Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Face sunny sunad on.
Speaker 1: I had vision.
Speaker 2: Night too.
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody's for crying out? Und oh that's our show. Hi,
what's going on? What's going on? What's going on?
Speaker 3: We this is gonna be a very We're gonna improv
Yeah yeah, Hey have you heard.
Speaker 1: About the Army Hammer documentary?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you watch it? Yes? Did you watch it?
Speaker 3: I haven't watched it, but I'm cecily my four d
af We talked about it a bunch because she watched it,
and it's what the hell.
Speaker 1: He wants to take their ribs out and barbecue them.
And he's not kidding, No, he's not. He's not a kidding.
He's not a joke. No, this guy, first of all,
sick motherfucker. He is, first of all, Okay, he's the
guy that played the Winklevoss twins on Social Network. And
then after that probably that was about it, like he
had like one bomb after another. He did some independent film.
I can't remember the name of it, say my name
or something like that. Anyway, it wasn't He's a babe.
He's a gorgeous guy. But he comes from you, if
you like being barbecued. He comes from a line of
sick fox that are rich as all get out. I
mean her his grand I just watched, by the way,
all the president's men recently, and have you seen that movie?
I have, and you know how they have the deep
throat said follow the money. They said, if you follow
the money, it goes to his grandfather, a great grandfather. Yeah.
I mean, just these guys were, you know, beating on
their wives and submissive and making everybody submissive, not just
the not just wives, but people that worked for them.
Armi Himmer wanted I don't know if you've heard about this,
like wanted wanted his assistant to show up at the
airport to pick up a friend. Did she tell you
about that? And he wanted he wanted her to say
the F the F word not for gaze, Yeah, it
like hold up the sign and just he wanted him
to write that on the sign. And he was like no,
and he was like, I you work for me, You
do what I tell you to do, And like asked everybody,
should I fire him because he's not doing what I
told him to do, like like just not like again,
not just with whim, just like I I can get
away with doing whatever I want it's like video him
himself driving and drinking, and he posts it on this
fake Instagram that's called Finstagram. It's called it's for like
celebrities that are like have fake account anyway, Like he
just thinks he can get away with shit, and it's
just so sick unbelievable. And yeah, I mean yeah, he
was like saying, like, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna
tie you up and beat you and make you my
submissive and make you my perfect little slave and my
kitten and just nuts, just weird shit. But yeah, I
watched the three part documentary. It's on Discovery Plus. But
if you have Apple Plus, you get and you can
find it. I think so you watched all three episodes.
I fell asleep at the very like half last half
of the last episode last night.
Speaker 3: Isn't it amazing? I don't know if it's an age thing,
but even if something is so good, I'll still fall asleep.
Oh yeah, it's almost like a chout, like I challenge.
Speaker 1: My sound really interested? Interesting? Oh I got you also
fall asleep, right, I know? I know, Like I get
in bed and I'm like, I'm gonna watch the shit
out of this and I'm just like I just can't
keep my eyes open. I'm like, God, damn, Like I
want to watch, but I'm falling.
Speaker 3: I can And it almost doesn't matter what time it is,
Like it could be like ten thirty and I'm still
still like out as soon as the covers come up,
Like if I'm on top of the bed, it's like
it's better, right.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like, why would I want to be
on top of the bread went under my covers, It's
so you know.
Speaker 3: Also another kiss of death for me is when I've
done everything that I need to do to get ready
for bed, like the kitchen's clean, Yeah, got some stuff
ready for lunches the next day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't kill me for that. Yeah, I'm already. And
then I'm like, what's stopping me from getting under the cover.
I did the same thing that It is the kiss
of death. Why don't you doing everything and you're done
and you get on the bed, go under the covers.
Speaker 3: Especially once I put the timer on the TV. Forget it,
forget get it, forget it. You're a darted bear out,
especially if John is watching something with me, Oh it's.
Speaker 1: Over, because then I'm like, oh, it's his responsibility. It's
like he's driving. I mean, then I don't have to
I could take my eyes off the right as soon
as he's watching it, I'm like, will you watch it
for both of mides? I know I'm out. Adam used
to do that that. I would like, like fall asleep
with my head on his lap and he would he
would take his hand and like wave it in front
of my face, in your eyes, yeah, in front of
like like.
