Speaker 1: Made a decision. A pace sunny sund on, I haddasion
ny everybody, what's happening?
Speaker 2: Happy New Year? Yes, happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Hope you guys had a nice safe Today's like the
third already, Like people are like, oh, that's old news
right now.
Speaker 2: We're well into January already.
Speaker 1: It's Valentine's Day by now.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, exactly, Oh my god, went to the story yesterday.
Valentine's Day stuff?
Speaker 3: What the fuck?
Speaker 2: Six weeks away? People? I saw that too. Who's buying
candy this feign advance night.
Speaker 3: It's give me I'll stale or eaten.
Speaker 2: I know, as if you're not going to find it,
like a week before Valentine's Day, My goodness, come on, people,
down every ing. Let's say let's start off like right
out of the gate. Let's say hi to our friends.
We got Jacob is So Growley and Athena Ginsured. We
love you, love your dancing and your pretty lipstick colors,
spar but so chic, Sandra. It's not easy being green,
but you do it. Jennifer, get up, Aaron is a
dirty Sanchez, Still Sarah Stefano, She's our Prizano. Leslie with
still with the coughing. Alicia Ascalante from the City of
al Monte. Kelly Brandt, she will guess up the van
take you where you gotta go. Missy and Gabby.
Speaker 3: I think they're still in Times Square sweeping up.
Speaker 2: The mess, Katerina, don't let this year be the year
that takes down your moller. Valerie, Bubba Fenwick gets out
of the park. Probably. We love your pancakes, Rita, we
love your Bossonnette, full of Elizabeth Williamson's eight children, Nikki,
call your girls. Katie's rolling on e Kelly Laddie out,
and Dick is frolicking around.
Speaker 1: Still whoop whoop, as Helen Paradise would say.
Speaker 2: So New Year's Eve, Yeah, Okay, first of all, it's
not actually New Year's Eve for us yet. It's it's
New Year's Eve Day, yeah, which doesn't have the same
ring to it. It's not Eve yet. What are you
doing for New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1: Well, I think one of my friends coming over to
hang out with me because the kids are going to.
Speaker 3: Be like in and out all night.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's got a kitty cat still hanging out at
my house. But she's got her friends coming to hang out,
and then they're going to a party, and then they're
coming back, and then Sonny's going with his It's just
going to be kind of a revolving door of teenagers.
So I feel like I have to stay and supervise
hang out and so I don't know. So I think
like one of my friends might come over and chill
hang out with me.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, is this a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
Speaker 1: It's a guy friend, all right, Yeah, okay, it ain't.
Speaker 3: Out booty call though.
Speaker 2: I got thinking that kid's there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, you know it's fun. Well, good time?
All right, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Okay, so John and okay, let me. I'm gonna process
of elimination. I'm gonna tell you what Elbie's doing. Elbe
is going to the same rave that she went to
last year, and I think last New Year's Eve was
her first rave. I'm pretty sure, or maybe she'd been
to one before that. But it's a big one. It's
called Countdown. Have you heard of this one?
Speaker 4: Kaylin No?
Speaker 1: I have not.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. First of all, the house the music
is so bad. I don't like it at all. I
can't take it. It is just noise. It is not
to be like get off my lawn, but like, yeah,
you know.
Speaker 1: Come on, like let's have some lyrics or some melody
or something. It's just Natalia does it till she plays
it sometimes and while her friends are getting ready, and
I have to hear. That's like saying beat over and
over and like that weird auto tune.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't come on.
Speaker 2: I would much prefer like hard rap o. Yes, I mean,
but I'm saying like legitimately, like I like, like I
understand that as a genre.
Speaker 3: I have some iced tea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, at least there's cool lyrics and there's a
beat and there's like stuff going on. I don't know.
I just don't like cue. But she is so into it.
She loves the whole culture. So they are going and
this concerns me. But what am I gonna do? Yeah,
she drove yet last night she went to Irvine. She
and her friend who goes to Irvine are meeting up
with their other friend who also goes to Irvine but
is coming from San Diego. And then they're all driving
to sam Bernardino. We should be leaving probably soon.
Speaker 1: Samberdoo Valley and the dirt People. Yes, yes, I didn't
make that up.
Speaker 2: No, I got. We got the last time I was
in Samburdou, we got COVID. Oh really, okay, there you go.
Like remember when we went to Late Gregor, That's right,
like go. I was like, this is just not It
was during a time where most people were wearing masks,
and we're like, well, what's the we're going to be
out in the open. We'll stay outdoors. We're in our
airbnb and like sure enough, I think we got it
at a grocery store.
Speaker 3: We remember, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, they're going to sam Bernardino. Well, they don't
have an airbnb, they're not staying anywhere, so their plan
is to party all night and then drive back to Irvine.
