Made a decision have face, Sonny sun On, I had vision, my
n what's up? Motherfuckers just had to say, yeah you sometimes you got
to and let us fly. We got to see how to Alicia Golante hey
girl, and Kelly Ladie da oh h and an Fair, not Anna Faris,
Anne Ferris and not Anna Ferris and Aaron who is? And Rachel Honeycomb
and Randy may Ames. You know, and Rachel Honeycomb kind of goes along
with uh, who's Valerie Bubba Fenwick? Okay, Valerie Bubba Fenwick. I
gotta put those two together. And Rachel Honeycomb and Randy may Ames got too
many names? And Nikki call your girls, and Ashley is so chic,
and Less is out accosting people outside of Ikea this time boy making the round.
I know in the valley that one. Yeah, I wanted canoga.
Oh yeah, stay away from there if you don't want Leslie to try to
anyway traffic you Yeah, not funny. Elizabeth Williamson's got a lot of kids,
and Rita rocks them in her basinette and along with heroes kids, yes,
David and somebody else that's his heroes kids and athenagin shirt is dancing on
the tabletops and Katerina's got bad problems with her she didn't check it. No,
it's gonna fall out, I know. And Gabby and Missy talk about
falling out. I know they need an attorney. Let's get Garagos to help
them. And great ass and Rebecca nobody should dark? Oh gosh, and
uh, Kelly Brandt yep, she'll shut your own for you. Oh and
then the other leslie with the coughing already. Still That's what I was trying
to get to. Yeah, and Jacob is so growlly but adorable. Polly,
we love your pancakes. Yeah, and uh, Sarah's fern and Jennifer
get up, and Sandra is not easy being green and Christa get that strap
and Stephanie's a stinkering for sure? Is what's up? So us up?
You know what I did? Yet? You know, once again, I
was at not at the house this weekend, and I don't know if you
remember, in days of yorn, whenever I'm not at the house, I
get a text from one of our neighbors that Phil's taking a dip in their
backyard swimming pool. So I preemptive striked this weekend and said, hey,
Sonny, please make sure all the gates are shut because Dad loves to put
Phil outside and I don't want to get another phone call. So on Friday,
Sonny goes, good, good thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go check
the gates, and I said, also put his collar on so if he
gets out. Okay, good thinking, Mom, Okay. Sunday afternoon,
around three o'clock, get a text one of the neighbors Fills over taking a
dip in our backyard and taking a swim. It's just I look out the
window and there's a black head just bobbing up and down in the water of
our swimming pool. And they don't have a black dog. And they're like,
oh, the Fill's back made his way over. This is like three
houses down and across the street. He just goes out for a walk and
he just he knows that. By the way, we have a swimming pool.
Phil, what's it? And you can't you gotta go swim in somebody
else's pool. That's so interesting. You don't like the salt water. You
gotta go like gopher chlorine. I don't know what it is, but yeah,
he's taking a dip in our pool, and it's no problem. We'll
keep him until you want to come get him. I call Sonny and I
go, Sonny, guess what. Phill's over across the street, over at
the neighbor's house. And he's like, how did that happen? And I
said, did you check the gates? He goes, yes, I go
when he goes Friday, when you told me, I go, well,
it's Sunday. Oh no, and people come and go, and you know,
and don't leave him outside if people are coming and going, if people
are looking at the house. Whatever it is right now, right, So
anyway, that happened, but it's a sinking feeling. Did I tell you
we're gonna have to put pill in a hotel? No? Why? Yeah,
what do you mean a hotel? Well, it's not my idea,
but I guess Adam and the realtor came up with it, because when he
takes people to see the house, there's hair everywhere. Although we do vacuum
and we clean and make the house look good, but there's still fill hair,
like on the couch, like it just it's everywhere. And he has
a tendency of puking on the rugs that are borrowed from the staging company,
and we have the the astro turf outside, which we're trying not to We're
trying to get him to take his shits in the sideyard, but once in
a while he gets out there, he goes in for a swim, and
then he wants to take a dump onto the astro, so then we got
to clean it. It's just been such a pain in the ass. There's
a doggy hotel close by. While the realtor is like, really, you
know, doing like open houses and showings at weeks at a time, would
it be okay if he went and stayed at a doggy hotel? But I'm
like weeks, he's going to be no, because when I go, I'm
taking him with me to the condo. And then I'm like, well,
then, you know, maybe Adam can take him when he's over in Malibu,
But then most of the time when he's in Malabley, he's never home
and he's traveling on the weekends. So right, I'm gonna I'm gonna rust
him out, like I'm gonna maybe, you know, I don't know,
we don't know for sure, but we're talking. They're talking about it wasn't
my idea. I didn't like the idea. Sonny doesn't like the idea.
But Olga's like, he's gonna be fine. He's gonna be with his friends.
He's gonna have friends. He's gonna be lonely all day, like he's
probably gonna love it more like, but he's gonna miss us. And yeah,
don't they have to kind of like sleep alone in the like a room.
