Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Oh please sunny sun on, I had ovision.
Speaker 1: What's up everybody? What's up you guys? How are you?
I'm good? Hi Steph, Hi Hi.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: By the way, if you guys haven't signed on the Patreon,
you should because we are releasing Vintage eight episodes for
crying out loud like Stephanie's first episode or I don't know,
there's some gems in there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the parenting experiment when where I guested, Yes,
we found them. Gary found them all. Oh he did, Yeah,
I remember he went first. He had only a selection,
but then I said, aren't don't you have like they
don't seem to go all the way back to the beginning.
And then he oh yeah, and he wrote us and
he was like, oh my god, my bad, I have
them all. Yes, So there you guys got back to
episode one. It's gonna be fun. Yeah. So all right.
Speaker 4: You know who liked them was the girl remember the
woman that came and did my.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Ocean, Ocean's eleven.
Speaker 4: He's oh, yes, eleven. I think he's eleven right about now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Her kids were named Beauty and Ocean, and she was
a lifetime mommy coach, right to help you take back
the kitchen?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, except hate that ship. I don't need to.
Don't throw away my spices. I don't care if they expired.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but a bay leaf is gonna last for
a while exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, she just tore my kitchen apart, got
rid of all the tupperware, and then she's like, now
we're gonna go replace it with fucking expensive ship from
William's Sonoma. And I was like, what about Target? Why
can't we go get it to thank you? But Williams
Noman they have that all that really good? No they don't,
so does Target? Target has the lock for set pots.
What's wrong with those? That's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It is the same thing. Thank you, bed bath and beyond.
Yeah there you go, Yeah, bitch, for the same money
for like two hundred bucks. At William's Sonoma, you can
get like a saucepan. I know. At Target you could
like refurbish your whole kitchen exactly, and you get like
a stove.
Speaker 4: Yes, you got a kid in college, you can deck
out their their room.
Speaker 1: They got everything. William's Sonoma is such a ripoff. I
don't understand. Yeah, well why throw away tupperware? Why throw
away perfectly good tupperware?
Speaker 4: I know, because it's gonna make you have Celiac disease
or some shit and give you, uh cancer.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know, right, you want to hear misery?
Speaker 4: Yeah, as a mom, I got up. So Natalia is
now doing volleyball and she is her first tournament they have.
Speaker 1: Can't she just break a finger again? I know, It's
like she just she did it.
Speaker 4: She started a month ago, she sprained something she did
and then she fucked up her finger and then she
had to stop. And I was like, oh, dodge that
bullet and why? Like Sunny does the basketball and it's
all local and it's one hour and you're in and
you're out, and it's fun and it's whatever. The volleyball
Watching the volleyball games is fun in itself. But they
do tournaments and they take that shit very seriously, and
they do it every other week, and I get the
emails like this this week it's Anaheim at the American Mute,
the U Sports Complex and ana Irvine. If you people
don't know where that is, it's on the end of
the earth for us, Like it's so far.
Speaker 1: I have to drive past Irvine to do my radio
I know, and I have to go tomorrow San Clemente.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that is that's you might as well.
Speaker 1: Just take a jet. I know, I know.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's horrib So I mean, listen, I love everybody
that listens to we They know how much you and
I both love going to our kids' games.
Speaker 1: Love it, love it.
Speaker 4: But when she has to be in Irvine at seven
fifteen a m.
Speaker 1: At seven fifteen, she has.
Speaker 4: To start in Irvine sharp, what in the complex?
Speaker 1: Fuck with her?
Speaker 4: All geared knee pads, everythings?
Speaker 1: Eating? Who's eating? For five? As I'm like, really do
we have to Can you just eat a bar? Like?
Do I have to make you eggs?
Speaker 4: You know? And so we we got up at five
it was pitch black, and then I pick up her friend.
Speaker 1: Who that's the middle of the night.
Speaker 4: I know, I know, And you know kids love sometimes
they love that stuff.
Speaker 1: And then you had to pick up the other kid
because you've been mooch mom by the past.
Speaker 4: Right, people take your totally, so your turn. I was like,
I I wave the white flag. I get it, I
got I'll do it.
Speaker 1: I'll do it. Take one for take it. I'll take
it literally because she literally because she's.
Speaker 4: Such the great mom, like the Olivia's mom. She takes
them all the time. And she's got three kids, so
oh my god. And she's got an older daughter that
does it, and so she's got to do it like
double time. So anyway, I went and picked up Olivia
and that kind of works out because it's the two
of them in the back seat and I can listen
to my podcast and my earbud right on the way,
except they talk to me all the time. I'm like,
what now what, I'm trying to turn the volume down,
but I got to find my phone to turn my
phone down. Anyway, So got up, got there seven fifteen,
and by the way, the place is bustling with people.
