Speaker 1: I made a discussion pay Sunny Sun.
Speaker 2: Yet on I had a visions night.
Speaker 1: Hey, every buddy, what's happening.
Speaker 2: Sorry, we're a little late today with our show, but
Speaker 2: we'll make it up to you guys.
Speaker 1: Stephanie was traveling. I was traveling, which is a massive
Speaker 1: rarity for me. It's true, you know, I was just
Speaker 1: thinking about that, where am I going? Right? And you
Speaker 1: went pretty far flew to the east coast. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: dorms out there. We did not hit any storms. Let
Speaker 1: me say this had a very lovely time, which I
Speaker 1: will tell you all about because it's so unusual for
Speaker 1: me a to have a lovely time. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: I have lots of good times. It was just so fun.
Speaker 1: It was my niece's wide. I really just many times
Speaker 1: in the middle of it was like, I am having
Speaker 1: so much fun right now. This is a great trip.
Speaker 1: Kids stayed home with Bob. Oh my god. They were
Speaker 1: such great dog sitters. Listen, I know it's also their dog,
Speaker 1: but they take the responsibility very seriously, so they knew
Speaker 1: it was important to me. They knew I was anxious.
Speaker 1: Xander took all the walks, so he had to walk
Speaker 1: the dog like you know, early in the morning, and
Speaker 1: he did, and he said it was no problemo as
Speaker 1: you would say. He was. Actually, he's so funny. I
Speaker 1: love Xander so much. He's just so well. He reminds
Speaker 1: me of me in the way of like he's he even,
Speaker 1: but more so because he doesn't complain as much as
Speaker 1: I do. But he's very positive. He's he's always like
Speaker 1: looking on the bright side.
Speaker 2: What did Bob think though, That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: Did Bob miss you?
Speaker 1: I think Bob missed us. But it was really nice
Speaker 1: because he didn't go too crazy when we got home.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was very happy to see us. And
Speaker 1: you know, for a second, I was like does he
Speaker 1: remember us? And Saydie was like, oh my god, Mom,
Speaker 1: he just has not acted like this. He was, you know,
Speaker 1: he was like all over me. It was really cute.
Speaker 1: I was expecting like those military videos where somebody goes
Speaker 1: to war for two years and then they come back
Speaker 1: and then the dog is like leaping ten frgs in
Speaker 1: the air, and I was like, where's my welcome? Yeah,
Speaker 1: where's that? Where's the video that's going to go viral
Speaker 1: of how much my dog loves me? Oh? It wasn't that. No,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. But the point is we were
Speaker 1: able to like go away and feel good about it
Speaker 1: and feel like, Okay, he's fine. Yeah, Elby, well, okay.
Speaker 1: Elbe stayed home with him on Friday night, so we
Speaker 1: left early Thursday morning, okay, And you know, I mean
Speaker 1: everybody was kind of making fun of me, but I
Speaker 1: think you'll understand. I just woke up super super early
Speaker 1: and took the first and took him out for his
Speaker 1: walk because I was like, we're waking up in bed.
Speaker 1: He's gonna wake up. Because we woke up, we needed
Speaker 1: to leave. Our uber came at six forty five, okay,
Speaker 1: But I was like, okay, yes, I would have to
Speaker 1: wake up at like five point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: But if I walk him from like six to six
Speaker 1: forty five, come home, and then get in the uber,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna feel better because he'll have had his walk
Speaker 1: and then he'll be fine through the morning, and then
Speaker 1: the kids can wake up when they wake up, and
Speaker 1: then that night Sadie can sleep in our bed and
Speaker 1: wake up with in the morning. Right. I just felt better.
Speaker 1: John was like, don't do that, just like the kids
Speaker 1: can walk him, and I was like, I have anxiety
Speaker 1: and this is going to make me feel better and
Speaker 1: like doing it right, So there you go. So I did,
Speaker 1: and it was great because he eat and pooped and
Speaker 1: he was came home. I gave him this giant bone
Speaker 1: that I'd been saving for him, and then he was fine.
Speaker 1: And then, like I said, the kids walked him Thursday night,
Speaker 1: Friday night, Friday morning, Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday night,
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, and then they had to walk him Sunday
Speaker 1: night because we didn't get home. We had to walk
Speaker 1: in Monday morning. So I'm going to pay Xander for
Speaker 1: all those walks. But this was so cute. So you know,
Speaker 1: we check in on Bob, of course, not the kids.
Speaker 1: And Sadie's like, Mom, we're practicing for like when we
Speaker 1: live alone, like as if they're a couple. She's like,
Speaker 1: we fallen into gender roles. She goes, So Xander is
Speaker 1: doing the walks and I'm like making dinner and making
Speaker 1: food for everybody, keeping the house in order. Yeah, she goes,
Speaker 1: So we went grocery shopping and then yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I made and then she took a picture of she
Speaker 1: made them like crazy sandwiches, and I played it really nicely,
Speaker 1: and it was really cute. I guess Elbie was home
Speaker 1: one day and she was cleaning her room, so Sadie
Speaker 1: made her food nice. Yeah, that's so cute. So the
Speaker 1: only great when your.
Speaker 2: Kids fucking like step up with responsibility.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes. The only hiccup was that I've told you,
Speaker 1: Bob is a little bit scared of Elbie and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why. And really the only thing I can
Speaker 1: think of is that Elbe did not live at home
Speaker 1: when we got Bob, so she was still in college,
Speaker 1: so she would come home sometimes, but it was like
Speaker 1: a stranger coming to him. Even though she lives at
Speaker 1: home now, she's still barely home. So he's fine, like
Speaker 1: when she walks in the house, he's fine, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't like he doesn't come to her like he does
Speaker 1: to everybody else. So on Friday, Sadie and Xander had
Speaker 1: a gig, so Elbie was supposed to be home and
Speaker 1: in charge of Bob. Well, Elbie invited a friend over
Speaker 1: and you know, Bob's not great with that, and then
Speaker 1: had the friend go on the walk with her and
Speaker 1: she basically was like, I'm so sorry. Mom. She was
Speaker 1: texting me, She's like, Bob is having none of this,
Speaker 1: like you want to go nervous. He didn't want to
Speaker 1: walk with them. He like Pete a few times, but
Speaker 1: then was like, just wanted to go home, and she
Speaker 1: said was just acting super anxious and funky. So she
Speaker 1: brought him home then tried to let him run in
Speaker 1: the backyard, but he didn't want to be near them.
Speaker 1: So it's so interesting. Yeah, so then how cute is this?
Speaker 1: She told Xander that, and Xander and Sadie didn't get
Speaker 1: home till like midnight, so Xander was like, it's okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take him for another walk. So Xander walked him
Speaker 1: at midnight. Sure he was good. Yeah, my gosh, I
Speaker 1: love that day.
Speaker 2: They took it so seriously and they took good care
Speaker 2: of him.
Speaker 1: I know good kids, the best, the best to really
Speaker 1: really good kids. I know that our listeners think I'm
Speaker 1: handicapping I'm ruining Sadie by helping her apply for college, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, the shit that people say about us
Speaker 1: that now God gets back to me is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm a horrible parent who's just constantly indulging
Speaker 1: my kids. But like, shockingly, they're turning out pretty pretty good. Well,
Speaker 1: so exactly, fuck off haters, right right? Why do I
Speaker 1: even have to say that? I know? Now, why do
Speaker 1: I care?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sonny is camping again right now by himself, by himself.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, how are you just being so calm?