Yeah, I know, he's not. Phil is a person. He's
a people person. It's a people dog. He wants to be with people
all the time. But there are some places where the dogs, the dog
sitters are there all the time. And I don't know. I just remember
my friends bringing their dogs to these places and they like a doggy daycare,
doggy daycare, but it's a it's like a hotel with there. They have
beds that are little like cots that they sleep on in the same room with
the other dogs. I don't know. But then bless you are other dogs
gonna like, uh you know, I don't. I like, you know,
sometimes other dogs get nippy and yappy, and like, I don't want
him to get bit by another I don't know, but we'll see. I'll
keep you posted, So it's mostly the hair and the because he might throw
up on the rug. He throws up on the rug quite often. It's
not because either he's eaten. It's just Phil just you know, once in
a while, just barfs. And never on the hardwood floor. It's always
on the rug. Right, You pick him up, you move him.
You hear him, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, and you
move him. You push him to the hardwood floor and he contorts his body
right back to the rug because that's where he starts out right. Either,
no, he's one hundred pounds if that. If that, and then if
he has a seizure, you're fucked because he peas everywhere when he has a
seize right, right, it's just a mess. Maybe the house will sell
really fast. Well, it's been up for sale for a while, but
we dropped the price. So yeah, So have there been showings. There's
going to be. So when that happens, Phil's got uskadadle. But again,
I mean I'll take them right when it when's the when are when are
the I don't know soon. That sounds stressful, yeah it is, but
it is what it is. Yeah, So how is your week? Good?
Oh? I think it was last week. We were talking about children's
books and I wanted to give a shout out to our Facebook group really in
some people suggested a couple of books, and I finally managed to get the
girls over to the library and got them library cards. And I remember this
one book I was looking at it called click clack MoU and oh, that's
a good one. Everybody in the group seemed to be like, oh,
this one's good, this one's good, and so I checked that one out.
But not only was it like a normal book, but it has this
little like audio player attached to it, so essentially just the book reads itself.
You can just play it and it just reads all the pages. It's
really lazy and now a lot of words in that book, Kaylin, Yeah,
I know. And uh so I showed it to them because I thought
it was cool. And now they won't let me read the book to them,
forcing me to play the play the audio track. So I've actually never
even read the book out loud. But they love it. It's like their
new favorite one. They they just want the book to read it to themselves.
That's thanks to that the person who suggested it. What else did you
check out a couple of Doctor Seuss books, Cat and the Hat One Fish
to Fish, I cash, I don't remember the warning, but I loved
it when I read it. Oh it's so long, though, It's like
the page they go on and on. I know. They're so fun to
read, though, and there's so much better than I mean, there's some
books in their library or not the library or library at home that I hate
reading. It's there's one specific, and it's the Jimmy Fallon kid's book where
it's called Everything Is Mama, and every single page is just like this desk
and then the little one says Mama the shoe Mama. Like it's it's the
worst children's book ever. And they don't even really like it that much.
But I appreciate a nice, long, fun right compared to like whatever that
is and illustrations that are interesting. Yeah. Yeah, So we got a
bunch of Doctor Seuss books, the Click Clack MoU and then they just saw
a couple ones that they liked, some random random books, no other notable
ones. What was that Doctor Seus's book that Italian would always read and it
would say like dad, sad, sad, Dad, and she would say
it over and over like hop on Dad, Hop on pop pop pop.
We got that one too, we even ready yet though. Yeah, but
Natalia just focused on dad being sad and he in the room, and because
she was always pushing him away, like he would come and like want to
cuddle with her, and she'd be like no, no, no, no,
like she didn't want to be around him. She'd push him and then
she would just when you come in the room, she'd go, you're sad,
sad dad. Just dad is sad, sad Dad. It's so nice
that doctor Seuss wrote a book about like parents with depression, right, you
know, before it was even cool, exactly before we even dealt with like
mental health issues. You know. That's so nice that he kind of opened
the door for that, right. Well he's a doctor, that's right,
he's a doctor. Well it sounds like you got some good books. That's
good. Yeah, yeah, nice, And maybe the kids like got to
understand that, like libraries have like cool stuff for them. Yeah, they
enjoy being in there. And yeah, we just got all the books.
We keep him for three weeks and then we'll take him back there and they'll
get a new set afterwards. And yeah, I'm trying to get him excited
about reading. Yeah, they have a little program where if Blake's too young,
but if Ila reads like five books, and you could just I mean
you could cheat and just write down whatever, but you take a home write
it and you take it in and out and they'll give you a free kids
hamburger. Oh that's cool, very cool, even though I don't like it
and out, but yeah, I know that's cool. That's cool. I'm
sure your kids like it and out. Oh yeah, that well, Ila
especially has my palate. She likes weird things, like the other day we
took him out to eat and for her like sushi right, which I was
very surprised. She actually tried, like a shrimp sushi. I got it
for as a joke. She said she wanted it, and she actually tried.
