1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:14,919 Made a decision a face sunny sun on. I had a visions nice too. 2 00:00:16,199 --> 00:00:23,640 What's up everybody? Hey, oh who are you calling? How dare 3 00:00:23,719 --> 00:00:29,039 you? You know? It's weird Our show gets more and more fun to 4 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,960 do as the weeks go on. That's true. I have less to talk 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,280 about. I know, as we go on, Kaylan has more to talk 6 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,679 about, and we are like, I don't know, it's weird. It 7 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,000 is pretty soon it's gonna be the empty nest. I mean, look, 8 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,799 yeah, oh my god, I'm not gonna have any Meanwhile, Kaylan's gonna 9 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:54,399 have toddlers and we're gonna be empty, empty nests. But when we started, 10 00:00:54,479 --> 00:00:59,840 Kaylan was just a little baby boy, little baby boy, baby Brandon 11 00:01:00,439 --> 00:01:07,239 Brandon with big pause, big puppy pause. All right, speaking of big 12 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,200 puppy pause. I don't know that's a bad segue. But Stephanie Stinker Rinker, 13 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:14,640 Hello, Christa, get the strap. Sandra's night easy being green, 14 00:01:14,719 --> 00:01:21,640 Jennifer stand up and shout, Sarah Stefano. Yeah, Leslie, stop with 15 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,719 the coughing, except if you have COVID, which you probably do. Alijiascalante, 16 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:33,480 Aaron Dirty Sanchez. Kelly Branch is not your aunt Rebecca got a hot 17 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:41,200 great ass. Missy and Gabby out on the streets post Thanksgiving. They they 18 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,079 were sweeping up after the Rose Bowl parade. Oh no, that's next, 19 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,400 No, that's yeah, whatever, I get it. The Macy's. Yeah, 20 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,400 Valerie, Bubba Fenwick. Katerina needs to get to the dentist. Stat 21 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,120 Polly. We love your pancakes. Athena. We love your makeup and your 22 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,760 dancing, your red lipstick. You're hot. Elizabeth Williamson has so many kids. 23 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,480 It's it's cute that we love. We'll take one. Yeah, we'll 24 00:02:04,519 --> 00:02:09,919 put one to bed Elli will Hero, Auntie Lynette Hero ain't nothing but a 25 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:15,000 sandwich. Rita you're rocking all the kids in your best and that Jacob you're 26 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:20,719 growley, but it's adorable. Leslie, stop seriously, seriously with the accosting. 27 00:02:20,759 --> 00:02:23,840 You're going to get everybody all the time. 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Today's actually Monday. 38 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:23,120 Yesterday Sunday was my twins sixteenth birthday. Woo wooh. I can't believe 39 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:28,639 they're sixteen. I know, I remember when they were three, four that 40 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:36,639 crazy yeah, lord, sixteen imagine. I had this moment of gratitude for 41 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:39,000 the fact that, well, first of all, it's annoying that my kid's 42 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,879 birthdays are so close to the holiday. Yeah, I know all three of 43 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,199 your kids, all three of them, so it is. It feels like 44 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:52,159 a lot of pressure because I wanted to be special. I was talking to 45 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,240 my friend who some of you guys knew who she is, Bonnie McFarlane, 46 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,520 my comedian friend, and she was like, oh my gosh, she lives 47 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,960 in New Jersey, and I was telling her that I wasn't so we still 48 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,919 weren't really sure what we were doing, and she was like, oh my 49 00:04:03,039 --> 00:04:06,560 god, out here, it's like the sixteenth birthday is like a big Shay 50 00:04:06,759 --> 00:04:11,039 deal. I was like, well, out here there's a lot of big 51 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:14,599 Hispanic communities, so Keen scenaras are a big thing, like my kids are 52 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:19,920 constantly getting invited to King Sannaras fifteen but sweet sixteen, No, I know, 53 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,680 nothing really not so much. No, it doesn't really stand out out 54 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,800 here. It's more of an East Coast thing. I think so so. 55 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,319 But I was having a moment of gratitude for the fact that, although it's 56 00:04:34,519 --> 00:04:41,920 pressure, this is the first year I think where I have truly felt like 57 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:48,160 my kids have friends, they have a group. Like through the years both 58 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:54,199 of my twins, Alby has always had a group. And the reason why, 59 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:59,240 and I've said this many times, is because I was hell bent on 60 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,279 making mom friends when Elbe was a baby, and a lot of those friends 61 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,519 she stayed friends with some of those kids. So she's known quite a few 62 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:12,079 kids since they were five years old, and it becomes kind of a built 63 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,040 in like she's not necessarily like besties with them at all times. But it 64 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:18,680 was like, oh, when it came to time to go to high school, 65 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,040 it was like she had some people to go to high school, right 66 00:05:24,079 --> 00:05:27,480 that she hadn't even been in school with before, right, that were her 67 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:30,079 friends through her whole You know, she's had a friend that they've been to 68 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:32,439 every single one of each other's birthdays. That's so key, first one, 69 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:39,759 that's so cute, every single one. So I've just never worried that much 70 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:45,079 about her. Maybe one brief period in middle school where she had that remember 71 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,720 when I was old, Yeah, hot and cold. Oh my god, 72 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:54,399 those old day who we're still in touch with, who's totally fine now like 73 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,920 went away to college, like she and Elbe are totally cool. But yes, 74 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,439 middle school major drama for one year. I'll be, like, had 75 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,600 no friends for a brief period of time. But then she had a best 76 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:10,240 friend, and then that best friend moved away. But then she fell in 77 00:06:10,439 --> 00:06:15,319 with a little foursome, you know, and then they and then high school 78 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,000 she's just been fine. Yeah, Sadie and Xander, as you guys know, 79 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,399 four years, it was like, what am I gonna do with these 80 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,720 kids? What am I going to do? They're not making this school's hard? 81 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,600 Then this school's hard, and then everybody was like, send them to 82 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,439 the big public middle school. They said, they're gonna do great there, 83 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,560 they said, And then Sadie was promptly traumatized by that. Right, thede 84 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:45,279 like one friend there. Whatever happened to the kid who's those dad was like, 85 00:06:46,079 --> 00:06:47,439 uh, he had to go pick him. He left him at the 86 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,240 airport. The kid had to get picked up from the here. Oh my 87 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,519 god, I forgot what I named that kid. Yeah, they know that 88 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,839 we're not in touch with those people out Okay, Now I wonder if his 89 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:04,079 dad's still waiting at the airport. There have been some random Yeah, there 90 