Speaker 1: Now? He's well, he's done.
Speaker 2: Well, you did two nights and now he's should be
Speaker 2: on the road today because he went he's driving back
Speaker 2: to Oregon, so he stopped. He stopped for two nights
Speaker 2: at a campground crater.
Speaker 1: Too early for him to be going back now, I know.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, but he's going to visit his friends because
Speaker 2: he just got his car, so he's taking.
Speaker 1: It out on the ride. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Adam, Adam Lerner got him a car super easy, showed
Speaker 2: up on Friday.
Speaker 1: There. It is so okay, just to not skip a beat.
Speaker 1: You you had to wait to buy the car until
Speaker 1: Escascro closed, So you told Adam, like, just hold off
Speaker 1: on the deal until the weekend. Yeah, till the weekend.
Speaker 1: And then so as soon as escrow closed, you were like,
Speaker 1: let's go.
Speaker 2: Get yeah, because he still had the same car that
Speaker 2: yeah okay, so brought it over and and and he's
Speaker 2: been planning on going to Oregon to see his friends anyway,
Speaker 2: like driving out there because he's got his friends out
Speaker 2: there for some weekend for something. And so on his way,
Speaker 2: he stopped for two nights at a camp at Crater Lake,
Speaker 2: which is in Oregon.
Speaker 1: And now he's on the road Dennis Crater Lake.
Speaker 2: Huh Crater Crater Crater Crater, like and stopped there, yeah,
Speaker 2: Dennis Crater Lake. Now he's on his way today to
Speaker 2: Oregon for a couple of nights and then on his
Speaker 2: way back from Oregon, his drive back at the end
Speaker 2: of the week, he's stopping in Big sur where Wendy
Speaker 2: and all her sisters are camping this week, because Wendy
Speaker 2: came into town last week and now she's camping with
Speaker 2: her sisters for a few days and he's going to
Speaker 2: spend the night with them on his way back.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, yeah, Sonny is like so incredible.
Speaker 2: He's taught him that independent like he's very independent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he loves it. But the fact that he is
Speaker 1: like fine, just figuring all that out and driving him
Speaker 1: so long by himself. And then we taught him how
Speaker 1: to to work his stove.
Speaker 2: He got his Coleman stove and taught him how to
Speaker 2: make hamburgers over the stove, so he's going to be
Speaker 2: he made his hamburger.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's doing that.
Speaker 2: He's doing his thing, and he's coming back at the
Speaker 2: end of the week with Wendy. And then I got
Speaker 2: the keys to the house last week and I a
Speaker 2: already have like painters there. They're painting the inside of
Speaker 2: the house. I have to get the electrician there, going
Speaker 2: to meet so doing all that.
Speaker 1: People paint the house in order to sell it.
Speaker 2: They probably now they haven't painted it in a while.
Speaker 2: And when you after the after the furniture was out
Speaker 2: of the house, you could see like it needed And
Speaker 2: also the walls were colors that I wasn't crazy about.
Speaker 2: There was some rooms where it's like a yellowy cream.
Speaker 2: I'm painting it all alabaster white on the inside. Some
Speaker 2: accent walls, but for the most part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you say accent walls, like what color, I
Speaker 1: don't know yet. I'm gonna get some samples.
Speaker 2: Okay, the guy just started yesterday to prep I think,
Speaker 2: get out there later today and meet him.
Speaker 1: What are you thinking?
Speaker 2: I think, like, you know, there's I don't know, there's
Speaker 2: like a like a sky blue gray blue kind of color.
Speaker 1: That I like, So we'll see. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have to Like I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do like I did at the condom, just pick shit
Speaker 2: up online, you know. So I'm going to be doing that,
Speaker 2: going to be doing the lighting, just some stuff before
Speaker 2: I move in.
Speaker 1: And are you excited?
Speaker 2: I'm excited, But there's a lot to do. Yeah, are
Speaker 2: you still going to make the bathroom? I'm gonna wait
Speaker 2: on that because I have time. You know, Natalia has
Speaker 2: already gone back to Santa Barbara, she left, she's already
Speaker 2: moved in, so that's good. And then Sonny's leaving in
Speaker 2: a few weeks to go back to Oregon. So once
Speaker 2: they leave, then then I can start working on the bathroom.
Speaker 2: But there's a few things that need to be done
Speaker 2: before the furniture gets put in, like paint and maybe
Speaker 2: some new floors. So we'll see, okay, And Glenn's been
Speaker 2: helping me with all of that.
Speaker 1: Really, he's got all these guys for that. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: did Glenn get you like the painter.
Speaker 2: Glenn got me the painter, and the painter gave me
Speaker 2: this quote for the inside the house, for like the walls,
Speaker 2: the doors or something, but it wasn't including the ceiling
Speaker 2: and it wasn't include base boards. And then Glenn was like,
Speaker 2: let me call the guy. And then he then the
Speaker 2: guy called back and he goes, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: include the ceiling and the baseboards and that price, like
Speaker 2: Glenn raked him over the colds. Basically, Glenn's getting me
Speaker 2: all these good deals. Now he's got this floor guy
Speaker 2: that can get like the flooring at wholesale. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: he's hooking me up big time with all his guys.
Speaker 1: So Glenn got you the floor guy too. He's getting
Speaker 1: a floor guy that I'm yeah, yeah. So see this
Speaker 1: is where I get stuck. Like immediately I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's I need to do my kitchen. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to hire like a a whole ass contractor because
Speaker 1: with all their people, because it just the price goes
Speaker 1: so far up. But like Adam Adam Lerner, Adam's got
Speaker 1: a car, Adam's also got a guy. Everybody also calls
Speaker 1: him that, like Adam's got a guy, Adam's got a
Speaker 1: little Glenn. Like I think Adam's always got somebody who's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to call this guy for the flooring.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like, yeah, but but that needs to
Speaker 1: go with like others stuff like Adam and my friend
Speaker 1: Cecily had their kitchen redone a few years ago for
Speaker 1: like twenty grand all in really like appliances, but it
Speaker 1: was during COVID, so I think things were a little cheap.
Speaker 1: Keep Yeah, but I was like, how do I do that,
Speaker 1: because every time I've tried to price it out, it's
Speaker 1: like at least sixty Yeah. Now even just for like
Speaker 1: because we would need a floor, we don't even need
Speaker 1: new appliances. We would just need the floor, countertops, cabinets, right,
Speaker 1: we don't even need to move like bust any walls
Speaker 1: down or anything. But it's still so.
Speaker 2: It's expensive if you're using also like a contractor that's
Speaker 2: going to hire all those people to do it right, right.
Speaker 1: So that's why I want to hire like like different
Speaker 1: people to do it people, right, That's what Glenn's doing
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, but so Glenn is almost being your contractor, yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: and he loves it and he's got a full time job.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but then I also have Wendy that's with me, and.
Speaker 2: She loves that stuff too, So she's helping me pick
Speaker 2: out stuff.