Speaker 3: Oh no, that sounds very tiring.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. She's twenty. Yeah, and I was
trying to think back to like when I would do
shit like that, when I would go to Vegas and
not have anywhere to stay. Maybe and like we managed,
we had more energy, I know, Like it's not me
in my fifties, right, Like me, I'm like, what, I'm
going to be tired at night?
Speaker 1: Us at a rave, right, and we'd sit there bi
like right before the door is open, come on, let's
get the show.
Speaker 2: On the road. People, exactly what does it start? Even?
Aj do any lullabies? Yeah? Eleven? Are you guys high?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: You are right.
Speaker 3: I'm going to sleep at eleven.
Speaker 2: Yes, LB promises me. They're not gonna be drinking or
taking Mollie. So I don't, I don't, I don't know. Yeah, okay,
I just don't want to know. I guess. Okay. Then
Xander and Sadie had a miscommunication. So Xander thought, I said,
why don't you guys, I'm going to my friend Laura's
house for the Jewish mom group. Right that includes a
few non Jews, but whatever, it's like a little group.
I'm gonna go to Woodland Hills. We're going to eat
a bunch of food, and then we're going to watch
the ball drop and then I'm gonna come home at nine.
Speaker 3: Are you watching the ball drop?
Speaker 2: No, we are. We're not going to go there until
eight thirty, Okay, to which Julie Caseum was like, what,
you're not going until eight thirty? I'm in bed by nine,
so she's yeah, so she's not going. But she's also
friends with my friend Laura. We've the three of us
met when the kids were little. My friend Laura and
Julie met when the kids were like eighteen months old.
I met Laura when our kids were six months old.
So okay, anyway, that's that. Yeah, So Xander I had
told Sadie and Xander. I was like, why don't you
guys just ask have a few friends come over, because
I'm like, I will feel so much better if they're
just home. Yeah right, yeah, So Xander is a good listener,
so he did invite some friends over. Well, apparently he
didn't tell Sadie that that's what the plan was, so
Sadie started making other plans. Sadie's all of a sudden
miss social butterfly, which I'm like, what happened to my
kid that doesn't ever has no friends and doesn't want
to socialize. But no, She's like, oh no, I'm I'm
going to parties. I'm like with who? First of all,
so she is going to a party with Xander's girlfriend.
So Xander's girlfriend had plans already with her friends to
go to a party, but Xander didn't know, so he
made plans to have friends come over, and so Sadie
was like, oh, well, I'm not hanging at home with
Xander's friends. I'm going to a party with Xander's girlfriend.
So I'm like, okay, how are you guys going to
get there? By the way, this is the same crowd
that went to the Jamie Fox Jamie Fox party.
Speaker 1: Yes, so they're resourceful, this crowd, right, Like they had
one signal between the eleven of them and then they
had a hike correct, So they got the cell signal correct.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, but are you guys good? What
if you guys can't get an uber? But here's the thing,
John and I can leave our party at Like if
we leave, we can leave at midnight. It's fine, right,
And then I was like, all right, if worse comes
to worst and you guys can't get an uber or whatever,
just wait at the party you're at and then we'll
come pick you up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I think ubers are going to
be easy to get. I think the only time they
have trouble getting an uber is if they're at Jamie
Fox's house or at the Staples Center.
Speaker 2: And they're running out of battery and they're running out
of battery. Yeah, but anytime, well, Elbie Cat is not
going to be able to get an uber at this
at raves. Raves are not uber friendly. Yeah, anywhere if
you're coming out of a concert anywhere, there's a ton
of people leaving somewhere at the same time as hard Yeah,
right right. I remember when I was in New York
and we've gone to like a Broadway show and there
were it was like packed with pet It's like that district.
But we just had to walk like a block and
then it was no problem.
Speaker 3: Because there's no cell signal or I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So that's my New Year's Eve is just
going to be probably.
Speaker 1: Like one day one way and the other one's going here. Yeah,
this guy's going this guy's going east.
Speaker 2: And Xander's like, what do you want from me? So
I was. I took Xander to the store to get
like munchies for his New Year's Eve gathering of the Juggalos,
and I was like, now I got a plan his
thing too, because he's a dude. He's not good at it.
So he's like, I don't know. We went to Trader
Joe's and I picked up some appetizers and he was like,
I don't know about yet. So I'm like, all right.
He goes should we just go to Ralph's. I just
want to get some chips and like onion dip and
I go all right, So we literally abandoned our cart.