There's like parking, it's like going to a concert. There's
like all these different parking lots, like park this parking
lot's full, you pay fifteen dollars park over there, or
you can try and find parking around the block. Now
this it's like lines and lines of cars pulling.
Speaker 1: Like this isn't a Taylor Swift concert, I know, I mean,
can I just interject to that? Yeah, these kids like
she just got back into volleyball. Yeah why, I do
not remember from when I was younger. They're like, you're
immediately like in a professional like having tournaments, tournament. You
don't need to have tournaments. I have a game at
a park like normal people, or even at it somewhere
that's close by, have some games, scrimmage, right, you know,
why do you have to have a tournament when these
kids are just learning exactly, and so you're not going
to be volleyball stars, I know.
Speaker 4: So she joined the team that Olivia's been on, right,
and they said, if she wants to be on this team,
she's probably not going to get a lot of playing
time at the games. And I was like, you still
have to drive yea. I was thinking that to myself.
I'm great, So I'm gonna sit there and watch my
kids passport right now. So they did want a passport.
They were like, they need their ID this year. And
it's like, what, she's eleven?
Speaker 1: What ID? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Will you have a school idea, picture, idea, anything that
shows that.
Speaker 1: That shows what she's not an adult. I'm not doing that.
She's not for college trying to be a ringer, right,
nobody asked, and what she's twenty five?
Speaker 4: Listen, if I had to follow all the rules, I
would have killed myself trying to find her birth certificate
the night before, because that's when she springs it on me.
Speaker 1: We're getting up early at five.
Speaker 4: By the way, I have to bring an ID and
a birth certificate or something. So if I would have
really followed the rules, and then when I got there
and realized nobody asked for any ID at all, I
would have fucking killed myself after I killed everybody else. Right,
So there's lines and cars and everything I said. So
there's a huge line of people. It's freezing, huge line
of people to get into the building. So it wraps
around this complex. What are they waiting for to get
inside the building? The games all started eight. There's tournaments
that started at eight. It's just a humongous warehouse. It's
a casha, it's a big casino. It's all courts. It's
all volleyball courts. One after court twelve. She's at court twelve,
one after another aftern I don't even know how the game,
what the rules are.
Speaker 1: I have no idea of no clue.
Speaker 4: I don't know anybody else on the team I know,
which I kind of like because I don't have to
sit there and talk to people. I can just sit
there and listen on my phone. Or except for the
fact once you get in there's so many people. The
internet's down or you don't have the password for these
so there's no no internet. So you text me something
and I was like, I'm in hell, I have no idea.
You're like, did you see something? I was like, no,
I can't get online, bitch. I'm a fucking her vine
with no internet. Yeah, for until two o'clock. By the way,
the email says seven to fifteen sharp, prepare to be
there until three.
Speaker 1: Games could go till three so or if they keep winning.
Speaker 4: If they keep winning, prepare to be there till three.
I got there after being in that big, loud, huge place,
after standing in a line that wrapped around the corner.
Speaker 1: But what was the line for. You couldn't just walk in.
You had to like pay, Oh, they always make you pay,
pass to pay. The parents have to pay. Oh.
Speaker 4: Although luckily Olivia knew what was going on because I
was gonna stand in line with the girls. She was like, no,
players can just go in, So I walked her in
they went in, and I was like, okay, so now
I'm gonna go stand in line. So I'm standing in line,
freezing my ass off at seven o'clock in the morning
in Irvine, and everybody's up and talking and all excited.
Speaker 1: And there's moms.
Speaker 4: What there's just star you know, there's Starbucks and they
are like talking to.
Speaker 1: Oh it hasn't been and see how is your happy
hully bit pepe pepeepepeep.
Speaker 4: Luckily I had my my beats, I had my phone
until I got inside internet down. Now the only podcast
or anything I can listen to is anything that's already
been on my phone, which is basically shit I've already
listened to.
Speaker 1: So I can't listen to anything new.
Speaker 4: I can't listen to I was so excited to listen
to all these other new podcasts.
Speaker 1: Why couldn't you use your own internet, like your phone's internet. Well,
it says no service.
Speaker 4: Then you go to the settings, and then it's like okay,
and then it says a complex sports complex that what
the one you want?
Speaker 1: So free one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I'll do that one. It's nothing, and then
there's too many people, just too many people. Doesn't work
I have this.
Speaker 1: Problem at Magic Mountain. I can't. It won't give me
my email even if I'm on their free wifie.
Speaker 4: There's too many people anything. It won't My mail won't
work right, and all my texts go back. It goes
into green. When I say that text, it was green.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was in.
Speaker 4: Hell, but the line was so long. They went inside.
Then I get inside, and then and then okay, then
there's nowhere to sit. So I see on the other
side of the court. So I go to Court twelve.
