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We have so much. Yes, we do a lot of stories, and
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you it was going to be kind of juicy, very juicy. And then
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Talked a lot about sex trafficking. Yep, because a little super tease
for you guys. But today we have some fun stuff to talk about.
But first we have some fun people to talk about. All those people,
namely Rachel newcomer, she's not a newcomer anymore now she's an old timer,
Rachel, old timer, Aaron Hohodis, Randy may Aims has a lot of
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fun thing just on its own. Yeah, you know, uh, Nikki,
call your girls, all your girls, Ashley so chic Leslie still with
the cough. They say, there's gonna be a COVID surge this summer.
Yes, absolutely. And then our other Leslie who's accosting people. Look right,
she's She's who we're talking about. Thursday show. You'll know, you'll
know U. And Jacob is so growly, yes but delicious. Yeah.
And Rita rocks. All of Elizabeth Williamson's kids who I'm getting to in her
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all those kids love Hero because all kids love her. Yes, Yes,
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makes the pancakes for them. And this is Rup and Valerie, Bubba Fenwick,
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just saying young Rebecca lu and Hung Vashpai. Well, he's got the assid
like a peach. They made that emoji just for him, for him.
Kelly Brant, Alicia Scalante from the City of El Monte, Sarah Stefano,
Jennifer, get up, Jennifer, there's too much bad stuff is happening on
the ground. Sandra Green. It's not easy. You make it look easy.
Christa gets shop and Stephanie or wrinker. What's up? So? Yeah,
today is Monday for us, it's Tuesday for you guys. Friday something
something happened. What happened? What happened? What happened? He took Sonny
to go try to get Yes, I took Sonny to get his driver's license.
Wh Do I know what's going on in your life more than you do?
Yeah? I took him. It was really he was well. He
made his appointment for Friday, but he rescheduled because him and his pals went
to Newport Beach where Natalia was down in Newport Beach with spending the night at
our friend's house hanging out. And then Sonny tells me I'm going to the
beach for the day, possibly spending the night at a friends who's got a
house that they're renting down in Newport. I was like, what the what's
going on? By the way Newport? The other day I had to drive
na Natalia says, can you drive me and drop me off in Newport at
my friend's house. We're gonna spend a couple of days there and I was
like, well, how are they getting there? Well, they're already there,
so why right, So they when they were going there, why didn't
they go like, hey, we're going early. They want to come.
So I'm scheduling something. She was Natali was doing something. Couldn't do it.
So then she asks me, and you know, like I'm a mom.
Of course I'll drive you. But it is at the very edge of
the West Coast. I mean, I'm looking at the map, bless you,
on my map, and I'm gonna it is It's like, this is
the spot I'm taking her, which is like almost to Mexico, right.
You know, when you look at the map, you see like Baha,
the coast of Baha. That's where she's going. The very edge of the
United States. She's gonna fall into the Pacific Ocean. That's what I'm taking
up. Yeah, all the way from the bowels of Hell of the Valley.
Well, when you're in traffic, it may as well be San Diego.
Oh my gosh, drop in right, get some podcasts, download some
shit because they'll be in the car for a while a long. So,
so I was like, Okay, what time are you're gonna go. Well,
I can't go until like one o'clock. So I'm like, okay,
you know I can't leave it like the I'm on ways trying to find the
right time. Ain't no right time, You're just your way just says you're
fucked. It's got. He's got his arms up like he's like, sorry,
you might as well just with the two eyes that are exed out,
like good night, You're fucked, ben over bitch. So yes, so
it leavest you don't have to think about where you're going to charge your tesla.
Thank god. I mean I had it all charged it up, so
when I put in the address, it says, okay, you'll have this
much when you get there, and then you're gonna have enough to get home.
Thank god. Just don't stop it going in and out on the way
or no, like Carni's chicken that she likes or whatever, you know,
Yes, so, which she of course she does, like can we just
stop? And like how far off the path? Visit? Now? Long?
It's gonna take anyway, So sure, I'll drive you two hours just
to drop you off and turn around and come back. And she's like,
well you can hang out. I'm like, no, I don't really want
to. I mean, I'm sure the moms I met, the moms are
very nice, but I'm not right, what am I gonna do? Wait?
So she was going overnight though, she was spending a fee like three
days, ok, for the weekend. So oh so basically she's saying you
can stay for a while, like if you don't want to, just hop
right, She's like, you can hang out and like no, no,
absolutely not right. So I'm looking at four plus hours in the car,
so it's not a rest stop. You're not gonna be like, hey,
guys, could I could you got a sparkling water? Or I don't wash
up in your bathroom? What am I gonna do? Wash up in the
like, have a smoke, break, set up a little listen, I'm
gonna set up a little tent in the backyard. It's just I've been on
the road, just rest, gott to close my eyes, I gotta just
shave my legs and like, yeah, you know, yeah she got a
little crazy wall starting to stink. Yeah yeah, so now so a driver
and you know, we're hanging out in the car with chit chatting and then
bitch falls asleep like that unacceptable us. Now absolutely. You know what I
would do. I would make the seat next to me have some like spikes
on it, you know, like yeah electric. Yeah. But you know
what, it was okay because I had a couple of podcasts to listen to,
okay, which I'll tell you about it a writer episode or whatever.
