Made a decision. Have face sunny sund on I hedvision nice week, CLO's
up. Everybody. Hello, Hello, it's so nice to see you this
beautiful, glorious, gloomy Monday morning. What if we got really formal all
the time on our podcast? Hi? How are you today? How are
you? Lynette? I'm fine? Are you any wilder tailor? How are
you? Kaylin? I'm fine? How are you doing? I'm very well?
Thank you so much for everybody. Let's say I do our friends really
fast. Ready, I'm gonna We're gonna speak through, Okay, Leslie with
the coughing, but I get you, girl, I feel you'll you'll hear
why in a minute. Alicia ask go on tay for the city belt Monday.
Kelly Bryant, she's not your aunt, but she'll take you to plan
Rebecca, No, don't go, You'll see it. Gabby, girls,
Katerina, check that moler before there's trouble. Valerie, Bubba Fenwick, Polly,
we love your pancakes, Athena and you're you and you're dancing, Elizabeth
Williamson and all your kids, and Rita with your bassinet, and Jacob is
so growley. Leslie is accosting people. Still at it, Still at it,
Nikki, call your girl, Aaron who does not? Ana Faris,
Katie Murphy, Amy's Kelly Ladi da share bear. Uh, Sarah Stefano,
she's our Paisano. Aaron Dirty Sanchez, Jennifer, get up, Sandra,
it's not easy being green. Christa. You make meywanas. But Stephanie's a
sticker rinker. Aaron Sanchez is fine with you saying she suggested it. Oh
okay, what a dirty Sancha. Hilarious, hilarious, She's good. I'm
gonna hear about this one. She's gonna be like, oh my god,
she's she thinks it's really funny your reaction to it. Oh good, Okay,
she'll be doubly pleased. Uh, Caitlin, can you turn me up?
Just a hairball, just a little hair? I hate so gross somehow,
just the word the sea word is fine. But when I had a
hair, hair just alone, you know, like your hair is fine when
it's on your head and you're brushing it, but like one goes crazy and
gets into your salad, it's like a fucking all hell breaks loose. Like
ah, that is so true. I can I'll never eat at that restaurant
again. Ever again, there was a hair in mice, probably mine.
That is so funny. Yesterday I was at this party which I'm going to
tell you more about, but white Elephant party, and I swear to god,
I this is so crazy. I had the same thought because there was
sour cream. We were having latkas because it was a party, and there
was a little black hair in the sour cream. And I saw it and
I was like, you know what, It's just it wasn't like a pube
obviously, how would that get in there? But it was just like,
oh, a hair. And I was like, you know what, if
somebody else sees this, it's gonna ruin their whole time. We're gonna have
to throw out the sour cream. And it's so I have the same thought,
and you know what, I just plucked it out through it away,
didn't tell anybody no ew I want to vomit. But I had that same
thought. I was like, Okay, it's just a hair off somebody's head.
It's like but it's not. It's not like it's just when you get
it, like it's like like a rat hair, I know, but like
when you ever, ever, anytime you have like hair in your like you
eat like pasta or soup something, and then you pull it out of your
mouth, which most of the time it is my hair to be because I
always wear my hairtie on my wrist, so sometimes my hair is up,
but my hair tie has been like holding on for dear life, either in
my hair or around my wrist for months. And it's got hair all tangled
in it, and and and it's the right hand. And then I'm eating
with my right hand, so I'm guessing most of the time. And it's
a long, like auburn color, you know, so it's probably my hair.
But still I freak out, like, whoah, I can't eat,
can't I ever, I'm never gonna eat there again. It discuss it grosses
me out. That's so funny. Yeah, I know it's off your head
and it's I know, but you never know for sure where it came from.
Right, But even if it came from like I don't know even if
it came from the chef or something like a right, I know it's a
piece of hair. I think it's a texture. You know. The other
thing is is I had a I fell asleep yesterday, like in the middle
of watching something in the middle of the day, just because I've been at
home with the kids all weekend, and I started to dream, and I
had one of those dreams that my teeth kept getting knocked out. I picked
up my laptop and it smacked me in the in the mouth and my front
tooth got knocked out. So I'm on the phone with the dentist. I
mean it was vivid, and then my bottom tooth like started coming out.
I'm loosening it and I'm pulling it out, and now there's like shards of
teeth stuck in my guns. Do you ever have those dreams? I haven't,
but you know, I read a dream interpretation thing a long time ago,
but I guess I have had that dream because I've looked it up.
It means you're gonna come into money. I swear to God, Kaylin,
you should google dreams about losing your teeth. I googled it and I saw
that it means that you're not being heard, or you're trying to like your
voice isn't being heard, or you're like people aren't listening to you, like
my kid, I don't know that's what That's what I read interesting, but
I have heard both because I used to have these the same dream back in
the day when I was like in high school. I never came into money
back then, and I win the lottery. Have some very common dreams.
