you're in

926
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:39,519
if you're in intense situations. Yeah, the pressure confidence, yeah's good.

927
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:45,360
He's gonna be independent for sure.
Well listen, tell us about your book

928
01:02:45,679 --> 01:02:49,119
again. Where do we get it? What's the exact data? It's out

929
01:02:49,159 --> 01:02:53,079
now, it's out now out making
it home life lessons from a season of

930
01:02:53,079 --> 01:02:57,000
a Little League. And I'll say
this to the audio book people. Yeah,

931
01:02:57,039 --> 01:03:00,199
I had an incredible experience recording this
audio book. I was just going

932
01:03:00,239 --> 01:03:04,000
to ask you about it. Is
there audiobook out? Here's here's something fun,

933
01:03:04,039 --> 01:03:06,400
And I'll make it quick because we
do. We have to wrap it.

934
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,039
I don't want to keep you guys. But I when I knew I

935
01:03:09,079 --> 01:03:14,519
was doing an audiobook, I started
like paying a lot of attention to audiobooks,

936
01:03:14,559 --> 01:03:17,360
and I followed Jennifer Gray, you
know, Dirty Dancing, and she

937
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:22,639
wrote a thing She was like,
my audio book director's amazing, Scott Sharett.

938
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:24,320
Then I looked him up and I
realized he was like the Spielberg of

939
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:31,159
audiobooks, Oprah Reese, Witherspoon,
Prince Harry recorded his own did I say

940
01:03:31,199 --> 01:03:37,320
Bono? Questlove Everybody? Debbie Harry, Anybody's anybody? He's like, um,

941
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,119
really brilliant. And I knew that
I needed help because it's not just

942
01:03:40,159 --> 01:03:44,440
a book of essays. There's a
lot of dialogue. There's scenes with multiple

943
01:03:44,519 --> 01:03:49,000
characters. And I'm not really a
voice actress, but I like I was.

944
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:51,800
They wanted me to narrate the book
and I wanted to do it because

945
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,239
you make extra money. Yeah,
yeah, I'm not handing over that,

946
01:03:54,559 --> 01:03:59,280
even though I think maybe somebody could
do a better job. So I asked

947
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,239
my publisher like, I know this
is crazy and it's a total long shot,

948
01:04:02,599 --> 01:04:08,840
but um, is there anyway that
you think Scott Sherritt would do my

949
01:04:09,079 --> 01:04:13,639
book? I be like, he's
busy with Oprah. But like a couple

950
01:04:13,639 --> 01:04:15,840
of days later, they said,
yeah, he's available these four days.

951
01:04:15,199 --> 01:04:18,400
Wow. So I got this guy. He zoomed in, so he was

952
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:24,159
in the studio via zoom in Phoenix
every minute, and the guys just like

953
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:28,159
he makes anybody good. He's one
of those directors Like, I don't know,

954
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:30,360
I can't explain it to you.
He zoomed with me before, and

955
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:31,559
I told him like, how am
I gonna do my dad? How am

956
01:04:31,559 --> 01:04:35,480
I gonna do like fifty characters?
And he just he said, I've read

957
01:04:35,519 --> 01:04:41,639
the book. The book is good. Just deliver it. Wow, Yeah,

958
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:43,960
just put me at ease. I
don't even know what that means,

959
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:46,639
but I just was like, Okay, I'm gonna just deliver it. It's

960
01:04:46,639 --> 01:04:50,199
like, just say the words.
That's a name. I cannot wait to

961
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:54,039
look, can I Is it out
on audible now? Yes, so it's

962
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:58,480
so it's either in paperback or it's
on audible. But I actually think that

963
01:04:58,519 --> 01:05:04,000
the audiobook experience will be yeah or
kindle. Oh, I can't wait.

964
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:09,440
Yeah, So anywhere anywhere you find
books. And thank you guys for having

965
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:12,079
me, not once, but twice. Thank you so much. It's been

966
01:05:12,119 --> 01:05:15,440
a pleasure. Let's just before we
go, though, let's let's give a

967
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:16,960
shout out to my friend Adam Lerner, who's going to get you a car.

968
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:21,480
Adam's going to get you a car. He's a car broker in California,

969
01:05:21,599 --> 01:05:26,239
uh in La. He'll come to
your house and talk to you about

970
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:31,000
it. Um anywhere else he will
do it no charge. Other states there's

971
01:05:31,039 --> 01:05:34,280
a fee, but he will save
you so much money that it will be

972
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:38,039
worth it. And you just talk
to him. You don't have you're not

973
01:05:38,079 --> 01:05:44,519
committed. Nine three one zero nine
eight seven zero for eight. Also Kelly

974
01:05:44,599 --> 01:05:47,960
from Wilman, Frida, Palm Springs
and Desert. Really good food. It's

975
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:53,440
a it's a brunch place in Palm
Springs. I love Palm Spring. We

976
01:05:53,519 --> 01:05:56,880
didn't event there and it was amazing
and the food was so good, and

977
01:05:56,960 --> 01:06:01,599
we did it. They had a
Drag Drag Queen Bingo for us, and

978
01:06:01,639 --> 01:06:04,400
I might do a book signing there. Yeah you should. Yeah. And

979
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:09,920
then also um Nikki Collier's husband,
Joseph Colliers, a private practice Chapter seven

980
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,920
bankruptcy attorney in the LA County and
some surrounding counties. He does a sliding

981
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,400
fee scale because obviously it's gonna be
hard to afford bankruptcy. If you need

982
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,039
bankruptcy, so he can help you, Um, just go to his website

983
01:06:21,159 --> 01:06:28,840
Joseph jo Seph Callier, c l
I e er law dot com check it

984
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:32,199
out. TERSA thank you so much. This has been such a pleasure having

985
01:06:32,239 --> 01:06:35,559
you. If you didn't listen to
the Tuesday show, please go back and

986
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:40,119
listen to this. Listen to our
Tuesday show and our patreon. We had

987
01:06:40,159 --> 01:06:42,800
a great Patreon. It was a
very juicy, fun Patreon and it was

988
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,840
very long. Yeah, it's great. All right, everybody, you guys,

989
01:06:45,039 --> 01:06:54,320
thank you your parent. Now,
don't fuck it up. Letting