But um so yeah, so we're talking for a little bit and she passes
out and listening to my podcast, and there's just no easy way to get
there either. I mean, it just was two hours just in the car,
just d and it shouldn't be that long. It's just Newport Beach,
like logistically, it's not actually it's not Laguna, right, It's listen,
there's beach cities for all of you people. It goes like Redondo, uh,
Manhattan Beach and then Newport Beach. Shouldn't It shouldn't somehow of course,
because it's Los Angeles. It takes forever, right, and so, and
everybody's going that direct, right. It's the summer, it's the weekend,
first super traffic of the week. I took her on a Thursday. Yeah,
but you're you know, how is maybe a Sunday even Saturday. You're
screwed And it depends on what time A yeah, yeah, you're screwed.
But you know how you're always your brain is always tricking you because you're like,
you know what, I bet a lot of this is airport traffic.
Oh yeah, no, because I'm fasting past Lax and You're like, bitch,
where I now? You still got another hour in something minutes to get
yes, yes, lunch beast Lax. I know. Oh when I had
to drive to San Clemente. Yeah, it was like That's why I was
always so pissed at John because when he would call me and be like,
so, what's the plan for dinner, I'd be like, you, I've
just been in traffic, like this is a date, Like I should be
sleeping over right. That's how far San clement is. Its way too far.
You're almost at San Diego. Yeah yeah, and I'm having to do
that in one day so I can come back. So I'm gonna figure out
dinner for these assholes. Right, no, right, and listen, people
that don't know La. We live in Los Angeles. San Diego is another
major city state of California, not close. That's why all these Bachelor contestants
take a helicopter there there you go. Nobody wants to be stuck in a
car driving to San Diego, right, really far right, or you go
the other way, you go to San Francisco. But anyway, right,
So I driver, but here's the best fight driver there. I drop,
I pull up and it's not even like you get off the freeway. You're
going another forty minutes off the freeway to get on the side streets and there's
it's beach community. So every street is thirty five miles an hour with speed
bomb, you know, because everybody's in their bikes. It's all slow.
It's just a whole different. It's not like you look around You're like,
I'm not in Kansas anymore. Everybody's got there and they're on their beach time,
right, and their beach cruiser beach time, just cruising. And you're
going thirty five and I'm looking on the map, going, oh my god,
I got another forty minutes to get to the house that I'm getting to.
You. It's shocking how much lander is in Newport Beach. Right.
Think you get off the freeway and they're there, No, you gotta keep
going. So I get there, and then finally they're starting to get resentful
of your kids. They're like, I love you, not this minke right,
So they don't appreciate it. Yeah, well maybe maybe not right.
So I pull up. Her two friends are hanging out at friend the friend
because she's texting them, I'm gonna be hang men hanging to the two friends,
who I like, they're really sweet. Pull up and Natalia she gets
out of the car, She gets her stuff out of the back bye,
you know, thank you. And then I'm like, I'm putting in my
navigation to get back home, Like how do I get out of this beach
town? How do I get the sand out of my hair? She comes
back, she comes knocks on my window, and I was like, what
is it? What does she want? Now? I rolled away down and
she goes, um, do you need to like have a glass of water
or go to the bathroom or anything? And I was like what And her
friends were like, missus Carolla, you can come inside and use the restroom
or get some water. And I was like they were the ones asking not
that Talia. Wow yeah, And I was like, I did have to
pee, but I was like I don't want to open that can of worms.
And I guess started talking to parents, and as I was like,
I'll use the gas station. No, I'm good, honey, thank you,
Like took off, took another two and a half hours to get home.
Yeah, it was gone all day, just the whole day, just
in the car. I mean, we do love these little fuckers. We
do. Yeah, it's not that we don't know. And the whole thing
is like we're willing to sacrifice so they have fun. But come on,
come on, yeah for a lot of for fun. Yeah, but they
don't think like, how could I arrange this so that my mom doesn't have
to do all the driving? Like how about go with somebody else? Or
are you gonna have to go pick her up? Or dow? She they
drove, she got drapped off? Thank god? Yeah, yeah that's good.
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was down in Newport Beach. And my point of this whole thing was that
Sonny was supposed to go to the DMB on Friday, but decided to go
with his friends. They ended up in Newport Beach and then so I have
like where find my friends on you know, so I could see where Sonny
in Italian are, right, I didn't realize they were going to be in
the same neighborhood. By the way, I could have put an Italian the
car with Sonny. I didn't know the next day she was not going to
want to do that, but anyway, Yeah, so they the two of
them were hanging out together with their group friends at Newport Beach, which was
so cute. That is cute. I took like a screenshot and I sent
it to them. I go, you guys know, you're like a mile
apart from each other and like, dr, yeah, we know we're hanging
out right now. That's like I didn't know that. You know, they're
going to like Babbo Island and yeah, I was thinking about taking my kids
to Babboa Island. I think that they would. They're my kids love it
down there. They have a great time. Yeah, I think that would
be really fun. I hadn't thought about that stupid foot. It's still broken
though, right now. Okay, so he put it off. So when
was the appointment? So today was the appointment today? Right before I got
here, he took him to the DMV. We you know, it was
we went to the Van Eyes one, which you know, his instructor was
like, go to the Semi Valley one or the would't go one. Those
are the ones you passed, and blah blah blah. Well he wanted to
clothe. The quickest appointment was at the Van Eyes, so we didn't know
if it was how it was going to go. It's good, fine,
Yeah, we walked right in. They took us right away, which was
nice. We had an appointment, got in line in the car and the
instructor and then there's this one instructor that was the the you know guy right
that comes the person who was doing the rights the assessment. He comes out.