I mean, even when I google dreams about it's the first one teeth falling
out. Unfortunately, Stephanie, the first result I'm saying is not you're going
to come into money, but that dreams of teeth falling out may symbolize anxiety,
insecurity or loss. Yeah, there you go. Makes sense. Most
of my recurring dreams are not really googleable. I've had I used to have
one, and I have it every few years where I'm in an elevator and
it's not that the elevator drops, it's that the elevator is going shoots up
and it won't it just won't stop going up. I don't know what that
means. I think that means that I'm rising to the top. It's probably
I'm going to give it a totally different meaning. Yeah, but it's always
terrifying, really, and it's been a reoccurring dream. Yeah, I have
dreams about well, I have also just dreams about unstable elevator stuff like you
get on the elevator and it's like a really and you're on like the two
hundredth floor and it's a really creepy, like the elevator's acting weird. And
yeah, it's called Tower and Tear Disneyland. That's a good ride, Yeah
it is. Doesn't stop you're going on that ride? Yeah, you know
every time. Sometimes I'll have a dream and then I'll get woken up by
the alarm clock or something, and then I don't remember what the dream was,
but I know I was having a good time here have those oh yeah,
stuff was going on where I was feeling good. I was having a
good time. I was talking to somebody I enjoyed, I don't know what.
But then the alarm just came on and like within minutes, I completely
can't remember what I was dreaming about. Do you ever have sex dreams but
they're not coming to fruition? Yes, And you're like, oh, I'm
almost almost, and you're like just wait and then and then it's like your
brain starts waking you up and you're like no, really, well not even
the alarm clock, but like your body's trying to wake you up, and
you're like, let me have some fun please, right, psyche. Yeah,
yes, I've had those dreaks. Let me finish. This morning.
Natalia comes in my room and you know, I get I cold get up
with her in the morning, so I tell her like, just come get
me and I'll, you know, make your eggs when I'm there for brut
camp. Yeah. Right. So she comes in and it was one of
those mornings, and I guess I was asleep, but I was hearing Phil
like like, you know, about to throw up, but I didn't wake
up. And she walks in and she goes she didn't notice it at first,
and she goes, mom, can you make me eggs? And I
was like, yeah, of course, and then she goes ew, I
go what, don't tell me? And she goes, Phil, just threw
up all over your rug. Oh no, And it's just like this like
green just file look like in in a pile, just a lot on the
by the way, the rug that the company gave, you know, because
our house is staged, we have to give this rug back. Oh so
now they're so then she was like uh and she's already grossed out by Phil.
She's like, never mind, you don't have to make me breakfast.
Am I go, well, it only take me a minute to clean up.
She's like, no, it's okay, it's okay. I go,
well, I'm gonna wash my hands. She goes, no, I feel
bad, like you take care of this, Like I'm okay, I'm gonna
get out of school early today. Anyway, we have finals. I don't
need I'm not that hungry, Like all right, well this was today,
just this morning. Oh she's still in school. Yeah, they have they
have finals until Wednesday. Oh mm hmm, my kids are done, lucky.
Well, yeah, so that was my morning. Yeah, with waking
up to puke. So your kids are out, so my kids are out.
But okay, So Friday, last Friday was their last day of school.
Right Saturday, Xander was supposed to have a speech tournament, his second
one. I was. He was so excited about it. Tournament. Yeah,
m tournament, there you go. Tournament. Oh my god, thank
you though, because I would be hearing about this from AGRO listeners and just
have like nothing better to do than correct my pronunciation of words. So I
put on some salve and so he was supposed to have a tournament, and
he was like he'd been practicing and practicing. It was with a partner,
same thing that he did in the last tournament. Anyway, and remember I
told you that the speech and debate person asked me if I would judge,
remember that from last week, and I was like, and John told me
absolutely not. So I had written to her on the Thursday and said,
hey, I have a cold and you know, so if I cannot come,
I would be for But if I you know, yeah, if you
don't have enough parents and that you'd have to eliminate an event, I'll come.
So she wrote me back and she was like, no, we have
enough parents. Thank you, but thank you for letting me know. She
was super sweet. Okay, so Saturday morning, five in the morning,
Xander comes into our bedroom and he's like, and that's another one where you
wake up out of a deep sleep and you're like, what your brain has
to go? Let me figure out what's happening. I was having dinner with
Obama. Second, now you're in my room, right. I was in
an elevator shooting up. Will you walka style into the sky? And now
I've got a child? Yeah, and when your kids are older, so
Caitlin, you're not there yet, Yes I am. No. I was
going to say when your kids are older, it's more jarring because you're not
used to it. Because when your kids are young, you're used to they're
waking you up like it could be any time day or night. Your kids
are like, yeah, I mean after you know, once the baby phase
is over, they're pretty good about not really waking us up in the middle
of the night. But even last week, I like just comes into the
room in the middle of the night, just standing in the doorway like a
creepy silhouette and I have to poop, and I go, okay, so
I have to get up and like help her go poop, and then she
goes back to bed, and then I can't sleep anymore because I'm awake now.
So yeah, that was one of my days last week. Right,
So Xander, five in the morning, he says, I think I'm sick,
and I was like, oh no, really, and he's like,
yeah, I have a fever. And I was like, oh no.
So I got up and took his temperature and sure enough, it was like
one hundred point eight or something, and I'm like and he's like, oh,
and I should just tell you that the day before he was coughing.
So Friday, he'll last day of school Friday afternoon, he's coughing, but
like, I don't know how to explain it. But I was like,
Xander, are you sick? And he's like no, oh, And now
I realized that he just didn't want He was just in the nile And I'm
like, what is this like a new tick? Like he has a coughing
tick now, because honestly, like he's like, nope, I have no
other symptoms. It must be like the weather. Maybe it's just allergies.
