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Yesterday Sunday was my twins sixteenth birthday. Woo wooh. I can't believe
they're sixteen. I know, I remember when they were three, four that
crazy yeah, lord, sixteen imagine. I had this moment of gratitude for
the fact that, well, first of all, it's annoying that my kid's
birthdays are so close to the holiday. Yeah, I know all three of
your kids, all three of them, so it is. It feels like
a lot of pressure because I wanted to be special. I was talking to
my friend who some of you guys knew who she is, Bonnie McFarlane,
my comedian friend, and she was like, oh my gosh, she lives
in New Jersey, and I was telling her that I wasn't so we still
weren't really sure what we were doing, and she was like, oh my
god, out here, it's like the sixteenth birthday is like a big Shay
deal. I was like, well, out here there's a lot of big
Hispanic communities, so Keen scenaras are a big thing, like my kids are
constantly getting invited to King Sannaras fifteen but sweet sixteen, No, I know,
nothing really not so much. No, it doesn't really stand out out
here. It's more of an East Coast thing. I think so so.
But I was having a moment of gratitude for the fact that, although it's
pressure, this is the first year I think where I have truly felt like
my kids have friends, they have a group. Like through the years both
of my twins, Alby has always had a group. And the reason why,
and I've said this many times, is because I was hell bent on
making mom friends when Elbe was a baby, and a lot of those friends
she stayed friends with some of those kids. So she's known quite a few
kids since they were five years old, and it becomes kind of a built
in like she's not necessarily like besties with them at all times. But it
was like, oh, when it came to time to go to high school,
it was like she had some people to go to high school, right
that she hadn't even been in school with before, right, that were her
friends through her whole You know, she's had a friend that they've been to
every single one of each other's birthdays. That's so key, first one,
that's so cute, every single one. So I've just never worried that much
about her. Maybe one brief period in middle school where she had that remember
when I was old, Yeah, hot and cold. Oh my god,
those old day who we're still in touch with, who's totally fine now like
went away to college, like she and Elbe are totally cool. But yes,
middle school major drama for one year. I'll be, like, had
no friends for a brief period of time. But then she had a best
friend, and then that best friend moved away. But then she fell in
with a little foursome, you know, and then they and then high school
she's just been fine. Yeah, Sadie and Xander, as you guys know,
four years, it was like, what am I gonna do with these
kids? What am I going to do? They're not making this school's hard?
Then this school's hard, and then everybody was like, send them to
the big public middle school. They said, they're gonna do great there,
they said, And then Sadie was promptly traumatized by that. Right, thede
like one friend there. Whatever happened to the kid who's those dad was like,
uh, he had to go pick him. He left him at the
airport. The kid had to get picked up from the here. Oh my
god, I forgot what I named that kid. Yeah, they know that
we're not in touch with those people out Okay, Now I wonder if his
dad's still waiting at the airport. There have been some random Yeah, there
have been some randos. I was just saying to my kids yesterday. I
was like, it's so interesting that this high school has been very good to
them. Xander struggled a little bit there last year, but now he's like
found his groove and he's like really involved in a lot of things, and
they just have this nice circle of friends. They're just like nice kids,
right, And it's not that they're like it's not because of I know that
I've I know that. Sadie came on our podcast and talked about how a
lot of these kids are like using substances and blah blah blah, and you
know whatever. It's a little bit of an alternative school, right, but
it's artsy and there's just like they just all the kids are very inclusive with
each other and they've just fallen into this nice groove. And I think I
told you that lyle Le Crocodile, who he met in middle school, and
then we all helped out that mom who Haram is still struggling a bit because
she's like makes minimum way trying to keep her family afloat. It's been hard
helping her out here and there as much as I can. But Xander and
Lyle Lyle's like it's he's had a lot of trauma, but Xander has They
are still really good friends. That's good, and so Xander like basically the
mom moved him over away from the big high school right after ninth grade,
and he's now joined Xander at his school and like he's having a good time.
So that's the friend that's left over. And then Sadie made one friend
at the big public middle school and that she's still friends with that person,
but everybody else is kind of like newer friends. But they're cool, and
I was so pleased they so I kept asking them, what do you guys
want to do for your birthday? This was the first year that I didn't
have to be like, Okay, I'm bringing all the kids to even Busters
or you know what I mean, because they wanted to make their own kind
of plan. They didn't want me playing because I was like, you can
have everybody come over or and they were like, eh, well, were
thinking about it. Well, what they ended up deciding they wanted to do
Laser Tag again. So they're like, we're just gonna We're going to invite
a couple kids to come over like earlier, and then we're going to go
play Laser Tag from six to eight and people can just like pay for themselves.