He's just an old dude and son, he was like, I hope
I don't get him. He takes off and then this young like Asian hip
dude with a phonytail come out and he's like right on your turn, you
know, and said he's like, oh my god. I hope I get
hit me. I think you're getting him, and you know, and then
he's like put on. He stands outside of the car to the left signal
the right thing. Oh blah blah blah. Then I get out, he
gets in, and then they're gone, and I'm watching him on the map
and I'm like, oh he stopped. Oh no, now he's going down
what a helicopter mom. I am by that. Oh. I would have
been that. That's why I sent John with Elbie. Yeah. Yeah,
I would have been like yeah, watching the whole time and I was like,
oh he stopped. Now he's backing up on a side street. Oh
oh shit. Now he's going down van and he's boulevard. It's crowded right
now, it's a lot of traffic. Anyway, He's gone like I don't
know, seven to ten minutes, comes back, pulls in. Guy,
he gets out of the car. He's like I passed. And I was
like, oh my god, I'm so happy. I was so happy for
him. Yeah yeah, so yeah, so um so Sadie, Yes took
her permit test her written to last week. If you remember, we were
talking to Sonny and I was saying that Sadie was getting ready to go for
her permit test. So, oh my gosh, like I made her study.
I was. I was pretty harsh. Yeah, I mean harsh.
But somebody told me a good tip. I was talking to somebody about teenagers
and they're written tests and stuff. They said, have them test you.
That's a good way for them to learn. Have the kid test you and
ask you the questions, because then it opens up the conversation and then it
really helps them learn. Isn't it an interesting? That is interesting? Yeah,
that's something to remember that for next time. Yeah, but I think
I told you this last time. I was telling you about how she was
not really studying. I mean she was doing it, but like a lot
of like like like saying them out loud and then like and you know me,
I love a quiz show. I'd be like, oh they First I'd
be tricked into kind of telling her the answer, which then when I realized,
well, I'm not going to be in there with you, and like
why am I taking the test? Like you're the one who's supposed to be
answering this, Like how'd I get hurt? You know? So then when
she was really doing them herself, she was getting up nervous and upset and
whatever. Anyway, she got over that, and then the last couple of
days because I think we recorded last week on a Monday, and then she
went in on Wednesday, so like Tuesday, she was taking a bunch of
a bunch of the tests and starting to do better on them. And then
Wednesday morning we got up and then she was like testing herself, like on
the way there, and she was very nervous. Yeah, but I told
her, I was like, listen, you're going to have the test is
the last thing you do. I go first, We're gonna have to be
waiting, yes, like there's gonna be a long wait for stuff. So
we walk in and there's this there's like a kiosk I want to say.
It says appointments. So first we walk in and there's a long line outside
and Sadie's like, oh no, and I was like, no, that's
not us. We have an appointment. But then you walk in and it
says appointments and there's a to check in for your appointment. So so but
it goes really fast because they're like next snack snacks, and they what they
do is they go, okay, you have an appointment, and then you
show them your confirmation number and then they give you a little paper that says
window twenty eight. Yeah okay, So we we walk. We get there
and she's like, okay, if an appointment, I prove it. She
goes, okay, window, let's say it was like f you know,
forty four. So we look up at the board. It's like an airport
arrival and departure time twenty three and it says now serving our number. Oh,
and I was like, oh shit, what's hold on? So I
freaked out a little bit because I was like, oh, I think we
missed it, like it was so fast. I go back to the window
real quick, and of course somebody gives me an evil eye because you know
there's and I was like, no, no, no, I go uh
that you gave us a number but it's already being called. And she's like
yeah, yeah, go window nineteen or whatever. And I was like,
oh okay. So I'm like, come on, Sadie. So we get
this woman shockingly like super nice, because I always get nervous that they're gonna
not except one of your documents, which which happened to me a million dis
right to write with whatever, passports whatever. So I'm like I brought with
me a bank statement and a medical thing that had her name on it,
you know. But you just don't know they're going to be like, no,
this is too old or you know, this also needs to have her
birthday on it, you know. But I was like ready, I had
her bring her school, I d plus I had a birth all this stuff.
The woman was super nice, just like looks through the stuff and she's
like okay, um, there you go, and then sends us to to
get her picture taken and yeah, I you know, they did the eye
test right there anyway, So she gets all that done, We're like ready
to go, and then she starts getting nervous, like because she has to
go in and take the permit test. And she's just not a test taker,
Lynette. She's just time same. Yeah she does. She has a
test anxiety. So and this feels so adult, right, like you know,
it's all adults there. Yeah, there were no kids waiting in line
at this particular time, Like I feel like when Elbi went, because I
went with LB two, there were like a bunch of kids. Elbi age
right, it was like the thing that they were It was a bunch of
like other teenagers. Yeah, but no, this was like all adults.