And I was like, I don't think allergies give you kind of like that.
It was a real cough, you know. But I let him live
in his delusional world. You know. I was like, all right,
well, who am I to tell him? No, you're I mean,
he has no other symptoms. Anyway, Now he has a fever and it's
the morning of this. He's supposed to be at the speech tournament in a
few hours and he has a partner now, and I was like, well,
you can't go to speech and debate and he was like no, I
think I can. I got no, I'm gonna be fine. I'll just
like take some motion. And I was like, honey, no, like
you're sick. Sick, like you can't like you you have a partner,
you can't be around all those kids all day and you don't feel well,
like once the adrenaline of like oh my god, I have to get there
off and you feel like shit, you're not gonna do well anyway, but
it's irresponsible for me to send you you can't. Yeah, and he's like
okay, So he texts his he texts his partner and weirdly, she was
awake. I don't know why. This was five am. And he's like
oh. She said, like, don't worry about it, like I understand,
take care of yourself. So nice. Nice. Yeah, So anyway,
that's Saturday. Now. I had come in here when we recorded,
because you what, were sick on mon the monday before you went home.
We came back on Tuesday and we recorded and I just had like a cold,
Like I just was like, oh, I think I have a cold.
I remember. Yeah, So anyway, I bring Xander that I guess
that day. Yeah, that was Saturday morning. I brought him to urgent
care because I'll tell you why. I was like, I think he has
the flu because fever and coughing though that's usually a sore throat is a cold,
coughing, and fever is usually flu. And here's the thing, no
flu shot for my kids last year, same thing, Yeah, no flu
shot. Last year. Xander got the flu over Thanksgiving and he stayed home
for Thanksgiving and then John got the flu from Xander. Oh yeah, I
had a flu shot. I and I got the flu too last year.
But mild I think I don't. I'm confused. But anyway, in our
house, I'm the only one. This is like the worst parenting. I
got a flu shot for myself. I'm like at CVS, I'm like,
I think I told you guys about this, because I was asking the pharmacist
about the COVID vaccine and I was like, do you think I should get
the new booster and he said, yeah, you can, you know,
And I said, but if I had to choose, because I don't want
to get them both at the same time because I don't want to be knocked
out. He's like, get the flu vaccine. It's effective. And I
was like, Okay, I'm gonna get the flu vaccine. I'll be back
for my COVID, which I didn't come back for yet. But anyway,
so I think that I had the flu, but just didn't wasn't very symptomatic.
Why isn't that anytime anybody gets the flu shot, they get the flu.
Well, is it because of the shot or it's just a coincidence.
No, but this is like months later. Oh, I didn't get the
flu from the flu shot. No, but I've had years in the past
I didn't get the flu shot and I've been freaking laid out with the flu,
like worst sickness I've ever had. Right, although one year I did
get the flu shot and it was the worst I'd ever had. First time
I got the flu. No flu shot. I don't even think that was
really a thing that everybody got to have. I don't know, Lynette,
but I do know this Xander does have the flu. So we took him
to get tested. I tested him for COVID negative. He got tested for
flu positive. Really sick me not so much so, And I asked the
dog. I was like, do you think that I could have had the
flu? And he goes, yeah, but here's what the flu shot does.
It makes you less contagious and it makes your symptoms really mild. So
I was like, oh, and he said I wouldn't be contagious anymore anyways
in a week, so I should I should get the flu shot. But
both my kids got the flu shot only because they had their physicals, and
yeah, they got their flu shot, So because you were being a good
parent and made them do it. I have literally taken my kids for their
physical and just didn't want to hear the crying and the histrionics about getting a
shot, especially from Xander. He used to. He's much better about it
now, but he used to flip out blood test any kind of shots.
I mean, you know, shaking and so upset that it was like,
yeah, it became a little bit not worth it to be like, uh
whatever, you might get the flu anyway. Right, But now that I
think about it, I'm like, uh, not a great parenting choice,
Like you should make your kids get the flu shot, Like yeah, well
maybe you just build up their antibodies instead by coughing all over them with the
flu, yeah, or letting them eat a gumball off the mall floor like
I did with Sadie when she was little. Right, what was it?
God kissed it, devil missed it? Is that? They say, Yeah,
that's like a moated phrase. You pick it up, you give it
a kiss, and you go God kissed it, Devil missed it. Then
you eat it. Okay, this is food off the floor. Okay,
okay. Do you ever do you ever mop your floor like in your kitchen?
Do you? Yeah? I do? You clean your kitchen floor and
then you drop food on it? You're like, oh, I it,
I just clean this. This ship is disinfected, right yeah, Like this
is the only time I'm ever going to be able to eat food off my
floor. Yeah. I never thought about that, only because Phil's hair is
everywhere all the time, even when I because you have to, I have
to swift the floor at to vacuum it because otherwise it gets so gross.
And it's the genius that decided to put white tile down in the kitchen.
I won't say who, but maybe everybody can produce and do the math.