Speaker 1: That's so great. Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Because it sucks to def to do like that, all
Speaker 2: that shit by yourself. It's a lot of decisions and stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, it's good to have opinions.
Speaker 1: But do you are you've already given notice on your place?
Speaker 1: Have they rented it yet? Now they've been showing it
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah. Okay, so you don't have an exact
Speaker 1: day that you have to be out.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be out by the end of
Speaker 2: the last day of this month.
Speaker 1: Oh you are yeah yeah, okay, so no matter what,
Speaker 1: you're going to live in the house, even if they're
Speaker 1: still doing some stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they say they're going to be done, okay,
Speaker 2: I mean that the painters are already like making headway.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, I just want to for those of
Speaker 1: you who are curious, I know a lot of you aren't,
Speaker 1: But no, we're going to keep doing the podcast. First
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Speaker 2: Now, I know, because also people are watching the Valley
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Speaker 1: Think Danny and Nia are like, well, it can't be
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Speaker 2: There was a scene that she just filmed in North
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Speaker 2: how long was the drive? And she was like, it's
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Speaker 1: Yeah baby, okay, So okay, so you're going to have
Speaker 1: everything done by the end of the month and then
Speaker 1: you're gonna be I'm going to move it in. You're
Speaker 1: not going to be that far. We will continue to
Speaker 1: have a podcast despite every people's worries. Yes, don't worry,
Speaker 1: don't worry. That'll be fine. Yeah, okay, Well that's it's
Speaker 1: a lot of change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's going to be good, and it's going
Speaker 2: to be saving me some money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the important part. I'm sure renting
Speaker 1: no more renting. Rents are out of yeah, yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, how's it going selling the condo?
Speaker 2: Well, we gotta I'm working on that. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: moved in first and then uh wow, we're going to
Speaker 2: be working on that soon. There's a few things still
Speaker 2: I need to tweak for the condo.
Speaker 1: But went in the.
Speaker 2: Swimming pool for the first time the other day at
Speaker 2: my new house.
Speaker 1: Oh, how was it?
Speaker 2: It was so nice, so nice. The backyard is so peaceful.
Speaker 2: And I can't wait to get a dog. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to get a dog. I've already started looking at
Speaker 2: the pound out there. I know everybody's sending me. My
Speaker 2: nieces are sending me, like Wendy's already looking at the
Speaker 2: pound because you know, there's a lot of dogs that
Speaker 2: are at the pound that need and they're so cute.
Speaker 1: I know. And that's where we got Bob. I know,
Speaker 1: I've got it at the shelter, not out there, but
Speaker 1: but like farther, we got him in a Palmdale Oh right, yeah,
Speaker 1: palm Deal shelter. They have a lot of dogs at
Speaker 1: Palmdale and Lancaster, by the way, casters not that far
Speaker 1: from Santa Clarita. Yeah, I have no reason to go
Speaker 1: out there but for the dog. If there was a
Speaker 1: dog at the shelter that you liked. Yeah, they do
Speaker 1: a lot of videos. There's the woman who did the
Speaker 1: social media video that flagged that made me find Bob,
Speaker 1: whose name was Adam remember that. Hell. Yeah, does a
Speaker 1: lot of videos for the Palmdale at Lancaster, right, which
Speaker 1: are both kind of out that way. You know how
Speaker 1: when you're going north to get to Santa Clarita, there's
Speaker 1: the fourteen. Yeah, you kind of veer off, you jump
Speaker 1: on the fourteen. It takes you to the Palmdale shelter.
Speaker 1: Right anyway, yeah, something to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I can look that, look forward to that.
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah. I was trying to get getting our
Speaker 1: ad guy, the guy who sells our ads. Hi, Tom,
Speaker 1: shout out Tom. I'm like, get us first of all,
Speaker 1: here's what I want. I want to do ads for
Speaker 1: embark for the doggy DNA. Hell yeah, because remember we
Speaker 1: used to have ads for that. That's a lot, yeah
Speaker 1: lot wisdom. I think we did. Wisdom was our ad.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm like, also, Chewy, got get.
Speaker 2: Us some of these dogs dogs because all we do
Speaker 2: is talk about dogs, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people need to capitalize on that shit. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So do you want to hear a little bit about
Speaker 1: my trip. Yeah. So my niece Annie is the one
Speaker 1: who's getting married. So it's John's sister's daughter, john sister Wendy,
Speaker 1: who is really really great. She's his older sister. She's
Speaker 1: older by like four years. And I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to really know anybody. And it's like I
Speaker 1: really love Annie and I also love her brother Ben,
Speaker 1: but they're going to be so busy. She's getting married, right,
Speaker 1: She's not going to be like, oh, great Auntie Steph
Speaker 1: is here. I'm going to spend like a bunch of
Speaker 1: time with you. I know.
Speaker 2: But you're good at meeting people, very good at meeting people.
Speaker 1: You're very outgoing. But I was like, listen, these are
Speaker 1: Massachusette like East Coast waspy people. They wear a lot
Speaker 1: of like what are like what are the brands that
Speaker 1: you would imagine J Crew? Like yeah, even more than that?
Speaker 1: What are you know?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I ever Crombie, I don't know. Well
Speaker 2: whatever wasps wear?
Speaker 1: They go to church and they you know, I'm just like, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. It's gonna be what it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have a great time and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. Well I had a better than great time
Speaker 1: because it's so funny because Wendy is, like I said,
Speaker 1: she's super nice. She's a she's a serious person. You know,
Speaker 1: she's kind of a serious person. So I don't know
Speaker 1: why I always think like her friends are going to
Speaker 1: be kind of serious people too. But and again, I
Speaker 1: love Wendy and she's so nice. She's a great sister,
Speaker 1: sister in laws, you know. But is she like wild
Speaker 1: and crazy? No, you know, she's not you know what
Speaker 1: it is about Wendy. She's so so nice and I
Speaker 1: she's like aspirational, but she doesn't have a lot of edge.
Speaker 1: You know, she's not going to get a tattoo, right, right,
Speaker 1: but she's going to cheer me on. Yeah. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it was funny because so I meet some of her friends.
Speaker 1: So there was a we had lunch with oh and
Speaker 1: then we have this cousin named Peter who's eighty and
Speaker 1: he's so fucking fun Where in Massachusetts was it? We
Speaker 1: were in we Okay, So we flew into Hartford Airport,
Speaker 1: which is like Hartford Springfield. So it's really funny because
Speaker 1: you know, I went to high school in Springfield for
Speaker 1: three years, so for two years. I moved to Springfield
Speaker 1: when I was a junior in high school, which was
Speaker 1: very awkward time to move, but I went there for
Speaker 1: junior and senior year of high school. Then I lived
Speaker 1: there for like nine months after high school. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I was eighteen when I'm because I graduated high school
Speaker 1: at seventeen and then turned eighteen the following month and
Speaker 1: then lived there till I was like almost nineteen, but
Speaker 1: moved right so it's still weirdly kind of formative years
Speaker 1: because you're in high school. Like that's where I learned
Speaker 1: to drive, That's where I got my driver's license. So
Speaker 1: that's where I did a lot of partying there I went.