So she has to go behind the glass or the partitions. And does she
have to give you the phone her phone own? Because they did that with
I don't know, because Natali was holding in her hand. Yeah, they
didn't ask for it, but I was like, give me your phone.
But first she gets her picture taken, and then they're like, okay,
go wait, go sit in this chair and wait and have your name called.
But now all of these people that didn't have appointments, all these people
were getting called. And then I started to get She's getting more and more
nervous. It's like they're icing the test taker, you know. So I
walk, I had to do the thing where you like walk back up and
I was like, oh hi, did they forget, like because we've been
here a while, Like they're taking all the non appointment people. They're bringing
them in. Okay, next application, and all these people are coming in
and poor Sadie's just like sitting there, getting more and more anxious. And
then the lady, of course this is a different lady. This is at
the other window and the picture taking window, and she's like, no,
should be coming up soon. That was the longest part of the weight,
which was just weird. So by the time then they're like, okay,
she's next. Now she's getting really nervous. Oh meanwhile though, so they
say that you can okay. So there's like forty six questions. Let's say
forty five questions. You can get six wrong. But when we go to
the window to go through all her paperwork, she's like, right before she
leaves, she goes, okay, So it's this many questions and you can
miss nine. And then I'm feeling all confident right because I'm like, oh,
she's got this. If she can miss nine, she's gonna be okay.
Yeah. So then she goes in she's taking the test. I'm sweating
bullets for her. I'm sitting next to this lady who looked to be maybe
in her seventies, but she's got long blonde hair. She's like cute sitting
next to me, and she starts talking to me and she's like just asking
me questions, and then she tells me that she's like eighty something, and
I was like, well, you look great, look at your hair.
Girl. So she's like, so I failed the test, and now I'm
having to take it again, and she's like, I just don't really know.
Like she's like kind of being an old lady with me, like you
know, and I was like, maybe she shouldn't be driving your eye,
but she seems kind of spry. Yeah, but she's so then she doesn't
know about Oh. So she's got like the California like the driving manual right
right in front of her life. She's studying to take the written she'd already
failed it, she'd filled it like the day before, so she's back to
try to take it, to try to retake it. She says, Hey,
when you're my age, they make you do the written tests like every
few years. Interesting, Like I haven't had to pass the written test like
ever since I first passed me the first time. Yeah, I mean yeah,
but she's like, maybe it's like every five years when you're over the
age of maybe seventy, you have to every five years you have to take
the written test again. Huh, which makes sense. It makes sense,
right, I would want to maybe do it instead of written How about you
do the driving one though, right? You know, I think they might
have to do that too, I'm not really sure, but anyway, so
I was like, well, do you have the I was like, this
thing that you're looking at isn't going to help you, because she's like,
she said, I read this manual and none of these questions were on the
test yesterday. And I was like, well, you came to the right
person, I go, because you got to download this app and you could
take these anyway. So she was like, oh really, So I help
her. I show her on her phone, get her the right thing,
and she starts taking she starts going through the quiz. Oh my god,
Lynette, she was like, my new best friend. I am so glad
I met you. So they're asking questions. She's like, I never this
is like the questions that are on the task. And I was like,
oh, she goes, none of these are in the book, and I
was like, exactly, I go, you don't. Anybody has time to
take the whole like basically driver's head right again by reading this whole book.
Now you've got to get to the questions right. So now I'm going and
I swear to god, it was like Sadie two point zero. He's like,
okay, well, if there's it's like, if she's asking you one
of the questions too, was like so easy. It was like, Okay,
if you're driving, can another can you pass on the shoulder of the
road if there's enough room, can you go to the right of a car
on the shoulder of the road to pass? Of course, in my mind,
I'm like, you better not ever do that. And the answer is
like if there's enough room, like if to safely pass, And then another
one's like no, but you can do it on the left shoulder, and
then the third ones like under no circumstances. And she's reading them like and
really analyzing, like, well, I mean if there's room, like if
there's room on the shoulder, like do you think And I was like I
don't, I don't know what do you think? Maybe we should read the
rest of the questions first, I swear to god, it was like bookend.
Ye, Sadie's on the young side. She's a old one. She's
like eighty five, sadies fifteen, I'm doing the same thing. I was
like, well, what do you think you know? I go, maybe
we should go through the rest of the question. She goes, okay,
um, well can you on the left? And I was like, okay,
keep going. Let's let's hear all the answers under no circumstances. She's
like, I mean, if there's but if there's room to safely do it.
I was like, okay, so let's picture ourselves. You're driving down
the road. You're on like a mountain road. There's a shoulder. I
go, some car doesn't like the fact that you're driving slow and just goes
on the shoulder and goes around the right side of you. I go,
does that seem say? Does that seem okay? She's like, I don't
think so. And I was like, then what's the answer that we're going
to go? So we do a few of those. Then I'm like,
I got a tough love her ask to like Sadie. I was like,
okay, I'm not gonna help you with this one. I go, you're
about to go in and take so I'm not gonna help you with this one.