We put the frozen stuff back, but then we just
like left, didn't buy anything. Went to Ralph's and we
got some chips and onion dip to make and then
he and then he's looking at the appetizers and he's like,
should we just order pizza? And I was like, done,
order pizza. So we got like some soda, we got
some non alcoholic cider, and then I was just I'll
just ordered them pizza. We got some cookies and I'm like,
there you go. And he then he then he's like
what are we gonna do? And I was like, I
don't know.
Speaker 3: I know what you guys want me to do? Tap
dance for you all night? Like you guys figure it out,
I know.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know. Watch some movies, watch
the ball drop, go for a walk, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they'll figure it out. Sonny's doing a Sonny's
friend is cooking. Oh he's cooking a barbecue. He's making
a barbecue. They all went last night grocery shopping oh,
they all pitched in forever. Yeah, they got a ton
of all the guys getting together at one of the
guys's houses and he's he's Armenian kid, and he's gonna
be cooking up a storm.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cute and he likes to cook.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, So then he'll come back home and
then he'll be like, because everybody's lived, everybody lives close.
Speaker 1: They're all seeing their friends from high school. This guy's
got a part ay, this guy's out of kickback, this
guy's got to get together. You know, they're going to
be coming in and out, got it, And then Phil's
going to be sitting there going yeah, right, what the
hell is going on? So I just feel like I
need to be somebody needs to be there at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and Kaylin, what about you?
Speaker 4: Nothing going on?
Speaker 2: Last year? I feel like wat you what? Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, congratulations, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Thanks?
Speaker 3: Still no wedding date?
Speaker 2: No date? Right?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: All right, take your time you picking one?
Speaker 4: All right now?
Speaker 2: No, okay, understand understand. All right, listen, we're twelve minutes
into our show, and like we have a lot of
TV stuff to get I feel like we shouldn't waste
any more time. Now, let's go what have you guys
been watching because it's been Christmas break. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when I was in Chicago, so.
Speaker 1: You know, I was helping Wendy every day, like you know,
food and vacuuming and glean dishes and whatever. And then
so we would get in bed at night and I
would fall right asleep. But she's I always say she's
motoring because she she her foot keeps going like you know,
motors back and forth when she can't sleep?
Speaker 2: Does she have restless leg syndrome?
Speaker 3: Kind of?
Speaker 2: And by the way, whatever happened to restless leg syndrome?
Remember when that was all you ever heard about? On
every podcast, on every TV, every commercial was like, do
you have restless leg syndrome? Did they find a cure?
I never had a ribbon nothing.
Speaker 1: I guess everybody's legs calm down, they got tired out.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you haven't heard about it anymore.
Speaker 2: She ever hear about it? Yeah? When is the last
time anybody said, oh, oh, my restless legs syndrome is
acting up.
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's part of not being able
to sleep, Like of course you're going to move your
legs around a lot.
Speaker 2: But it was a thing. It was like a big deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get well, I say motoring because you know,
she's motor and I used to for years.
Speaker 2: She does.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'd fall asleep. I wake up in the middle
of night. She's watching some movie. So, uh, she watched
this one movie. I think it was on Netflix. There
was a plane crash and it had to do with
sharks and the sharks were circling because the plane crashed
in the water.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But then we watched we watched jur number two.
Speaker 2: Okay, how was that?
Speaker 3: That was pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's a show or a movie.
Speaker 3: It's a movie, Okay.
Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood directed it, and it's got it's got a
you know, it's got Tony Collett's in it, a couple
other people like her. Yeah, it's it was good. It
wasn't crazy about the ending, but okay, that was all right.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 1: And then we watched heretic with what's his name? Thank you?
Speaker 2: Did you see it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Is it? Did you rent it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: We rented it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we rented it from like one o'clock in the
morning till like three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was interesting. It was good. It was it was
really crazy.
Speaker 1: It was kind of you know, it was about religions,
but it was it was also about I don't want
to give too much away, it was it was good.
Speaker 4: It a horror movie, yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like you know, I mean, yeah, there was
some jump. It was more like very mysterious and creepy.
It was creepy, you know. It wasn't like a slasher movie. Okay, yeah,
he was really good. It was good.
Speaker 2: I like creepy and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we liked creepy and then we tried
to watch other creepy movies, which was so weird because
we we watched Heretic. And then I got online to
like Google like good like psychological thrillers, and I opened
up Facebook and there was the tech There was a
thread on our Facebook page with Kaylin Like one of the.
Speaker 5: Fans reached out to me and was like, hey, I
need a good like horror movie recommendation.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: It's the first thing I saw when I opened I mean.
Speaker 5: No, I have Matt Fondelier is the only other person
in my life that likes horror movies. And we talk
about him constantly. So if you get me going on
horror movies, like I'm I'm in for it. And so
she's like, hey, I need a good recommendation for a
horror movie. And I was like, all right, I don't know,
like how big of a fan you are, So I
recommended a movie that came out this year.