And I was like, well okay, but then it turned out that
Elbie was working and it was like she was like, yeah, I'll try
to get them some free games, you know. So I was like,
okay, that's cool. So then it kept getting so I was like okay,
so all I really have to do was first I was like, well,
do you want me to like order in some like nicer food than like
pizza, right, And Sadie was like, I mean everybody pretty much likes
pizza. Yeah. So I was like, okay, let me order from
somewhere a little better, like stuck a dootomenomenoes. Yeah, ordered from Fresh
Brothers. Oh is that nationwide? I don't know, but it sounds good,
pretty good. Yeah. So ordered some pizza, literally, made some
onion dip, bought some chips they didn't even use that, bought a couple
bottles of sprite, and they were just having a few kids. It ended
up being like ten kids at our house to start with, and then a
couple more met us at the laser Tag place. It was so fun and
my kids as opposed to Elbie. They were like, come and play laser
tag with us. And I was like, I don't have to ask me
twice, all right, I like laser Tag, I'll do it. We
get to the place, so the kids come over. It's like super fun.
They're kind of just doing their own thing. John and I. So
we get this pizza. So John and I steal some pizza, eat it
in our bedroom, hang out. Then they're like, okay, we're ready
to go, so we drive over. Both John and I drive a load
of kids over to the place I stay. So Elbe. Elbe's co workers
are like so sweet. Her manager at work loves Sadie and Xander did not
let them pay for anything. They just played game after game. Elbe did
the the briefing basically, so it's like they get the safety briefing and they
tell you how to play laser Tag. We're all in there, and there's
also like so there were like fifteen of us of our party, including me
and Sadie and Xander and all their and then so you got to watch Elbe
do her spiel. Did you catch her spiel? Well, so we I
walk into the briefing room and everyone's already in there, and there's like these
drunk adults and then there's like two separate parties, rowdy parties, and then
all the kids and I walk in and some guy goes, eh, that's
somebody's mother or something, and then ay, and then the kid my kids
go that's our mother, and they're like, hey, standing ovation. They
all start clapping, and then they give me a standing ovation and then yeah,
it was like hilarious. I mean, my kids thought that was the
funniest thing that ever happened. Then I know this laser tag place. I
grew up going to this Laser Tag place. Yeah, it was the number
one birthday party. Yeah, you know Destination. So yeah that you know,
fifteen to thirty people or whatever are gathered in this room. I maybe
went there like one or two times when it wasn't for a birthday party,
and there's just a bunch of random people in there, and like half of
them were drunk. And I was like, oh, this is a different
experience, all of these grown up of drunks, drunks in here rather than
little kids in their birthdays. Yeah, yeah, but fun But get this,
I got to ask them the guy, uh, one of the drunk
guys, do they serve alcohol there? No, No, I don't think
so. No, no, no they don't. But there's a bar right
downstairs. I got it. So people go drinking and then they decide it's
like a hilarious idea to go play laser tag. Yeah, so it's funny.
So and Elbe thought it was hilarious, Like she wasn't bothered by it.
They were like harassing her, but in a but they thought they thought
they were being funny. But Elbie later told me she's like, oh I
love it when that happens. I don't care. Yeah, because they just
kept interrupting her thing, and then she'd be like ahhu and then so at
one point she get a couple of jokes in there. She got a couple
of a couple jokes stand up. Oh yeah, she's got her like jokes.
And she does her little thing where she says like, okay, if
you get hit, like you're out of the game forever. And then she's
like or five seconds, like you know, or might feel like forever,
but it's five seconds. Anyway, the guy said something and she was like,
no, something, and he goes, oh, Moded, I loaded.
Did you just say Moded? Wow? I love you? Oh wow,
Valley, Yes, yes, it was so funny. So anyway,
we play all these laser tag games. It is so super fun. And
then we go back to our house. Oh and I had bought This is
how low key I was about it. Yeah, and I was so happy.
Didn't even order them a cake ahead of time. I went to Ralph's.