Speaker 1: We went to bars, right. This is in my book Drunkish,
Speaker 1: I talked about the culture difference of Like in Spokane,
Speaker 1: where I lived before Springfield, it was all keg parties.
Speaker 1: It was all going to the woods and you know,
Speaker 1: people bring a keg and you're in the middle of
Speaker 1: nowhere or you're in a park and you But as
Speaker 1: soon as I moved to Springfield, the culture is you
Speaker 1: go to bars, right. And that's where I got my
Speaker 1: first fake ID. That's where I had the welfare ID
Speaker 1: from the girl that worked at Burger King with me
Speaker 1: who gave me her welfare ID. Yeah. I was My
Speaker 1: name was down right, yeah, and I I had black
Speaker 1: hair and I was like thirty right, no matter. They
Speaker 1: didn't really care about your ID back then. So, and
Speaker 1: this is going to come back into this story. So
Speaker 1: flew into Springfield and then drove two hours to Williamstown. Okay,
Speaker 1: now we left early in the morning, but you lose
Speaker 1: three hours plus. We had this really long layover in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: and then we got in. Then we had to rent
Speaker 1: a car, then we had to drive two hours and
Speaker 1: by the time we got there it was like twelve
Speaker 1: thirty one in the morning. Wow, it's a long day.
Speaker 1: It was a long as travel day. But oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: the hotel was so beautiful. We stayed at the williams Inn.
Speaker 1: Shout out williams Inn. Oh my god. Everything was just
Speaker 1: like really gorgeous, which is going to also come into
Speaker 1: play later in my story. Yeah. But so the next
Speaker 1: day we had lunch lunch with Peter, the eighty year
Speaker 1: old edgy funny ass cousin of John's and Wendy's, and
Speaker 1: then we had the like welcome dinner at a bar.
Speaker 1: And then after the welcome dinner, I met a bunch
Speaker 1: of people there, and then we came back to the
Speaker 1: hotel and we all sat around like these they had
Speaker 1: like a fire pit going outside and we all like
Speaker 1: hung out and I totally bonded with these people and
Speaker 1: one of the they a lot of them live in
Speaker 1: Long Meadow, which is where Wendy his sister lives. Long Meadow, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: which is basically part of Springfield right Okay. So one
Speaker 1: of the guys had grown up there and went to
Speaker 1: high school there, and he's only a few years older
Speaker 1: than me, so we got to totally bond. And you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can think and maybe it's a little different
Speaker 1: for you because you're still friends with a lot of
Speaker 1: people from high school. I am friends with nobody that
Speaker 1: I went to high school with. It all feels like
Speaker 1: a fever to me. Until I talked to this guy
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, remember like Icobots And he's like,
Speaker 1: of course, and the bar association and the keg room
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, like this spent
Speaker 1: all my time. And he was like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: like this guy and this music and this and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, it was like amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh yeah, and Ichabod's they didn't
Speaker 1: card anyone. He's like, oh no, none of those bars
Speaker 1: card it. He's like, because it was all like mob
Speaker 1: and the bar association was run by like a mobster.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I know, I've tried to tell
Speaker 1: people that and people don't believe me. And he's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and he knew my high school and like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the best yeah, it's really fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I bonded with him and his wife Carla, and
Speaker 1: then okay, and here's another thing. So you're back East
Speaker 1: and you just don't know, like what everybody's politics are
Speaker 1: going to be. John's sister is very liberal even, and
Speaker 1: she's religious too. She does a lot of stuff with
Speaker 1: her church, but it's an Episcopalian church, which is very inclusive.
Speaker 1: They're very pro LGBT, they're very open minded. All of
Speaker 1: her friends, I don't like to use the word woke
Speaker 1: because people have taken it and made it negative, but
Speaker 1: they were all more progressive than me. If you can imagine,
Speaker 1: they were all like one of them was talking about
Speaker 1: something and she was like, oh and then I went
Speaker 1: to Target. I know we're not supposed to shop at Target.
Speaker 1: And then someone else is like, oh yeah, I never
Speaker 1: shop at Target, and I was like, oh shit, bitch,
Speaker 1: I still go to Target. People are out progressive, out
Speaker 1: liberally me. But that was like really fun. Everybody was
Speaker 1: like super cool, and now you've made friends that you'll
Speaker 1: see at the wedding. So then this other woman named
Speaker 1: Karen shout out Karen. If any of them they were
Speaker 1: all asking me, like what I do, and I was
Speaker 1: telling them about this podcast, so who knows if they
Speaker 1: they might listen. So then this woman Karen, So then
Speaker 1: I was like we were talking about like going for walks,
Speaker 1: and I had kind of wanted to go for a
Speaker 1: walk that morning, but John wasn't really into it. And
Speaker 1: this woman. They were like, oh, you should talk to Karen.
Speaker 1: She went walking today and I was like, oh you did.
Speaker 1: Like She's like, yeah, I'll go walk with you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I want to go for
Speaker 1: like a real walk and she was like yeah. She goes,
Speaker 1: we can even walk. There's like a track because we
Speaker 1: were on the campus of Williams College and there's a track,
Speaker 1: and she goes, we can walk on the track, or
Speaker 1: we can walk around the town. So the next morning
Speaker 1: I text her and I was like hey, I'm up,
Speaker 1: Like do you still want to go for a walk.
Speaker 1: She was like, yep, meet me in the lobby in
Speaker 1: ten minutes. And I was like, okay, this bitch was
Speaker 1: in such good shape. We start going for a walk.
Speaker 1: She's walking fast and I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's no,
Speaker 1: totally cool. Love the pace. Now I walk a lot.
Speaker 1: I walk miles every day. Oh my god, I could
Speaker 1: not keep up. So she's walking fast and we're walking,
Speaker 1: and then we're walking kind of up up inclines the
Speaker 1: way the town was, and then we end up behind
Speaker 1: this museum and there's like a hill that basically goes
Speaker 1: straight up to this cow pasture. And she's just like
Speaker 1: by like she's walking and I was like okay, and
Speaker 1: it's hard to talk and walk. Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like hands on my knees, like bent over,
Speaker 1: like going like I'm good. She's like, are you okay.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, totally good, Just you just need like
Speaker 1: one second, right, I get up this My chest was
Speaker 1: burning burning. I get up to the top of the
Speaker 1: hill and I was like I couldn't even fake it anymore.
Speaker 1: I've got like sweat is pouring off of me. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm I gotta sit down. She's like okay,
Speaker 1: like no problem, like no worries. I like sit down.
Speaker 1: For what was the weather? Like? It was like pretty nice.
Speaker 1: I mean it was warm, but it wasn't like a
Speaker 1: hundred like it gets out here. It was probably like
Speaker 1: upper eighties yeah, but not not insane. Yeah. I was fine.
Speaker 1: We get up to the top of this hill anyway,
Speaker 1: and we're just talking and talking and talking and totally
Speaker 1: bonding and like just talking about like being moms and
Speaker 1: her kids are older, but we're talking about the pressure.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the pressure we felt a breastfeeding. Like
Speaker 1: literally it felt like doing a podcast with you, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like we were just so personal and having fun. Then
Speaker 1: we come back. We get back, I look at my phone.