Speaker 3: Like then they get so mad right away there you're asleep, yeah,
and you're like John, They're like my hand, you open
your eyes in the right hand, he's right in front
of your eyes, like how dare you the middle finger?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And John will be like, don't get don't pull
the covers up over, You're just gonna pull right. I
know that's it. I'm fine. I'm wide awake.
Speaker 3: It's funny because no matter what it is, I know,
I know it could be Bruce Springsteen serenading me personally, Lynette,
I love you like.
Speaker 1: Out. I can't past a certain time, like you know.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a wonder that I don't think about
watching TV during the day, but I feel it too lazy. No,
I know, I don't watch during the day, but then
when I get in bed at night, sometimes I'll go,
like when I'm especially at the condo, I'll.
Speaker 1: Be like, oh, it's eight o'clock. I'm gonna get in bed,
I'm gonna I'm gonna be awake, I'm gonna be wide awake,
and I'll be fine because it's still early. No. As
soon as I get in bed out and then it's
like Netflix is as if I watched all episodes, like, oh,
you already watched this. It's like, no, I didn't. When
did I watch it? There's twelve episodes. Woke up the
next day, it's like, oh, you're done with that. On
to the next thing. Like right with Netflix, where'd my
show go? Because it just keeps going to the next thing,
going yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Sleeping right, you wake up and you're like season ten,
what I.
Speaker 1: Get on episode nineteen?
Speaker 3: I hate that they all say played played and you're like,
I wish they would come up with some sensor, like
you're remote, should have a sensor if you're breathing changes.
Speaker 1: They have like, you know, sensors that you.
Speaker 3: Can put in the baby's crib, right, you can make
sure if they stop breathing. Well, they should have the
thing like if you're breathing gets too regular. Yeah, you
should keep the remote. It should automatically switch.
Speaker 1: Off your show. Yeah, it should just go. Don't turn
the TV off for you, turn the Netflix off. Turn
the TV off, right, you gotta get lights out, yeah,
because sometimes I'll turn the TV off, but I don't
turn Netflix off, so it just keeps going. Right. By
the way, whatever happened to the clapper you turn your
lights off? I wish they bring that ship back. Whoever
was in charge of the clapper.
Speaker 3: We need that, I know, I know, I know I
need that for the TV, for the TV, for the
for the lights.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I mean, I guess people have like a Lexa.
Does Alexa turn off your lights in your room? And
if it does, it's probably very hard to set it up. Yeah,
it probably is. And like, yeah, it's only for like
high tech people like people like me. I'm not going
to have that shit at my condo, right, you know
who you're pretty good with you set up your tea. Yeah,
but that's a little much like the Alexa to turn
my lights off and stuff. I wish how do you
get that controlled by Alexa? You know who would do that, Robin.
Oh really, he's very tech savvy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, when the when COVID happened and Robin's a teacher,
When COVID happened and they went to online learning, Robin
was like, all right, let me take this tutorial, let
me take that, let me learn how to upload this
to this app. Let me get this app so I
can teach, you know, do lesson plans on video, and
let me get this.
Speaker 1: Special light for it. And I was like, I was
tired just listening to her tell me about learning. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's a lot of learning, that's a
lot of new shit you just figured out. Oh my god,
I know that tutorial just to hear about your tutorials.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. I remember like Adam would have to do
the show from home, so I was in charge of
printing out all his ads. So then next thing, you know,
I'm printing out the same ads every day. So I'm like, wait,
he just had to do this ad yesterday. I'm not
gonna print JB. Weld ad again or Geico again. So
I started keeping but then it just everything started piling
up in my office and it was just and then
Adam would take the ad, go downstairs, leave the ads downstairs.
It was just I just remember those days of COVID
just a mess, and I was like, how did I
become his assistant all of a sudden? Now I got
to print shit out. It was the worst.
Speaker 2: I remember those days. Yes, I remember coordinating with you
Lynnette on the ads and getting those all together.
Speaker 1: Right, and then by the way, and then he'd have
ads for like Doctor Drew Show and then Reasonable Doubt,
and like, how the hell these guys keep all this
shit straight? So my office was just like all the JB.