They're all there practicing, and there's all these parents on
one side on these bleachers, but it only fits like
maybe thirty people. But there's a whole bunch of kids
like on both sides. And the grandma's there the answer there,
there's all like I got a wheel in there.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about that for a mine?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are people? What's with the grandma's I don't get it. No, No,
who are these people? Who are parents? Are you? Are
your kids? Stupid game? Like I know the people at
the balbo at all these games. These people their freaking
grandma's or their aunts and uncles, their cousins, their second
cousin once removed is like, couldn't watch their game. I'm like,
this is the Olympics. Why are you here? Makes me
look bad, I know. I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to go to my nephew's game.
Speaker 1: Where John and I barely show up together. Oh I know.
Oh my god, that's like a rarity. If we're both
there for someone's game. We're like, you got this game,
all right? And then you see they've got fourteen relatives.
It looks like a freaking family reunion for some of
these kids. And it's like aunt Esther's there. I mean,
it's just it was just insane.
Speaker 4: It was so so I show up at the court
they're practicing, and I think I'm gonna pull a fast
one because on the other side of the court there's
like maybe two three ladies sitting on the benches. So
I kind of go there and I sit down and
I'm like okay, and I'm watching them practice, and then
I get a tap tap tap excuse me? Are you
a co coach or an assistant coach?
Speaker 3: Oh? I was like.
Speaker 4: Thinking to myself, maybe I should say, I said, now,
and she goes what is the sides for the coaches
and assistant all right, Oh, look at the other side
where am I supposed to sit on the ground because
there was a lot of people were sitting on the ground.
So then I get over to the other side. Now
I'm sitting. Now I'm sitting in front of you know,
the clapper that like cheers on their kid, but claps
a little too long, so you know, everybody goes like
they score, and everybody.
Speaker 1: Goes, good job.
Speaker 4: They clap right like one, two, three, four, five six,
that's about it. That's cheer standard. She's right behind me
and she's gone. First of all, she gives her kid
the two thumbs up every time her kid looks over
it or she does that. You know, she's she's like
doing that the two thumbs up, like God, you got it,
you got it. And then when they score, it's and
then everybody stops. And she's almost almost wanted to bring
my phone out and videotape it so that you could
see this, because I was just like, how long and
I'm founding like fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, she's
twenty two claps like everybody's.
Speaker 1: Too many, We're done clapping. Claps too many And it's
because I'm noxious too. For the other team, Oh, you're
not supposed to clap that many times, it makes it
seem like, oh, we're not used to scoring, so we
have to really really excited.
Speaker 4: Yes, And then especially if the team is like slaughtering
the other team, you really want to make that those
oh girls feel bad, like she.
Speaker 1: Like, shut up.
Speaker 4: I wanted to tie her hands together with a fucking
uh So.
Speaker 1: The only time I ever do that is when heavy
when this happens when the other team is like killing
your team, right, maybe at the beginning of the game,
and the other team parents are clapping too loudy this
thing we're saying, don't do and when they're like going
like yeah all day, all day, and then I'm like,
you know what, you fucking assholes. You'll see You'll see
what it feels. And then when you start scoring, then
I get really crazy. Then I'm like wow, standing up
punching the god just just to make them feel bout.
Speaker 4: We had that, We had that thing going. We had
that thing going with Sonny and his football. In his
football that there was one season where it was like
all the mom's like and then the other side because
it was the Raiders and the Raiders' kids were like,
it's flag football, but they're doing the shoulder hit and
like they're all like aggressive. And our little spinley little
kids from our little neighborhood came out in Glendale and
we're like up against like East LA team.
Speaker 1: And they're like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And we were like, can they like tone it down?
Like it's one to twenty five, like can we please?
Speaker 1: And then oh my god, we started.
Speaker 4: Winning and then we were like yeah, like we all
became maniacs. Yeah, and they complained to the reft. They're like, okay,
now now now, now he's doing a little show voting
too much.
Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, well then you're like,
well you should have now paying attention to the nonverbal rules, right,
the unofficial rules of conduct, right parents as it feel now? Yeah?
So yeah, So I mean I was there, so Clappy's
right behind Clappies.
Speaker 4: Behind me, just throwing the two thumbs up. And then
they do this thing where they switch sides right, and
I'm thinking, okay.
Speaker 1: It's like basketball halftime, they right the other way.
Speaker 4: But in basketball the parents stay in the same these
I'm thinking, no, no, why is everybody getting up and
leaving it's over. Now they get up on my side.
They moved to the other side.
Speaker 1: No, they move down to the right side.
Speaker 4: Then those people come over and then they're looking at
me going like, why are you getting up?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't, why are you coming here?
Speaker 4: I'm not moving by Clappy, I finally got away from her,
and so I'm sitting there and now they come over
and they said, now I'm like on enemy territory, and
I'm like, oh my god, am I supposed to? I
literally thought to myself, I'm gonna do it. And then
I saw one dad that didn't do it, and I
was like, fuck that shit.