00:07:04,759 --> 00:07:09,639 have been some randos. I was just saying to my kids yesterday. I 91 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,920 was like, it's so interesting that this high school has been very good to 92 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,279 them. Xander struggled a little bit there last year, but now he's like 93 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:23,759 found his groove and he's like really involved in a lot of things, and 94 00:07:23,879 --> 00:07:29,639 they just have this nice circle of friends. They're just like nice kids, 95 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:35,040 right, And it's not that they're like it's not because of I know that 96 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,079 I've I know that. Sadie came on our podcast and talked about how a 97 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,600 lot of these kids are like using substances and blah blah blah, and you 98 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,199 know whatever. It's a little bit of an alternative school, right, but 99 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:54,560 it's artsy and there's just like they just all the kids are very inclusive with 100 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:59,600 each other and they've just fallen into this nice groove. And I think I 101 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,000 told you that lyle Le Crocodile, who he met in middle school, and 102 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:09,319 then we all helped out that mom who Haram is still struggling a bit because 103 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:15,360 she's like makes minimum way trying to keep her family afloat. It's been hard 104 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,560 helping her out here and there as much as I can. But Xander and 105 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:28,199 Lyle Lyle's like it's he's had a lot of trauma, but Xander has They 106 00:08:28,279 --> 00:08:33,120 are still really good friends. That's good, and so Xander like basically the 107 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:39,799 mom moved him over away from the big high school right after ninth grade, 108 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,919 and he's now joined Xander at his school and like he's having a good time. 109 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,480 So that's the friend that's left over. And then Sadie made one friend 110 00:08:48,159 --> 00:08:54,320 at the big public middle school and that she's still friends with that person, 111 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,799 but everybody else is kind of like newer friends. But they're cool, and 112 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,720 I was so pleased they so I kept asking them, what do you guys 113 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:05,840 want to do for your birthday? This was the first year that I didn't 114 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:09,679 have to be like, Okay, I'm bringing all the kids to even Busters 115 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:13,960 or you know what I mean, because they wanted to make their own kind 116 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,120 of plan. They didn't want me playing because I was like, you can 117 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,440 have everybody come over or and they were like, eh, well, were 118 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:26,120 thinking about it. Well, what they ended up deciding they wanted to do 119 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,440 Laser Tag again. So they're like, we're just gonna We're going to invite 120 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,480 a couple kids to come over like earlier, and then we're going to go 121 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:39,919 play Laser Tag from six to eight and people can just like pay for themselves. 122 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,879 And I was like, well okay, but then it turned out that 123 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,080 Elbie was working and it was like she was like, yeah, I'll try 124 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,200 to get them some free games, you know. So I was like, 125 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:54,279 okay, that's cool. So then it kept getting so I was like okay, 126 00:09:54,399 --> 00:09:58,360 so all I really have to do was first I was like, well, 127 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,559 do you want me to like order in some like nicer food than like 128 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,600 pizza, right, And Sadie was like, I mean everybody pretty much likes 129 00:10:07,639 --> 00:10:09,360 pizza. Yeah. So I was like, okay, let me order from 130 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:16,120 somewhere a little better, like stuck a dootomenomenoes. Yeah, ordered from Fresh 131 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:20,080 Brothers. Oh is that nationwide? I don't know, but it sounds good, 132 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,639 pretty good. Yeah. So ordered some pizza, literally, made some 133 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:28,679 onion dip, bought some chips they didn't even use that, bought a couple 134 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:31,080 bottles of sprite, and they were just having a few kids. It ended 135 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:35,919 up being like ten kids at our house to start with, and then a 136 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,840 couple more met us at the laser Tag place. It was so fun and 137 00:10:43,039 --> 00:10:46,919 my kids as opposed to Elbie. They were like, come and play laser 138 00:10:46,039 --> 00:10:48,480 tag with us. And I was like, I don't have to ask me 139 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:52,200 twice, all right, I like laser Tag, I'll do it. We 140 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,679 get to the place, so the kids come over. It's like super fun. 141 00:10:56,879 --> 00:11:00,360 They're kind of just doing their own thing. John and I. So 142 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,519 we get this pizza. So John and I steal some pizza, eat it 143 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,480 in our bedroom, hang out. Then they're like, okay, we're ready 144 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:11,399 to go, so we drive over. Both John and I drive a load 145 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:18,799 of kids over to the place I stay. So Elbe. Elbe's co workers 146 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:26,919 are like so sweet. Her manager at work loves Sadie and Xander did not 147 00:11:26,159 --> 00:11:33,840 let them pay for anything. They just played game after game. Elbe did 148 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:37,360 the the briefing basically, so it's like they get the safety briefing and they 149 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:41,919 tell you how to play laser Tag. We're all in there, and there's 150 00:11:41,039 --> 00:11:46,039 also like so there were like fifteen of us of our party, including me 151 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,639 and Sadie and Xander and all their and then so you got to watch Elbe 152 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,919 do her spiel. Did you catch her spiel? Well, so we I 153 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,399 walk into the briefing room and everyone's already in there, and there's like these 154 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:05,240 drunk adults and then there's like two separate parties, rowdy parties, and then 155 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,000 all the kids and I walk in and some guy goes, eh, that's 156 00:12:09,039 --> 00:12:15,120 somebody's mother or something, and then ay, and then the kid my kids 157 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:20,679 go that's our mother, and they're like, hey, standing ovation. They 158 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,679 all start clapping, and then they give me a standing ovation and then yeah, 159 00:12:24,799 --> 00:12:26,399 it was like hilarious. I mean, my kids thought that was the 160 00:12:26,519 --> 00:12:33,000 funniest thing that ever happened. Then I know this laser tag place. I 161 00:12:33,039 --> 00:12:35,759 grew up going to this Laser Tag place. Yeah, it was the number 162 00:12:35,799 --> 00:12:39,320 one birthday party. Yeah, you know Destination. So yeah that you know, 163 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,240 fifteen to thirty people or whatever are gathered in this room. I maybe 164 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:46,720 went there like one or two times when it wasn't for a birthday party, 165 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:48,200 and there's just a bunch of random people in there, and like half of 166 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,080 them were drunk. And I was like, oh, this is a different 167 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,679 experience, all of these grown up of drunks, drunks in here rather than 168 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,279 little kids in their birthdays. Yeah, yeah, but fun But get this, 169 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:05,120 I got to ask them the guy, uh, one of the drunk 170 00:13:05,159 --> 00:13:09,720 guys, do they serve alcohol there? No, No, I don't think 171 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:11,919 so. No, no, no they don't. But there's a bar right 172 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,080 downstairs. I got it. So people go drinking and then they decide it's 173 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,480 like a hilarious idea to go play laser tag. Yeah, so it's funny. 