But yeah, so the floor needs to stay. You know, it gets
dirty pretty quickly, right, so, and it takes two seconds to swift,
you know, and get But there's always hair everywhere, like no matter
what I can vacuum. And also he follows me. Wow, I'm vacuumting
dropping hair along the way because he's constantly shedding, right, He's just a
pain in the ass, that dog. It really is. You missed him
when he was like I know, I know, but he you know,
after spending all weekend with him, and he follows me everywhere, and he
wants to constantly have treats and go outside and wake me up in the middle
the night like a regular dog. Constantly wants, like to the streets,
or like to go to the bathroom. Oh like that, Yes, in
the middle of the night. He wakes me up. Just last night,
three thirty in the morning, he's like at the door banging. It's kicking
the door. I'm like, why can't what because you know, normally can
go through the night without going to the bathroom. But I don't know.
He must have ate something. Ye must to give him one too many treats,
because I do give him a lot of treats, and I think he
gets, you know, a stomach ache, and then I have to suffer
trying to be nice to the dog. But then I have to suffer the
right, right, you get, how do I get it to get hurt?
People's stomach is very sensitive too, so a lot of times, well
when she she does, she will whine at us to go out and every
once in a while it does happen in the middle of the night and she
just to go have right now, you know what, Yeah, outside,
and then she comes back in and then she might you know, it's been
a couple of times where it's been like an infant, like every few hours.
She used to go back out there. Yes, it sucks, right,
but she tells you when you have to. She does. She definitely
does. Yeah, she doesn't just go in the house, right yeah,
same with phil. The one time she went in the house was when she
had steroids. Oh yeah, and then she like lost her mind and didn't
know where she was and then she pooped in Elbie's room on like this greenish
rug that she probably thought was grass for all she knew it only had her
a few months at that point. She was very potty trained though, and
as soon when she did that, she felt so bad about it. She
told us, Yeah, she was like, I'm so sorry, our Doug.
I don't know, did I ever bring that up before? What that
people can talk? Oh now, I probably should have led with that,
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spent a lot of time with the kids, m m yeah, and it's
nice to just hang out with them. Sonny and his friends came over and
cooked steak dinners. Ooh, I know, it's like Sonny take some notes,
which was nice. Un Italian. I watched Bride'smaid We deck. Oh.
I went and got a Christmas tree by myself. So well, Sunny's
dropped out years ago, but Natalia loves tradition and she like loves to go
get a Christmas tree. And every day it was like I can't tonight,
but maybe tomorrow. I can't tonight, but maybe. So then finally I
go, do you want me to just go get a tree while you're at
school? And she's like, that would be great. So I went and
I picked it up. I mean I just walked in and went, I'll
take that one, you know, like just a you know, tall full
whatever. Forgot to put water in it for the first twenty four hour.
Totally forgot because after you get the tree and you shove it, they shoved
it into my car. They put it inside my car. Oh interesting,
yes, but now you have pine needles all over my car. It smells
like a Christmas tree were fresh, you know, like this right, you
know. And then I got home. Sonny helped me carry it inside,
made a mess, and then so Sunny was home, but he didn't want
to go. By the time I got home, it was like five o'clock.
And then so he helped me carry it in, and then I vacuumed
and I'll tell you clean everything and it come completely forgot about the water.
The next morning, Uh, it's like bone dry. I put water in
it, and then like the next day it smelled really vagrant, I mean
fragrant yeah, vagrant. A vagrant smelled like a vagrant, And so I
went down and I checked the water completely bone dry. Again. The thing
was it was thirsty hot. This Christmas tree. But uh yeah, so
then and then I, you know, decorating it and everything. So this
weekend, like Natalian, I did that. We got all the decorations decorated
the house. I would love to have found the elf on the shelf.
Yeah, it's sitting on a shelf. We don't move it around, but
it's there. If I would have found it, I would have moved it
around at least the days I was at the house. Then you go back
and you find it. It's just still in the same place, right right.
It has broken legs, you know, I it's not ambulatory. Do
you have eight elf on the shelf? Oh? Elf on the shelf is
very big? Do you remember to move it? Amy remembers to move it.
But you know, I've like once or twice it's been I've been like,
oh, we forgot, we got to do that. So I was
able to save it once or twice, but Amy doesn't for the most part.
Yeah, that's good. You haven't. You haven't missed a night,
although one night we did put him somewhere, and like too quickly after they
went to bed. So then Isla got up found the elf and was like,
why is buddy there all of a sudden, and I was like,
don't worry about it, go to bed, and I just pushed her back
into bed and then moved it again, and she didn't seem to remember finding
it. So I think we got away with that one. It's smart.
Yeah, yeah, that's so funny. I don't like traditions that our potential
parenting fails. Well, like whoever came up with the whole tooth fairy thing
was really it's really kind of a fuck you to parents. It's like,
good luck with this one, right, you know, right, like remembering
this, how many of us, who among us has not at least forgotten
one time to like put money under their pillow? And also you got to
find out what the going rate is, what's the competition out there? Right
now? Right? There's that too. They go to school and they talk
to their friends. It's like, what you got five dollars? I got
quarter? You know, God, when I was a kid, Yeah,
that's what you got. You were lucky. If you had a quarter,
you probably got five cents sometimes, yeah, dimes nichols. Yeah, and
I was happy to have it right, it was nineteen oh seven. Yeah.