Speaker 1: I ain't getting up.
Speaker 4: I got a spot like I was gonna be on
the floor. Luckily I got in front of Clappy. I
got a scout on the bench. I ain't leaving this bench.
I'm here until we're done. That's it right, parked it
there and then Clappy came back.
Speaker 1: When when they switched back.
Speaker 4: And she came back, I kind of I started to
enjoy her after a while, and then her husband came
and the two of them are doing now. She now
her daughter got the four thumbs up instead of the
two thumbs out. There like both of them going like,
you know, and she's on our team and it was fun.
Natalia did pretty good. She did really I think she
did really good.
Speaker 1: For her first time. Wow.
Speaker 4: She played a lot actually, and her coach, who I
thought was like some goofy dad. I was like, I like,
your he's really nice. And I go, is he a dad?
And she's like, no, he's Uh.
Speaker 1: The coach to the.
Speaker 4: High school, our local high school, was like wow, wow, okay,
that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good to know.
Speaker 4: So then I'm like, bye, coach, nice to meach, I'm
Gonnaalia's mom just in case she sticks at the sport.
Speaker 1: So then all right. So then you're like, Natalia, start
taping your finger, right, So I'm thinking I'm in for
the long haul, right, okay, But the mom when I
picked Olivia up, she was like, I'm gonna come there
later if you want to leave, you know, because it
does it's a long day kind of thing.
Speaker 4: So I had that in the back of my mom.
I'm like, no, I'm fine. And then she never came.
So I and I was texting her pictures and stuff
and uh, and she was like that's cool. Like she
never said like I'm on my way or anything. So
I thought, okay, So towards the end she came and
I was like, oh you didn't.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to come. It's like almost over. They're done.
They're done for the day.
Speaker 4: And she goes really so then they were done a
like by the way, when you get up that early
and it's like you're thinking, like it must be like
two o'clock right now, it's like only eleven am.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know. Yeah, it's like when you're in school
and school's got to be almost over, right, But like, no,
we just been like two hours. Yes, like people nine am.
Speaker 4: I'm just waking up at home normally, like Sonny's probably
just rolling out of bed, and Sonny and at him right,
I mean, it just see that the day went so long.
Speaker 1: And so then we went out.
Speaker 4: We took the girls to lunch, and then we got
in the freeway and then the traffic back home. So
now I'm coming home and Adam's going Sonny has a
game at three, and it's local.
Speaker 1: Luckily it's like buy our house, right, and he's like,
are you gonna be home with three? It? I go,
don't count on me being home. Just take care of it.
Speaker 4: Sonny just gets Sunny there and make sure you're there
or pick him up after the game. So somehow he
found because there was a birthday party and then the
basketball game. Somehow I get a phone call and he says, Shannon,
Miss Shannon has Sonny. It was like, how did you
do that? Like, Shannon's Jensen's mom, and he's gonna Lucky
Lucky because she's gonna take him to his game. I
was like, how is she going to do why? And
he's like, because Little land In, Jenson's little brother has
a game at Sunny's game is at three o'clock. His
game is at two o'clock, so that at the same place.
So he lucked out. He got gave Sonny to Miss
Shannon and then she took him. They went to Little
Landin's game and then his game, and then she was like, well.
Speaker 1: We're leaving now and Sunny's game is starting.
Speaker 4: Nobody's here, and I'm like, all right, but I'm fifteen
minutes away. I'm on the freeway. I'm almost there. So
then I get there. I get there. As soon as
I get there, Adam Kit's there, so I could have went.
I was so tired driving home. I thought I fall
asleep and both the girls in the backseat are asleep,
and I'm like like like trying this.
Speaker 1: I was like, so sleep. How many games did they play?
They played like eight? Eight games? Well, it's hard to.
Speaker 4: Tell now they do these little mini games. Okay, so
I would say four. But in the in the four
there's like, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, a lot of it's at a lot of it was.
It was a lot. It was a lot. It was
like they were sleeping.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were tah, my god, they worked hard and
so they were asleep. And it's like three o'clock now.
I mean we were up at five and picking up
Olivia Fe. It's like coming on three o'clock and we're
coming home and the traffic.
Speaker 1: Is just just stand still.
Speaker 4: It's just why is there such bad traffic in Los
Angeles this Saturday?
Speaker 1: At three?
Speaker 4: It's like, really really really have this is sit in
this traffic just sitting, We're not moving.
Speaker 1: When I go to San Clemente, it's on a weekday,
like I have to go tomorrow, it takes me. I
get there, it takes me like two and a half
hours to get there, and then it takes me like
three hours to get home. Because I usually driving rush hour.