She didn't like it, but at one point she just stopped eating the
food and started sucking on a lemon. Oh she did, because I love
lemons. I'll eat lemons constant. She just likes lemons and pickles and vinegary
stuff, and she like just has my palate. Blake, we can't still
can't figure out she's still deciding she's got to get older. Yeah, it's
funny. When Xander was little, he loved salad like what kid loves salad
like, he would order salad at a restaurant and fruits and vegetables like he
would be happily eating broccoli and we're like this sunny, too weird. But
he outgrew it. Like some kids grow into liking healthy, he outgrew liking
healthy foods. Like a certain point we were like, do you want to
order a salad and he's like, no, oh, it's done. Yeah,
I like he said he loved broccoli, raw, cucumbers, raw,
all that stuff. He would just eat, eat, eat, and then
I want to slice of pizza. No, didn't want pizza, didn't like
the cheese. Now all he does is eat pizza. Yeah, barely ever
eats is broccoli, yeah and lb. As I've said many times on this
podcast, was the pickiest eater bagels and cream cheese three times a day,
the simplest food, nothing spicy, forget it, anything with just different colors
or textures. She had no interest. And now we'll just eat anything really
yeah poke, I mean she loves ramen, she loves and she'll eat like
just with tons of vegetables andever, not a big fan of ramen either my
kids. I'm not either. My kids love it. It's just it's a
lot. It tastes good, like three or four bites in and then I'm
done. I don't like. There's something about the bone broth that I don't
like. I don't. There's something that smells funky about it to me and
they that's the only kind of real broth I have, and I don't.
I don't. There's something that smells weird. It's the pork, right,
isn't it a lot of pork stuff. I mean, you can do it.
That's just chicken. But I think it's still bone broth like chicken bone
broth then, But I don't there's something about the bone. Not a fan.
Yeah, like dumplings. Love dumplings. I do too. I'm obsessed
with dumplings. I like ramen too, but I'm never like ooh, I'm
gonna go get I'm gonna go get ramen. It's never. But my kids
love it. There's like a Ramen noodle place by ass that they love.
I'm like, I don't know, not, it's just not into it.
I love my kids all love sushi, love sushi. I mean that is
like what about the poky bowls Pokey? We love pokey. I love poke
I I think it's too dicey of fish, too dicey. Isn't the fish
all diced up? I like it? Like thin. I like everything thin.
I like my chicken cutlets thin. I like the sushi thin. Do
you like waba grill natalia salmon like steamed rice with vegetables, and like salmon
or chicken chicken karaaki? I like that. I like a chicken karaaki bowl.
That's good. I love Indian food. Me too, love Indian food.
I love Indian food and Chinese food. But I'm the only person in
my household that does. So. I can't ever get Indian or Chinese food
because you can't get either of those for one person. You have to order
like right, it's too much and have leftovers for four days. Like so,
I never eat Indian food or Chinese food. Say, we literally have
Chinese food leftovers in our fruit. We've been on like three days. I
love Chinese food. My kids are not. They only like Panta Express.
That's about it. Yeah, you know, I was so craving Chinese food
the other day that I did get Panda Express and not terrible, No get
fix. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. But the thing about ordering
Chinese food is you get a bunch of stuff so you don't have to choose,
Like I'm just gonna have the chicken and broccoli. You get to go.
I'm going to have this soup and this and that. Now I know.
We get shrimped with black bean sauce, a Kung powd chicken. I
love a Kung powd chicken, steam dumplings. We get a bunch of steam
dumplings. I like cashew chicken. I love a cashy chicken. So good
because you get that cash you nads with it. Yeah yeah, all right,
Well let's take a quick break so we can go eat. Let's talk
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guys something h because everybody's gonna be so proud of me. So Sady is
learning to drive, and you guys, remember the pain I went through riding
in the car with LB, I mean, my passenger driving anxiety went through
the roof, yes, and well with other people too. But that's what
kind of started it up again, I think was that feeling of being with
a new driver and I constantly thought we were gonna hit the hit the parked
cars. You know, it's shocking that nobody's just constantly hitting cars right with
it would be a number of people that are just new behind the wheel.
How he not just taken off every mirror of every car as we drive by,
Especially when you're in the passenger seat and they're in control, all you
do is think, OK, you're gonna you're gonna hit this car. You're
gonna like, you're gonna bounce off of cars all the way up and down
the streets right right. But when I'm driving, it's fine, of course
I'm not gonna hit the car. But when I'm in the passenger seat,
I'm for sure thinking we're just gonna go take yeah, mirrors off, yeah,
And it always feels like, what do you do it you're driving on
the wrong side of the road, even though they're not, you know.
Uh So I was worried about driving with Sadie and John was doing the driving
with her. But John tends to be a I mean, I'm gonna say,
a procrastinator. Like he'll be like, I'm taking Sadie driving. Sadie
will be like, I need somebody to take me driving, and John will
be like, I got it, you know, and then it's like time
goes by and he's like, yaya, I'm just gonna like, let me
just get some more coffee and me get a little lunch and then we'll drive.