Weld ads, but this one is for the Doctor Drew
Show and this one's for the Ad Corolla Show. Same ad,
but for two different shows, right, But then he's got
to say two different things. It was just it was yeah,
it was It was a nightmare.
Speaker 3: I do that for Rose Pricks and Bordef. I handle
my ads, yeah, I have to, like and they're constantly
sending new copy. I feel for Kalin, they're always like, oh,
like one word changed and they're like new copy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you're like, this is like.
Speaker 3: I would need to be a detective to figure out
what's different between these two ads. But all right, and
then I print that one out and then I put it.
I kind of put it on top of the pile,
and I forget to like throw the old ones out.
So now I have like a stack of papers. Yet Yeah,
my office, I look like a hoarder. There's just papers
and papers everywhere.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, And John and I are trying to
do our taxes because corporate taxes are due on the
fifteenth of this month, and what you're listening to this
it's already done.
Speaker 1: But oh oh, oh my gosh. It's like how are
regular people supposed to figure?
Speaker 3: Like we have accountants, but we don't have like a
book keeper, so we have an accountant. Yeah, but like
we still have to figure out all of our defenses
and all of like and categorize everything from all the
like seeing a lot of work for common people, right right,
Like yeah, and we're just beyond like we can't just
do legal zoom or whatever those right tat easy tat
easy forms because we're a corporation so there's a lot
and our accountants have known us for a long time.
But it puts you in such a state of anxiety
because you're like, I don't know where where are the
bank statements right, show that our interests that we pay
you know what I mean, you need so many numbers
that are just like god and out of normal payroll company.
Speaker 1: It's like we have a whole shelf that's just full
of like stuff from the payroll right right, right right.
I mean you probably don't. I don't do it become
a company. Yeah, they do it, thank god. Yeah it's
a pain in the butt. Yeah it is.
Speaker 3: And then John is like too honest, you know, He's
just like, Okay, what was this Amazon thing that we
were I'm like, you research, I'm like, well, what's this one.
I'm like, I don't know, because there's like two hundred
of them. I'm all, figure, pick a category and put
them in it. I'm like, if we get audited, first
of all, watch there's somebody from the IRS today that
they're like, this is a very interesting episode licking the pen,
hopefully late at night, and they're asleep, they were going
to fall asleep.
Speaker 1: If you're from the I R S. You're getting very sleepy.
Right now.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing about I told you about when I
got audited years ago. If a case anybody forgot this
is kind of a good story. So I get audited,
I get a letter and this was remember last week,
this is.
Speaker 1: Kind of apropos for last week's episodes.
Speaker 3: So this was years ago, remember after the whole not
paying taxes on the carvacle.
Speaker 1: So years later I.
Speaker 3: Get I get audited, and I get an email from
the IRS that's basically like not an email.
Speaker 1: I get a letter. Yeah, never good, right, I get
a letter that says you owe like eight thousand dollars.
Also Jesus, in those days, I had kind of a
shady accountant, so I wasn't incorporated or anything, and this
account was doing a schedule cee instead of he did.
Speaker 3: It in a way that flat that was like a
flag to the IRS, right, right, So I have all
of these like I keep everything in envelopes. At that time,
I had like my all my cable bills and all
my this and all my that. This was a little
before early in the age of emails, so it wasn't
like I had this stuff in emails.
Speaker 1: I think it was pre emails being a thing.
Speaker 3: So I literally had all my receipts, all my bills
stacked up for things that I was claiming. So I'm like,
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm going to be an adult. Yeah,
I'm going to go candle this. So I make my appointment.
Like you know what I think, Lynette, I'm so dumb,
Like it's just so wrongheaded, Like now is the time
I choose to be responsible, Like, no, pond that ship
off on somebody else, Like you don't do that. If
anybody's listening, you do, don't ever do what I did.
Don't ever go in person to the I R S.
They do not They'll spit you, they'll eat you out.
Speaker 1: Oh that is some quicksand that you will never be
rested from. And you think you're doing the right thing.
So like I made an appointment. I made an appointment with.
Speaker 2: The I R S.
Speaker 1: I go in.
Speaker 3: I sit there in this cubicle with this lady. I'm
sure she was like a freaking alligator in a flora.