174 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:24,000 So and Elbe thought it was hilarious, Like she wasn't bothered by it. 175 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,039 They were like harassing her, but in a but they thought they thought 176 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,000 they were being funny. But Elbie later told me she's like, oh I 177 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,639 love it when that happens. I don't care. Yeah, because they just 178 00:13:33,759 --> 00:13:37,000 kept interrupting her thing, and then she'd be like ahhu and then so at 179 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:39,679 one point she get a couple of jokes in there. She got a couple 180 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:45,919 of a couple jokes stand up. Oh yeah, she's got her like jokes. 181 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,600 And she does her little thing where she says like, okay, if 182 00:13:48,639 --> 00:13:52,000 you get hit, like you're out of the game forever. And then she's 183 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,120 like or five seconds, like you know, or might feel like forever, 184 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,440 but it's five seconds. Anyway, the guy said something and she was like, 185 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:05,759 no, something, and he goes, oh, Moded, I loaded. 186 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,240 Did you just say Moded? Wow? I love you? Oh wow, 187 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,399 Valley, Yes, yes, it was so funny. So anyway, 188 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:18,120 we play all these laser tag games. It is so super fun. And 189 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:22,519 then we go back to our house. Oh and I had bought This is 190 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,480 how low key I was about it. Yeah, and I was so happy. 191 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,120 Didn't even order them a cake ahead of time. I went to Ralph's. 192 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,320 I got them a carvel, a little like car of all ice cream 193 00:14:33,399 --> 00:14:37,679 cake on sale for twenty dollars. Had them right, I had the bakery 194 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:43,480 right. Happy Birthday, hose Oh how cute. And I told her to 195 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:48,600 spell it hoze because I was embarrassed because I didn't want her to get the 196 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,600 joke, but I wanted the kids to get the joke. But she wrote 197 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:56,480 it in such fancy like cursive that you cannot tell what it said. Really 198 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,480 some weird design. But weirdly, John had no I was like, can 199 00:15:00,519 --> 00:15:01,600 you read this? And he goes, I don't know what is that? 200 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,320 And I was like, forget it. But Sadie and Xander knew it right 201 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:13,080 away. You're like they birthday home. They speak oh language, so funny. 202 00:15:13,559 --> 00:15:18,679 So yeah, it was like this a really really fun and I've we'll 203 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,080 take a quick break and I'll tell you okay. So anyway, the nice 204 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:28,399 thing was that I think this was the very first birthday where I just didn't 205 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,440 feel like I felt like they were self contained, you know what I mean, 206 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:37,120 Like it wasn't dependent on me to make sure the birthday was fun. 207 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,000 And it was so nice to see them have all these friends that like showed 208 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:45,639 like I know that Xander felt like he told everybody, don't you don't have 209 00:15:45,679 --> 00:15:48,200 to get me a gift, but like the kids that did get them a 210 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:50,879 gift, it was like sweet. It was like stuff that they know, 211 00:15:50,279 --> 00:15:56,720 like that shows they know them right right, Like one of Xander's friends was 212 00:15:56,759 --> 00:16:00,039 the one he was in like the speech and debate tournament with got him and 213 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:06,720 they did this like scene from Trolls, was like kind of ironically, and 214 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,879 she got him a Trolls poster and then like all these like little inside private 215 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,039 jokes and I was like, it's so nice to see. Yeah, yeah, 216 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,120 that is my kids have friends that like they like show up for them, 217 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,840 right, Because do you remember when they were maybe like eight, probably 218 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:29,120 eighth or ninth birthday, Sadie wanted to have a sleepover. I don't know 219 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:33,080 if you remember this, and nobody RSV. People just either didn't RSVP or 220 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:38,559 they were like now and then one and then one girl was like I can 221 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,039 come, but I have to leave by nine and so like and remember this. 222 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:47,840 And then Xander was going to have a laser tag party, but he 223 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:52,080 and there weren't like he just didn't even know who to invite because he was 224 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:53,519 and I was like, fuck it, forget it. We're going to Great 225 00:16:53,519 --> 00:16:57,679 Wolf Lodge. Remember that. I canceld both parties. And I was like, 226 00:16:57,919 --> 00:17:02,399 and I told them eachr one friend. That shouldn't be that hard. 227 00:17:02,799 --> 00:17:07,079 They each found one friend and we and then I took LB so it was 228 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:08,839 me and Elbie. Each of the kids had a friend. We got one 229 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,839 of those bigger rooms of Great Wolf Lodge and like have a good day, 230 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:17,799 right, I remember spent the night there. But and I was thinking, 231 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,039 I'm always a little bit on edge, you know what I mean, Like 232 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,640 are people going to show up for them? And this was the first year 233 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:29,440 that I was like wow, because it's year two of school. So last 234 00:17:29,519 --> 00:17:32,920 year they did laser tag and it was a bunch of people that they didn't 235 00:17:33,039 --> 00:17:34,480 know that well because I had been at the school that long, so they 236 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:40,839 just invited random people. Yeah, and this year it was like actual friends 237 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,759 that they talked to outside of school that they've had over to their house. 238 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,559 Yeah what I mean. And it looks like they found their people at this 239 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,799 school. Like it's nice. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I'm happy 240 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,599 for them. I know, that's awesome. And just like a little update 241 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:00,880 about you know, Xander, he's just they're both really in involved in stuff 242 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:06,240 in school and you know, getting good grades. And then Xander with this 243 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:10,359 music, you know, he started out in COVID, taught himself how to 244 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,440 play guitar. Because I told you we offered them lessons, and neither one 245 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:18,839 of them wanted to sit and watch YouTube lessons right, and it was COVID, 246 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,440 so they couldn't do in person lessons. And then we tried to do 247 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:29,200 he signed him up for these like tutorials and Xander was like like and then 248 00:18:29,319 --> 00:18:33,720 Xander just learned it off of YouTube and now he's really good and he's in 249 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,039 this program in school where they do these shows, which you've all heard me 250 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:44,200 talk about. But so Xander wrote, two kids that are doing in a 251 00:18:44,319 --> 00:18:48,920 band, that are performing a song, ask Xander if he would write a 252 00:18:48,079 --> 00:18:52,359 solo, a guitar solo for the song that they're going to do, and 253 00:18:52,519 --> 00:18:56,640 he did, and then he recorded himself doing it, which I posted on 254 00:18:56,759 --> 00:19:00,440 my social media. But I want to just play it and he was like, 255 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:03,720 Mom, do you want to hear the solo that I wrote? And 256 00:19:03,799 --> 00:19:07,680 I was like okay, and then I was freaking blown away. Is it's 257 00:19:07,759 --> 00:20:00,200 amazing? Let's play That's insane? How do you do that? No? 258 00:20:00,279 --> 00:20:03,359 I asked him, Yeah, how did you think of that? Like I've 259 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:07,240 never understood how people make music, like how they think of it, Like, 260 00:20:07,319 --> 00:20:11,519 how do you think of a song? Like I would never be able 261 00:20:11,559 --> 00:20:14,000 to do it because I would think of like how it starts, and then 262 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,039 I would immediately forget like yeah that after record myself, I'd be like, 263 00:20:18,079 --> 00:20:22,119 oh, here's like a melody, and then i'd how do you get back 264 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,880 to it? I know? Or I would start it and I would end 265 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,079 up being like like Eric Clapton's song or something I can turn into somebody else's 266 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:36,079 song. You're like, oh, that sounds good and then someone's like, 267 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,839 no, that's a song that exists. That's how I would be I asked 268 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,319 him, and he said, because he's like, yeah, it's he said, 269 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:48,440 he doesn't know scales, he doesn't read music. He's right, So 270 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:52,160 he's like, but I know enough about like I know what's what it sounds 271 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,680 like, like what's a half a step up? And what's a step up? 272 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,000 And he goes, So I think of how it's going to start, 273 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:03,039 and then I just interesting from then I just know how like I start it 274 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,960 and then I go to the next part and then I just let it and 275 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,359 I'm like, I don't that amazing? And so his teeth did his teacher 276 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,079 ask him to do that? Or is he no? So so the teacher 277 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,640 it's so it's this program called Music Lab and it's a class, but it's 278 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:23,359 also like they they the teacher split them all into bands, right, and 279 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:30,680 then all the bands get like twenty minutes. There's a big show on December 280 00:21:30,799 --> 00:21:33,240 ninth, right, like, so it's going to be like a four hour 281 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:37,720 show on a Saturday, and then all the bands perform and they all so 282 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,440 they so they can also mix and match. Like so if one band is 283 00:21:41,519 --> 00:21:45,319 like, oh, we don't we need somebody to do a guitar solo in 284 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,279 our song, they could like ask Xander, hey, we're doing this song, 285 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,240 will you do it right? That's crazy? You guessed on our and 286 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:59,880 so Xander so yeah, and this like last year he basically the seniors were 287 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,079 doing a lot of the song, so he was only on like two songs. 288 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,960 But you know, but this year he's doing more and he's a better 289 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:12,519 guitar player, and he practices all day long, like he practices for hours 290 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:18,240 every day. It's amazing because it just shows you that if a kid is 291 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:21,640 interested in something, they're gonna learn how to do it, whether they whether 292 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,319 they have a lesson or not. You know, they like he taught himself 293 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,359 how to do it because he's interested in it, yes, and he's good 294 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:32,119 at it and he's just gonna get better and better and I'm just so proud 295 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,160 of him. And he's such a go getter, you know. And then 296 00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:40,319 Sadie's also like playing guitar a lot. She's playing guitar. Well, she 297 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:42,519 was originally going to be the bass player, and she can play a little 298 00:22:42,559 --> 00:22:47,640 bit of bass now, but because her band needed somebody who was good at 299 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,599 guitar, she's kind of stepped it up, and like she's gotten really good 300 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,559 and so she's I mean, it's cute, so cute. I love that 301 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,440 they got musical like ears. No, they don't get it from me. 302 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:06,640 I'm telling you, I am not musical. Yeah, it's interesting. What 303 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,359 about John No, nope, anybody in his family or your family, not 304 00:23:11,519 --> 00:23:15,359 that I can think of. Well, maybe it's in an artistic gene or 305 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,680 something. I don't know. It's weird. I don't know where you get 306 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,599 it. How do you get it? And also where do you get your 307 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,039 singing? Like when somebody can sing, like, how does that? How 308 00:23:23,079 --> 00:23:26,200 do that? I know? Is that I know? Because I cannot sing? 309 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,720 Elbe can totally sing. Yeah she can. That's yeah, she's got 310 00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:33,799 a beautiful singing voice, and she just never I think she took it for 311 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,119 granted. She was just like, I was like, where did that voice 312 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,440 come from? When she played Jasmine in Aladdin in fifth grade? And I 313 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:47,000 was like, holy shit, where did that come from? It's not from 314 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:49,279 me. I cannot carry a tune. Neither can John. That's a terrible 315 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,000 thing. Nobody in my family really. But then Elbe kind of took it 316 00:23:53,039 --> 00:23:57,119 for granted and was like, yeah, it was fun. What else, 317 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:02,240 what else is out there to do? Yeah, well that's Albie though, 318 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:06,359 she likes to do all these different things. But that's awesome. That's awesome. 