And then before you know it, he's like, ah, the sun's
in the wrong position, like it's going to be in your eyes. And
I'm like, you know what, this motherfucker's trying to get out of driving
with Shadie. So the other but I asked Sadie. I was like,
do you want me to take you driving? And she was like no,
I said why not? And She's like because I know it gives you anxiety,
and that's going to give me anxiety. I already have anxiety. Yeah,
like when I'm driving, I don't need you. I don't need you
to make it worse. And I was like, okay, my feelings were
hurt a little bit, but I was like she has a point, Like
I can't really argue. I can't really be like me have anxiety. That's
ridiculous in a car, the car, you know. Yeah, So I
was like okay, but then really she had a she drove with the she
had her first major lesson, which is like two hours well, when Elbie
had her first lesson, with Drivers Direct, she'd already been drying, Like
we'd already been all over many neighborhoods, so they were surprised. They were
pleasantly surprised that she was like, oh yeah, this is secondhand. They
took her out of her our neighborhood first day. Well, not so much
with Sadie. She's hardly driven, so they had to take her literally just
in our little residential neighborhood with no other cars on the road. And then
they said that she was kind of tentative and she needs to work on her
spatial whatever she needs to drive more. Essentially, you can't do it all
with Drivers Direct. It's too expensive and they need practice. You have to
have like at least a certain number of hours with their parents. So anyway,
I was like, Sadie, I don't know John was going to be
out for the day. I was like, do you want to drive with
me? And she was like, now she was kind of craving driving because
she hasn't been and weighing. I could see the wheels turning, like,
but this bitch is going to have anxiety. And she was like, are
you going to be anxious? And I said nope, because in my mind.
Also, I was like, we're just going in the neighborhood, so
how bad could it be. I was so good. She went with me.
We drove around the neighborhood. Not I didn't make any like I didn't
do that at all. I wanted to, but I get it they want
to. But I did grab the handle bar. That is just like,
I'm sorry, not doing that as a bridge too far? Where am I
gonna put my hands got a hold on. But and also she did.
I did only once or twice go okay, we're a little close to the
car. But I didn't go like, oh my god, you're gonna have
the car. I was just like, okay, we're getting a little close,
like you know. And and she drove so slow, which was amazing.
Thing like she was driving like you know those toy cars that you can
ride in the little kids for little kids that run by battery and then you
have to recharge them for your kids. Yeah, okay, and they only
go they go so slow. Probably get the girls one of those for Christmas.
Those are like they're great, but they go so slow. Let me
just tell you though. They think they'll use it for about one day and
then they're never gonna it's gonna collect dust in the garage. They get over
it. I think it's because they go so slow. Yeah, that's what
it was like. Like she was driving like so slow, and she was
like, I know, I'm going really slow. And I was like,
girl, that is fine, I love it. Take your time. No
one's behind you. At one point, somebody was behind her and I was
like, you know what, pull over. Let just let him go.
Don't speed up. You're doing great. I was loving it. I was
in heaven. So we drove all around, and I have to say it,
I was proud of myself because when we were going to leave the driveway,
I was like, so, are you comfortable like backing out of the
driveway, and she was like no, no, no, Dad backed the
car out of the driveway and then usually so I was like okay. But
then when we were driving, I was like, you know what, you
need to back out of the driveway, Like that's a pretty basic thing to
do. I was like, so, after you feel comfortable and we've had
this lesson, we're going to pull into the driveway and then you're gonna you're
going to back out of the driveway. And she was like okay. And
we pulled into the driveway and she was nervous and I was like, it's
you're doing fine, Like you're you're fine, right, And we pulled in
and then she backed out of the driveway and I kind of taught her how
to do it, and I didn't touch the wheel. I let her do
it. And she had that like, okay, but if I want the
car to face this, like which way do I turn the wheel? And
I was like, okay, don't worry. Experiment like I want you to
turn the wheel. And because there's nobody coming, I was like, and
you can see where does the car go when I turned the wheel? And
then John was proud of me because when he got home, I was like
I had her back out of the driveway several times and he was like,
wow, look at you. That's good. And then yesterday she drove with
John and she told me she like driving with me better. Ah. I
knew it, that's us. She was like, Mom, I swear to
god, you were calmer than Dad. I was like I was. She
was like yeah, yeah. I was like, well not for long because
wait, I was like, you'll see when you're on the freeway. Dad's
the one who's going to be calm and I'm going to be a basket case.
Oh my god, the free But luckily they don't have to go on
the freeway to take their test, their driver's test, right, No,
they don't. No freeway and no no parallel parking anymore. Like I don't
get that. How come they don't have to learn how to do any of
that? I don't know. But I tried to teach Elbe how to parallel
park. Yeah, she can do it, it just she needs a lot
of room to do it right. But Elbe drives everywhere all the time.
She's driven through the canyons to go to the beach, She's driven on the
yeah, taken the freeway long. And I still get nervous driving with her,
as if she's a new driver. She's been driving for a few years
now, and I still feel like, oh god, I prefer to be
the one driving. Yeah, it's I think that is that way. I
mean, I remember when Nicholas and Anthony started driving, and Wendy was like,
oh my god, I don't I don't want to be in the car
with them. Like, and they're good drivers, they were good, but
Nicholas would drive through the canyon and you know, get close to the whatever
and she would be a basket case, a basket case. Yeah. But
yeah, Natalia has been driving. She's going to get her license. I
think it's next a week. Yeah. Oh a DMB, Yeah, okay,
the DMV and Urleada, because they're supposed to be the ones that are
better than either. Did you know that? No, they're the easiest.