Speaker 1: Wad god, get a seat. Oh my god, I'm gonna
eat you up like army hammer.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I got all my receipts.
Speaker 1: It was pathetic.
Speaker 3: I have I come in there with the low box
full of envelopes, full of receipts. I know, Oh my gosh,
I'm like I'm in doing like I'm in seeing Judge Watton, right, like,
I brought my receipts.
Speaker 1: She was like, ah, yeah, let me see them. Do
you remember this story?
Speaker 3: So she's got a poster on her wall that says,
and I to this day I wish I could remember
what it said, but it was something to the effect
of if you have a problem, to talk to God.
By the way, I'm God or something.
Speaker 1: And it was like, oh no.
Speaker 3: So she's uh, huh, okay, And it's like the DMV,
but like a hundred times worse like the DMV if
they could just fuck up your entire life, you know.
Speaker 1: So she's like okay. So I'm like, hey, so I
want to do the right thing.
Speaker 3: Now, I've got a bill for like eight thousand dollars.
So this had this was actually not about the car
thing at this point, but this was about they were
just not accepting any of my expenses. So I was
being charged like full taxes on everything, you know, not
getting any thing written off. So I'm like, okay. But
I was a TV writer at the time. I was
like early early in my career, like maybe I'd had
a couple of jobs, so I'm like, cable should be
able to be a write off like cable. I have
to know my industry. Okay, I have all these things
that are true.
Speaker 1: I had some travel, right, Okay. So I give her
all my receipts and we go through it all and
she's like, okay, let me go. I have to go
make copies of all this stuff. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 3: So I'm sitting there sweating, like sweating bullets for like
she went to make copies of I'm not exaggerating, yeah,
because this is old days.
Speaker 1: None of this is digital. So I'm sitting there for
I kid you, not like an hour. I don't have
a phone. I can't write right now, which I totally
would have played, just sitting there, staring, sitting there. There's
no magazine.
Speaker 3: There's just not highlights magazine for me to read, like nothing.
I'm just there stewing in my own juices, just like
what is going to happen? Because imagine I don't have
eight thousand dollars. I have no money. I am broke,
like I am broke as fuck. I'm like living in
apart you know how we did no damn eight She
comes back rich people, Yeah, for super rich people. I've
never even seen I'd never heard of that amount of
money at that time my life. I was like, that's
not an amount that I could ever go to my parents,
Like this is just unscrewed.
Speaker 1: At that point, I would have had to be paying
it off very you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, So she comes back, Okay, got all the copies,
all right, all right, well we'll send you a revised
We'll send you a bill like whatever.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I leave. Did you leave this far?
Speaker 3: It was like I didn't feel bad. I felt like
very proud of myself. Like I was like, this is
probably the first time in my life that I actually
took responsibility, like actually was like okay, Like normally I
would just throw it away and pretend I didn't see
it and then just go I don't know, but I knew.
I was like, well, then they're gonna garnish my wage
again because I had already dealt with that from the car.
So it's like I got a man up, you know,
and deal with this.
Speaker 1: So I was proud of myself.
Speaker 3: Yes, And it was like I said far you know,
Elsa Gundo or torrents whatever. Anyway, like six weeks later,
I get the irs thing in the mail and I
open it up and it literally had the exact same
amount that I owed as the first letter, and it
said we've we've gone over your blah blah blah, and
here is your revised tax bill. It was number too numbered,
decimal point exactly the same amount.
Speaker 1: So I was like, this fucking.
Speaker 3: Bitch changed nut was like made me sweat it out
and did not like, didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 3: So then I had just I had just started dating John. So,
by the way, I wasn't that young. I was not
that young. So I actually I had been working. Oh yeah,
because John gave me his accountant. I didn't meet John
until I was like thirty two years old, right, So
I was not that young. In case I'm trying to
make myself sound a little bit like I was in
my twenties. No, I was in my thirties when this happened. Yeah,
So I go I crying. I think I called John's
accountant and he we make an appointment and I go
see him and he was like.
Speaker 1: First of all, never ever go in person. What are
you crazy? Were you high? I'm like He's like no, no, no, no, no,
I from now on, I'm doing this. So I bring
him all my stuff and he's like all right, he
he I do. What do you think they're gonna They
didn't accept one deduction.