You leave at five and get home at eight. God,
oh that's horrible. I feel bad for you.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's brutal, it really is. It feels like
it's such so crushing. It just I hate it. I
hate the traffic.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a little bit used to it. So I
try to save a podcast that I want to listen
to for the ride.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the only saving thing. So I get there.
I get to the game. Now Adam's got filled with
him on a shoelace, which is embarrassing, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, what are you doing with Phil?
Speaker 4: Like we're going into the auditorium and he's like, ah,
he's fine, he's fine, And I like, what's what the
shoe lace?
Speaker 1: He's like, I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't expect that I would be coming to the
I don't know what his deal, Like he just piecemeal
the whole day together, you know kind of thing. And
so then we both watched Sonny's game and I could
have went home, but the girls are home sleeping like relaxing,
and I went to another game at three o'clock. So
I had from five am until four point thirty of
non stop game game game, like hearing that whistle blow
in my head like you hear that whistle like constant.
But it was a long day, but it was that
game that Sonny played was one of the best games
he's ever played. And it was like his second or
third game back since his injury. Wow, and he made
four three pointers and he did it with me and
Adam there.
Speaker 1: It was so great, Like I was so happy. Wow,
I know he did four.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, crazy, I know he was feeling pretty confident,
which and then he had a game yesterday and nothing,
but he did good. But it wasn't wasn't nothing like that,
but it was like it was a great game. It
was so much fun to see that. And then you know,
then it was over. And then then Adam got sick
and then I take care of everybody and that that
was my weekend. And yesterday was the holiday, the Corolla
holiday family, you know, the whole uh you bring this
and you bring that, and you know that was yesterday, Yeah,
pot luck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Adam's parents, yes last and yeah, and we got
home late last night. Yeah, with Adam fans and his
sister lives in Topanga, which is like in deep to Panga,
which is far and I had to drive because Adam
was here watching football.
Speaker 1: Also was at her house. It was at her house.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I had to bring Adam up.
Speaker 1: Oh got it.
Speaker 4: He did podcasts and football. I picked him up and
then we drove out and then left his car.
Speaker 1: So here here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm not really begun Christmas shopping either, Like
I'm very behind. Wow, I'm feeling very overwhelmed. And we're
recording Sword and Scale today.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So does everybody feel sorry for me yet?
Speaker 1: I understand how you feel. Although I did get on
my Christmas shopping early this year. I made lists. I
checked them twice. Yeah, I determined that people. Some people
were naughty and some people were nice. I but you know,
this is what happens to me is I make my
lists of like what I'm gonna get them right, and
then I start to second guess myself because I'm like,
well that now it seems like this person's getting bigger guests.
I know, like the Healys thing that I got for
a Xander that we talked about last time. I'm like, okay,
so he's getting Healey's, which is kind of a big
gift in my in my estimation, plus like I got
him this laser tag game. Those are two that's kind
of big. So then I'm like, what say to getting
some avocado earrings? Like that's not the cato equal to
she loves avocados. So I was trying to find some
avocado theme stuff and I found these little earrings from
Etsy that she will like. But she's not gonna laser
tag game like them, you know, I don't want to.
So I'm like, what else? So I had got Sadie
this cotton candy maker. Oh that's cute. Yeah, that was
something on her list. Everything that she asked for. She
made a list for Sannah and every item was something
from that section of Target, the crazy craft or whatever.
It's like a make this maker or a make that maker.
It's all food stuff, but she'll use it right, hopefully
not too much. I don't eat her making cotton candy
every day, but it's got like a the wand for
the cotton candy glows. I don't know. I mean it's
going to be a mess, but whatever. I wanted to
get her something that she would be like that my
list that's big ye And then elbe I try Oh, Elbe.
I got her up. This is the rage that all
the kids want Polaroid cameras, I know, which I don't
understand because they take crappy pictures and you have a phone, right,
take pictures on your phone. It's a much better camera.
And then what do you do with the pictures? They
just clict they make them. I guess they put them
in these little frames. So I got her one. Did
I tell you this story last week where Elbe was
hinting that that's what she wanted. I don't think so. No.
She was saying like that. She said somebody asked her
what she wants, and she was like, I don't really
want any I mean I only want one thing, but
it's just too expensive, so I know I can't have it.
And I was like, oh what, and she was like
a Polaroid camera and I was like, yeah, that's that.
Those are really expensive. You know, we just got one.
We got one. In my head, I'm like noted, okay, fine,
I got her something. And then she she brought it
up again because she was like about Xander wanted to
know what she wanted and she was like, yeah, I mean, obviously,
the only thing I want is a Polaroid camera. Obviously
he's not going to get it for me, And I
was like, yeah, of course not you high. So then
I got her that, but honestly, even for her a
big gift, but I was like, I'm not going to
do big gifts this year. I'll just get a bunch
of small things that they want. So but Lbie is
a little bit hard to shop for because she really
is like she's not there's not anything huge that she
I think she wanted a new iPad because hers she
had since she was eight and she's there it doesn't
work anymore. But you know what, I'm like, she doesn't
need an iPad. I honestly, she has her phone. She's
on her phone for everything, and she has a computer.