I got them a carvel, a little like car of all ice cream
cake on sale for twenty dollars. Had them right, I had the bakery
right. Happy Birthday, hose Oh how cute. And I told her to
spell it hoze because I was embarrassed because I didn't want her to get the
joke, but I wanted the kids to get the joke. But she wrote
it in such fancy like cursive that you cannot tell what it said. Really
some weird design. But weirdly, John had no I was like, can
you read this? And he goes, I don't know what is that?
And I was like, forget it. But Sadie and Xander knew it right
away. You're like they birthday home. They speak oh language, so funny.
So yeah, it was like this a really really fun and I've we'll
take a quick break and I'll tell you okay. So anyway, the nice
thing was that I think this was the very first birthday where I just didn't
feel like I felt like they were self contained, you know what I mean,
Like it wasn't dependent on me to make sure the birthday was fun.
And it was so nice to see them have all these friends that like showed
like I know that Xander felt like he told everybody, don't you don't have
to get me a gift, but like the kids that did get them a
gift, it was like sweet. It was like stuff that they know,
like that shows they know them right right, Like one of Xander's friends was
the one he was in like the speech and debate tournament with got him and
they did this like scene from Trolls, was like kind of ironically, and
she got him a Trolls poster and then like all these like little inside private
jokes and I was like, it's so nice to see. Yeah, yeah,
that is my kids have friends that like they like show up for them,
right, Because do you remember when they were maybe like eight, probably
eighth or ninth birthday, Sadie wanted to have a sleepover. I don't know
if you remember this, and nobody RSV. People just either didn't RSVP or
they were like now and then one and then one girl was like I can
come, but I have to leave by nine and so like and remember this.
And then Xander was going to have a laser tag party, but he
and there weren't like he just didn't even know who to invite because he was
and I was like, fuck it, forget it. We're going to Great
Wolf Lodge. Remember that. I canceld both parties. And I was like,
and I told them eachr one friend. That shouldn't be that hard.
They each found one friend and we and then I took LB so it was
me and Elbie. Each of the kids had a friend. We got one
of those bigger rooms of Great Wolf Lodge and like have a good day,
right, I remember spent the night there. But and I was thinking,
I'm always a little bit on edge, you know what I mean, Like
are people going to show up for them? And this was the first year
that I was like wow, because it's year two of school. So last
year they did laser tag and it was a bunch of people that they didn't
know that well because I had been at the school that long, so they
just invited random people. Yeah, and this year it was like actual friends
that they talked to outside of school that they've had over to their house.
Yeah what I mean. And it looks like they found their people at this
school. Like it's nice. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I'm happy
for them. I know, that's awesome. And just like a little update
about you know, Xander, he's just they're both really in involved in stuff
in school and you know, getting good grades. And then Xander with this
music, you know, he started out in COVID, taught himself how to
play guitar. Because I told you we offered them lessons, and neither one
of them wanted to sit and watch YouTube lessons right, and it was COVID,
so they couldn't do in person lessons. And then we tried to do
he signed him up for these like tutorials and Xander was like like and then
Xander just learned it off of YouTube and now he's really good and he's in
this program in school where they do these shows, which you've all heard me
talk about. But so Xander wrote, two kids that are doing in a
band, that are performing a song, ask Xander if he would write a
solo, a guitar solo for the song that they're going to do, and
he did, and then he recorded himself doing it, which I posted on
my social media. But I want to just play it and he was like,
Mom, do you want to hear the solo that I wrote? And
I was like okay, and then I was freaking blown away. Is it's
amazing? Let's play That's insane? How do you do that? No?
I asked him, Yeah, how did you think of that? Like I've
never understood how people make music, like how they think of it, Like,
how do you think of a song? Like I would never be able
to do it because I would think of like how it starts, and then
I would immediately forget like yeah that after record myself, I'd be like,
oh, here's like a melody, and then i'd how do you get back
to it? I know? Or I would start it and I would end
up being like like Eric Clapton's song or something I can turn into somebody else's
song. You're like, oh, that sounds good and then someone's like,
no, that's a song that exists. That's how I would be I asked
him, and he said, because he's like, yeah, it's he said,
he doesn't know scales, he doesn't read music. He's right, So
he's like, but I know enough about like I know what's what it sounds
like, like what's a half a step up? And what's a step up?