And the thing is you have to live in fear. You have to
wait. You have to try to stay up long enough that your kid is
sound asleep. They have to be in that certain sleep cycle that they're sleeping
hard, yeah, because you have to freaking jostle their head, yeah,
to make sure that that Why couldn't it have been like at the foot of
their bed or something somewhere You could just sneak in and put money at the
foot of their bed and they just leave their tooth in plain sight. You
got to go burrow under their pillow, jostling their head shit, you know,
giving them whiplash in their sleep, and then slide your hand and then
how many times does this happened where you skit your hand under their pillow and
you're like, where's this fucking thing? I find it too, I can't
find it. And then you're like, well, I don't want to just
shove a dollar bill under there, because then their tooth is still going to
be there and they're going to be like, what happened? So then you
have to really like it's like performing surgery. You know. You have to
be so precise and get under there and then move the And you don't want
to have too many moves either, because that's a lot of chances for them
to wait. Night. You kind of want to do it with one,
right, yeah. Like I just remember like looking up. They were looking
up at me like I think it was sunny, like you know, and
I'm like, I'm just you know, fluffing your pillow. They not to
sleep, you know, and but they still are not asleep yet because they
remember. And then the other thing is is that you fall asleep in the
bed usually most of the time, and then you get into this deep sleep
and then you forget all about it, get up, you go to bed,
and then you're like the next morning, like I guess the tooth fairy
day, maybe the tooth fairy fell asleep. Yes, that is so awful.
And then it's just an opportunity for you to feel bad about yourself as
a parent, right yeah, yeah, fate parents. One tradition that I
came up with that now I'm upset about is the Santa Claus used to always
bring a gift and put it at the foot of their bed. Now.
I get the fact that they're too old for this now anyway, like okay,
I can just say, hey, you're too you know that there's no
sana, so there's gonna be gifts under the tree. But they love tradition.
My kids love tradition like you'res So they still want that gift at the
foot of their bed. But it's like I can't outlast them. These kids
stay up till like three in the morning. I know that possible way.
Yeah, So what I might do is just do it in the morning because
I get up at seven in the morning, so I can sneak in there
and put something. Yeah, So the thing used to be, you can
go get your stocking. Even when they were young, I'd say, you
can open your present at the foot of your bed, so you have something
to open so you don't wake us up. Right. This would tie them
over, and then I would let them go and go and open their stockings
smart which would be full of like you know, candy and gifts. And
then they'd be high on sugar and have had a few little fun things before
and then because John and I would be like, let us please have our
coffee. Yes, I know, I know I remember, and you know,
I would do candy sometimes and they're stocking. Well, not with Phil
around the house, because now I can't do that because he'll go and tear
the stocking down and eat all the candy out. I I can't do that
anymore. And when they were little, they'll just eat candy and just put
it down, and then no, can't have can have candy interesting, which
is fine because they don't want candy anymore anyway, right, Nutelli's not a
big candy person, you know. So now I got to figure out other
things like sacks, underwear, shaving stuff. I guess, like that's so
funny. I shopped a Victoria's Secret sale. Okay, I on our neighborhood
buy nothing group, somebody offered up a Victoria's Secret like spend spend seventy five
dollars, get twenty five dollars off. So I was like, I'll take
it. It was like a code, So she sent me the code,
so I ordered a bunch. I ordered underwear sale, underwear for both Sadie
and LB. Nice. This will be you in many years, but teenage
girls go through a lot of pairs of underwear. Let's just say that.
Yeah, yeah, having to throw them out. Yeah. Period yes,
periods come and then it ruins all your best underwear, right, So they
always need new underwear. So I bought a bunch of parasol. I was
gonna put those. I was gonna put underwear in their stockings. And then
I bought Xanderson. That's a good idea underwear for American Eagle. Yeah.
Oh that's a good one. It's a good idea. Yeah. And you
always need stocking ideas, like I did. So. Sadie likes these little
they're they're little stars that you put on your pimples. Oh yeah, yeah,
pimple stars. She loves those. And I bought some of those on
Amazon. I gave those in their Easter baskets and they never went well.
Sunny doesn't, Natalia. I mean once in a while, but I just
see it just sitting in her drawer, just not open, you know,
right. But those are good. I like those, Sadie. I don't
think I got any of those for Elbie. She doesn't really. I don't
think Elbie would use them. Yeah, I got those one of those things
that they the kids love. It's like a headband almost, but it's made
of like soft material. And they use it when they're like yeah, makeup
or whatever to hold their hair back. That's a good one. Those like
fluffy yea like bathroom materials but it goes around their head. That's cute.
I got Sadie one of those. I did get some candy. Oh,
I got some I got these baths, these shower steamers from Explicit Essentials.
The I went on Etsy. If you go on Etsy under and look up
explicit Essentials, it was really they're really funny. They all say they say
like calm the fuck down and relax, bitch or bitch relax or whatever.
It's all sweary. Yeah, and their shower steamers and they smell really good.
Oh and you put it in the shower. Put it in the shower.
Yes, and then the shower steam and moisture makes the shower smell good
and that's awesome. Yeah. Well I like that. It's a good idea,
right, Yeah, got that for Sadi. I didn't get that for
Lbie. But you know what, I probably should see. The girls are
easier the boys, like, I don't know, I try every year to
get him, like I don't know, but he you know, like a
gift card or something like that the Starbucks. But other than that, like
it's hard. Even just presents for Sonny is hard. You know. Girls
are so much easier makeup, clothes this that, you know, but boys,
it's like, I don't know. I got Xander's spike ball. I
think we were talking about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the
one with those trampoline in the middle and you just you hit the ball onto
the kind of trampoline and yes, and they do it in their bedroom.