Speaker 4: It's very good. It's called Oddity, but.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't know about it unless you're like kind of
a horror movie fan, like it's on the shutter rap
like I talk about okay, but you could probably rent
it too. So it was like Gaging was like, oh,
check out Audity. That was my favorite from this year.
And she wrote back immediately like oh yeah, I just
saw it.
Speaker 4: I loved it.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh okay, Like she can she
can hang. She knows what's up in the horror movies.
So then I wrote back and hit her with like
some some real ones. After that, I was like, all right,
go check out these ones.
Speaker 1: Then so is Adity only, but so can we rent
it on something?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 5: So I think you should be able to rent it
if it's on one stream map. But it's it's scary,
like it's not just it's very creepy, very creepy, but
it's also got scary.
Speaker 2: Is it based on a true story? Yeah, speaking of
I don't know what to tell you then, because yeah,
it's not based on a true story. I don't like, yeah,
or how much worse would a horror movie be that
was based on a true story, though, Like you don't
want it to be based on a true story exactly.
Speaker 5: There is one horror movie that I always talk about
that was based off a true story called Don't Breathe.
Don't Breathe, Right, So this is based on a real
life case. Back when you guys are doing Sword and
Scale rewind, Matt had to go do something for that show,
and so he was like, hey, Kaylen, can you cover
me for this episode? And I was like, okay, sure.
So I researched this case of this. He was like
an old war veteran or something, you just like lived
alone in his house. No one knew anything about him,
and these teenagers like broke into his house to try
to rob him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it sounds familiar.
Speaker 2: We we had a big we talked about this, Lynnette.
Speaker 4: I think we all talked about it on that scale.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But Anyway, there's audio in that episode of like
the guy was recording in his basement and there's audio
of him killing these kids.
Speaker 2: I just I just re listened to a pod the
whole like a dateline about it.
Speaker 5: Like I love horror movies, but that is like some
real Like I can still hear that that audio in
my head and it freaks me out. Anyway, they made
a movie based on that called Don't Breathe.
Speaker 4: That's very very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is it out now?
Speaker 4: Oh it's been out for Yeah, it came out a
while ago.
Speaker 3: Adity and Don't Breathe?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll remember later. What was the movie that you
recommended that a lot of people didn't like, but then
some people loved it, like something inside, it's what's inside? Yeah,
the Body's Bodies.
Speaker 4: Robin liked it, so I feel validated.
Speaker 2: Yes, Robin Winski, really.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's very bodies, Bodies Bodies, Its very similar.
Speaker 2: Which I love. Do you remember I went crazy?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, that was fun. I like that one too.
Speaker 2: I turned my kids onto it. I was like, no,
you don't understand. I think you're gonna like this movie.
And then Elbe was always like whatever, like mom's recommendation
and then one day she watched it with her boyfriend
at the time, and she was like, oh my god,
it's so good. We loved it. And I know she's
watched it several times now.
Speaker 3: I've never watched it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I should tell Xander to watch that movie with
his front right tonight because he hasn't seen it.
Speaker 3: That's a good idea.
Speaker 2: That would be a perfect New Year's Eve movie. I
feel like, for some reason, okay, well should we take up,
let's take a let's go break. Okay, So I started.
I tried watching something on Netflix called No Good Deed
to hear about that. It's like a top rated It's
Nicole kidman, I want to say, isn't it. Yeah? You
ever do this? So no spoilers, okay, but it's one
of those things that's like kind of sets up a mystery.
And I watched one episode and I was like, this
is so corny. I don't like it, but now I
want to know what happens. So I just googled spoilers
No Good Deed and literally you just go, oh you
want the spoilers for it, here you go, and then
it just tells you what happens in the season, what
the truth is about the situation. And I was so
thankful that I hadn't forced myself to watch the whole
thing because I was like, oh, really, Zarah, you ever
do that? It's like, Oh, that's the twist, that's what happened.
I'm so glad I didn't waste my time because there's
like eight episodes, eight hour long episodes like fuck off?
Did not like do not like right? Have you guys
heard of this now?
Speaker 1: But I would have watched that would have been something
that I would have gotten sucked into because.
Speaker 2: It's called No Good Deed.
Speaker 1: What's on Netflix with Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like their top They're new really kind of
creepy series. Yeah, don't bother.
Speaker 4: That happened to me with a movie I watched yesterday
what which is? It's called The.
Speaker 5: Watchers and had a very interesting trailer and it is
by oh, what's his name, the director that does all
the twist movie night Shyamalan. It's by his daughter and
I think it was I think it's our first movie.