She's a laptop, So why does she need an iPad.
I guess there's certain games or something, but you know what,
then don't play them. You don't need an iPad. I
don't even have my iPad got stolen, so I don't
have an iPad. I don't have an iPad either. You
don't what happened to her.
Speaker 4: I gave it to the guys here to use for
work because we needed it for you know, like, yeah,
for like a you know, when you go sell merchandise
at shows and stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, to do the square Yeah yeah, so okay, so
I don't have one. You don't have one. She doesn't
need one. She's got a laptop that's small, like and
I mean, she's fine. So but then it's like, well,
then what do I get her that's going to be
like a fun like a Christmas gift that she can
be excited that she got. So I got her a
onesie you could you should maybe look at this Hollister.
She loves Hollis. Oh I know, so does Natalia so
and she also loves these, the onesie pajamas that animal
they have. They have a Hollister one you can get
the small really small. She is extra so many of
these onesies Oh okay, Well Elbe only has one and
it was from Target from like two years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now like two or three from Target old the
battery of for birthday.
Speaker 1: She got them a birthday. Yeah. Well, this one's really cute.
And so she's getting that, and then and she's getting uh,
I can't even remember, got her the Polaroid camera. Plus
I got her this little thing for accessory with the
excestory kids that goes with it. She'll, she'll, she'll be fine.
But yeah, but I just started ordering stuff on Prime
Books and the kids, I'm fine. It's it's other people,
like you know, like.
Speaker 4: I mean, just well, I'm in charge of everybody at
Corolla Digital, and I asked Dylan to help me, and
I started getting so some of them get just Amazon
e cards. Amazon just emailed like baby Doll Dixon's assistant.
It's an Amazon card. Okay, yeah, okay. So I have
a list of those people between me and like mostly Adams.
People give him to Dylan. I hate the Dragon. Don
I feel bad for Dylan. He's taken a beating for
the last week. He really got an on Adams show
last week, like and it upset me. I got mad
at Adam because he was too hard on him. But
come on, so I give him like this thing.
Speaker 1: Just here's a list.
Speaker 4: Here's their emails. There's like probably eight people on it. Amazon,
same amount. Just happy holidays from the Corollas. And I
start on Friday night, I met Suzanne for dinner and
I start getting I look at my email. I'm getting
all these emails from Amazon, like kickback, like this didn't
go through. This didn't go not that it didn't go through.
Something was wrong and I emailed Dylan one of them.
And now I don't know where we are with that.
That was Friday night. Today's Monday morning. I don't know
what's going on. So I'm feeling a little overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I can understand, because that's why you have
an assistant that you don't have.
Speaker 4: To get and I know not anymore. They took him
ever since Nick.
Speaker 1: Left, they took him.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean it's a little stressful. And yeah,
I mean Adam, I like Jimmy, like, you know.
Speaker 1: His kids.
Speaker 4: We got to get his kids stuff, and you know,
it's just this, there's a lot. Adam doesn't Christmas shop.
Speaker 1: I have to do everything, of course, So John's going
to take the kids to them all tomorrow, I think,
to get me something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, see, that's what Adams should be doing. But and
the kids and their friends, you know, now they got
lists of people that they have to buy for. It's
not a lot, but like because you know, their little
Cammy gives Natalia something, She's got to get Cammy something
and Olivia something, and then Cammy's got to do the
one upper where she gives Sonny something now and I
realize that it took me two years in a row
to figure that out. And I was like, so now
I'm like, Sonny, now you got to get Cammy something
because she's going to give you something. And then I realized,
like land and little land and get something brings something
for It's like real, everybody's like in their.
Speaker 1: Little cousins, it's just too much. It's too much. Can
we all just donate? No, no gifts from kids to
kids because it's parents have to buy that. I know,
I know, but it still happens. That gets so like
I'm like, oh and this is what I want to
get for Xander, and that's what I'd like. Dude, it's
not your money, I know, it's my money. Yeah, and
I already got him stuff. He's good, I got it, Yes,
reel it in here. You can shop from what I
already bought, right. Uh yeah, So I feel your pain
on that a lot. Yeah, I just don't. I mean, okay,
so ilb had a little gift exchange, except for there
was no exchange park because she didn't bring anybody anything,
and she got some a couple of little gifts from
her friends and I was like, well, oh well, how
would I know who's good together for She's got a
lot of friends at school, like everybody's I know. I
hate that it happens to us every year when we
go some like most of the time at Jimmy's house
is like the barbieris are like, here is a great
gift for the car, and it's.