Can they do it? I don't know, because outside the ball will go
flying like but that's what makes it fun. You know, hit it and
it'll go like really you gotta like run and go get it back. Right.
So my friend got it for her kid. But what Luckily I talked
to her first, my friend Laura. She was like, yeah, I
got it, but I got like, not the right thing. I didn't
get spike ball. I got like I want to be spike ball that she
said her, so on a house Yeah, I don't want this house ball
like it's supposed to be. So she returned it and got the right one.
So I was like, Okay, I'm not gonna make that mistake,
right, I got that for Xander's good and as you know, we're doing
the guitar. So that's that. Yeah. Didn't you have a white Elephant
party? Oh? I sure did? Uh? Yeah, I went to
this party last night. Okay, So I'm gonna tell you the things that
I brought. Okay, because I I think I yeah you, Yeah,
what did I tell you? I got got like a was it Snoop Dogg
or no Snow? I got Snoop Dogg, A Funko pop, a Snoop
dog Funkle Pop that came with Chalice. Yes, okay, so that was
one funny one. My other really funny one. And okay, so I
found this under like, I looked up something of like fun white elephant gift
ideas and I found this and it made me laugh out loud. It's a
It's people of Walmart adult coloring book. Oh wow. Yeah, and it
is so frickin funny. It's all you know, the meme of people of
Walmart, and it's always people dressed in like you know, right crazy outfits
or like half man half horse outfit, but they're walking around Walmart with like
barely dressed or whatever. Yeah. So it's that it's a lot of nudity.
It and then I bought some smell scented colored pencils to go with it.
Nice. That got a huge laugh and was passed all around, So
that was funny. So then okay, so the Snoop dogg and then I
did scratcher tickets. Oh I love that idea. I did five three dollars
scratcher tickets because it was a fifteen dollar limit. And then I did a
fifteen dollars Target gift card and put some like some Trader Joe's, like chocolate
covered almonds and a hot cocoa nice chocolate thing from U. And then oh,
emany gifted you have to bring well. I was originally going to bring
five, okay because it was our whole family was going. And then I
had I found in my cabinet a yetti, a brand new yetti, like
fourteen ounce tumbler. It's called a rambler. I don't know, there were
like twenty bucks online. It was Brandon sitting in my cabinet. Yeah,
so I was like, oh, that that's a good one. Yeah.
So I wrapped all those things, but then John wasn't John started to wonder
if he wasn't feeling well, so I was like, you better stay home.
This is a bunch of like hypochondriac Jewish roople. Right, hey,
that's a bunch of Jews, yeah, germophobic Jews. I was like,
Sam, yeah, So he stayed home and then Xander was obviously still home.
So it was me, Sadie and Elbe. So I provided one extra
gift for the people. Anyway, it was very funny. Nobody was stealing
though. I was like, come on, we need some drama here.
So so somebody got the Scratcher tickets. I so, on my turn,
I stole the scratcher tickets. Oh good, nice and one of my scratcher
tickets won fifteen dollars. Oh really, so I got my money back?
Oh my god, yeah I got it was like nice, seven eleven scratchers.
I got Scratcher tickets once, and it was like on my birthday,
and we were all like, I think in Big Bear, like like Jimmy
and all those guys. The writer, so Tony Barbieri is a writer on
Kimmel. He loves to prank people. But I didn't put two and two
together. So he got me scratchers for my birthday. Uh huh. So
I was like, oh, this is so cool. So I scratched it
off and like it said, I won like ten grand and I was like,
oh my god, you guys, you guys have won ten grand.
I went nuts, and then Tony's just sitting in the corner. How much
did you win? Like ten grant? He's like wow, la la,
that's a like hi bye, like good for you. Like ah, I
was like ten grand. Oh my god. He's like maybe he should read
it closer. And I read it. I was like, you know,
a joke. I was like, fake, that's so funny. Fuck you
can get those at Spencer's Gifts, by the way, you can, Yes,
damn it. I had a it's called Lucky Lady. It's like,
yeah, so didn't one of the scratchers stand out? Or did he get
you a whole bunch of different ones? I don't remember because I never did
scratch it. I was like, oh, this this is cool, Like
I like this idea, and then I did it and I was like,
wow, look at me. I I know. I had that scratcher and
I carried it around to play as a prank on somebody, and I always
felt like this is too mean because it looks for real. I fell for
it for like an hour. He let me go for a while. I
was like, I can't believe I let's play cars, We're playing cards.
I'm like, eh, drinks around me tomorrow at the slopes. Like I'm
talking, I'm I'm rolling. Bit. I was like feeling so good and
it's like it didn't read it like I was like what. And I don't
think anybody else knew it was fake? Right right? I think the guys
knew, but like the girls are like, oh my god, that's awesome.
You're buying us straight, you know, go to the outlet. Yeah
right now. I was like, oh my god, I never get lucky.
Yeah, still haven't gotten lucky. Ow cruel. That's really cool.