And so I had a very cool trailer and so
I was like, Okay, this is gonna be like her
dad is gonna be like a twist movie, and I
watched it and I really really liked the first half,
very creepy, a little scary, and then like something happens
in the middle of it, and I went, I don't
know about that, And then the whole second half of
the movie, I'm like, I don't think I like this
movie anymore. And then there was there wasn't like really
a big revealed. It wasn't a big twist. It was
kind of I was like, eh, I at least.
Speaker 3: I like the first half, right, I hate when that happened.
Speaker 1: It starts off strong, and then you're like, then in
the middle it somehow it just falls off.
Speaker 2: Cliff and I want to talk about m Night Shamalan
for a minute because I'll never forget the watching the
sixth sense and I did not have I did not
know the twist. I didn't even know there was a twist.
So when it got to the end, I had like
full When I figured it out, I was like, what, Like,
my mind was totally blown. It was like the best
like conversation. I walked out of there. I was like,
this is the best movie I've ever seen. It totally
got me, Like I liked the movie even without the twist.
I was really enjoying the movie, like you don't have
to even I mean, I've watched it several times, and
once you've seen it, you know what, you know what happens,
and you can watch it again and go, oh my god,
that's so clever. How they did this. Oh my god.
I've never liked another M Night Shamalan movie. I've always
been like, surprise, please surprise me. Have there been other
good ones that I've just missed?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Salman very hit or miss.
Speaker 5: So yeah, once that came out, I think he like
really leaned into that twist ending thing and made a
couple of like really bad ones.
Speaker 4: The movie that brought him back that was very very good.
It's called Split. So James McAvoy have you seen that,
no guy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, James McAvoy plays like he has someone with like
multiple personality disorder, and he plays like thirteen different characters
in the movie and he's fantastic.
Speaker 4: He's really really good in Okay.
Speaker 5: So that one, that one brought everyone back to M
Night Shyamalan, and since then he's been kind of he's
been hit, hit or miss, Like he'll do ones that
are like okay, like nothing as good as the sixth sense,
but he'll do ones that are okay. There was one
called like the Beach or the Cove or something that
was okay. There was one called like Cabin in the
Woods or something that was okay, and then other ones
that he does that here are just yeah. It's he's
very hit or miss. I will watch a movie that
he puts out, but you gotta go into it with caution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't want to be just mad at theater.
Speaker 1: Is that James McAvoy movie that's out right now that's
really good and it's creepy, and.
Speaker 5: It's that's actually based on a like, uh, Norwegian horror
movie of the same name, And I'm halfway through it,
but i've heard the ending is like really really fucked up,
so I'm kind of scared to watch the rest of it.
But I've heard that this remake with James is not
as good as the original, but I won't watch it
until I finished the original.
Speaker 2: What's that one called.
Speaker 4: See No Evil?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's on Peacock right now, See No Evil?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's supposed to have the fucked up ending. Okay,
it's creepy, interesting, Okay.
Speaker 3: Jelly Doe, you've been watching.
Speaker 2: So okay, I watched Harper and Will, that you know
movie with Will Ferrell about a yeahs cross country journey
with his friend who's a trans woman now who after
she transitioned, And all these people were telling me I
should watch it. It's like feel good and it's you know,
and I have to say that I cried almost immediately.
And it was not that feel good for having a
trans kid. It was feel bad. It was a feel
bad movie. I mean, it was very beautiful, and I'm
glad I watched it, and I'm very glad I watched
it without my children. It's just there's a lot of
how fucked up our society, like just how awful awful
people are, and how what a hard journey it is
just to like be yourself. I know we talked about
this a bit on Patreon, but it was so disappointing
to see, like I just I'll never understand why anybody
gives a fuck, like like, okay, so you're a little different,
like I don't know. There's a scene where they go
to this bar and then afterwards and you know, they're
they're making a documentary, so there's a camera crew with them,
and the horrible comments. They do this like steak eating
contest or like how many ribs or something you know
in Texas, so you know, fuck Texas. But like, oh
my god, the comments on Will Ferrell's Instagram and on
the we're just like horrendous. Wow what people were saying.
Speaker 3: And they But did they show that in the movie?
Are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: They show it in the movie. They show the aftermath
of that and how horrible the comments were online. So
I that was not fun to see it like that.
People are terrible. But all in all, the movie is
I mean, here's why I recommend it, highly recommend it,
and it has like a ninety nine on Rotten Tomatoes
because it will really help you understand like how ridiculous
it is to care about so much about how people identify,
Like who cares exactly? Who cares? Why do you care
about what somebody else? And how hard it is for
people to just It's just really how awful it was
for this woman to be able to be herself. It's
also really interesting because I think for some people for
the journey, like you this, when Harper was the who
they were before a writer on SNL, their life before
they were just like this cantankerous kind of like comedy writer,
you know, like nothing really like effeminate about them at all.