Speaker 3: And he's like, that's because you did it, right, that's
because you did it. That's just not how they deal
with accountants, right, we have a different thing that going on.
So I was like, okay, So he made a new appointment,
he appealed it, and then he said, this is what
they do. They then they cancel the appointment they post,
but then they they you get like up to three
so they they have like a technique that they do anyway,
so they go in. They didn't he said, they didn't
look at any of the stuff and they just basically
they wrote most.
Speaker 1: Of it off and I ended up owing like four hundred.
Speaker 3: Dollars really really, but he was like, they don't look
all of This is to say that they don't. The
actual IRS does not go through person like us. They
do not go through your receipts and go hold on
a minute, you're saying that this Amazon humidifier that you
bought is research what like, they don't do that. They
just go, oh, you're trying to say that you spent
eight thousand dollars in research this year. No, make that
two thousand dollars and we'll accept it. Okay, Right, So
if you have a good accountant, then they go, you
can really your business can spend this much money on this,
this much money on this. This is a red flag nobody,
you know what I mean. So anyway, so John is
like a real like do Gooder. You don't know if
a do Gooder storright word, He's very like he's more
of a rule follower.
Speaker 1: Yeh.
Speaker 3: So I'm always like, honey, right, like, don't We're not
going to spend Here's what we're not gonna do. We're
not gonna literally spend a week twenty four to seven
combing through each thing that we bought and categorizing it.
We're gonna go like, this is what we're allowed to
spend on this, So put this in this category. And
if we get audited and they don't accept it, it's fine.
But we're not gonna go to jail. They're just gonna
say you owe this. I mean, if Wesley Snipes can
avoid millions of dollars in taxes, you know that we
can write off an extra three hundred on Amazon purchases
as research.
Speaker 1: We'll just get a good account and then it'll help
we have a good account.
Speaker 3: I'm like, if you get audited, you get audited, your fuck,
no matter what. Right if you get audited, right, like,
you're going to pay something if you get audited. That's
just how they're that's they're in the business of making
you pay.
Speaker 1: All they're going to do is look at your expenses
and go, no, we're not accepting some of the right
right too much? Right? Right? Wow? What a good lesson.
Have you ever been audited? No? Luckily I know not
on wood. I mean there's always time, but no so far, Kalen,
you ever been audited? Uh?
Speaker 2: No, I have not been audited, And I've had a
pretty simple you know, I had someone doing like a
taxes for me for the last like ten years, and
this year is a bit different. So I'm actually going
to meet with somebody on the twentieth, a tax person.
Speaker 1: So for next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good, Okay, if your if your corporation, your taxes
are not officially due until September fifteenth, but regular people
are April fifteenth.
Speaker 1: But then we always do an extension for our personal
so that we could do it at the same time.
As it's good. Yeah, corporate, Yeah, that's good. Well that's interesting.
Speaker 3: But tax season is just like, I know, it just
makes you a little crazy because I do have because
as we were circling back to what we were talking about,
I feel like all of our paperwork is kind of everywhere.
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, oh my god, where's the our
accountant's going to ask for this? And I'm like, how
do regular people like me do it? I know, it's
its own job, it is. It is totally Yeah, I'm
lucky enough to have an accountant.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Talking about the kids for a second, I had a
very what do you think we're a parenting podcast? I
thought we were a tax podcast to help people get
out of owing money to the financial.
Speaker 3: Helping host a finan finance Welcome to our I can't
even add Okay, go on, we're kids.
Speaker 1: Friday night was an interesting night because I I spent
a good amount of time like talking to Italian and
her friends. Then they went to bed, and then I
stayed up until like two thirty in the morning. Was
Sonny and he was telling me some really interesting things
that I didn't know, oh, which was pretty cool. So
you know how Natalia had her other boyfriend, right.
Speaker 3: The boyfriend that when she went back to East to view, Yeah,
she was like, I want to come home because you're
asking my boyfriend.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. I was like yes. I was like I
really like that kid. I thought he was really sweet.