There's the Waneka DMB, the Arlida I think, and sending it to the
Van Eyes one and passed. I think, the Arlida and the wan Neka
ones. The one Neca one is by you il be passed at the Van
Eyes one, so did Sonny. But she did hear there were several of
her fronts. Yeah, did not pass there and went to they heard a
thousand oaks. Oh yeah, thousand oaks. It's supposed to be real easy,
right you can look up the percentage of people that passed. Yes.
Yeah, so she's going to Arleada. But anyway, I was driving with
her and she starts to when sometimes she starts to talk, I'm like,
okay, don't talk, just focus, and then she'll be quiet and then
she'll start talking again. What I get nervous is when she's making a right
turn and there's pedestrians, right, and I'm like, Nadaiah, the wait
till he gets under the sidewalk, like She's like, I saw him.
That's the one. Like I'm like, well, that's an automatic fail.
Yeah, you have to and I only learnim this. You have to the
pedestrian has to be which has to be completely on the sidewalk, if they're
walking toward your car, like if you're going to make a right and the
pedestrians crossing towards you, you have to wait till they are completely on the
sidewalk, not in the curb, not past your car, like, and
if they're going the other way, like if they're starting from where you're about
to make the turn, you have to wait until they're completely across not all
the way across the street, but apparently more than halfway across the street.
Right, yeah, yeah, or you will automatically fail. Right, my
because Albi's friend failed because the person was one foot on the curb but one
the other foot hadn't gone and she went to go and automatic fail. Go
back to the DMV. You're done, yeah, mm hmm. Yeah,
Well it'll be interesting. Yeah, it's just she's gonna get her license.
Is she nervous? No, she's been driving, has the appointment already.
Yeah, yeah, she did the driving school and all that with the instructor.
Uh huh. Well, Sonny had the weird instructor with the ponytail and
like listening to like, you know, led Zeppelin and the doors. And
then I hired the same guy and he came and sat out in front of
our house and then Tex sent me in Natalia text and says, I have
to leave. My son in law died, and then that was that.
Never heard from him again. I was like, oh my god, I'm
so sorry. And then I sent him a text like two days later,
would let me know when you can him, let me know when you can
reschedule nothing, and he owes me money because I already paid. Oh it
was real money for one lesson. But it wasn't through a company. No,
it's this guy that everybody like Sonny used and all his friends used,
and apparently like Sonny was like I really liked him, Like we jibed,
we talk about music, and I like, you know, I'm in the
car with him for two hours. He's got a ponytail, a fanny pack.
He's got this whole website that he sends to you, like check out
my blog about teen driving and whatever. Does he bring a car, Yes,
he has his car with the pedals and all that. So then I
hired him for an Italia paid for the lesson. He stood out for ten
minutes and never like sent her a text that he was there and then said
or he said I'm here, and then ten minutes later was like, I
gotta go. And he was there early. I don't know. I wasn't
there, but he was sending me and her lesson and then he was like
I just found out my son in law died. I gotta go. And
then never a but motherfucker, you owe me money. Yeah, that's so
I hired another. So she had her friends give me the name of a
school, like it's like a driving Direct, Driver's Direct probably now it's a
v O or m v O or something in Pasadena. Called them up,
no problem. All they came, she's already done or two lesson, she's
got one more done and then she's going to get her test. Yeah,
so Sadie has another one, I believe, like November fifth. Does she
have an appointment yet at the DMV no because she she's been driving so sporadically.
That and and the appointments seemed to be pretty easy to make. Yeah,
they like they're not. Like when Elbe was trying to get hers,
it was months backed up, and I called the guy who runs the driving
school drivers Direct made the appointment for Elbie because you couldn't get somehow he had
a way to get the appointments. We couldn't get an appointment. Yeah,
it was like impossible. So but now I told you I saw well,
even to get the permit test, it was like I went to go on
the website for Sadie and it was like, oh, do you want to
come tomorrow? Right right? Anytime? So I think it's pretty open.
Yeah, So I'm gonna wait till she feels a little more comfortable and till
we're like at least like three months out right right, and then yeah,
yeah, yeah, Natalia is rare and a goo. Xander hasn't done his
permit test yet and he hasn't even finished the online like thing to get his
certificate so we can go get the permit. So the other day he went
home with some friends from school and he was like, we're all going to
do our driving stuff together, and I was like, oh, that's cool.
He's finally feeling a little motivated. And then he came home and I
was like, oh, how much of it did you get through? And
he's like, oh, we didn't end up getting to it. Watch TV.
But Elbe was like, forget Elbe the rule follower when she was doing
her driving. So you do an online course, right, and then you
get a certificate. So the online course, if you do it the way
they tell you to do it, you're reading like all of this stuff that's
you know, just really involved. And then at the end of each of
these chapters you take a quiz. And Elbe figured out later all of Elbie's
friends like just went right through it and they got their certificate, Julie's daughter
and Lara's daughter and my friends there, and Elbie was still like, no,
I've got so much to go. I guess. Finally her friends were
like, you don't really have to read it. Go to skip to the
quiz, take the quiz a lot of its common sense, and if you
don't know something, look back for the answer, and then and then finish
the quiz. So Elb did that and finished the whole thing really quickly.