319 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,359 So they had a good birthday. Then, Uh, it was so 320 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,599 fun. And then but it was like, oh my god. Just the 321 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:17,880 buying them gifts though, is like it's it's pressure at this age, well 322 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:22,160 because they only want shit that they've seen on TikTok or clothes, very specific 323 00:24:22,319 --> 00:24:26,559 clothes, right, So I had to have Elbie help me. We got 324 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:33,000 Xander a death Row Records T shirt and a puffer a brown puffer coat from 325 00:24:33,079 --> 00:24:38,359 Pacsun, which we knew he would like. And then Sadie I got her 326 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,599 a pair of jeans that she tried on at Urban and liked, but then 327 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,599 didn't want to spend the money on herself. So then I came home and 328 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:51,039 immediately ordered them off of the website because I knew what size they were, 329 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,599 I knew the exact you know. I furtively snapped myself a picture of them 330 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,480 so that I could go home and order them. But like, that's how 331 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,960 what it's come down to. There's no like, you can't surprise them with 332 00:25:02,039 --> 00:25:04,559 shit anymore. It's hard. I don't like, they don't the surprise is 333 00:25:04,599 --> 00:25:10,039 going to be only a bad surprise, right right right exactly, And even 334 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,000 when I think Sadie will like something, like for instance, there was this 335 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,279 sweater that they had at Urban, and I was like, oh, the 336 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:21,119 sweater seems so Sadie, But they didn't have the color that I wanted on 337 00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:23,880 the website and I couldn't find it and it was out of stock and out 338 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:29,240 of stock, and there was this other another color version of it, and 339 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:30,839 I was obsessing about this sweater. I was like, I really think she'll 340 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,319 like this for for Christmas. She likes these kind of big, oversized sweaters. 341 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,680 Yeah. I finally broke down because I was like, we were I 342 00:25:38,799 --> 00:25:41,039 was with her and we were at Urban and I was like, what do 343 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:45,079 you think of that sweater? And it was and she was like ugh no, 344 00:25:45,519 --> 00:25:48,680 oh no. I was like, I'm glad you told me because I 345 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:52,799 was thinking about getting it for you for Christmas. And she was like no. 346 00:25:52,599 --> 00:25:55,960 And then I was like, what if it was in green? This 347 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,319 like green and kind of light purple color and she goes worse. Odd, 348 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,559 Yeah, bullet dodged right. Yeah, I know. It's hard, like 349 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,960 I don't know what to get these kids anymore. And Sonny's also he's the 350 00:26:11,079 --> 00:26:15,920 hardest because he doesn't really ask for anything. He doesn't really nothing really excites 351 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:21,599 him. The only thing that excites him is football. Oh and he was 352 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,039 gambling in Chicago. Oh really, Well he wasn't. His nephew's, his 353 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:33,200 cousins were so he they he gave them some bet to do and they put 354 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:37,240 like sixty bucks down and it was thirty and Nicholas thirty from Anthony. They 355 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:41,279 put it down. They were gonna give Sonny if it won, like they 356 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:42,839 were gonna give most of it to him. I don't know what they he 357 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:49,279 was I think inches of way of winning them four grand like it when it 358 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:56,759 was it was the college game Ohio State and Michigan, Michigan and something with 359 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,519 the something on the Sonny was like explaining to me, like something with the 360 00:27:00,839 --> 00:27:03,720 on the on the yard, something with the yard, the yards, like 361 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,599 it was shy of four inches. I don't know. And he's like, 362 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,559 this is we would have gone. They would have won four grand I know. 363 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:14,480 And I was like, that's all right, slow down, you don't 364 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,880 need to be gambling. But but he went. The only thing that he 365 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,240 keeps talking about is these these bowl games, Like he really wants to go 366 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:26,599 to a bowl game. And I think there's like the Rose Bowl Game. 367 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,839 Is he's one that he's talking about, the one on January first? Okay, 368 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,519 it's a bowl game. Well, Jimmy Kimmel has his own bowl game. 369 00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:34,640 Now, he can't maybe get him a couple of tickets for that one, 370 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:38,720 I know. I know, Well Jimmy doesn't have that anymore. No, 371 00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:45,039 he doesn't know. It's it's this year. It's hosted by uh my 372 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,759 boyfriend Kronkowski. Oh, Gronk Kronk, he's hosting it. I didn't know 373 00:27:49,839 --> 00:27:52,200 that. I don't know that. They were like maybe they just switch up 374 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,640 the celebrity like every year. I okay, Yeah, but I don't know. 375 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,519 So that's about it, like a football like other than that, like 376 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,440 I don't what am I getting stunted? Like I don't know. They've been 377 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,279 playing Fortnite though, have you been? You know, don't night? Oh 378 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,200 my god, we were playing Fortnite. I had to actually get rid of 379 00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:12,640 my computer, my desktop, my PC computer because I was like getting two 380 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,119 in touch. Yeah, video games, Like once I start, I just 381 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,720 can't stop. I had to put my computer into storage just to like limit 382 00:28:18,759 --> 00:28:22,640 myself. Yeah, I could see it being addicted. Yeah, you know, 383 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:23,799 I'm just gonna play for like a half hour, an hour, four 384 00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:27,440 hours later, I'm still sitting. They're all frustrated and angry at the at 385 00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:33,480 the computer. So so a bold ticket that sounds expensive, I guess. 386 00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:37,480 I mean, I if it's you know, I don't know, Like it 387 00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:40,759 depends on the seats, where the seats are, I don't know. And 388 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,279 that's about it. Like he doesn't I can't buy him clothes. He doesn't 389 00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:48,599 want clothes. I mean albums maybe, I don't know. So then you 390 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,920 have to get like some big ticket item, right, So like this is 391 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,279 what I'm running into. I hope my kids don't listen to this podcast, 392 00:28:56,759 --> 00:29:00,200 they won't know, they're never going to listen to this. But yeah, 393 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:03,519 because so I feel like you say that every year. Everyone's like, this 394 00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:06,200 is what I'm going for my kids. Well, I hope they don't listen, 395 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:07,480 and then you just talk about whatever you're gonna get your kids. Well, 396 00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:14,160 I'm obsessing because here's the thing. Sadie needs a guitar, so we 397 00:29:14,279 --> 00:29:18,640 have an acoustic guitar. Xander had to earn getting the electric guitar because and 398 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,920 he it ended up being his gift for graduating middle school. Right, because 399 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,720 all these freaking parents by their kids extravagant middle school graduate even though you have 400 00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:32,000 heard me say that's ridiculous. Who cares. Of course you're going to graduate 401 00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:37,000 middle school, like right, it's not the nineteen thirties. Yeah, you're 402 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,319 expected to graduate middle school. Like even high school. It's like, I 403 00:29:41,359 --> 00:29:45,319 don't know that we need a huge kudos to graduate high school. But you 404 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,039 find of like, now, that's thank you. That's hard, right, 405 00:29:49,519 --> 00:29:52,440 that didn't do it? Like maybe if there was some incentive, like I 406 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,160 thought I was going to get a gift, okay, whatever, Yes, 407 00:29:56,359 --> 00:30:02,480 my kids get things, lots of things I, and I'm concerned about I 408 