And Sonny was always like, it's not no, mom, he's
not what you think. No he's not as great. No no, no, no,
no no. He told me that at one point after
they broke up, he showed up at our house and
wanted to see Natalia, and Sonny and his friend went
out there to tell him no, like you can't, she
doesn't want to see you, and he was like, you know,
kind of like screw you. I want to see her,
you know, and like kind of getting up in Sonny's
face and Sonny like grabbed him. He was about to
punch Sonny, he said, and Sonny like grabbed him by
his shirt and like pushed him off and told him
to get lost, and the kid eventually left. But I
was like, oh my god. I was like wow, and
he was like, yeah, I did not. He told me
a bunch of other things too, which I don't I
don't want to really nothing really with Natalia, just things
about the kid I didn't know, but the fact that
Sonny stuck up for him like that, I was like
blown away. I was like, oh my god. Yeah, he
was like no, he was not a good kid. Now
Natalia likes another kid that likes Bruce Bringsteen by the way.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, but so did you have that feeling like
these kids can be fake motherfucker?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I was like, wow, this kid he was
so pulos and he was like Mom, of course he's
going to be polite to you into Olga and Dad
of course. Like yeah, but I don't know, like Natalia
really liked him. He's really sweet, you know this and that. Yeah,
So did she break up with him? I still don't
know what happened. They just they broke up. It ran
its course or something. But then he wanted to think.
He showed up and knew Natalia was having people over
and wanted to see her, and Sonny went out there
with another friend of another guy friend and just was
told him to beat it, get lost, and he tried
to push past them and stuff like it got a
little physical. Wow. I know, yeah, like you go, Sonny.
Because Adam taught Sonny how to like box and stuff
like punch, so he was ready to like do that,
but he just like grabbed and pushed him back, and
then the kid eventually left, but I was blown away.
I feel like boxing would be like I want to
get Xander into boxing. Boxing is a good thing to
know because if you know how to hit, then you
know how to hit and and you just you have
that that courage of knowing, like you know, you know,
you have that knowing that you can do that. And see,
Adam has shown Sonny a lot of you know, they've
done a lot of boxing and sparring together. And I
saw a suddeny like practice and she showed me, and
he hits the way Adam has taught him how to hit,
because Adam, of course has showed me many times like
how do you punch? And how do you like? It
comes from the hip, And so Sonny was doing it.
I'm like, oh my god, you punched just like Dan.
He goes, yeah, you know, his dad's been teaching me.
So he has that like knowing that he can do that,
which is good. Yeah, it is a it's a good
it's a good thing. It would be a good thing
to teach the kids. So now to tell you, like
somebody else. Now she likes somebody else. I don't know,
like what the deal is. I think she's going to
ask him. The Hokos coming up again, homecoming again, So
now she got to buy another dress and it's but
she's gonna ask him, I guess to go. He goes
to a school, not not their school, he goes to
another school like in our neighborhood. How does she know him?
They all like kind of get to know each other
because Natalie's got friends at other schools because of volleyball.
So then they tell her, oh, there's a boy at
my school that you would let and then she meets
them at their like their get togethers, or they'll meet
Natalia's boys from her school, you know. And then she's
got friends that don't She's got girlfriends that don't go
to our school but are dating the boys at our school, right,
you know. So it's kind of like that. And there's
like a bunch of different schools in our area that
they you know, there's Pasadena and so they get to
know all these kids from the other schools by being
you know, in the in the sports. So yeah, it's
pretty interesting. I wish I you know, when when I
was a kid, I wish I did sports maybe, you
know a little bit like our school had no football,
had no sports. I mean it was like, you know,
our pe teacher Don would sit out there on his
chair soaking up the sun, making fun of everybody's last names.
And now was it like we didn't have any We
didn't have any like Friday night football game. Like they
all went to a Friday football game Friday night, Sonny
and Italian and then they all come back to my
house eating Jack in the box and shit and then
hanging out. It was like talking to Natalia's friends and
they were telling me about the boy she likes, and
it was it was a fun night. It was one
of those nights where all the kids and then all
of a sudden at midnight, they all get up and leave,
and I'm like, where's everybody going, And they're like, we
gotta go, we got we got curfew. Everybody left, which
was nice. And Natalia it's her friends are not spending
the night. Everybody's got this rule. Now, it's like you
can only spend the night one night during school year,
one night on the weekend, not both nights. So sorry,
Mobile muffin, You're out, Oh you've made the rule, or
they made it for themselves. Me and her friends as moms,
we talked about it and we decided let's just do that.