And then she did the same thing. She she took Sadie and she was
like Sadie. She sat with her and Sadie did the whole thing in like
an hour and a half. So Xander just needs to do that. But
I don't know, he's dragging his heels. Yeah. Well, and then
it's really been studying. You do those quizzlets like we talked about. Oh
that's yes, you don't. They have to take the written right, so
before you're written exam. Then you study up and you and you read and
you do all the DMV quizzes and you you learn, or you'd be like
cocky like Natalian think you can just wizz you go through it. And now
she failed twice, right, And Sonny studied and passed the first time.
Right. And so my sonny's driving to Westwood. Yeah he's confident, Yeah
he is. He's a good and he's confident driver and he's good and I
like driving with him. Like he's very you know, studious, dutiful,
like looking both ways, always over his shoulder. You know. Natalia's just
like beepy beepy, beepy beep, what oh, pedestrian coming get out of
my way and now she's now she's fine, but Sonny's good. Sadie's pretty
nervous. Like I wanted to listen to the radio just for my own sake
so that I could calm myself down, and Sadie was like, hmmm,
I'd rather have it off. Yeah. I was like, then I can
just hear myself scream inside my head. I was tense. I just hit
it very well. But no, I like, I was like, Okay,
as long as she's driving this slow, I could do this. Yeah.
I could do this all day. Yeah, yeah, should let's take
another break. So our listeners too. By the way, on our Facebook
saw all the autonomous drivers. Oh over the place Santa Monica in San Francisco.
Really yeah, they're around crazy right. That scares me. Yeah.
I remember like reading about them years like eight or nine years ago, and
somebody said that was investigating these cars, and he said, I have a
two year old at home, and they are saying by this and from what
I'm learning, by the time my kid can drive, won't need a driver's
license because these cars will be around town just picking people up. Well,
I mean, if they start getting a good record, I thought we keep
hearing about the driverless cars getting an accident. I well, I'm wondering if
the these kind of cars, they sound like they're in very dense populated areas,
So I'm wondering if these kind of cars they kind of put them out
in like the Santa Monicas in downtown San Francisco, so they have to drive
a lot slower. There's a lot of people around. The kind of accidents
I hear about, like with Tesla's auto driving is when it's like at night
on like yeah Highway and it's going fast and it's not seeing a person come
out. So I'm thinking like during the day populated area would kind of make
more sense for these driverless cars because there's so much more activity. And they
pull over. Somebody said that your husband was in the car, one of
our listeners said, and that it pulled the sirens were coming, so it
pulled over. Oh it's crazy. Wow. Also, there is this trend
that I did see online. I don't know if they've fixed it for now,
but of course, you know people just trolls or whatever doing it.
But apparently if you took like an orange cone, if you picked one of
them up and put them on the hood of those autonomous cars. They would
like freak out and stop working. So people would just take orange phones.
I pick them up and stick them on the hood, and then the car
couldn't go anywhere. That's fuck with them. Oh wow, our kids might
be the last ones with driver's license, last generation. Who knows that's so
interesting? Might be a dying thing. Who might be like Kaylin's daughters will
never even have to worry about getting their license. You know who knows crazy?
Right? Wow? Yeah, and that'll be the new thing like,
oh, you can't afford a driverless car, right, you can't afford a
self driving car? Ooh, you're driving a car, you must be poor?
Or the service. I guess that's a service that picks you up,
like get an app. I don't know. I don't know. I'll trust
them. So I have some bad news for you guys. Oh no,
you had good news. I know this is a little bit of bad news.
I think I am going to try playing pickleball for Fox's sakes now.
Amy suggested picklebol pick a ball a couple times now, and I'm on the
fence. I just think. I think sometimes when something is trendy, like
maybe it's trendy for a reason, like maybe it'll be fun and I need
to exercise and I don't. I'm good. I okay, is it that
much exercise? Yeah, it's not that much. It's not I don't even
think you really, like you don't have to like step, You just stand
in the square, right. You don't even have to move around? Oh,
you don't move around. It's like playing ping pong, but with a
big racket and a bigger ball. That's what it's like. But I'm not
trying to shoot on you yes and go for its DEMI well, why not
try? So? I brought it up to John and he was he had
the same reaction as you guys. He was just like, shot the fuck
no, And I was like, no, but it seems fun and like
people a lot of people are doing it and it's kind of close to our
house. There's a place where you can like learn to play pickle ball.
And he was like, it seems pretty easy. I don't know that you
need to like take a class. It's like, well, it seems like
something kind of fun to I don't know, serve it into the kitchen,
Like it's like, what about racketball? How come nobody plays racketball anymore.
That was exerciseckeball you did, Yeah, Me and my dad used to go
all the time and play racketball. Now that's good exercise, right, yeah,
but also hurts when you know you're playing. You know, you're standing
up front, the balls behind you. You just whack the ball as hard
as you can, right into the back of their legs or in their back
like it stings sometimes. Yeah, I don't get me wrong, but yeah
at the YMC with the ball. Yeah yeah, But but racketball is more
exercise. You're gonna be running back and forth, back and forth, so
you don't do any running in pickleball, not really. You stand and you
got to serve it into the kitchen or something. I don't know. There's
something about a kitchen and then it moves kind of because you hit it.