Speaker 1: My steps ten thousand steps already, we've been walking. We
Speaker 1: walked for two hours. Wow. So's it was entirely fun yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I went and had coffee. Okay, okay, So
Speaker 1: then here's kind of a funny thing. And was the
Speaker 1: wedding that day? The wedding was that day, but it
Speaker 1: was until four o'clock. Okay, so this is like ten am.
Speaker 1: So we're back. It's like twelve, but we don't have
Speaker 1: to go back and get ready yet. And oh, everything
Speaker 1: was really close. So the wedding venue was like three
Speaker 1: minutes away, and we're all going to take a shuttle.
Speaker 1: And then the wedding party was at our hotel. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so it was so great, right, but this is kind
Speaker 1: of funny. So now, a couple of years ago, when
Speaker 1: John was telling me about Annie's boyfriend at the time.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, he's black, and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's so cool. Not that it is extra cool, but
Speaker 1: I was like, that's so cool. This is such a
Speaker 1: cool family, Like I'm happy and anyway. I just was
Speaker 1: like I did see a picture of him at one point,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, he's like you know I
Speaker 1: but I don't even remember seeing the picture. It was
Speaker 1: so low. It was years ago. These They've been together,
Speaker 1: like six or seven years at this point, they lived together.
Speaker 1: John went and visited with them, and I guess it
Speaker 1: never came up again that he's black. So in my mind,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is going to be a fucking
Speaker 1: cool wedding, yeah, because I'm like the music's going to
Speaker 1: be better. I was like, it's going to be fun people.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm not trying to make a statement like
Speaker 1: all black people are fun. I'm just saying I was like,
Speaker 1: this is going to be like probably a little a
Speaker 1: very fun multicultural wedding whatever. Anyway, So I meet Annie's
Speaker 1: about to be husband, yeah, in like the lobby of
Speaker 1: the hotel, and I was like, man, he is very
Speaker 1: light skinned, you know. Yeah. I was like, like, really
Speaker 1: light skinned, like he looks white, you know, but I'm
Speaker 1: keeping that to myself. I wasn't going to be like, wow,
Speaker 1: you really look white obviously, but I was like noted
Speaker 1: to maybe say something to John. Also, his mother passed
Speaker 1: away years ago, but his father was there and his
Speaker 1: father's wife huh that he didn't wasn't raised with. So
Speaker 1: I meet those people very white, like for sure white.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, well I guess his mom was black.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, later I just happened to say to John. I
Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, I go, I'm like not seeing
Speaker 1: many folks of color around here. And John's like, uh huh.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I just thought, you know,
Speaker 1: since the groom head's black. And he was like, what, no,
Speaker 1: he's not. And I was like, what you told me?
Speaker 1: He was like, he goes, you know, her boyfriend like
Speaker 1: before my guy was, but she's been with him for
Speaker 1: seven years. I never said anything about him being black.
Speaker 1: And I was like, God, damn, man explains it. That sucks.
Speaker 1: It was not what I was expecting. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I have to just adjust my expectations for it to
Speaker 1: be a little more boring. Right Anyway, I thought that
Speaker 1: was really fun because the whole time, like I said,
Speaker 1: I just kept waiting for like, yeah, we got party people.
Speaker 1: That sounds racist for some reason, but you know, I
Speaker 1: know anyway, so yeah, I know it's a very white wedding, right,
Speaker 1: but but anyway, had fun, met Wendy's friends, had a
Speaker 1: great time, and Wendy's best friend. This one was it?
Speaker 1: It was in a church? Was it in a church?
Speaker 1: So we went to the church. They had a church wedding.
Speaker 1: It was a little religious. Was it long? It was
Speaker 1: not that long. It was like forty five minutes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: And then we went and the party was so fun
Speaker 1: and the food was good and was it a DJ
Speaker 1: or it was a D And this was like the
Speaker 1: best part to me because at first of all, every oh,
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Speaker 1: I want to do another shout out for our friend
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Speaker 1: I the last time I took my GLP that I
Speaker 1: got from Karen was like two or three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and it really like worked the first week and then
Speaker 1: I was just like kind of letting it wear off,
Speaker 1: and I got to say, like, it's still working. It's
Speaker 1: been three weeks on the same shot that I took. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, not that, I'm not that hungry. I'm
Speaker 1: not like binging on anything. I'm like eating a totally
Speaker 1: normal amount. It's for some people. I think it just
Speaker 1: kind of like resets you. Anyway. Karen is so cool
Speaker 1: and now she's doing like an actual like through the
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Speaker 1: the cool, very easy to talk to person that she was.
Speaker 1: And I just want to give out her phone number
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Speaker 1: So her name's Karen Ford and her phone number is
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Speaker 2: She's the Adam Learner that I was telling Wendy about it,
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Speaker 1: I know, for years. Yeah, So okay, So the thing
Speaker 1: that was really fun about the DJ was if you've
Speaker 1: been to a wedding for people in their thirties, it
Speaker 1: was so great because it was like, they know tons
Speaker 1: of songs that we love, but they also there's a
Speaker 1: lot of songs from like mid like i'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: like twenty fifteen, Like their high school songs are songs
Speaker 1: that we still liked as adults. Right, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think like Party in the USA or like Hiley's Side,
Speaker 1: like stuff that comes on like you know, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I want, what I really really want, tell
Speaker 1: you what I want like and they they all they're
Speaker 1: they're all out on the dance floor, but all of
Speaker 1: us older folks were also all on the dance floor.
Speaker 1: The whole time because we're just like, oh shit, I
Speaker 1: love this song, right, and that the kids these days,
Speaker 1: even though they're not really kids, they're thirty four, but
Speaker 1: they love old music just like my kids like old music,
Speaker 1: so like it's almost yacht rock, but like you know,
Speaker 1: like September I just earth Wind in a fire like
Speaker 1: they're all, oh, I love this, this is my song. There.
Speaker 1: But then there's also from the Window to the Wall,
Speaker 1: Run Malls, Skeet skeet, you know, all the all of
Speaker 1: us old people were out there dancing to skeet skeet
Speaker 1: and yelling and arms in the air, and it was
Speaker 1: like they just don't care. Like fun. Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1: That's like we got how fun a wedding can be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. And by the way, guys, in case like
Speaker 1: anybody is feeling this, I don't drink so like I'm
Speaker 1: dead ass sober having the greatest time. Like there is
Speaker 1: no I don't get you know, like oh tight, I
Speaker 1: can't like oh I don't want to go out there
Speaker 1: and dance like I'm out there having a great time.
Speaker 1: Shake your tail, feather. I'm just not hungover the next day.
Speaker 1: That's nice. Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's like when we were on our
Speaker 2: trip with Mike. You know, we were all drinking, but
Speaker 2: Mike was like still having a great time, like it
Speaker 2: doesn't even doesn't bother him.
Speaker 1: I was listening to Drunkish. Oh he is. Oh I forgot.
Speaker 1: I have to call Mike Gerstein to get him on
Speaker 1: drunk Oh yeah you should. Yeah, okay, I remind myself
Speaker 1: call Wow.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, it's so so I mean, it's so
Speaker 2: funny because Suzanne just went to a wedding in Boston
Speaker 2: too this weekend.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, and she.