And he goes, So I think of how it's going to start,
and then I just interesting from then I just know how like I start it
and then I go to the next part and then I just let it and
I'm like, I don't that amazing? And so his teeth did his teacher
ask him to do that? Or is he no? So so the teacher
it's so it's this program called Music Lab and it's a class, but it's
also like they they the teacher split them all into bands, right, and
then all the bands get like twenty minutes. There's a big show on December
ninth, right, like, so it's going to be like a four hour
show on a Saturday, and then all the bands perform and they all so
they so they can also mix and match. Like so if one band is
like, oh, we don't we need somebody to do a guitar solo in
our song, they could like ask Xander, hey, we're doing this song,
will you do it right? That's crazy? You guessed on our and
so Xander so yeah, and this like last year he basically the seniors were
doing a lot of the song, so he was only on like two songs.
But you know, but this year he's doing more and he's a better
guitar player, and he practices all day long, like he practices for hours
every day. It's amazing because it just shows you that if a kid is
interested in something, they're gonna learn how to do it, whether they whether
they have a lesson or not. You know, they like he taught himself
how to do it because he's interested in it, yes, and he's good
at it and he's just gonna get better and better and I'm just so proud
of him. And he's such a go getter, you know. And then
Sadie's also like playing guitar a lot. She's playing guitar. Well, she
was originally going to be the bass player, and she can play a little
bit of bass now, but because her band needed somebody who was good at
guitar, she's kind of stepped it up, and like she's gotten really good
and so she's I mean, it's cute, so cute. I love that
they got musical like ears. No, they don't get it from me.
I'm telling you, I am not musical. Yeah, it's interesting. What
about John No, nope, anybody in his family or your family, not
that I can think of. Well, maybe it's in an artistic gene or
something. I don't know. It's weird. I don't know where you get
it. How do you get it? And also where do you get your
singing? Like when somebody can sing, like, how does that? How
do that? I know? Is that I know? Because I cannot sing?
Elbe can totally sing. Yeah she can. That's yeah, she's got
a beautiful singing voice, and she just never I think she took it for
granted. She was just like, I was like, where did that voice
come from? When she played Jasmine in Aladdin in fifth grade? And I
was like, holy shit, where did that come from? It's not from
me. I cannot carry a tune. Neither can John. That's a terrible
thing. Nobody in my family really. But then Elbe kind of took it
for granted and was like, yeah, it was fun. What else,
what else is out there to do? Yeah, well that's Albie though,
she likes to do all these different things. But that's awesome. That's awesome.
So they had a good birthday. Then, Uh, it was so
fun. And then but it was like, oh my god. Just the
buying them gifts though, is like it's it's pressure at this age, well
because they only want shit that they've seen on TikTok or clothes, very specific
clothes, right, So I had to have Elbie help me. We got
Xander a death Row Records T shirt and a puffer a brown puffer coat from
Pacsun, which we knew he would like. And then Sadie I got her
a pair of jeans that she tried on at Urban and liked, but then
didn't want to spend the money on herself. So then I came home and
immediately ordered them off of the website because I knew what size they were,
I knew the exact you know. I furtively snapped myself a picture of them
so that I could go home and order them. But like, that's how
what it's come down to. There's no like, you can't surprise them with
shit anymore. It's hard. I don't like, they don't the surprise is
going to be only a bad surprise, right right right exactly, And even
when I think Sadie will like something, like for instance, there was this
sweater that they had at Urban, and I was like, oh, the
sweater seems so Sadie, But they didn't have the color that I wanted on
the website and I couldn't find it and it was out of stock and out
of stock, and there was this other another color version of it, and
I was obsessing about this sweater. I was like, I really think she'll
like this for for Christmas. She likes these kind of big, oversized sweaters.
Yeah. I finally broke down because I was like, we were I
was with her and we were at Urban and I was like, what do
you think of that sweater? And it was and she was like ugh no,
oh no. I was like, I'm glad you told me because I
was thinking about getting it for you for Christmas. And she was like no.