It's like a whiffle ball, so it's not like flying at you like a
tennis ball. You know. What's really fun that me and my older brother
used to play all the time when my older brother lived in Venice is paddle
tennis. Oh, we love paddle tennis. The only problem is there's like
no quarts. There's like one set actually there's one set of quarts right by
you in Yeah, that's right, and then there's one in Venice, and
that's really good exercise. It's a lot of fun. It's like, that's
what pickleball is. That's what I thought. Tennis, not paddle tennis is
just tennis. Paddle well, paddle tennis is tennis with a paddles more like
ping pong, like a giant ping pong with a paddle. Like, you
don't run around in pickleball. You run around in paddle tennis because the balls
are more velocity. Right, what kind of ball is use tennis ball in
paddle towns? See, so the ball is heavier, so it it moves,
Yeah, and it moves like a tennis ball, but you are using
paddles, right. But so pickleball, the ball is what like a whiffle.
It's I think it's like a whipple. It's got holes in it,
so it doesn't fly very hard, so it kind of moves. That's why
older people play it because it moves slower. Because when I was watching it
on The Golden Bachelor, I was like, this looks oh that the fun.
This looks like my speed, Like they seem to be running around a
bit a bunch. I didn't see that episode. Somebody like got a stress
for Mother's Day. I got a sucker with Natalia and her friend and her
friend's mom right at the it was one hundred and ten degrees. It was
so hot, and they were like, oh, you know, they run
like a bunch of They had like snacks and like champagne and whatever. I
was like orange juice and play with Natalia, and Natalia and her friend got
so hot they were like fuck. Her and her friend were like, we're
done. And I was like, oh, really, we're done. Can
we leave now? Do I hang out? Like? Can we go?
And she's like, yeah, it's hot. So a sport that involves alcohol
like during or after it is probably not a very you know, strenuous sport.
Now it was Mother's Day golf, Yeah exactly. Yeah. Yeah,
well, so okay that maybe that's out. There's a court right next to
you, and the only problem is there's just no court because it has to
be like it's essentially a tennis court but smaller. Like you can make a
pickleball court out of a tennis court, it's really difficult to make a paddle
tennis court out of you know, a full sized court. So I would
suggest you try those courts over by you. It's so much fun. See
the I think exercise too. The problem with the courts near me is that
they're run through Balboa Park and you have to have like a pat like just
to rent the court. It's akshaw it is. This is such a cashaw
and every time I end up having to call them and going like, I
don't know, I need a pin number to get the password, and then
they have to talk you through something in them and you got to figure out
which court you want and what time, and then you know, and by
the time I'm done doing all that, I'm exhausted. I'm like, well,
I already burned a lot of calories, you know. I think I'm
just going to play like highlight that thing that I could do. But who
would you play pickleball with? Well? I got these like sober friends that
were telling me about it that were like it's kind of their new thing.
They're really into it, and they're like, I'll play with you, and
it's all like cut the Warner Center apparently, yes, yes, there's a
bunch of pickleball courts and people are into it there. I don't know.
Maybe I'll just check it out. And Xander was like, I'll play with
you. He was cutting up with what John was making fun of us,
and Xander was like, I'll do it with you. And I was like,
thank you. Yeah, I think you should try I love that kid.
Xander. Yeah, very positive. Yeah, I think you should try
it. Just try it and then report we're back. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm curious show for the show, for the show, do it for the
show, for contest and exercise. Yeah, I feel like I had something
else I was going to tell you, oh yeah, before we before we
go. So this is embarrassing. It's not really bad. It doesn't.
It's not at the at the level of bad news. Okay, but do
you guys remember when my vacuum cleaner broke and then I bought another one,
and John was making fun of me because we seem to buy like a vacuum
cleaner a year, all right, first day with the VAT with that vacuum,
it was a Bissel. It wasn't super expensive, but it wasn't cheap.
It was over one hundred dollars. It was like, I want to
say, it was like one hundred and fifteen or eighteen dollars or something,
you know, but we don't have walldewall carpet, so act we shouldn't need
like special machinery, Like we have a couple of big area rugs right in
our house. And and the floors. I like to vacuum the floor,
hardwood floor because there's always you know, my vacuum floors. It's sweeping sometimes
doesn't do it right anyway, So I don't need like a crazy expensive vacuum
cleaner. So about that vacuum cleaner. Day one, it smelled like a
little Bernie smell, and I was like, what, maybe it's just new,
like you know, I'm always optimistic like that. Maybe it's just like
breaking in, you know, when you turn on your heat for the first
time. Yeah, it's got that smell. It got a little bit of
a Bernie smell. Maybe there's just some parts, some stuff that's gonna got
to burn off exactly right, No, not so much. It always smelled
like that. The times that I used it, I was like, man,
this is strong, Like this can't be good. And then literally use
the vacuum cleaner like five times, and then the thing, the brush thing
that's supposed to spin stopped on the old one stops. And I remember I
told you that John was making fun of me because I bought the same vacuum
cleaner, and I was like, it's a little different. Yeah, same
exact thing happened, only this one quicker. And then you know how embarrassing
it was to say to John the vacuum cleaner broke again. I almost didn't
want to tell him, but I was like, he's gonna know if a
new vacuum cleaner appears. Yeah, so it's recordless. No, okay,
plug in vacuum cleaner. But the spinny thingy, the rotor thing stopped spinning,
and now I know better, so I knew there was no section coming
from under it. So I was like, damn it, So what are
you gonna do? So I bought already, so John was like, okay,
you are done. No, you're not buying any more vacuum cleaners.