Speaker 4: Always like recycled something like you know, you know, yeah,
it's like a regift, right. It's fine, but it's the point,
like they thought of us and wrapped something to give
to us. Every single year. I don't think about them,
and I feel bad and that happened.
Speaker 1: It happens. It happens a lot. But we have to
put our foot down at some point, I know, and
just hope that let them lower their expectations that they're
not going to get something from us.
Speaker 4: Do you send out holiday cards family?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Never have there you know why, I thought about it
and it's not that big a priority on my list.
And I try to think about it because I get
cards from everybody.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing. And then I'm like I round
file them immediately. John gets mad, but I'm like, I
don't this is some friend of yours that they've had
you on their Christmas list since like the eighties, and like,
I don't know them or their kids. I don't don't
care what their kids are fucking up to to. I
know you don't care. I don't even know them. I
know you know what I do. It's fun.
Speaker 4: Every year I show Adam the card and I cover
the names and I go, okay, whose kid is this?
Speaker 1: Right? And they're not kids that he doesn't.
Speaker 4: He sees some of them pretty quite often because you know,
football Sunday people bring their kids and I'm sorry, whose
kid is that? Uh?
Speaker 1: Hench uh? Nick Santora is good? Uh, it's it's great
because he doesn't know who anybody is.
Speaker 4: But and then I thought, so I thought, why don't
I do the Maybe I should because Natalie's like all
her friends. We get them and there's a there's the
you know, the Jensen family, and uh, I think to myself,
like I do a lot of posting of them on
social media.
Speaker 1: That's enough, right, Yes?
Speaker 4: Why do I got to send a picture of you holidays?
Like they get everybody sees what Mike they're growing up? Like,
I don't know, I feel like they have too much
exposure out there, like too much.
Speaker 1: That's a good excuse, too much, too much, it's already
they're too exposed. Yeah, don't need a don't need a document, right,
go to Facebook if you want to see what they
look like. That's why social media was invented. Right, here's
email was invented. So we don't have to put snail mail.
We don't have to put something in an always put
a stamp on it and send it unless it's important,
unless it's like a thing. Right, you don't need to
send letters anymore. No, it's not quaint. It's time consuming,
and it's aggravation, and it's expensive. When you could just
send an email so you could look on Facebook, that's
what it's for and see pictures. You don't need to
receive one in the mail where we posed for some stupid.
Speaker 4: Picture exactly where in our pajamas and our matching pajamas
in front of the fireplace.
Speaker 1: And I don't need to send out what the tailor
fam the wilder tailers have been up to all year. Okay,
if you know us, then you're privy to that information
already exactly. And if you really don't know us, then
you don't fucking get care. You don't care that much,
and if you did, you'd follow us on Facebook and
we update you enough. Yes, that's my logic. Most people
know that I have a son named Xander Neck, right,
anybody that knows me knows that. At this point. If
you don't know it, you don't need that information. I know.
Speaker 4: Maybe you don't want them to know that information, like
they yeah, they're not on your short list.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's that's my logic, right.
Speaker 4: And then I also get the pressure too, where every
year around this time, you're like Adam's there's like a
group of them that send like they're they're funny.
Speaker 1: Right, they're very witty.
Speaker 4: I know you're gonna say that, yeah, and I and
it's like pressure, pressure, So so what what's something funny
that the Corolla should do? And then I thought, no,
maybe I'm just gonna say happy Holidays from the Corollas
and just keep it simple.
Speaker 1: And then I thought, fuck that, just go to Facebook.
That's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, like last year, cousin sALS, I
look forward to theirs, though I have to say, like
there's certain families I do look forward to, like sal.
It was the three kids sitting on Santa's lap and
they're all blinking their eyes like half closed, closed, even Santa.
It was really funny, Like, you know, I would never
think that pressure. That's too much pressure.
Speaker 1: You don't want to compete. Why compete, Just be like
I enjoyed yours. Yeah, I know. I don't want to
try to outdo you, right, not gonna happen. You're too good, right. Yeah.
I have briefly considered Christmas cards like years ago, and
then I was like what No. I was like, no,
just not going to do it. It's too much to
take on. And I have to keep that thing updated.
And also I don't like it when people send out
like the their Christmas like what's going on with them
that year, and it's like a standard or letter. I
find those to be super annoying. And this is personal,
This is just me personally. This is just my opinion.
So if you're out there and you're like, but I
send those and the families really enjoy it, that's great.
I'm not telling you not to do it. I'm just
saying that I'm not interested in doing it. And if
you're sending one of those to me, then.
Speaker 3: Fine, whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm being honest and saying that I probably don't enjoy
it right, right, because it's not personal. It's not going
to be personal enough. Right. This is going out to
everybody on your list, people that you knew twenty years ago. Yes, right,
So it's not going to be anything like listen, marriage
is really hard this year. We've been bickering an awful lot.