Speaker 2: Was having excuse me, she was having a hard time
Speaker 2: getting back as well.
Speaker 1: I think her plane got delayed.
Speaker 2: But yeah, she was in Boston for her boyfriend's family
Speaker 2: as well. Not in Boston Cape Cod.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh okay, yeah, I wonder what airline she was flying.
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but yeah, I mean, I know,
Speaker 2: I haven't been to a wedding in so long. I
Speaker 2: can't even remember the last wedding I went to. But
Speaker 2: they are they could be fun.
Speaker 1: It's so fun, you know why, because everything's paid for.
Speaker 1: All your fun is paid for, you know what I mean? Like, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to put yourself up and you got to
Speaker 1: fly there. But then like all the parties, like the food.
Speaker 1: I love. It really lowers my anxiety when everything's just
Speaker 1: right there. That is the best way to do it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And it's like oh and then you
Speaker 1: just like, hey, get your ass show up in the lobby.
Speaker 1: There was a bus to take us to the church.
Speaker 1: People that are like wearing heels and don't want to
Speaker 1: be going on like a one mile walk, right, and
Speaker 1: then the bus takes you back. And then the whole
Speaker 1: party is at the hotel. So then like after you
Speaker 1: finished partying, I like up to my room. He'd changed
Speaker 1: my shoes, changed in you know, come back downstairs. A
Speaker 1: lot of us just like hung out in the lobby
Speaker 1: of the hotel and people got them how to drink
Speaker 1: and like just like chatted into the night. Oh cute.
Speaker 1: Where'd they go on their honeymoon? They didn't go on
Speaker 1: a honeymoon, but they there's somewhere they always go on vacation.
Speaker 1: I want to say the Adirondacks. Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: say it, so I'm going to just say that, even
Speaker 1: though it could be dead wrong, but I think they
Speaker 1: have a regular vacation. They do, and they were just
Speaker 1: planning to do that. Yeah, they already lived together. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like the days of really needing a honeymoon
Speaker 1: are kind of like, I don't know, well, also.
Speaker 2: If you spend a lot of money with a wedding,
Speaker 2: you kind of need to take a break and yeah,
Speaker 2: plan plan a honeymoon a different time, maybe not right after, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just feel like it's kind of weird if
Speaker 1: you think about it these days. Right, So people don't
Speaker 1: meet and then date and then you can't have sex
Speaker 1: until like you have your have a big wedding and
Speaker 1: then like oh now we can like fuck right, It's
Speaker 1: not really like that anymore. It's like, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: had sex with you this morning because whatever, we live together. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I doubt you know, yeah, they need they don't
Speaker 1: probably need like more alone time.
Speaker 2: Right, maybe they need some separation time already.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Separate honeymoons. Separate honeymoon for people that
Speaker 1: live together. New idea, Yes, new idea, DM, Go take
Speaker 1: your own trip, right, be away from each other like
Speaker 1: you just got married. Be away miss each other a
Speaker 1: little bit so that you're actually happy to see each
Speaker 1: other when you get back.
Speaker 2: Right, get back into the real world, right, yeah, or
Speaker 2: go with your too yeah girls, trip girls, trip.
Speaker 1: Waves and wonder travel. I mean, seriously, this is a
Speaker 1: great idea.
Speaker 2: It is especially for people that live together and see
Speaker 2: each other all the time.
Speaker 1: That yes, I feel like we've just solved a problem
Speaker 1: that needed to be solved, right, because you don't want
Speaker 1: to be looking at this person more. First of all,
Speaker 1: you've been together a whole bunch, You planned a wedding together.
Speaker 1: It's probably was stressful. Yeah, you need time away, not like, okay,
Speaker 1: now we're going to sit and stare at each other
Speaker 1: on a.
Speaker 2: Beach now, or like get in a car and go
Speaker 2: on a road trip together.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no breaking them up before they
Speaker 1: even get on their honeymoon. I know. So for I
Speaker 1: feel like for anybody, you know what, And I'm going
Speaker 1: to be so I'm going to be so for real
Speaker 1: right now. And John was making fun of me because whatever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I'm going to say this, and if
Speaker 1: they're listening, maybe they'll get mad. But I feel like
Speaker 1: the husband in the morning, Yeah, I feel like he
Speaker 1: was like a little grouchy, like a little bit grouchy,
Speaker 1: and I was like understandable. It's like now you've had
Speaker 1: all your friends, everybody's here. You like, you're maybe you're
Speaker 1: a little hungover. I don't know, right, you know, but
Speaker 1: it's probably been a lot. Yeah. Probably. Now you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're married. We hosted this huge party. Now like everybody
Speaker 1: could get the fout right, So that the cranky he
Speaker 1: was like, he seemed a little cranky. John was like, no,
Speaker 1: he's like the nicest guy on the planet. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure he is, but he seemed like a
Speaker 1: little over it in the morning because there was a brunch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there is a lot, Like you're you're hosting
Speaker 2: the dinners for people to come in from out of town,
Speaker 2: and you have the rehearsal, then you have the actual
Speaker 2: day of which is a long day, and the next
Speaker 2: day you got to do brunch.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, Now you've seen these people all weekend. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was fun and I saw you, but like, let's
Speaker 1: wrap it up.
Speaker 2: So how long did you guys hang out in town
Speaker 2: or when were you supposed to leave?
Speaker 1: So we okay, so now we had to do the
Speaker 1: reverse of what we'd done coming out, except for at night.
Speaker 1: So our flight was at six because John wanted us
Speaker 1: to have time. I don't think there was an earlier flight,
Speaker 1: plus the fact that just John wanted us to have
Speaker 1: time to like go, We didn't know if the brunch
Speaker 1: was at I think we thought it was like at noon,
Speaker 1: but it was at ten. Right, it's not really time
Speaker 1: for it. That's really breakfast time. If I could give notes, right,
Speaker 1: it's not really a brunch. Yeah, no, but okay, so
Speaker 1: that was like from ten to twelve. Then things started
Speaker 1: wrapping up, but so we probably left. Let's say we
Speaker 1: left at noon. Then we had a two hour drive
Speaker 1: back to Hartford. Then we were going to have to
Speaker 1: drop off the rental car. Yeah, okay, so we drive back,
Speaker 1: we drop off the rental car. No, we drive back.
Speaker 1: Then we go get some food because we had Now
Speaker 1: we're hungry. It's been so it's been some hours. And
Speaker 1: then and the because this is the start of when
Speaker 1: things really went bad. Okay, okay, So then we drop
Speaker 1: off the rental car. We're pretty early at this point.
Speaker 1: We have like a good hour and a half week.
Speaker 1: We drop off the rental car, We go through security,
Speaker 1: we have we get our boarding pass. We go through
Speaker 1: security because we couldn't print out our boarding passes and
Speaker 1: check in early because we didn't have anyway. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we couldn't get it on our phone, whatever the problem was.
Speaker 1: We get inside the airport, John goes, oh shit, uh,
Speaker 1: I left my headphones in the car. Oh no, that's
Speaker 1: the worst. Yeah, so we need those for the flight.