Like I'm sure that no one saw it coming, you know.
And so and I know another person I know, a
writer from a show that I worked on that I
never in a million years, like literally, when they told
me they were living as a woman, I almost laughed
because I was like, what, Like I thought they were
being funny, and like, no, sure enough, they have over
the past probably like eight years, fully transitioned and totally
live as a woman. And like, what a hard Like
what a hard thing that is. But imagine how hard
it is to live as a trans woman. It must
have been that much harder even though they blended and
nobody knew. Imagine how awful that must be in your
own body to be living as a man if you
know you're a woman, like to make you live in
such a way that is going to have the world
cintasizing you.
Speaker 3: It's got to be so painful, so hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I thought the movie was really beautiful in
the way of like and oh my god, if you
ever didn't love Will Ferrell before, I freaking I am
now obsessed with Will Ferrell. He is like the kindest, empathic,
like loving great He's just a freaking great guy and
you don't know that. Apparently Will Ferrell is like kind
of shy, like he doesn't like a lot of attention.
And it was just like what I was kind of
blown away by how much I love Where do you?
Where is it now? Flex flex? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Did you see what Will Ferrell did at the King's
game the other day? He dressed his buddy the Elf
like all old and haggard and smoking a cigarette and
drinking beer.
Speaker 2: Isn't that hilarious?
Speaker 3: It's hilarious, he really is.
Speaker 2: I love him.
Speaker 3: I've always loved him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know he's uh fighting or he had a
big split with Adam McKay. Oh yeah, yes, yeah, and
like when you kind of know who Adam McKay is
now compared to who Will Ferrell is now, it's like,
oh yeah, Adam McKay is a dick, and I'm totally
on Will Ferrell's side. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it during the winning time?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, yeah, but apparently.
Speaker 4: John c Riley was role.
Speaker 3: He was great in it, and I don't know why.
Speaker 4: They stopped it too. I was so mad about that
they so mad. It was so good. Everyone was talking
about it. I don't get it where you ended it.
Speaker 2: Somebody else should pick it up, because it didn't get
picked up right.
Speaker 3: Netflix should pick it up.
Speaker 5: It's hard to believe everybody was watching that show. Everybody
was talking about it. It's it's yeah, it's insane. There
must be something else going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, So I also okay, so that was
the I told you about the no Good Deed, and
I also and Harper and will Oh I know what
I wanted to bring up. So I went back and
watched the VOW and by the way, I think the episode,
it's either this Thursday's episode I'd have to look on
our spreaker account, or it's next the next one. But
it's the where I retell where it had just happened,
the story about Alison mack story. Yeah, trying to suck
me into her sex cult. Oh, it's this week.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well so it came yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so you would have just heard if you
listened to our classic episode. It's that story. I found
it where And I went back and watched all of
the Vow season one, and then I watched season two
and I was telling you this on the phone. I
had never watched season two. I don't know why, but
two is so good.
Speaker 1: It's so much better than season so much better.
Speaker 2: You never watched season I hadn't watched season two. That's great, Kaylin.
The vow is so good.
Speaker 1: Well, when season two came out, I remember, No, it
wasn't really promoted. I don't know, like it was very
quietly out there. Yes, yeah, like I think one person
told me it was on and I didn't know about it.
Speaker 2: It's all about though, Okay. So season one is about
that woman Sarah and her husband Nippy, and where she
breaks out of the Nexium cult and finally realizes this
is like a cult. She's meanwhile gotten branded and the
whole like she's gotten into it. She's a somebody's slave,
right Lauren Saltzman, whose mom, Nancy Saltzman is the one
who basically started this whole thing with with Keith Rnari.
So the whole first season is all about Sarah. The
guy Mark who made the movie What the Blank, and
he was also sucked in and his wife Bonnie. So
Bonnie and Sarah both left the cult, and then they
brought their guys with them and then they all are
talked to the FBI. Well, season two we leave them behind,
and now season two is all about the court case.
And when you find out some of the shit that
Keith RINERI was actually doing, I was like, oh, I
just thought he was like having that he came up
with this thing and women were getting no full on
sex trafficking, like it's disgusting.
Speaker 3: He don't remember that much of season two.
Speaker 2: Well, remember that Keith Renary got one hundred and twenty
years jail time. Yes, nobody else like Nancy Saltzman got
like eight years or something, the one from the Seagrums,
the yeah, what's her name, yes, Claire Broffman, I think
her name is. She got a lot of time prison
time because she was funding everything, right, yes, and there
was a lot of like tax like, there was a
lot of illegal activities she was involved in. But so
she got like a longer sentence, but Nancy got a
pretty long sentence. They all got out early, of course,
and Alison Mack got a few years.