00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:04,759 don't want to just I want them to have to want things. On the 409 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:11,000 other hand, Xander is a lot like Sonny and that he doesn't there's very 410 00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:22,799 few things that he really wants. And Sadie needs a guitar because now this 411 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,559 is what I said to John, can we just buy her, Well, 412 00:30:25,599 --> 00:30:29,839 I go to Facebook Marketplace and get her like a used guitar like I would 413 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,440 think, yeah, right, But John's like, well, then it's very 414 00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:37,720 unbalanced because Xander I made him earn this guitar like and then he got to 415 00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:42,200 pick it out like it wasn't like. So the bass guitar I bought off 416 00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:45,000 Facebook Marketplace, I was like, I don't know if you're going to be 417 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:48,039 that into playing the bass, Like, I'm not buying you a new bass 418 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:52,480 guitar, it's not necessary. Found one on Facebook Marketplace seemed fine. We 419 00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:57,440 ended up having to have it like turned it turned out that they'd done something 420 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:02,839 weird with thet that it is not a usual way that something is strung. 421 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:06,200 So something broke and we had to bring it to Guitar Center and they were 422 00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:08,440 like, yeah, this is We're gonna redo this for you because this is 423 00:31:08,519 --> 00:31:12,240 not. It's not easy for her to play. She didn't know, she 424 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:17,559 hadn't really played bass before. Anyway. John's like, well then you run 425 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:22,759 into like somebody's guitar that they've changed, Like, you know, you want 426 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,279 your kid to be able to go and try the guitar and figure out what 427 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:32,079 the is. Anyway, I'm like all right, so and He's like, 428 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,440 also, so Xander got to have that experience, and now Sadie's been really 429 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:38,240 practicing and practicing and she should. So I'm like, okay, but if 430 00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:44,880 we get Sadie guitar for Christmas, like Xander's what now? What then what 431 00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:48,319 Xander gonna get? Yeah? I know that's the hard part is making things 432 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,920 even right, and especially when they're twins. I know. And remember we 433 00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:57,960 all we all remember the pain of when I thought that Sadie would enjoy air 434 00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:02,920 pods and I was like, Xander won't care. And Xander was crying in 435 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,799 my bedroom because like, how come he didn't get airpots and he really really 436 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,680 wanted them? And I was like, what about this bean bag chair that 437 00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:15,119 I got that takes up the entire living room? Hey, you don't like 438 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,680 that the bean bag chair? That's right? I was like Jesus Christ. 439 00:32:20,759 --> 00:32:22,640 Okay, it was one hundred dollars. I didn't even get the most up 440 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,160 to date AirPods for the in the first place. I was like, I 441 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,039 wish I'd known, but like he never made a peep about it. Yeah, 442 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,640 I know. God, I haven't even started. I mean, I 443 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,680 gotta figure out my Christmas stuff for me. It's like, let's just can 444 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,680 we celebrate like the nieces and nephews in Chicago. I know, we gotta 445 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,079 get Sonny in Italia something, but like I don't know, like let's and 446 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,200 then let's adopt a family too, Like let's do something like that, Like 447 00:32:49,279 --> 00:32:52,839 that's what we're gonna do, Like you know, because at this point it's 448 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,799 just there's just a super gonna adopt lile hyle crocodiles. Yeah, I mean 449 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,440 to do that? Should we do that? I feel like we should. 450 00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:06,920 I mean, so these kids have been through so much. Yeah, this 451 00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:10,880 mom is always trying to provide for them, and I maybe she gets if 452 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:15,759 she gets a Christmas list or something on Amazon, everybody can just go on 453 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,799 Amazon and buy something off her Christmas list. That could be a good ideas. 454 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,119 Yeah, yeah, because don't they have the Amazon wish lists and yeah, 455 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,200 we can tell you that. Yeah, I have her set that up. 456 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:30,039 My friend. I love doing stuff like that. That's what I liked, 457 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,160 in addition to like making a nice Christmas for my kids. My friend, 458 00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:40,480 you know the teacher that was freaking bomb for Xander, the one that 459 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:45,839 when he got outed in school that she she shirt around and then went back 460 00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:50,559 into her house and then showed up with an equality T shirt. She's just 461 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:57,039 like I mean at just a cool teacher and just such a good teacher in 462 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:04,160 Elbie Hatter and both the twins Hatter and now she's teaching at this underprivileged school, 463 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,039 like in this right is underprivileged the right way to say, you know, 464 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:12,719 this struggle in school district. A lot of these kids don't have much 465 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,239 of anything. And so she's done. She did this last year, and 466 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:21,199 she did it this year. She made an Amazon I told her to make 467 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:25,239 an Amazon wish list. She's provided games for all the kids in her classes. 468 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,039 So she's got middle school, so she teaches several classes, so there's 469 00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:35,159 like, let's say a hundred kids right right between. Yeah, provide them 470 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,719 all games, like to get them off their phones. And then she got 471 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:45,559 so much interest and people donating so many games that she had enough for the 472 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:51,639 kids to get to shop for their siblings. Oh that's nice. And then 473 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,280 she held a little rap party, so the kids got their gift, they 474 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,840 picked the game they wanted, and then they shopped for their siblings and then 475 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,400 the got to all wrap present so they had something to like give to their 476 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,079 siblings. That makes you feel good. Yeah, I know, to go 477 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,760 on there and buy a bunch of games for kids. That that's like what 478 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,679 they're getting, right. Yeah, that that's nice, Like that makes you 479 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,800 does make you feel good? Yeah? Yeah, all right, let's take 480 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:23,320 a quick break and we're back. Let's talk about some ship we're watching. 