Let's just say one night a week so her and
her little core friends they'll spend like Saturday night. But
Friday night they all left went home. So it was
it was good, it was nice. How many do you
have it at your house at a time, I mean
she had like five or six girls. Sunny had like
four or five guys at my home night and they
say on Friday night it slept over. No, they didn't
sleep over. No, Friday night after the football game, they
all came over right, but then they all left it
when they sleep over house sleepover at a time, Sonny
really doesn't have his friend's spend the night. Once in
a while, Natalian's got like, well she had one friend
this weekend, but sometimes it's two three. During the summer,
it's like four or five. It could be up to
four or five. They go like they get camp out
in the living room with mattresses and stuff like that.
But but the kid like but then like Sonny's friends
sometimes want to come the same night as an Italian's
friends and they're arguing over the theater and blah blah blah,
and then Sonny gets mad, so then he leaves with
his friends and then they go to his friend's house
and they spend the night over there and blah blah blah.
But Sonny spent the night out on Saturday night this
last Saturday night, and Natalian had a friend spend the night.
And then Sonny came home at ten am to watch
football because football is back on Sundays, so he was
like back and in front of the TV all day
until nighttime on Sunday. Wow. Yeah, yeah, football season. Well,
Sadie went from like no friends, you know, at the
old school. I mean she had her one friend who
she left from the previous school before that, but then
she spent the whole time at Portolo without and then
she finally met the you know.
Speaker 3: Buildeber crew. I mean month, like you know, seven months into.
Speaker 1: That, you know, but she already has like a crew.
That's awesome, you know she I mean, she didn't do
anything with them. No, she went to.
Speaker 3: The No, she went to the mall the other week.
She didn't really do anything with them. She had a
big homework assignment, but but she was like, yeah, I
might go to the mall with It's like a oh,
I know. Friday, after school, she went over to her
friend's house. Remember I was complaining last week too about
the moms that don't drive, well, the mom that didn't
say even say hi to me and I dropped her
daughter off. Actually, so the kids went to somebody's house
after school and I was like, well, she was like, uh,
you might need to drive me there, and I was like, well, okay.
So I had to take Xander to get to an
orthodonist appointment to get his retainer for anyway, so I
was like I've got to pick him up, Like, so,
now where.
Speaker 1: Both of us are going to have to come get you?
And we have to wait for LB to come up
with a car. I was like, it's a kashaw Right
Hulk shop. I was like, can't you get a ride?
Can any of these bitches like their parents can't drive you?
Like they're going there, they're already going there. You're going
to someone's house. Can't her mom drive you? And she's like, well,
this girl got out.
Speaker 3: Of school early because she had her free period. But
I was like, okay, but what about the other girl
she was like, let me check.
Speaker 1: She came back. She's like, oh yeah, yeah, the other
girl's mom could take me. I was like, oh I could.
So then so then John.
Speaker 3: You know, looks on Life three sixty. He's like, wow,
they're in Porter Ranch, which is pretty fine from us.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no. And then I was like okay, Sadie,
like what time.
Speaker 3: Are you getting She's like, oh, so and So's mom's
gonna drive.
Speaker 1: I was like really, because I thought the mom whose house.
Speaker 3: There at was offering to drive her all the way home.
And I was like that's crazy, right. She goes no, no, no,
the one who lives near us that we went and
picked up.
Speaker 1: Oh. I was like, oh, she's returning the favor. And
I she can't wave, but at least she's great turning
the favor. But I was like, okay, good. Yeah. So
she went and got the girls and brought her and
dropped her off, and I was like, oh my gosh,
she's got like a little crew. That's awesome. Yeah. You know,
it's like they get older and now it's like every
Friday after school they always are like they're gone, they're
doing their own thing. It's like, do you want it's hot,
you want me to pick you up? Nope, Friday, I'm fine,
go off with their friends after school. Yeah. What is
the deal with Natalia and the getting her license? Geez,
she's she's studying. I got her the book because somebody
told me, if you get the book from the d
that's what's going to help, because I want her to
be really like studied up on it so that she
doesn't have to go again. Just let's go and get it.