You're gonna have to see, like what's your intuition. Well then it
turns out apparently her son is sitting on the other side of her, which
I was like, where, where, Why am I doing all the heavy
lifting already? Wow? He wants nothing to do with it, No kidding,
No, the only thing he does is help her because for some reason,
she's got an iPhone like five sere it got it. It's like the
oldest iPhone. It has like a home button you know, yes, yeah,
right, screen crack screen and it goes her screen goes dark for no
reason that I can understand. I was like, well, this is a
tech issue. I don't know what to tell you. So she's like,
I don't know why my screen is dark. I have yelling at her son,
like, hey, get her new iPhone, Robert. If you're listening
to Robert phone, and I'm sure way overdue for an upgrade at least every
five years as often as she has to take the damn driver's test, give
her a new phone. Right. So Robert like finally takes her phone and
like does some adjust it and then he's like here, mom, like he's
made her phone light up again. I was like, oh my god.
So then then I do, like I watch her go through a few more
questions. She starts getting kind of good, like she starts getting going on
it. I was like, oh, you're doing so good, like you
know, I was like, I think I feel good about this. I
feel good about your chances. Yeah. She's like, oh, I was
like you have to just like not overthink it, like you gotta go with
what, go with your guy, you know, and then you put drive
it for years. Lady Yeah, so then she oh, so then she
tells me you can only miss six and I was like fuck. I'm like,
oh, I don't. I don't think so I think you can miss
nine? Yeah, And she's like, no, it's sure for sure six.
She goes because I missed nine and I failed, and I was like,
oh no. So then suddenly I'm not as confident about right. So
I'm like, oh no. I was like, but the lady told us
nine, why would she tell us? It's weird? Like, and she
said, eighty five year old over here is like a She goes, well,
maybe uh, maybe she's not used to doing like the permit stuff,
like because she's over other things. And and for a second I was like,
oh, yeah, that makes sense, you know. But then I
was like, that is the permit stuff. That's one of the things she
does all the time. Why would she have it wrong? But now I'm
confused. Then Sadie comes out, maybe it's for a senior citizens it's six.
I think it's over eighteen. I think if you're under eighteen, you
take there's more questions and you can miss a couple more of it. So
if you're over eighteen, there's fewer questions and you can miss fewer. That's
what turned out to be. But in the in the moment, I'm not
sure anyway. Just then Sadie comes out all smiles, and so she passed.
And then and then she did that thing where she wouldn't let me text
John or Elbie, who were waiting at home right Xander, couldn't care less
you had a friend over, So she won't let me. She was like,
nope, you know what we're gonna do. And I was like,
don't tell me. We're going to do the thing where you pretend you didn't
pat where you're all sad and she was like, of course we are.
And I was like, oh no, I don't want to be a party
to this. I want to go home with the old ladies. Wait what
happened to her? For her? I was like, I couldn't have gotten
on there fast enough. I was like, oh my gosh, good one,
good lie, Robert, take care of her. I was I've never
been more happy not to like exchange information, you know. She was probably
like, well, wait, I mean, don't you want to know how
it goes. I was like, I'm praying I'll text you on my green
text. I don't want it goes. It doesn't go blue for me exactly.
Yeah, no thanks. So anyway, we get home and of course
I had to play along. Although I and I thought, you know what,
not getting a text from us first, because we were all nervous from
her. I was not that confident she was going to pass, to be
totally honest, Yeah, but I was hopeful, right, you know,
but I was like it might be two tries for this girl, yeah,
you know. But so anyway, I was like, John and Elbie not
getting a text, are going to assume the worst, you know they are.
They're gonna be like, well, we didn't hear from them. They
would have told us if they would have called us, right, So they're
all braced. They braced themselves for like the bad news. So we walk
in. Sadie's all doom and gloom, and I'm trying not to smile,
so I've kind of have to put like the paper in front of my face
a little bit. And John's like, oh, hot to go? And
then she's like ms you know, and then there was celebration all around.
Ah. I love that. I know, that's awesome. I made that
into a very long story. No, it was a good story, but
it was There was a lot of highs and a that's involved in her passing
her permit. That's great. Yes, that's great. So now she has
to wait six months, but it's been really hot. So John, she
has to drive a whole bunch with parents, and you know, I'm not
up for that. I already almost had like major anxiety driving with Elby and
then I quit on that and left it up to John. And John doesn't
feel confident yet taking her even in the neighborhood. He wants another like time
or two, like driving around big parking lots, yeah, like Pierce College.
Yeah, yeah, before he feels like she'll be ready for the neighborhood.
Yeah. So they were going to go out today and John said there
were a bunch of um there were like sheriffs out there. Yeah that like
when he tried to get out of the car to let Sadie drive, apparently
he didn't have her permit paperwork with him, So he said, like,
is it cool if like she passed her permit test, you know, and
they were like, only if you have it with you. No, that
sucks. So he was like, yeah, should we take a break?