And then I was like, what if it was in green? This
like green and kind of light purple color and she goes worse. Odd,
Yeah, bullet dodged right. Yeah, I know. It's hard, like
I don't know what to get these kids anymore. And Sonny's also he's the
hardest because he doesn't really ask for anything. He doesn't really nothing really excites
him. The only thing that excites him is football. Oh and he was
gambling in Chicago. Oh really, Well he wasn't. His nephew's, his
cousins were so he they he gave them some bet to do and they put
like sixty bucks down and it was thirty and Nicholas thirty from Anthony. They
put it down. They were gonna give Sonny if it won, like they
were gonna give most of it to him. I don't know what they he
was I think inches of way of winning them four grand like it when it
was it was the college game Ohio State and Michigan, Michigan and something with
the something on the Sonny was like explaining to me, like something with the
on the on the yard, something with the yard, the yards, like
it was shy of four inches. I don't know. And he's like,
this is we would have gone. They would have won four grand I know.
And I was like, that's all right, slow down, you don't
need to be gambling. But but he went. The only thing that he
keeps talking about is these these bowl games, Like he really wants to go
to a bowl game. And I think there's like the Rose Bowl Game.
Is he's one that he's talking about, the one on January first? Okay,
it's a bowl game. Well, Jimmy Kimmel has his own bowl game.
Now, he can't maybe get him a couple of tickets for that one,
I know. I know, Well Jimmy doesn't have that anymore. No,
he doesn't know. It's it's this year. It's hosted by uh my
boyfriend Kronkowski. Oh, Gronk Kronk, he's hosting it. I didn't know
that. I don't know that. They were like maybe they just switch up
the celebrity like every year. I okay, Yeah, but I don't know.
So that's about it, like a football like other than that, like
I don't what am I getting stunted? Like I don't know. They've been
playing Fortnite though, have you been? You know, don't night? Oh
my god, we were playing Fortnite. I had to actually get rid of
my computer, my desktop, my PC computer because I was like getting two
in touch. Yeah, video games, Like once I start, I just
can't stop. I had to put my computer into storage just to like limit
myself. Yeah, I could see it being addicted. Yeah, you know,
I'm just gonna play for like a half hour, an hour, four
hours later, I'm still sitting. They're all frustrated and angry at the at
the computer. So so a bold ticket that sounds expensive, I guess.
I mean, I if it's you know, I don't know, Like it
depends on the seats, where the seats are, I don't know. And
that's about it. Like he doesn't I can't buy him clothes. He doesn't
want clothes. I mean albums maybe, I don't know. So then you
have to get like some big ticket item, right, So like this is
what I'm running into. I hope my kids don't listen to this podcast,
they won't know, they're never going to listen to this. But yeah,
because so I feel like you say that every year. Everyone's like, this
is what I'm going for my kids. Well, I hope they don't listen,
and then you just talk about whatever you're gonna get your kids. Well,
I'm obsessing because here's the thing. Sadie needs a guitar, so we
have an acoustic guitar. Xander had to earn getting the electric guitar because and
he it ended up being his gift for graduating middle school. Right, because
all these freaking parents by their kids extravagant middle school graduate even though you have
heard me say that's ridiculous. Who cares. Of course you're going to graduate
middle school, like right, it's not the nineteen thirties. Yeah, you're
expected to graduate middle school. Like even high school. It's like, I
don't know that we need a huge kudos to graduate high school. But you
find of like, now, that's thank you. That's hard, right,
that didn't do it? Like maybe if there was some incentive, like I
thought I was going to get a gift, okay, whatever, Yes,
my kids get things, lots of things I, and I'm concerned about I
don't want to just I want them to have to want things. On the
other hand, Xander is a lot like Sonny and that he doesn't there's very
few things that he really wants. And Sadie needs a guitar because now this
is what I said to John, can we just buy her, Well,
I go to Facebook Marketplace and get her like a used guitar like I would
think, yeah, right, But John's like, well, then it's very
unbalanced because Xander I made him earn this guitar like and then he got to
pick it out like it wasn't like. So the bass guitar I bought off
Facebook Marketplace, I was like, I don't know if you're going to be
that into playing the bass, Like, I'm not buying you a new bass
guitar, it's not necessary. Found one on Facebook Marketplace seemed fine. We
ended up having to have it like turned it turned out that they'd done something
weird with thet that it is not a usual way that something is strung.