I don't I don't know. I don't know how much
longer we can. Oh my god, it's not gonna be
information that's interesting to me.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: As you can see, my husband gained a lot of
weight and I haven't been feeling as attracted to him.
Something like juicy right now, that's not going to be
in there. The wife stained. We have not been having
any sex.
Speaker 4: Things are pretty stale.
Speaker 1: Jason just got tested for his second I e P.
It's We were good for a while, but then they
were like, no, let's retest. Oh my god, it's and
despite the services, it just they don't seem to be working.
Love to say I've been seeing improvements, but let's be honest,
I haven't. It's never that. No, it's all humble brags
exactly exactly. That's what social.
Speaker 4: Media, right, it's all humble brags, that's what, yes, right, Facebook, Yeah,
it's for Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go look on my Facebook and you'll see all
that stuff. Bug. Yeah, it's been hard. It's too much work. Also,
it's just like if we're also having to buy people
presents or buy our family's presence, I don't need also
to be like thinking about how to please people. I
haven't seen my fifteen years, right.
Speaker 4: And you know the other thing I hate? Why is
there wrapping.
Speaker 1: Of the gifts? My god? I just put it in
a bag with some tissue paper. Thank you. You know
it's good ninety nine cents store. Yeah, that's a good idea.
They so you can get like two for a dollar
gift bags.
Speaker 4: Bot yesterday at write a three three pack. But but
the kids like, they're like, really in a bag?
Speaker 1: Can you just wrap it?
Speaker 4: Like if they want it wrapped with a bow? Yeah,
no that they get it fine, But everybody else is
getting a bag.
Speaker 1: I like it getting I like the stickers that are
from that you know, Okay, so that normally I've told
you this before too, but this show is all about
recycling information. But I don't bother, and I haven't in
years disguising my handwriting, like I started two years ago
and then I was like, I'm tired. They're going to
figure it out eventually, you know. I mean if somehow
they buy that this guy crawls down the chimney with
a sack of toys going around the entire world with reindeer,
you know, and a sleigh, then I think they can
get they can suspend this belief that the handwriting looks familiar.
So I would just write from Sanna and some of
them would be like from mom and Dad, and it
was the same writing, and they never really said anything. Right.
So but this year I had the genius I found
at Target the stickers. That's a two blank from Sannah.
So I'm like, Santa got his leg got it into.
Speaker 4: The smart until they see it at Target. Because Natalia
is a Target shopper, she'll see it. Go, hey, that
was on my gift.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the kids now understand that the elves shop
at Target. Oh they do, that's smart? Yeah. Or Santa
shops at Target. I don't know if they're not making
all their toys in a shop. Really, it's not Etsy.
I don't think like Santa's workshop is making your crazy
cotton right maker, it's not made out of wood. Nobody's
carving it. Come on, guys, you get the elf moving
around night? Yes, yeah, although he didn't move last night.
I think the kids are I think it's so hard Lynette.
I know we talked about this on Tuesday's episode, but
I don't know what they believe in. They don't don't
know how much to jazz it up and be like
the elves move Some are crazy. I'm not going to
get marshmallows and make them having a snowball fight. I'm
not going to do any of that because I don't
know if they even believe it. Right.
Speaker 4: That's the thing we are at, that that crossroads, that
juncture where we don't know what who knows what?
Speaker 1: Right? Are they onto us or not? That's the problem, right,
And if you if they're onto you, you don't want
to act a fool like going above and beyond. And
if they're not onto you, they should be at this point.
And now I'm going to have them tested for NIPI
for not being onto us. There you go, Oh my gosh,
do we have to do more show?
Speaker 4: So so this is our last episode of the year. Yeah,
you guys, we love you guys. We can't tell you
how much we are touched, and especially the real and
in page, the crowd on there.
Speaker 1: You guys are awesome. Yes, it really it has been fun, supportive, fun,
but also edgy women.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And a lot of no getters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of no getters. Love you, no good
and no getters. And I love that you guys.
Speaker 1: Just picked up on that. Yeah, we haven't all land
that corner office. Yeah, no getters. You guys are so awesome.
Speaker 4: And even if you're not on the real it in
page and you listened from time to time, we love
you too.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. So even if you just download once in
a while to hate on us, I love you, Love you.
Speaker 4: Happy holidays, Thank you guys so much. Brandon, Kaylin, both
of you. Thank you Kaylin, he's not even in Thank
you for everything, Kaylen, Christmas. Happy holidays everybody. And oh
go to Corolla Drinks. Go and check it out. We
got a lot of stuff on on check us out
and our Facebook page, the Facebook live stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you guys. We'll see you next year.
Happy eighteen.
Speaker 4: All right, you're a parent now, don't f it up up.
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