481 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:28,239 Yeah, so I didn't know you were watching. What is it called Love 482 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,800 Wins Love, Love Has One, Love Has One? Yes, Yes on 483 00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:37,039 match on Max Yes, yeah, and now so it's three episodes, but 484 00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:40,320 only two has come out. The third one is not Well, it's out 485 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,599 now. Yeah it's out today, but yeah, it's out today by the 486 00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:45,280 time you're listening. Yes, it's out today, not for us, not 487 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:52,400 for us tonight. I cannot wait. I watched the first I it got 488 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:58,239 way crazier and crazier as the episode. The first episode. I think I 489 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,079 told you I. We talked about it briefly and I had fallen asleep I 490 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:04,840 think by towards the end of it, and I was like, well, 491 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,880 it's fine, and then John was like, no, you got to keep 492 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,559 going because it gets much crazier. And I was like, oh, in 493 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:15,599 Cecily from my bord a f podcast was telling me, She's like, no, 494 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,440 it gets it gets beyond crazy. So I was like, okay. 495 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,760 Second episode, I was like, what they pack a lot? I mean 496 00:36:27,559 --> 00:36:32,639 like yeah. So I was coming home from Chicago and my friend Jennifer sent 497 00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:35,920 me a text and she said, I didn't know that was the name of 498 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,599 the documentary you were talking and she said, have you seen Love as One 499 00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:42,880 on HBO Max? And I said no, but I'm going to now because 500 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,239 I'm about to get on a flight. I can download it really quick while 501 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:49,239 I'm at the airport onto my phone so i can watch it. Well. 502 00:36:49,599 --> 00:36:52,039 I didn't get to watch it on the flight because I fell asleep, but 503 00:36:52,119 --> 00:36:57,719 when I got home, h yeah, I was like for the first episode, 504 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,679 You're like, okay, like where's this there. They're just a bunch 505 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,559 of people that just want to party. It seems like like this chick just 506 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,480 she did ecstasy once and now like she just wants to hang like just basically, 507 00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:10,760 he'd have sex with a lot of gods. I have sex with a 508 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,320 lot and tell them that they're the chosen one basically, like they're the god 509 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,639 father God. Right, and then like there's one father God who's like eighty 510 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,159 by the way, with like a disgusting like beard, and she's yeah and 511 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:27,400 you're like, and he's like, okay, cool, my father God. 512 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,480 Yeah, wants to like marry me because and once to call me God. 513 00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:35,119 Okay. But then she brings in another guy, like a younger guy who 514 00:37:35,199 --> 00:37:38,039 seems very off kind of right. He comes in and she's like all right, 515 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:43,840 ready to have sex, and he's like and he wasn't really attracted to 516 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,519 her, but then learned to love her. Yeah, he was like, 517 00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:50,880 I mean, not trying to be rude, but I wasn't like, didn't 518 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,239 find her that attractive. Oh he was addicted to he had addiction, yes, 519 00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:59,320 yes, yes, So she was just collecting all these like lost toys, 520 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,760 you know, misfit toys and bringing them all together and they're all like 521 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:08,000 oh and then fit in here. And she's saying that She's been reincarnated a 522 00:38:08,079 --> 00:38:13,440 million times, to the point where she's got a galactic board of all the 523 00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:20,079 people that are her advisors, which are like Robin Wilball and Robin Williams and 524 00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:23,440 like Michael Jackson, everybody that's past, yes, anybody, Jim Belushi, 525 00:38:23,639 --> 00:38:29,320 John Belushi, like like, what the fuck right? Those are her galactic 526 00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:32,320 beings that are advising her. This is what kills me though. So you 527 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:37,000 get these people, these like crazy cult people that take a little bit from 528 00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:39,519 like q Andon, and a little bit from this, and a little bit 529 00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:45,679 of conspiracy theory and a little bit of like uh the silver uh drinking. 530 00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:52,159 Yes, they formed themselves a little like religion. And then everybody's like, 531 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:57,039 yeah, cool, cool, twenty blocks sound makes sense. I'll do Robin 532 00:38:57,079 --> 00:39:02,000 Williams is your spiritual advisor, gotcha? I get in on this Like that's 533 00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:07,159 like, are you out of your fucking mind? What are you talking about? 534 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,280 Like, and she just keeps stepping it up. It's like and then 535 00:39:12,039 --> 00:39:15,199 end of episode two. By the time you're at episode two, she's just 536 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:21,079 like fucking hammered all the time, the berating people like you just like I 537 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:28,639 wanted a ground Chase sandwich and nobody's like that doesn't feel god like behavior, 538 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,280 Like I thought you were full of light love. Oh, but that's her. 539 00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:37,360 That's when other people are are Whenever she gets angry, that's because she's 540 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:42,719 getting possessed by somebody else that's a dark soul. But she's not even saying 541 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,719 that. She's not even excusing her own behavior. She's not like, sorry, 542 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,079 guys, I got a little possessed last night. I know they're just 543 00:39:49,159 --> 00:39:52,880 like, oh, she's Oh, how about this genius move she does? 544 00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:58,239 Why didn't we think of this telling our kids, Like when she wants to 545 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,679 take a nap, she's going to do a unconscious conference. I know she's 546 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:07,519 going to She's she's going to have a conference for her unconsciousness. Yeah, 547 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:12,440 so, how genius is that? I got to go to a meeting. 548 00:40:12,519 --> 00:40:15,079 I'm going to sleep. It looks like I'm passed out drunk in the middle 549 00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:19,679 of the day, but I'm really at a meeting. Yes, I'm just 550 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,440 gazing at the inside of my eyelids. A lot of important information is coming 551 00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:29,159 to me. Yeah, it's like I've got a half a box of pizza 552 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,679 next to me. Ignore the drools turning out of my mouth and some spilled 553 00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:37,000 red wine all over the place. I'm very busy taking meetings with Robin Williams. 554 00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:42,000 People I know, like, how genius is that? Right? Right, 555 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:47,920 but like screaming at people and kicking stuff over and going shut and they're 556 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,480 like, oh my god, she is so spiritual, right, she's turning 557 00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:57,760 blue because she drank so much of that oidal silver. Yeah, And everybody's 558 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,039 like, yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's she. He's she mother. 559 00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:06,519 God gets angry with us sometimes, but we have to just behave even better. 