They have all these little quizlets though, these little quizzes
you see. But somebody said, don't go off of the
apps or online, use the book. Somebody that, like my
friend Jody had somebody that works at the Jody works
for a celebrity and there's like a concierge to the
DMV that you pay them like a couple hundred bucks
and he takes you straight to the front of the line.
He'll take care of everything for you. Blah blah blah
blah blah. I'm not using him, but she was telling
me about it, so I said, can you ask him?
Because she talks to him all the time, I said,
can you ask him? I want to take Natalia for
her test. What's the best way to study for it,
there's because she's got these apps, she's got these online things.
So she asked him, and he said, go into the
DMV and get the booklet he goes, if he just
did it for his son. His son failed same as
Natalia the first one and study from the but he's
got some learning disability. So he studied again from the
book and he only failed by like two questions, just
like Natalia, and then totally aced it the second time.
So I went and picked up that book. I brought
it to her. And now it's like, you know, every
single day she's at school until six thirty, and then
at least three days a week there's games. They're either
off campus on campus, or they're going a wittier. She's
been really like busy, Like how am I going to
take her to the DMV, you know, and if she
missed this practice, she's not gonna be able to play
in the games and all that kind of stuff. So
you just do it first thing in the morning before school. Hmm. Yeah,
I was thinking, I.
Speaker 3: Mean they're just a little late for school. Yeah, make
the appointment at like eight am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should go there, get it, get it done
and get them to third get to school like a
half hour late. Yeah, maybe we'll do that. We did
it for her permit, and then we did it again
for the driving toes. Oh that's good in the morning.
Yeah all right. I keep telling him, like, we got
to go, let's do it this week, let's go, let's
do it. So I got into the booklet and she's
studying it, so she'll be soon. Yeah. What about Sonny,
He said, he's still not interested. He's not really interested.
Why he's got like I got legs.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: He loves to walk. He doesn't care, like everything is
in his walking vicinity. Everything.
Speaker 3: It's just weird because Elbie loves having her license. Oh
she's a changed person. Yeah, her whole life is different. Yeah,
I mean she's.
Speaker 1: Going to be.
Speaker 3: She loves being able to drive. She loves being able
to drive her friends. She's you know, and she's still respectful,
like she's like, can I take the car?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But you know, Yeah, John and I both basically work
from home. This is the only job I do that
I have to leave the house, right, Yeah, other than
running errands and go to the grocery store. That's why
I wear sweats here. I don't have any work clothes.
Where am I going?
Speaker 1: Right? I know?
Speaker 3: And John works from home, so we're like, we're good
with the one car. But between us, right, it's very
rare that we both need the car, right, So it
works out for her, that's good. Yeah, And she just
she's always like, okay, I'm going here.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm going to be going after school, I'm going
to go grab something to eat, going to dinner with
her friends. Like I would be like, oh, hell no,
I'm not dropping you off at like this dinner, that dinner,
I would, you know, right, I know, Yeah, natids most
of her friends are driving, which is nice. And same
with Sonny. She's got friends that drive too, so then
he has to have them. They have to always ask
for a ride, right, hasn't had a problem, no no
issues yet. But yeah, so I guess if it's not
coming from Natalia, if she's not like mom, I have
to get my right, Well, she does want her permit,
but it's just a matter of finding the time and
she's got to study for it. So but she's almost there.
She only makes it by a couple of questions. I
know now, I know. I think we're low in the morning.
I think that's a good idea because I was waiting
for the the volleyball to slow down. And like, I mean,
since school started, they've had games three days a week
twice Tuesdays Thursdays there's a game, and then weekends tournaments.
It's just NonStop. Like looking at the schedule and they're like, okay,
this week, maybe she can go. So she there's no
tournament on the weekend or whatever. And when does club
get going? I don't soon. I think it's October. I think,
my god, how are you gonna handle it? All? Well,
the school will be over, okay, Well, the school will
be over I think in the beginning of November. Okay,
so there's a little overlap, but not much. I know. Nice.
I think that's it for this week.
Speaker 3: All right, you all right, everybody, we love you all
so much, and we'll see you next weekend.
Speaker 1: Also, we'll see it hopefully in October. That's right. Look
for our promo code coming soon. Yep. All right, you're
a parent now, don't have it up.
Speaker 2: Letting go