And I get excited for little things too, Like I was pretty excited that
first on my scratcher ticket, I won five dollars and I was genuinely like,
oh my god, I won five dollars. And then it's on the
same scratcher ticket, I realized I won ten more dollars and I was like
high as a kite. I was like, you, guys, I won
fifteen dollars now, and people were like, that's great. So I can't
even imagine thinking I won ten thousand. I would like be losing my mind.
I have like all kinds of shit I'm gonna do with that money,
you know, and to buy another car, like I was all in my
head, like I gotta call my mom, Like, oh my god,
I'm glad he stopped you before you meet up calls. I never started rolling
calls. I get my dad on the phone. Oh my god, you
start promising people, I'm gonna buy you a house. I'll put down then
for you. Yeah, oh my god. Yeah crazy. He used to
write for crank ankers, right, Yes, of course, let's see,
that's what I'm doing dealing with. Oh well, we don't. We're gonna
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I was gonna ask you a question because I think that this is an
aging thing with me. But and I know that you like to drive fast.
Still, I was thinking when I was driving here I was like,
you know, the main thing that's changed about my driving is how hard it
is to change lanes. Do you have this at all? I am always
like, okay, all right, changing lanes has become like a kashaw.
I'm like, all right, all right, where am I where? Spatially,
who's next to me? I have this like huge paranoia about my blind
spot now. I'm always like, oh, there could be somebody right coming
up right behind me, and I get like, I turn the blinker on
and then I'm not decisive, you know, like you should turn your blinker
on and then if there's if you check and there's nobody there, go right,
But I don't. Yeah, I like I go, I go to
go, And then I'm like, oh, am I sure? I want
to change lanes right now. I get a nervous feeling like but what if
what if I didn't check enough times? Yeah? Is that? Well?
I'll say this. What I aging now driving at night is when I have
like, because my eyes wear glasses, I can't but but I'm not like
I don't need glasses enough to see like you know far, I can see
far away good, Like it's just up close like reading glasses. Okay,
but then like so at night, but then there's lights and it's dark,
and like it plays tricks because I can't see as good. Right, So
that I have I'm nervous is driving at night, I slow down. But
during the day. The thing is is like the thing that I like about
the Tesla is that it's got a lot to pick me up. So when
I'm switching lanes, if there's somebody that I'm hesitant and I'm like, are
they too close or whatever, I just speed up. I just go right
and then I'm I'm fine. Right, that's a I like to be nimble.
I like that. Yeah, but you know, right, so,
but yeah, but I understand what you're saying, Like, you know,
does your car make any kind of like be like if you get too close?
No? But my okay. So interestingly, my Prius has the which
I love, has the light blinks. If you have your blinker on because
you're going to change lanes, it has a blink gig thing that tells you
if there's somebody coming up in the lane. It alerts you have your blind
spot. My tig On, which is a newer car, doesn't have that.
So when you turn on your blinker, it blinks on your on your
side mirror blinks. But it's tricky in my brain because I'm like, oh
is it blinking, Because like my prius, it's telling me that there's don't
change lanes yet, right, But no, it's not, so I have
so I think my brain has to do too much work. My brain is
a no getter like that, so I have to figure I have to think
too much. No, I'm driving, this is the prius, So that's
telling me there's somebody in my blind spa. Also, once you get older,
you can't just swip your head around but stay now, my neck is
stiff a lot or it hurts. You can't just like look over your shoulder
anymore. If I want to pass a driving test now, and I couldn't
use my rear camera forget about it. That like Sadie when I'm when she's
driving with me, you like, and she has to train herself just to
look all the way over your shoulder all the way both ways. That's like
I have to be like the girl in the Exorcist to be able to still
my head around like an owl. I know. And it's too tight.
Our next are too tight now, like you know, Thank God, in
my car makes that beeping sound. But right, and then Sonny put the
thing when he was driving my car, he put this thing. I didn't
know I had it, but like, it'll have a camera that'll show what
to whenever I put the blinker on. There's a camera that shows me if
somebody is right on my dash, like if somebody's next to me or not.
But I don't I'm old school. I don't pay attention to that.
To me, it's just more like visuals that I don't need in my space.
Kind of drives me nuts. So I just look over my shoulder because
you know, I just have that habit always look over the shoulder. But
yeah, yeah, driving is as you get older, it kind of sucks.
It really kind of does. Yeah. And then you know what else
I noticed. I was looking at vintage T shirts. I think you told
me about this vintage recycled karma. I think it's that I don't know,
because Al Rock and Roll T shirts, yes, and now the like the
distressed sweatshirts and right right because Al, my boyfriend was would pull it up.