Speaker 1: You needed them for the flight. So we were like, okay,
Speaker 1: we've got time. Go book it back to the because
Speaker 1: now Hertford Airport's kind of small, so the rental car
Speaker 1: play it wasn't that far. So he had to So
Speaker 1: I took all the stuff, went to the gate. We
Speaker 1: had one bag checked and then we had a carry
Speaker 1: on and a like a suit. Ye suit, what do
Speaker 1: you call that? Hang back? Yeah, yeah, hang up back. Okay,
Speaker 1: so John has to run back. I'm a little nervous,
Speaker 1: but we have time. He miraculously because the rental car returned.
Speaker 1: There's hundreds of cars in the right. He has to
Speaker 1: go find the Ford, the White Ford, like in a
Speaker 1: line of cars. He said he had to check like
Speaker 1: four cars, but he found it. Anyway, gets back, meets
Speaker 1: me at the gate. We got like another half hour
Speaker 1: till it boards board the flight. Six o'clock. We're on
Speaker 1: the flight. We all ready to go. Nothing's happening six fifteen.
Speaker 1: You're on the air We're on the airplane, sitting at
Speaker 1: six o'clock. We've we've boarded the plane. We're sitting on
Speaker 1: the runway, and they come over the speaker, Hey, so
Speaker 1: sorry for the delay. Uh, there's there are apparently too
Speaker 1: many airplanes in the sky. It doesn't seem that like
Speaker 1: a technical response to me, Like, first of all, what
Speaker 1: do you mean there's too many airplanes in the sky
Speaker 1: Because you guys are all on a schedule. Why did
Speaker 1: you schedule them all close together? Yeah? Yeah, So then
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that means, okay, we can't take off yet.
Speaker 1: But no, it's no, there's literally traffic in the sky.
Speaker 1: Traffic which traffic right, Okay, So they're like, unfortunately, this
Speaker 1: delay was supposed to be like two hours, but we're
Speaker 1: trying to get it figured out. We're gonna, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're looking into alternate.
Speaker 2: Roots and you have to catch a flight, right, you
Speaker 2: have to catch a connection right in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Now, way back, we have a connection in Dallas. Now
Speaker 1: our connection we're we're going to be in Dallas though
Speaker 1: for like an hour and forty minutes. Okay. So we're
Speaker 1: like okay, So they're like, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: two hours. Do not worry. We're coming up with an
Speaker 1: alternate route. Literally, like thirty minutes goes by. They come
Speaker 1: back on, Hey, hey guys, so sorry, so sorry for
Speaker 1: the delay. We're still trying to work it out. But
Speaker 1: that now the alternate route thing is not going to
Speaker 1: work out because we don't have enough fuel to go,
Speaker 1: Like it's like much longer and it's going to take
Speaker 1: more time and we don't have enough fuel, so we
Speaker 1: can't do that. But you know, anyway, it's probably going
Speaker 1: to be two hours anyway, some of you guys are
Speaker 1: probably going to miss your connection, Like that sucks. Sorry, No,
Speaker 1: they'll be gate agents, you know, to help you like
Speaker 1: get a get a different flight. No, say, lovey, anyway,
Speaker 1: not really our fault, Like it's air traffic. What are
Speaker 1: you going to do? I mean, this is they were
Speaker 1: being so condescending on the thing, like anyway, thanks to
Speaker 1: be you. Yeah, so long, then we proceed to sit
Speaker 1: on the ground for like another two hours. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: it's like a full like at least two and a
Speaker 1: half hours. We're just sitting sitting there so then John
Speaker 1: starts talking to chat GPT on his phone and going
Speaker 1: acting as in a travel agent, you know what, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and that they're like, get off the plane,
Speaker 1: stay in Hertford. Well then they're like, well we can't
Speaker 1: get all you can't get off the plane, and our
Speaker 1: luggage is already checked, so that's not going to work.
Speaker 1: So then they're like, next best thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: go through your app and get and they'll you should
Speaker 1: get like a voucher for a hotel, because you're not
Speaker 1: they it looks into it. There's no flights. There's not
Speaker 1: going to be any airline was this American. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: So we get okay, long story short, we get to Dallas,
Speaker 1: it's late, there's no flight. There are no flights, so
Speaker 1: we get we have to choose. Oh, then they rebook
Speaker 1: us the app, the American Airlines app rebooks us on
Speaker 1: a six am flight, and I was like, well, now
Speaker 1: it's midnight. So I'm like, well, the six am flight
Speaker 1: is going to board at like five point fifteen, right,
Speaker 1: what are we going to do? I'm like, we I
Speaker 1: can't stay awake all night. I'm not going to fall
Speaker 1: asleep in an airport. Sitting in a chair. There's no beds,
Speaker 1: so we're going to have to go to a hotel
Speaker 1: and then we're going to have to come back and
Speaker 1: like wake up in three hours, and who knows when
Speaker 1: we're getting to this hotel. So I was like, we
Speaker 1: need to try to change this flight to a little later.
Speaker 1: So we go. The airport is empty. There's no people
Speaker 1: at any of the gates. We finally find somebody and
Speaker 1: we're like, can you help us, and she goes, no,
Speaker 1: you have to go to customer service, which is like
Speaker 1: kind of fun. So we walk and we walk and
Speaker 1: we walk. We get to this customer office. There's a
Speaker 1: line because it's all people from our flight. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we finally get up to the front of the line.
Speaker 1: We talked to this woman. We're super nice, by the way,
Speaker 1: because it's like, what are you going to do? You know,
Speaker 1: not their fault, but we're like, hey, can you help us?
Speaker 1: We really just want a later flight. She's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I found a flight for you. It leaves at like
Speaker 1: ten fifty. We're like, oh my god, perfect, still going
Speaker 1: to get into La at like noon with the time change,
Speaker 1: really great. So she blah blah blah. It takes a while,
Speaker 1: she gets all the things, she goes, here's your boarding passes,
Speaker 1: and then we're going to go to the comfort In
Speaker 1: keeps the closest and they they gave you a voucher.
Speaker 1: They gave us a voucher for the comfort In and
Speaker 1: twelve dollars worth of food that we could use at
Speaker 1: the airport or comfort In. Okay, So we leave, we
Speaker 1: leave there the secure area, you know, we leave the
Speaker 1: ticketing area, and you know, there's all these signs that
Speaker 1: are like, do you can't come back once you leave,
Speaker 1: don't try to get back in this way. Hope you
Speaker 1: have all your shit with you, you know. Then we're
Speaker 1: in like the baggage claim area where we can't get
Speaker 1: our bag. You can't, No, we can't because the bag
Speaker 1: is being sent on to the early flight. We also
Speaker 1: couldn't fly into burbank because they're like, you won't get
Speaker 1: your luggage. You'll have to go back to Lax and
Speaker 1: get your luggage. They won't deliver it to you. It
Speaker 1: was so we're like, god, yeah, so anyway, we can't
Speaker 1: get the bag, which had John's meds in it, it
Speaker 1: had our toothbrushes, it had all of our shit. Nothing
Speaker 1: is opened, by the way, no stores are open in
Speaker 1: the airport. It's now it's like twelve thirty, getting close
Speaker 1: to one in the morning. So we leave. We sit
Speaker 1: down on a bench because we're trying to call the
Speaker 1: shuttle for the hotel, and I pull out the boarding
Speaker 1: passes just so I'm like, okay, trying to backtime what
Speaker 1: we're going to have to get at And I look
Speaker 1: and I'm like, doesn't say the flight time anywhere on here.