Speaker 3: Too, and she out she's out right.
Speaker 2: They're all out except for Keith raniering he's gone, he's
gonna be and he already they tried to get him
a new trial. No, there's so much stuff on this
guy though that I didn't know that. You don't that
You don't realize until you watch all of season two
and every episode is just like, wait, what he did? What?
There's this thing where he brought in. This family came
from Mexico. Do you remember this from season two? So
this family came in. They were like kind of well
to do family, and they brought their kids. They brought
two of their kids, their daughters, older daughter and a
younger daughter. The younger daughter was like thirteen at the time,
and no, she was fifteen. The younger daughter was fifteen,
the older daughter was like seventeen. He ends up sleeping
with both of them. He takes the younger daughter, he's
grooming her from the time she's there, when she's fifteen,
and then on her eighteenth birthday, he has sex with her,
takes her virginity. Meanwhile he's been sleeping with the older daughter.
Then the parents bring their other two kids, the younger daughter.
The young young daughter's thirteen years old, he starts having
sex with her. By the time she's fifteen. Oh my god,
he's sleeping with all all three of the daughters, and
then one of the daughters he ends up locking in
like a room for two years. I remember, craziness right now,
and nobody helps her.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, yeah, I locked her in a room for
two years? Yeah, where is everybody with a brain cell?
Speaker 2: And then actually she wasn't it wasn't locked, but they
keep her in a room and they like just bring
her food and they don't let her have anything to read.
But they take her papers, they take her passport and
her visa, so she can't leave, and she can't. There's
nowhere for her to go, right, and they ostracize her,
so nobody's allowed to talk to her or deal with
her in any which. Any way, they interview.
Speaker 1: Her, yes, yeah, yes, yeah, this guy was the where
was anybody with a brain cell to go?
Speaker 3: Like, what the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, eventually like Nippy and her his wife,
you know whatever, but just all these other adults in
the situation going this is not right.
Speaker 2: Well, because they were brainwashed, So it wasn't until afterwards.
They had a huge interview with Nancy Saltzman, right, And
the thing that I found really interesting about the documentary
was that she agreed to do an interview as long
as they wouldn't air it until after she gets sentenced.
So it was very interesting to know that she doesn't
know what's going to happen to her during her interview
right on the doc Yeah, it's in the documentary and
she's basically tells the whole story about like how she
got kind of sucked in, and it's you kind of
watch her almost in real time starting to realize the
damage that was done and all the things that she overlooked. Yeah,
it was I was fascinated. If you remember from our
Tuesday episode, my internet was going in and out, So
it was so frustrating because I'd be watching it and
it'd be like a really good part and then it
would be like reboot, So then I would have to
move to watch it on my phone. So then I
would watch it on my and it was the app
like I was on the Max app, so that it
would pick it up right where it left off. But
I'd be like, Okay, I'm on my phone now, Okay,
I'm back on the big right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, ah, that's fun to watch. So
that's that's fun to watch. Yeah, watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's take another break and we're back with more. Okay,
podcast recommendations, I.
Speaker 3: Don't have any. I mean there's people on our page
that have said.
Speaker 2: I listened to a podcast by The New York Times
I think called The Good Whale Bring Tissues.
Speaker 3: What's it about.
Speaker 2: It's about the whale from Free Willy. Oh, it's the
whole story behind the actual real whale from Free Willy
and the attempts to get to save that whale and
get it acclimated to the ocean and to find a
whale pod even though it was taken from its mother
at a super young age and raised by people.
Speaker 1: It's those animal docs are so.
Speaker 2: It's like six episodes and it is really good. Well
it's I'll just tell you that it's really really good,
very touching.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I haven't listened to anything well speaking of
animals though, when we go back to podcast recommendations, Yeah,
I found this organization that I really like and I
think I'm gonna want to start working with them in
the new year called Purple Leash. And they're they're a
part of uh, the big what's the big big dog
food company? Purina Purina And they are an or like
an organization, a nonprofit that started a few years ago
because you know, most people in domestic situations, with especially
women in a domestic abuse situations, they delay getting out
of the situation because of.
Speaker 3: How a dog or a pet.
Speaker 1: Oh, and they don't know what because most only like
nineteen percent or seventeen percent of shelters for domestic abuse
only take pets, oh, which is not and yeah, and
then and then a lot of times the abuser will
you know, they they're prolonged that the person getting abused
is they it prolongs them to leave because they can't
find they don't know what to do with their pet
because nobody will take their pet. And then it also
happens that the abuser will sometimes either threaten the pet
or kill the pet, you know, to get back at
the victim.