560 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,760 And then bringing up in a people, how do new people take a 561 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,880 look at this? Oh, oh my god? And then the guy, 562 00:41:15,159 --> 00:41:22,199 the guy, the guy that looks like Charles Manson that came in and is 563 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,960 like box some ship up. He's like high on meth, and they're all 564 00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:30,280 just like, oh, well, he's real angry and like abusive, but 565 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:38,239 like I guess forgot, and he's wearing a fucking arrested bracelet and they're all 566 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,320 like, yep, that's our guy. Yeah he's a criminal, he's got 567 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:46,480 criminal activity on his record, but you know, he's real mean to us 568 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:52,320 and h But like, I don't know, what are you gonna do? 569 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,280 If God is God? God is God? Who are we to judge? 570 00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:59,760 So he's got a wrap sheet yeah, yeah, a mile long, right, 571 00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:02,119 just like yeah, fuck all? You like, I'm gonna fuck some 572 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,440 shit up. Yeah, he's playing like Metallica and stuff. They're trying to 573 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,079 listen, they're trying to like meditate, and he's like hi on meth, 574 00:42:09,159 --> 00:42:14,360 playing like heavy metal. Yes, and they're just like, ah, can 575 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,599 you turn it down? Yeah, Kaitlin, you got to see this documentary. 576 00:42:16,679 --> 00:42:20,519 It's insane. You haven't seen this? Do you know what we're even 577 00:42:20,559 --> 00:42:24,400 talking about? It's on Max. It's great, it's immediate. You got 578 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,559 a really serious three episodes. Yeah, yeah, I can't. Why didn't 579 00:42:29,639 --> 00:42:34,239 see? Here's the problem. A lot of these shows or podcasts, by 580 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,519 the way, we'll do this too, stretch it out into like fifteen episodes, 581 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,280 and this thing needs to be fifteen episodes. I'd will happily watch the 582 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:45,400 fifteen episodes of the Slow It Down. I said the same thing when they 583 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:50,079 were showing her writing and stuff. I was pausing it, rewhinding by because 584 00:42:50,079 --> 00:42:52,760 I want to read what it says. Yes, slow down, let me 585 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:59,000 absorb everything, right least she's like at least a four episodes, so I'm 586 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,400 already sad that it's going to be over after one more me too, I 587 00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:05,719 know. Then back to watching squid games. I know, Like I was 588 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,599 gonna say, the Voice has figured out a way to make like three hour 589 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:14,119 recap shows of what you just watched like two days ago. I just watched 590 00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:16,199 this on Monday, and now you're gonna recap it on Tuesday, like, 591 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,960 and they have no shame. That's NBC. They're like, yeah, you 592 00:43:22,159 --> 00:43:24,199 like it, love it, you just saw this yesterday. Well, now 593 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,280 you're going to watch an sore sized video. Yeah I know, I mean 594 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,920 now, but Max is like right, and you know, a lot of 595 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:37,280 twin flame shit going on in this what's with everybody in their twin flame and 596 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:44,079 their masculine and uh, divine masculinity and divine femininity. It's a lot of 597 00:43:44,159 --> 00:43:46,400 the same kind of crossover. I know. You would think somebody would be 598 00:43:46,519 --> 00:43:50,639 like, hey, that's my shit. You're stealing from my cult. You 599 00:43:50,679 --> 00:43:53,079 know that I trademarked that shit. Yeah, look, can you do me 600 00:43:53,119 --> 00:43:58,400 a favor and look up because there's this podcast and I feel like we've talked 601 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,639 about this called The Opportunist. Yeah, yes, and the first six episodes 602 00:44:02,679 --> 00:44:08,599 of this podcast are about basically a cult that's very similar and it's this woman 603 00:44:08,679 --> 00:44:13,719 named Sherry. I want to say, Sherry Singer, what information are you 604 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:19,000 looking the Opportunists? Yeah, the first the first six episodes are about Sherry. 605 00:44:19,559 --> 00:44:22,320 I think it's look up Sherry the Opportunist and it's going to tell you 606 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,079 her last name because I want to give this. This is a this is 607 00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:28,719 a popular podcast. There's a lot of episodes, right, oh, but 608 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,000 this is like episode one, the first episode. The first thing they the 609 00:44:32,039 --> 00:44:37,639 first story they covered over six episodes, was about this cult. Yeah. 610 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,519 But this woman was like she talks like she's a smoker, and she had 611 00:44:42,559 --> 00:44:46,920 like a radio show and she started telling people that she was collecting. It 612 00:44:47,079 --> 00:44:52,199 was another like ridiculous where you're like, how did people start listening to this? 613 00:44:52,519 --> 00:44:57,639 Yeah, makes sense. But there was colloidal silver silver and these. 614 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,199 It was this thing that supposed to ward off evil spirits that she that you 615 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:07,639 could make yourself, but she could also sell it to you. And she 616 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:12,320 was like, yeah, like I'm talking to the spirits and they're talking to 617 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,920 the and all these We're gonna save ourselves from these, like and these by 618 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:22,719 the way, Sherry Schreiner, Yeah, there's the first episode air February twenty 619 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:27,119 twenty one. There's eight episodes total on that story. Oh no oh, 620 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,519 and then an epilogue. Yeah yeah you will. You would love this if 621 00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:34,039 you haven't listened to it. But it's all this same exact, same stuff, 622 00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:37,559 and so much of it overlaps with like the Love Has One. They're 623 00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:40,079 all borrowing from each other, right right, they are borrowing, and their 624 00:45:40,159 --> 00:45:45,760 websites are always so kooky and so like cheesy, yeah, with like unicorns 625 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:52,000 and like you know, just like like the website from this cult that I 626 00:45:52,159 --> 00:45:53,920 was always one, Yeah, Love there's one, Like it just looks so 627 00:45:54,159 --> 00:45:58,840 amateurish, doesn't it. Yeah, it's like they're making those like rainbow loom 628 00:45:59,679 --> 00:46:01,960 and they're like you can buy a ramble loom bracelet. Yeah, these are 629 00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:06,400 this is our merch. Yeah oh and but yeah and then she starts merching. 630 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,360 I was always like, how is she who's doing her merch? Or 631 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:15,199 she creating her pumpkin spice on her own? And then like is she paying 632 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,519 for the jars or is she like you think about it, like how does 633 00:46:19,559 --> 00:46:22,800 she have her own fab fit fun box? You know, like free labor 634 00:46:23,079 --> 00:46:27,440 because all these people she's not paying anything, that's true. They're all just 635 00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:30,719 like making ship for her, yeah, I know, and probably doing the 636 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,920 packaging and using their own money. I'm sure to mail it out to people, 637 00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,760 right. How about the when the weird thing I kind of want to 638 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,239 love has one sweatshirt? I know, when they set their house on fire 639 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,840 because of the saging the burning of the sea. Yes, yes, like 640 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,119 they had a nice home and everything. 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