Sure? Yeah, So I'm right between right, got Sunny, your kids.
Yeah, one of them passed, and Elbi's like, yes, a
couple of years ahead, I think. Yeah, she was like sixteen and
a half. Yeah, and now she's over eighteen and a half. So
she two years ago, has had her license for a couple of years.
Yeah, got until October until she can go. Oh okay, well she
has her permit, so she's got to wait until October because she took two
times to pass the test. Sunny Sunny took one time, I guess.
But today on his driving test, you know, some of the Corolla fans
are going to know what I'm talking about. Adam always like right on red,
right on red, if the if the if the light is red and
there's no signs that say, you know, no, right on red,
go ahead and turn right up. People don't realize that you can make a
right on red unless there's a sign that says no, right on red.
That's his whole thing. So Sonny got all caught up in his head about
that, and he was in the right hand turn, and he was stopped
to make a right on red and he couldn't remember, like his brain like
went on the He's like, oh, I couldn't think I was dad going
right on red? Am I not allowed to make it? Right? Should
I wait? Until? So he waited until the light turned green. The
guy goes, you can go ahead and go, you know. So then
like that was one thing he thought that he screwed up on, but he
was okay. And then the other thing was the guy said turn right on
the next street, and there were so many trees and stuff he didn't see.
He thought he was talking about the light. It was small like a
stop sign, so he missed that, and he thought. And then the
guy goes, oh, I meant the right on this street, but just
go ahead and pull into the parking lot at the DMV and park it.
And so Sonny thought, oh shit, I he thought he failed. And
then the guy got out of the concert you passed, so wow. Yeah,
I was gonna say, like they can't stop him because of that,
because I thought, like, he's got a rule of that road, follow
the direction exactly. Yeah, I hear they're very strict about the backing up
things back up correctly, like when you go and reverse, you have to
go and reverse like a few feet and if you don't stay exactly parallel to
the curb, they'll just still fail you. Yeah, so one of the
Elbe's friends failed twice. I believe one of the times she failed because so
it's funny because Albie and I were just talking about this yesterday. Because if
somebody's walking across the street, okay, so if you're if you're on the
right side of the street and somebody is coming from the left, they're crossing
in front of your car. They're the end of their crossing is going to
be in front of your car, right, the law is you they have
to be all the way up the sidewalk before you can go, so they
can't be like stepping onto the herb. That's illegal you and that's an automatic
fail. By the way, if you do that and the person doesn't have
both feet standing up on the sidewalk, you fail. So when all these
friends failed, if they're going the other way, okay, so they're starting
their cross in front of your car, you only have to wait until they're
on the other side, like until they're past the middle of the street,
right, okay, right, they're past the center line, you can go.
Which that's the one thing I didn't. I knew that you gotta they're
in front of you, you gotta wait. But going the other when they're
going starting out in front of you, I would think you would think they
have to be all the way the other side on the sidewalk over there,
I don't wait, right, Apparently they don't. But it's funny because every
time, because after hearing that story, ever since, I'll be told me
that story. I'm such a stickler for that. Like I'm like watching the
people like, Okay, I remember it, Yes, from when I had
to do my test, I just did a really stuck in my head.
Yeah, it's the stuff you get wrong. I know, you know that
you do wrong, right that you're like, oh, I better not ever
do that. Yeah. I remember I got a ticket once for I was
in the car pool lane and then I spaced out. I was in the
car pool lane without not on purpose. I was coming back from the airport.
I was really tired. It was in the morning. I dropped somebody
off at the airport. John, I guess I'm coming back and I'm just
mind I'm auto driving and the car pool line lane starts, right, so
I'm in it. And then as soon as I was like, oh shit,
I'm in the their car pool lane started, so I got out of
the car pool lane. Well that's illegal. So either way it's illegal.
It's illegal to be in the pool lane, but it's illegal to come out
of the car pool lane unless there's the dotted line. Yeah you can.
So I got pulled over and then I tried to explain that to the police
officer. I was like, okay, but I accidentally got in the car
pool lane and I that's illegal, right. I was like, so what
was I supposed to do? And he goes, you were going to get
a ticket either way? Oh jeez, yeah, asshole. But you know,
I see people all the time going in and out of the car pool
lane when they're not supposed to, and they never get I never see anybody
get pulled over. Some of the time. Like I'm driving back from Newport
Beach and you know, I can go in the carpool lane because I got
the Tesla and it's got the sticker things. But then sometimes I gotta get
like I'll see, oh, you're like a low emissions. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, so that's nice. But then like I'll see, oh god,
the four I'm supposed to be on the four five and all I'm gonna
go down to seven ten if I don't get out? What am I supposed
to do? Right? So I take a chance and I go out,
and like sometimes if I'm with people, they're going, yeah, that's illegal.
I I know it's illegal, But what am I gonna do? Get
swept down to seven ten? Fuck that shit exactly. I'd rather take a
risk. Oh my god, we're living on the edge, I know.
So it is sunny. So has he no, it just happened. He
just got it today, so fl hours ago, and he's gonna get a
car. He's gonna get the car Adams been driving, okay, and they're
gonna have to share sunny in Italia. But she hasn't never licensed yet,
so for right now, for right now? Does he know that yet?