So something broke and we had to bring it to Guitar Center and they were
like, yeah, this is We're gonna redo this for you because this is
not. It's not easy for her to play. She didn't know, she
hadn't really played bass before. Anyway. John's like, well then you run
into like somebody's guitar that they've changed, Like, you know, you want
your kid to be able to go and try the guitar and figure out what
the is. Anyway, I'm like all right, so and He's like,
also, so Xander got to have that experience, and now Sadie's been really
practicing and practicing and she should. So I'm like, okay, but if
we get Sadie guitar for Christmas, like Xander's what now? What then what
Xander gonna get? Yeah? I know that's the hard part is making things
even right, and especially when they're twins. I know. And remember we
all we all remember the pain of when I thought that Sadie would enjoy air
pods and I was like, Xander won't care. And Xander was crying in
my bedroom because like, how come he didn't get airpots and he really really
wanted them? And I was like, what about this bean bag chair that
I got that takes up the entire living room? Hey, you don't like
that the bean bag chair? That's right? I was like Jesus Christ.
Okay, it was one hundred dollars. I didn't even get the most up
to date AirPods for the in the first place. I was like, I
wish I'd known, but like he never made a peep about it. Yeah,
I know. God, I haven't even started. I mean, I
gotta figure out my Christmas stuff for me. It's like, let's just can
we celebrate like the nieces and nephews in Chicago. I know, we gotta
get Sonny in Italia something, but like I don't know, like let's and
then let's adopt a family too, Like let's do something like that, Like
that's what we're gonna do, Like you know, because at this point it's
just there's just a super gonna adopt lile hyle crocodiles. Yeah, I mean
to do that? Should we do that? I feel like we should.
I mean, so these kids have been through so much. Yeah, this
mom is always trying to provide for them, and I maybe she gets if
she gets a Christmas list or something on Amazon, everybody can just go on
Amazon and buy something off her Christmas list. That could be a good ideas.
Yeah, yeah, because don't they have the Amazon wish lists and yeah,
we can tell you that. Yeah, I have her set that up.
My friend. I love doing stuff like that. That's what I liked,
in addition to like making a nice Christmas for my kids. My friend,
you know the teacher that was freaking bomb for Xander, the one that
when he got outed in school that she she shirt around and then went back
into her house and then showed up with an equality T shirt. She's just
like I mean at just a cool teacher and just such a good teacher in
Elbie Hatter and both the twins Hatter and now she's teaching at this underprivileged school,
like in this right is underprivileged the right way to say, you know,
this struggle in school district. A lot of these kids don't have much
of anything. And so she's done. She did this last year, and
she did it this year. She made an Amazon I told her to make
an Amazon wish list. She's provided games for all the kids in her classes.
So she's got middle school, so she teaches several classes, so there's
like, let's say a hundred kids right right between. Yeah, provide them
all games, like to get them off their phones. And then she got
so much interest and people donating so many games that she had enough for the
kids to get to shop for their siblings. Oh that's nice. And then
she held a little rap party, so the kids got their gift, they
picked the game they wanted, and then they shopped for their siblings and then
the got to all wrap present so they had something to like give to their
siblings. That makes you feel good. Yeah, I know, to go
on there and buy a bunch of games for kids. That that's like what
they're getting, right. Yeah, that that's nice, Like that makes you
does make you feel good? Yeah? Yeah, all right, let's take
a quick break and we're back. Let's talk about some ship we're watching.
Yeah, so I didn't know you were watching. What is it called Love
Wins Love, Love Has One, Love Has One? Yes, Yes on
match on Max Yes, yeah, and now so it's three episodes, but
only two has come out. The third one is not Well, it's out
now. Yeah it's out today, but yeah, it's out today by the
time you're listening. Yes, it's out today, not for us, not
for us tonight. I cannot wait. I watched the first I it got
way crazier and crazier as the episode. The first episode. I think I
told you I. We talked about it briefly and I had fallen asleep I
think by towards the end of it, and I was like, well,
it's fine, and then John was like, no, you got to keep
going because it gets much crazier. And I was like, oh, in
Cecily from my bord a f podcast was telling me, She's like, no,
it gets it gets beyond crazy. So I was like, okay.
Second episode, I was like, what they pack a lot? I mean
like yeah. So I was coming home from Chicago and my friend Jennifer sent
me a text and she said, I didn't know that was the name of
the documentary you were talking and she said, have you seen Love as One
on HBO Max? And I said no, but I'm going to now because
I'm about to get on a flight. I can download it really quick while
I'm at the airport onto my phone so i can watch it. Well.