Speaker 2: You know, right right, So if they leave, like if
they leave their pet behind.
Speaker 1: Right right, so they are they're afraid, like they don't
know what to do because of the of the pets.
So Purple Leash is like an organization that is helping
you know, these shelters throughout the country be equipped for
being a being able to to bring their dogs and
their cat, their bets with them to the shelters. Or
having them find them a placement. If they can't bring
it to that specific they can find, help them find it.
Speaker 3: So I don't know. I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 2: I like, Wow, where'd you hear about it? I think
one of.
Speaker 1: My friends at ABC told me about it. She was
she was talking about she was just she was talking
about that. She heard about it, like, I don't know,
through one of the ABE Good Morning America shows or something.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I looked it up and I was reading about it.
So anyway, when you brought up.
Speaker 1: Animals, I thought about that, and I was reading about it,
and I think I want to I want to start
working doing something to help out.
Speaker 2: That would be nice. Yeah, I like that idea. Yeah, Caylin,
do you have any podcast recks?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I don't really listen to podcasts, ironically.
Speaker 2: Enough, I listened to so many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I would listen. I mean I haven't listener.
I used to listen to Howard Stern.
Speaker 2: Right. I listened to This American Life. I don't like
it as much as I used to. Let's see goodwill.
I listen to court Junkie. I listened to this court Unie.
That's a good one. Remember we had her on years ago.
I really like that one betrayal. I listened to that.
It's a little bit annoying, but I like it. Invisible
Choir is like for sortain scale fans that hate Mike Boudet,
there's an invisible choir which is so good. And then
I listen to a bunch of politics. I listened to
anatomy of murder. That's a that's a that seems like
a good one, that's decent, it's okay. Yeah, sometimes I
let those save up because I don't. I can't. I
can only take so much true crime, and I, as
we've discussed, I only like like more psychological like yeah,
mystery women poisoning their husbands or like you know, stuff
where it's not just like and I don't like listening
to anything involving like kids. There's this one that Dateline
is pushing. It's like murder in the dorms, and I'm like, no,
thank you, are you kidding me? Right now?
Speaker 1: There's like two seasons of murder in the garden.
Speaker 3: I wrong timing. No, I need to hear about that.
Speaker 2: No, I can't listen to anything involving kids, and especially
but like teenagers and college students like no, thank you. Now, Yeah,
it's got to be like abusive husbands, like you know,
like aystn't have snapped all day. You know. The problem
with snapped, as we have discussed, is the fact that
you always know who did it because it's like, well,
this is about women in the midstap It's like, okay,
so it's the wife pretty much every episode, or the
best friend or you know, but still there's sometimes there
they can be a little entertaining. But anyway, yeah, so
let's let's we did our shows in the beginning right
this time, so let's we have a couple more business
shout outs, you know, speaking of animals, Sergio, our friend
Sergio is given his shout still to the ASPCA, so
that's another great organization to help animals. And our friend
Darcy is shouting out her brother Colin and sister in
law Anna's podcast called The Get Up Show. So speaking
of podcasts, if the kids want to listen to something
no murder involved, just yoga, music, jokes, learning and fun.
So The Get Up Show. Check that out. And Christine
Black that's our travel agent with Waves and Wonder Travel
go to on Instagram. Travel with Christine B. Or you
can find her on our Facebook page also Sugar Skull.
Why not stop by Sugar Skull if you're on the
island of Kawaii in Hawaii, if you're vacationing, check them out.
They do really good desserts and gifty stuff and they
have a website called Sugar Skull eight oh eight dot
square dot site. And every podcast we do ash out
for Adam Lerner. He's a car broker. He can get
you a car very easily. He does all the paperwork,
he does all the financing. They will find you anyway.
It's a car broker. It's really go to Adamscott a
car and Ferncandle gets you a candle that smells good
and makes your house smell good. Makes a good gift too,
and they have really good smells like tobacco, stage and
lavender sandalwood. Go follow her on Instagram at Fern Candle
and I think that's it, okay. And also if you
want to take my writing class, go to my website
Stephanie Wilder tailor dot com and look under classes. And
I have a new one for new writers starting up
on January seventh, so you still have a few days
to get into my class.
Speaker 3: Nice, yeah, if you have internet.
Speaker 2: If you have internet, the class is three hundred and
eighty five dollars. It runs for six weeks. I don't
care what level you're at. I don't care if you've
never written anything but your journal. I'm going to teach
you how to express yourself.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, okay, thanks everybody.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're a parent now, nonfit else.
Speaker 4: It's good
Speaker 2: Letting