Speaker 1: I see this thing that says five twenty, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's the five twenty? Is that our flight number? Because
Speaker 1: I see that there seems to be a flight number
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Well, you can see where this is going.
Speaker 1: It turns out that she had not changed our flight
Speaker 1: to the ten fifty flight. No, we were still we
Speaker 1: were booked on the six am flight. Oh and we
Speaker 1: were about to fucking leave and not realize that. So
Speaker 1: I and we can't get back in to go back
Speaker 1: to the customer service. So like, now I'm getting a
Speaker 1: little bit close to tears because you know, it's We've
Speaker 1: been up for many many hours at this point, so,
Speaker 1: oh my god. So we call American Airlines, which you
Speaker 1: know takes a long time to get through to somebody.
Speaker 1: Get somebody on the phone. Oh yeah, you guys are
Speaker 1: booked on the six am flight. Okay, well can you
Speaker 1: book us on it on this other flight we wanted?
Speaker 1: So she does. Now it's one in the morning, so
Speaker 1: we have to take we have to take an uber
Speaker 1: to this come in because the shuttle, which is supposed
Speaker 1: to run twenty four to seven, nobody ever answers the
Speaker 1: phone right now. We have to figure out where to
Speaker 1: fucking get an uber because, oh my god, desolate, we're outside,
Speaker 1: it's dark and there's no signs for anything, and uh,
Speaker 1: we finally figure out we have to like ask some
Speaker 1: security person that works there. We're like, where do we
Speaker 1: get an uber? So we're directed. We're walking one in
Speaker 1: the morning. Then the uber, you know, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're trying to find you your uber. We're trying to
Speaker 1: find you your uber. Okay, we'll have an uber for
Speaker 1: you in like the next twenty minutes. Right, Oh my gosh, Okay,
Speaker 1: we finally get an uber and we get to the
Speaker 1: comfort in It is the grossest place I've ever stayed
Speaker 1: in my entire life.
Speaker 2: It's such an ill named Oh my god, the comfort.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to get scabies just in
Speaker 1: the lobby of this place. Now we're starving. We haven't
Speaker 1: eaten in like like twelve hours. At this point, there
Speaker 1: is only in this little lobby of this place. There's
Speaker 1: like frozen like burritos and stuff that they sell, and
Speaker 1: then there's apparently a microwave in our room. So the
Speaker 1: only thing that I could get that looked edible was
Speaker 1: like a like a frozen personal sized pizza. And then
Speaker 1: John got like this frozen like fried rice thing. Right,
Speaker 1: we bring it to our room. We got no utensils
Speaker 1: or anything. We had to go find g had to
Speaker 1: go back down get a fork. We I just have
Speaker 1: to put this pizza in the microwave on like the
Speaker 1: glass plate. There's a plates, of course, just have to
Speaker 1: put it down on the glass right right. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's our life. And we lay down
Speaker 1: on the bed. We don't put anything on the floor,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing on a car on the carpet. It
Speaker 1: smells like a body had been cleaned up. Yeah, oh god.
Speaker 1: It had this disinfectant, like sharp citrusy disinfectant smell that
Speaker 1: was so strong in the lobby and in our room.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is a crime scene. This is
Speaker 1: one crime scene. So we lay on the bed in
Speaker 1: the clothes that we wore, no teeth brushed, we don't
Speaker 1: have toothpaste, there's nothing. We just lay down, listen to
Speaker 1: a podcast, fall asleep, get up, walk downstairs, get and anyway.
Speaker 1: And then after that, Wow, totally fine. Wow, unbelievable. But
Speaker 1: you can understand. I didn't get home. So we get
Speaker 1: back into LA. That flight left without a problem, but
Speaker 1: by the time we got back it was late, and
Speaker 1: then we have to get an uber and then traffic
Speaker 1: was bumper to bumper, so we don't get home into
Speaker 1: like three point thirty. Ew. It's the horrible feeling.
Speaker 2: Just your eyes are burning because you're so tired.
Speaker 1: My teeth in like, yeah, thirty six hours, they're starving,
Speaker 1: and there's just nothing. Yeah. It was like shaky tied,
Speaker 1: like that shaking feeling of so tired. I just can't function,
Speaker 1: and I can't sleep on airplanes, so it's not like
Speaker 1: I could sleep.
Speaker 2: No, you can't. How long was the flight home? It
Speaker 2: was only like two and a half hours. That's that's okay.
Speaker 1: It was fine. I read a book the whole time.
Speaker 1: That part was fine, but it was so crazy to
Speaker 1: go from like this amazing time wedding to like the
Speaker 1: worst like stravel story. God, has it ever happened to you?
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard yet like a gross hotel? I
Speaker 1: haven't gone.
Speaker 2: Luckily I didn't have to go to a hotel, but
Speaker 2: there's Yeah. Remember there were times where I was coming
Speaker 2: back from Florida and there was like the whole airport shutdown,
Speaker 2: and Susanna and I were coming back in our flight
Speaker 2: the connection, we were going to miss the connection.
Speaker 1: It was a Sunday, there was no other flights.
Speaker 2: There's nothing more depressing than being in an airport after
Speaker 2: after hours because there's nobody around everything. All the kiosks
Speaker 2: are closed and chained up. It's just there's just like
Speaker 2: a guy there just like vacuuming. Yes, you know, it's
Speaker 2: just like like shining the polishing the floor. It's just
Speaker 2: like it's so depressing. Yeah, it's nothing worse.
Speaker 1: So did you guys? You guys didn't have to all.
Speaker 2: Well, Luckily at that point we went back to Wendy's house,
Speaker 2: which was good, right, but there, I mean, I'm trying
Speaker 2: it there. Yes, there's been so many travel things where
Speaker 2: you just like, yeah, the flight takes and you sit
Speaker 2: on the tarmac for I mean, I've done that many times,
Speaker 2: where you sit there for two hours and like what
Speaker 2: are we doing? And the worst sometimes is when the
Speaker 2: captain doesn't tell you what's going on. There's no update.
Speaker 2: You're just sitting there and you're like, could you fucking
Speaker 2: give us an update?
Speaker 1: Right? Nothing? You know, that's the worst. Also, I got mad.
Speaker 1: I kept it to myself, but I got irritated because
Speaker 1: after all that, I wanted some coffee. I wanted some
Speaker 1: coffee on that flight. It was there was no reason,
Speaker 1: There was no turbulence, there was no nothing. And I said, oh,
Speaker 1: can I get some coffee? And she goes, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not serving coffee because of turbulence. And I was like,
Speaker 1: there's no one I wanted to. I was like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: she didn't.
Speaker 2: Feel like serving coffee was the pride, right Yeah. And
Speaker 2: that's the worst too, when you just sit there. They
Speaker 2: can't give you any waters, right, we can't. You know,
Speaker 2: they can't do anything. You try to sit there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they just gave us some cookies, like here you go.
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