I didn't get to watch it on the flight because I fell asleep, but
when I got home, h yeah, I was like for the first episode,
You're like, okay, like where's this there. They're just a bunch
of people that just want to party. It seems like like this chick just
she did ecstasy once and now like she just wants to hang like just basically,
he'd have sex with a lot of gods. I have sex with a
lot and tell them that they're the chosen one basically, like they're the god
father God. Right, and then like there's one father God who's like eighty
by the way, with like a disgusting like beard, and she's yeah and
you're like, and he's like, okay, cool, my father God.
Yeah, wants to like marry me because and once to call me God.
Okay. But then she brings in another guy, like a younger guy who
seems very off kind of right. He comes in and she's like all right,
ready to have sex, and he's like and he wasn't really attracted to
her, but then learned to love her. Yeah, he was like,
I mean, not trying to be rude, but I wasn't like, didn't
find her that attractive. Oh he was addicted to he had addiction, yes,
yes, yes, So she was just collecting all these like lost toys,
you know, misfit toys and bringing them all together and they're all like
oh and then fit in here. And she's saying that She's been reincarnated a
million times, to the point where she's got a galactic board of all the
people that are her advisors, which are like Robin Wilball and Robin Williams and
like Michael Jackson, everybody that's past, yes, anybody, Jim Belushi,
John Belushi, like like, what the fuck right? Those are her galactic
beings that are advising her. This is what kills me though. So you
get these people, these like crazy cult people that take a little bit from
like q Andon, and a little bit from this, and a little bit
of conspiracy theory and a little bit of like uh the silver uh drinking.
Yes, they formed themselves a little like religion. And then everybody's like,
yeah, cool, cool, twenty blocks sound makes sense. I'll do Robin
Williams is your spiritual advisor, gotcha? I get in on this Like that's
like, are you out of your fucking mind? What are you talking about?
Like, and she just keeps stepping it up. It's like and then
end of episode two. By the time you're at episode two, she's just
like fucking hammered all the time, the berating people like you just like I
wanted a ground Chase sandwich and nobody's like that doesn't feel god like behavior,
Like I thought you were full of light love. Oh, but that's her.
That's when other people are are Whenever she gets angry, that's because she's
getting possessed by somebody else that's a dark soul. But she's not even saying
that. She's not even excusing her own behavior. She's not like, sorry,
guys, I got a little possessed last night. I know they're just
like, oh, she's Oh, how about this genius move she does?
Why didn't we think of this telling our kids, Like when she wants to
take a nap, she's going to do a unconscious conference. I know she's
going to She's she's going to have a conference for her unconsciousness. Yeah,
so, how genius is that? I got to go to a meeting.
I'm going to sleep. It looks like I'm passed out drunk in the middle
of the day, but I'm really at a meeting. Yes, I'm just
gazing at the inside of my eyelids. A lot of important information is coming
to me. Yeah, it's like I've got a half a box of pizza
next to me. Ignore the drools turning out of my mouth and some spilled
red wine all over the place. I'm very busy taking meetings with Robin Williams.
People I know, like, how genius is that? Right? Right,
but like screaming at people and kicking stuff over and going shut and they're
like, oh my god, she is so spiritual, right, she's turning
blue because she drank so much of that oidal silver. Yeah, And everybody's
like, yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's she. He's she mother.
God gets angry with us sometimes, but we have to just behave even better.
And then bringing up in a people, how do new people take a
look at this? Oh, oh my god? And then the guy,
the guy, the guy that looks like Charles Manson that came in and is
like box some ship up. He's like high on meth, and they're all
just like, oh, well, he's real angry and like abusive, but
like I guess forgot, and he's wearing a fucking arrested bracelet and they're all
like, yep, that's our guy. Yeah he's a criminal, he's got
criminal activity on his record, but you know, he's real mean to us
and h But like, I don't know, what are you gonna do?
If God is God? God is God? Who are we to judge?
So he's got a wrap sheet yeah, yeah, a mile long, right,
just like yeah, fuck all? You like, I'm gonna fuck some
shit up. Yeah, he's playing like Metallica and stuff. They're trying to
listen, they're trying to like meditate, and he's like hi on meth,
playing like heavy metal. Yes, and they're just like, ah, can
you turn it down? Yeah, Kaitlin, you got to see this documentary.