Yeah? Yeah he knows. Okay, Yeah, he's excited. Okay,
car is it? It's a Mercedes? Oh okay? Nice? Yeah,
used, but yeah, so he's gonna drive that. Adam's gonna get him
some kind of like economical something. Yeah, so it was he excited.
Oh, he's very excited. So then you you, um, he asked
you to drive home. Then he said like, yeah, you because we
were all all the way in Van Eyes and you gotta take the eighteen one
eight. It was like all the different freeways and he was a little shaky
when he got out of the car. I ain't gonna lie. He was
like showing me the the sheet that you know, the guy marks up and
stuff, and we're like trying to read it and I'm like, Sunny,
you're shaking. He's like, oh, you know, it was a little
you know, but nerve wracks, nerve racking. So I was like,
yeah, I'll drive, I'll drive home. Yeahs he used to driving on
the freeway. Yet he's getting there. Him and I go for drives a
lot. Ever since he got pulled over, though, that's been Yeah,
it wasn't his fault, but he did get pulled over. But it was
good experience for him. Now he knows, Yeah, you get pulled over,
don't veer to the left on the freeway. Yeah, get over to
the right. Always hasn't been pulled over yet. Knock knock on the Microphone's
good. But um, she did get in that fender bender, right,
so that somebody didn't the guy take off or something? No, the guy
no, but he according to Elbie, you know, he was like kind
of fucking with her on the entry getting on the freeway and like just slowing
down in front of her and so and then he like stopped short. What
the and she hit him? What an asshole? Not going fast at all?
I mean, there was like almost no damage to our car except that
then of course when you bring it into a body shop. But the guy
filed a claim on his insurance, so it's like, well then we might
as well have our car fixed, right, So then and then that was
remember it was months, right, they just couldn't. It was just like
such a small thing on the bumper. But anyway, yeah, yeah,
but she was that was a shaking, yeah, shaky feeling. Right.
Well, how do you prepare your kids when they start driving? Like,
hey, if you get into a fender bender, this is what you do.
Like, you can never prepare. You can talk to them until your
ears are their ears are burning off, like, but they're not. First
of all, they don't really listen, or at least my kids don't.
You're never going to be prepared for that, and you tell your daughters to
not get out of the car, like, right, if you if you
get in a car accident with some guy, do not get out of the
car. I mean unless there's people around. Yeah, like if it's at
night and somebody like bumps, you do not pull over and get out of
the car. You wait right right? Call the police? Yeah you know,
yeah, because that's like scary. Yeah, because that guy that she
got into the little fender but was being an asshole I bet, yeah,
and weird and then tried to ask her friend for her phone of her Are
you serious? Totally serious? Yeah. Wow, it was a whole shady
situation that sucks. Yeah. So Sadie like is she excited? Is she
gonna want to drive? Yeah? She really, well, she really wants
to. I think she's kind of bummed that she like had the motor to
go, like, m get her permit. And now we're like, okay,
it's pretty hot out, like I mean, John needs to take her
out, but it's been like a hundred and something to do. But don't
you guys have air conditioning in the car. Yeah we do, That's what
I said to John. I was like, well, just take her like,
yeah, he got a c in the car and he's like, I
know, but it's just like I don't just getting out of the car and
getting back and he's just you know, yeah, I'll take her. I'll
take her to yeah, just take her to start driving around, like,
you know, it's interesting how everybody's different, because when I would take Natalia
to drive, she was always like I got it, I got it,
I got it, I got it. Like and she's actually a very smooth
driver, like she's she's good. To be honest with you, I think
she's a little better than Sonny because Sonny gets very has he's very you know,
a little bit scared and has he hesitates, and you know, sometimes
when you hesitate, you can it's not good when especially when you're driving right,
like if you're gonna go around this person, pick up the speed,
don't hesitate right, you know, where Natalia is like I got it,
you know, she just goes around blah blah blah. So it's it's interesting
how everybody's different, especially as a as a parent you're taking your kids out.
It's like I feel a little more saying safer with Natalia. But it's
like, you know what I mean, I've been getting used to driving with
Elbie a little bit because since my foot's been in a boot normally because of
my anxiety. I'm like, I'll drive you take a load off, like,
don't worry about it, you know, because I do. I but
it's with everybody, the passenger anxiety. I just think you're gonna take a
mirror off of a park car, Like I just can't help. But like,
do you know how close you are? Like yeah, it's just my
own shit, you know, yeah, and uh, you know, I
don't like day drink to relax, right, So but I've been letting LB
drive and just like around and I'm like, oh, she's a pretty good
driver, right, she's pretty confident. Yeah, well she's been driving a
long time two years now. Yeah, she drives. She told me that
it's like one of the one areas where she really doesn't have anxiety. She's
like, I think because well, when she got her driver's license, she'd
been driving a lot. She was into it like your kids. She was
like she wanted to drive, like every day. We would drive for a
long time every day. So once she got her license, she was a
little bit shy about like driving on the four o five at first, but
then she got used to it right and pretty soon she was like she's the
one that all her friends are the more confident with her driving, Like she
drives over that She's driven several times, like over the canyon to go to
the beach, like windy roads and like nothing really scares her anymore. Yeah
that's good. Yeah, that's interesting. It's because she's got control of the
situation. I want. Yeah, I think she's just feels cough like she
put herself in a lot of situations early on where not on purpose, but
where she had to go find someone's house that was like up in the hills
and was on you know la with when in the hilly areas where you're the
road narrows, yes, and you don't know what to do, so like
do you wait for to pass? And she's had to be in those situations
where yeah, you know, yeah, and she's gotten like honked at by
Pete. You know, she's been in those situations and lived through it.
Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. That's good. Wow, well nice,
Yeah, one of your kid's gonna dry. Kalen not for a long time,
got ways to go. You really like Britney spears, putting them in
your like lap while you drive. Probably at some point you put coke in
their like bottles, right, they haven't had any any soda yet. Yeah.
Wow, good I've been able to keep it away from them. That's
good. That's great. Yeah, that is good. Yeah, any updates,
any kid updates? Um, both Blake is. We're trying to potty
trainer right now. That's a nightmare. Oh boy. Yeah, she's not
not picking it up the way Eila did. So she uh doesn't she want
to be like her big sister. No, doesn't care. Why would she?
Um, today, we were going with the method of just you know,
take the diaper off, leave it off, put the underwear on,
and she peeed like three times without the diaper on. She she did manage
to go in the potty finally before I left for work. Um, but
yeah that was after like three times of just peeing all over the first Well
it takes, that's going to happen. Yeah. Yeah, I've told this
story before and it's just apropoc as of Julie were in the second continue that.
We're also up against the clock because she's starting school next month and like
she can't go unless she's potty training, or it's like really expensive or and
it's a different class. So like we're like kind of up against the clock
needing her to like get it right. Yeah, she'll get there, Yeah,
she will better. She's three, she's about to be. Yeah,
it's still pretty odd, I know, unfortunately, but when she goes to
school and stuff and she sees the other ones hopefully yeah, I mean she
sees her sister do it all the time. Doesn't face her, she doesn't
care when. So when Julie was potty training Bella, um So and our
kids are like really the exact same age her her daughter's October birthday, middle
of October, they're like a month apart. And then our friend Laura and
her daughter Lily, Lily and Elbe are like two days apart. So Julie
was a little bit like braggy about like Bella being potty trained, and uh,
Laura and I were both like wow, Like she just was like,
yeah, we just decided, like she's doing so great. We just decided
to just like get rid of the diapers and like we're just doing underwear.
And we were all at this like restaurant, I think it was called Quincy's.
It was one of those places where there's like peanuts like kind of saws
on the floor and a peanut shells everywhere, and we're sitting there and uh,
Julie's just all smug like yeah we and we're and and Laura and I
are like all ears. We're just like how'd you do it? Because you
know, and she's like, we just I just let her pick out,
you know, I read somewhere letter pick out like her big girl underpants and
like see she's like wearing underpants and she like kind of and then next thing,
you know, the kids are like walking around and I'm like, what
it looks like like rabbit droppings like on the floor, and I was like
what is that? Like, what is that on the floor? And then
I just see Julie go, oh no on the floor? Oh my god.
I suddenly felt so much just a trail of little poop pieces on the
floor. And she was never so fast like picked her up and brought her
into the bathroom and like yeah, a little while longer, yeah to get
that going. Yeah, they all get there, they'll get there anyway,
all right. Well, this has been a super fun, fun show.
I'm not saying if it was good or not, well, maybe it's informative
to some people with teenagers, you know. Yeah, and speaking of cars,
if you see a car, yeah, Adam Lerner, yeah is not
eighty five. He's he's a young whipper snapper and he'll help you get a
car. You can go to his website Adam's Got a Car dot com or
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a car broker. He will broker you a deal so you don't have to
go fight with anybody. You don't got to go to any of the lots.
He'll just say he'll help you figure out what kind of car to get,
who's given the best deals. He'll get you the financing, he'll do
it all, and he'll the car will show up in your driveway. It's
awesome. Yeah. So Adam Lerner. Also our friend Maren from has a
store called Sugar Skull. It's small bakery and gift shop on the island of
Kauai in Hawaii. So if you're vacationing there, check it out. Otherwise,
like and follow their Instagram page Sugar Skull eight oh eight and you get
fifteen percent off if you use the code fcol Also Kelly from Wilma and Frida.
If you're in Palm Springs or Palm Desert, go get some brunch.
Love it there, such good food. They were voted best Breakfast five years
in a row, and they were featured on Diners, Drive Ins and Dives,
says Wilma and Frieda and our friend Kelly and The Family Skeptical is a
podcast about raising kids without religin nice. You don't have to raise your kids
to be Jewish or Christian or anything. If you don't want an age.
Oh, if you're any stripe of nonbeliever, you're welcome. You're their people.
So um. They do an episode only every three weeks, so it
won't even like clog up your feed. There you go. We'll check them
out, The Family Skeptical, Okay, and we'll have more on Friday.
All right, everybody check out our Thursday show with the Jewlie Case. You're
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