I see it on Instagram, you know, so I'm like, oh,
maybe I'll do a little Christmas shopping for myself. So I go on
there and looking because you know, now we do our show and we're on
camera, so I'm like, I need some like T shirts, you know
or something. So anyway, it always these like vintage T shirts. They
always show the same bands. It's like, okay, ACDC, you know,
Bowie, Rolling Stones, blah blah blah. I'm like, where's like
Van Halen or like I don't know, like just Foo Fighters Foo Fighters would
be great. Yeah, we don't have that one. What that Pearl Jam
like old school Pearl Jam something, but no, it's always led Zeppelin and
like Yalli's in, it's all the same. I have a led Zeppelin one
and I don't even like lads. I know led Zeppelin too. Me Hendrix
like, no, it's all the same, Like come on, I know,
I know. And I have the ones that I like. I do
have my public enemy, yeah one, which I like one. I have
two of those. No, I have one public enemy. I have run
DMC. They do have run DMC stuff, which I like. Yeah,
that's one that I can feel good wearing. But yeah, if I'm wearing
led Zeppelin and people are like, oh, I love your sweatshirt I'm like,
don't start questioning me about just because it's not your girl. Don't start
thinking I'm cool, I'm really not right right or Bowie, Like, I
don't know. I get there's maybe two songs I know from Bowie right right,
I don't know. There's one place I found they had the go Gos,
so I bought that, but like that's about it. The cycle Karma
does have the go Gos. I think that's why. But I always I
live in fear when I wear band t shirts that people are gonna ask me
like, oh, what's your favorite song or whatever, and I'm gonna only
be able to mention one. It'd be like like you do well, if
you were wearing a Bruce Springsteen gear, if somebody asked you, you'd be
like, oh, well, which album? Right? Yeah? But I'm
like okay, even like if somebody asked me about Run DMC, I'd be
like, well I could, I'm can certainly named some songs, yeah,
off the top of my head, but pretty much no other band. Like
if you ask me like, hello, cool J or something, I don't
know, I'd be like, I know I like him, but I don't
like Kenny Logan. I wish they had some really geeky I wish they had
Michael McDonald or Kenny lock. Right, we need to get our girl Becky
on it. That's what we need to do, yes, yeah, yeah,
because yeah, there's just I was a target. There was an ice
Cube old school ice Cube T shirt, so I bought that, Like that's
about that's it, like everything else. I think. I think I bought
Xander that exact same T shirt last y. Yeah it's black and it's got
Yeah, it's like him, it's like a silk screen and he's standing yet
like yeah, yeah I got that. Yeah, Sander really likes that,
yeah a lot. But then you know there's like, you know, the
Blondie is a big one too all the time. It's like all right,
come on, I know, if somebody's like, oh you love Blondie,
I'd be like, not really like another one? Hart remember that band?
Yes? Yeah I don't really I can't. There's not really one of their
songs that I mean remember. I mean they were big when I was in
high school. Dreamboat Annie and uh Mada Maracuda. See there you go.
Yeah, that's all I could probably come up with. I probably couldn't have
come up with Barracuda. I would have told you dreamboat Annie, and then
I would have been stumped. Then you start singing to the person and ask
you about that other song you know, like right, and with Blondie.
Honestly, I'd be able to I'd be like a heart of Glass, right,
heart Glass, And then that's it. I'm out. I'm out of
the conversation. Yeah, you take it from there. I know you like
Blondie. I don't know. You're the one who approached me wearing the T
shirt. You tell me you're Blondie. Songs you like? Yeah, getting
in my business questioning me. Yeah, Oh my gosh. All right,
hm, this has been super fun. We didn't even really catch up with
Kaylan. You know what, on Friday's show, we're gonna ask Kaylin because
last week Kaylin was going to tell us some stuff that he found for Christmas
gifts. Oh good, sure, yeah, yeah. But before we go,
let's talk about speaking of like religious holidays. The family skeptical if you're
trying to bring your kids up without religion or not, if you're trying to,
but if you are and you're feeling some kind of way about it,
listen to the family skeptical and you'll feel so much better. It's a podcast
and it's by one of our listeners and I'm not going to tell you who
because she wants to stay private. Also, quick, get on Basic Becky
and get a mousepad or a fun mug that she sells, or a funny
t shirt or a band that you like exactly. And Becky had this shirt
that she sent me which I love, which is for Christmas time, which
says there's some hoes in this house. I like that. I know that's
a funny one. Go to just Basic Beecky dot com or Basic Becky on
Facebook. Also, my friend Adam Lerner, who's a car broker. He
has a website called Adam's Got a Car dot com. Honestly, I was
just talking to him last night. He is the one who won the people
you see at Walmart, people you meet a coloring book, which he thought
was very funny. He we were chatting and he was like, I love
it when the listeners just want to ask me questions. I don't care.
I'm happy to educate people. If you just want to call and check out
and ask him like what do you do? Or I'm thinking about this or
I'm thinking about that. Ask him. If he can't help you, he'll
just tell you if you're if you can do the work yourself, he'll just
be like, you got it. Yeah, that's good. His phone numbers
three one zero nine nine eight seven zero four eight. Also, this is
like we're getting close, we're getting down to it. For our friend Aaron
for you to shop at her brother's nursery, the Backyard in Coast Damasa.
So if you're in Coasta, Mesa and you need plants or a Christmas tree,
please support her brother's small business. Or you can follow him at Backyard
c a across all social media platforms. And he's not aware that she's doing
the shout outs. I don't mention it. What a nice I know.
So sweet and let's just do one more Maren at Sugar Skull. It's a
gift shop and bakery. So if you're on the island of Kawai, that's
a great place you're vacation. Yeah, and ask this is a great time
you probably you might be in Hawaii on Kawai, so ask for Maren.
Tell her you know about her from fcol Nice. Thanks guys, we love
you, We love you, guys. Your parents now, don't f it
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