It's insane. You haven't seen this? Do you know what we're even
talking about? It's on Max. It's great, it's immediate. You got
a really serious three episodes. Yeah, yeah, I can't. Why didn't
see? Here's the problem. A lot of these shows or podcasts, by
the way, we'll do this too, stretch it out into like fifteen episodes,
and this thing needs to be fifteen episodes. I'd will happily watch the
fifteen episodes of the Slow It Down. I said the same thing when they
were showing her writing and stuff. I was pausing it, rewhinding by because
I want to read what it says. Yes, slow down, let me
absorb everything, right least she's like at least a four episodes, so I'm
already sad that it's going to be over after one more me too, I
know. Then back to watching squid games. I know, Like I was
gonna say, the Voice has figured out a way to make like three hour
recap shows of what you just watched like two days ago. I just watched
this on Monday, and now you're gonna recap it on Tuesday, like,
and they have no shame. That's NBC. They're like, yeah, you
like it, love it, you just saw this yesterday. Well, now
you're going to watch an sore sized video. Yeah I know, I mean
now, but Max is like right, and you know, a lot of
twin flame shit going on in this what's with everybody in their twin flame and
their masculine and uh, divine masculinity and divine femininity. It's a lot of
the same kind of crossover. I know. You would think somebody would be
like, hey, that's my shit. You're stealing from my cult. You
know that I trademarked that shit. Yeah, look, can you do me
a favor and look up because there's this podcast and I feel like we've talked
about this called The Opportunist. Yeah, yes, and the first six episodes
of this podcast are about basically a cult that's very similar and it's this woman
named Sherry. I want to say, Sherry Singer, what information are you
looking the Opportunists? Yeah, the first the first six episodes are about Sherry.
I think it's look up Sherry the Opportunist and it's going to tell you
her last name because I want to give this. This is a this is
a popular podcast. There's a lot of episodes, right, oh, but
this is like episode one, the first episode. The first thing they the
first story they covered over six episodes, was about this cult. Yeah.
But this woman was like she talks like she's a smoker, and she had
like a radio show and she started telling people that she was collecting. It
was another like ridiculous where you're like, how did people start listening to this?
Yeah, makes sense. But there was colloidal silver silver and these.
It was this thing that supposed to ward off evil spirits that she that you
could make yourself, but she could also sell it to you. And she
was like, yeah, like I'm talking to the spirits and they're talking to
the and all these We're gonna save ourselves from these, like and these by
the way, Sherry Schreiner, Yeah, there's the first episode air February twenty
twenty one. There's eight episodes total on that story. Oh no oh,
and then an epilogue. Yeah yeah you will. You would love this if
you haven't listened to it. But it's all this same exact, same stuff,
and so much of it overlaps with like the Love Has One. They're
all borrowing from each other, right right, they are borrowing, and their
websites are always so kooky and so like cheesy, yeah, with like unicorns
and like you know, just like like the website from this cult that I
was always one, Yeah, Love there's one, Like it just looks so
amateurish, doesn't it. Yeah, it's like they're making those like rainbow loom
and they're like you can buy a ramble loom bracelet. Yeah, these are
this is our merch. Yeah oh and but yeah and then she starts merching.
I was always like, how is she who's doing her merch? Or
she creating her pumpkin spice on her own? And then like is she paying
for the jars or is she like you think about it, like how does
she have her own fab fit fun box? You know, like free labor
because all these people she's not paying anything, that's true. They're all just
like making ship for her, yeah, I know, and probably doing the
packaging and using their own money. I'm sure to mail it out to people,
right. How about the when the weird thing I kind of want to
love has one sweatshirt? I know, when they set their house on fire
because of the saging the burning of the sea. Yes, yes, like
they had a nice home and everything. They couldn't have it for longer than
two weeks because then they burnt it down and she didn't even feel that bad.
The woman is like, oh my bad, they're like having to row
boat across. There goes the fire by fire. It's like that meme of
the girl that you know set the fire and it's like she's side eyeing.
She's the little girl is like kind of smiling and the house is burning behind
her. It's kind of like that. She's like I was burning some stage.
Everything's burning to the ground. Man, are they high all the time?
Too? Fucked up? Out of their minds? Stoned? Oh this
is the best you guys. This this reminds me. It's of the craziness
of when we did that what was that documentary that again? Stop stealing my
daughter. Yeah, you got abducted and done it in plain sight. Yeah,
obducted in plain site. Oh my god, you guys are gonna love
this. Yeah, you guys are gonna love it all right. It's crazy
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