Then you know, I was like, how dare you? So he'll se
me what to do? You're not good? So I was waiting for him
to buy another vacuum cleaner. But hello, he doesn't do any of the
vacuuming, so it doesn't occur to him that like, no, you can't
even go a week in my house without vacuuming because of the dog. And
it's very dusty for some reason in our Yeah is that everywhere? But in
our addition, yeah there is. Where does all the dust come from?
I know, I don't know, but our addition is constantly covered in dust.
Part of it is dusty all the time, all the time. And
I don't know why. I know, but you but the floor has like
a very you can't see it, but the floor is covered with dust.
Then there's dust balls because of Lloby, and then there's just the desk top.
It's always dusty. Why is that? And then I always noticed when
I dust and then like a day or I think like ooh good, I
dusted. I'm done for a month. Yeah yeah right, no I move
sh around. I didn't go around it. I actually picked shit up dightd
with pledge and everything. I'm good, right, I look back in like
two days later, three days there's a layer of dust. I guess that's
how my house was. Where is it coming from? Like I do?
It's not like I got the windows open and wood shop like, I don't
know where all this dust comes from? Yeh, woodworking? No, I
could see that could like put you back right health wise, floor wise,
No, I get it. I don't know. But our addition is like
that times ten. Like it's like there's always dust everywhere. So anyway,
John was like not seeming to get the memo that we needed to get another
vacuum cleaner. So on Sunday, I don't know, I got a wild
hair. I was like, I'm gonna just take care of some stuff that's
been Okay, we had this is embarrassing, but we had a hamper in
so all that we have there's a hamper in every bedroom. But then I
don't know if you have this, but in the laundry room there's like a
main hamper. So that's where I'll put like towels if I've gone and picked
up towels off the floor and like whatever. There's a main hamper and that
one has like main stuff, sheets, towels, stuff that's waiting to be
washed. Well, this hamper that we had, and I don't know why,
I guess we have it. We've had it for many years. It
was one. It was a plastic one. It wasn't like a nice hamper,
a plastic like ten dollars hamper from like Target, and it was starting
to like rip so there was like a busted down like hamper. It looked
terrible. Yeah, but my brain was always like, am I going to
buy another hamper? Everybody has a nice hamper in their bedrooms, but why
are we going to buy a hamper when this one is fine and nobody sees
it it's in the laundry room. But then the other day I was looking
at it and I was like, it really is, like half of it's
ripped off, like it's a mess. It's having on for deer life.
And I was like, you know what, like this is just not a
way people should live, like modern people should live. So I was like,
I'm going to buy a hamper, so it's in Target. And that's
when I had the embarrassing realization that the same kind of hamper that i'd been
living with ripped up was literally seven dollars seven dollars, so you could just
buy another. I just I was like, Mari, too, hamper is
seven dollars. Now I feel like such an asshole that we've been living with
this ridiculous. So yeah, I bought a hamper. Then I was like,
while I'm at it, I'm gonna buy some more bath towels. So
because we have our Brooklynen fancy plush bath towels that I love. But in
the meantime, we had these other towels that have like bleach stains on them,
and I don't know why you have you had that problem? Yeah,
we have towels with stains all over. Why. I don't know where it
comes from? Dust and bleach stains? And what am I doing? I
never used bleach on any and never I never used bleach. Oh my god,
I went that kind of thing. All of our gray towels have these
splotches of white yeah, yeah, yeah, and some of them even have
rust. I think those are because they were left out by the poh yeah,
I don't have that. Yeah, but yeah. So I was like,
I'm going to do hamper some bath towels. I'm going crazy, right
Yeah. And so then while I was at it, I was like,
you know what, what's the good of having a clean body and a place
to put your dirty clothes if you have like dust all over the floors.
And so I bought a vacum and oh my god, you guys, did
John make fun of me? I mean, he was just like, oh,
somebody bought didn't listen to me, and they bought a vacuum. I
wonder how long we're gonna have that one? And I was like, shut
up. I was like, well, you didn't buy one. You gotta
look at a consumer report. I know. I just bought a cheap one.
The target I was at is called a city target and it's not a
big target. So they had like two vacuums. One was the one we
already had and one was like a dirt devil like it was. It was
like sixty bucks dirt devil. I know. Oh my god. So I
bought one of those. I was like, listen, this is just a
for now, right, all right? Yeah, so anyway we'll see how
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