Speaker 1: Made destange.
Speaker 2: A pace sunny Sune on I hadurdasion.
Speaker 1: Nice. So what's happening? Everybody? Happy h Friday?
Speaker 3: Happy Friday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we work all year, take one week off.
Speaker 3: We took one week off.
Speaker 1: When's the other time we take a week off?
Speaker 2: Well, it used to be in August, but I think
we work through that now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we could take a week off here and there.
But why but why it's easy and fun, right and
we yeah, but we did. We took Christmas week off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we took one week. A lot of people have
been off for two weeks.
Speaker 4: Go back and listen to we did the way we
do best of this is a little different. We really
curate them now and we'd remove. I go in and
edit the old ads and the shouts and all that
stuff out, and it's it's so it does have ads,
but they're like automated ads, so they're shorter and no
shouts and it's just the and I find shows of
stuff that we remember that we talked about, Like I
think last week was the Ikea was the origin story
of the crazy Ikea mom that was saying that she
was being sex trafficked.
Speaker 3: That one, I think I.
Speaker 2: Think that you just scheduled that one. That one's not
going out until like at the end of this month.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, what do I have scheduled for this? For
the one that would just talkies?
Speaker 4: Okay, So I had forgotten I thought that talkies. So
for anybody that doesn't remember, talkies was Sadie's friend who
came over broke into our pantry eight a ton So okay, I.
Speaker 1: Was just telling somebody this story.
Speaker 4: In case this was a long time in case anybody
doesn't remember that, we I aired the original talkie story,
which was that and it's.
Speaker 3: Like a whole thing where I was.
Speaker 4: Sadie met this girl at school and she really liked her.
But the mom is Hispanic and very tough to like.
There's there were a lot of hoops I had to
jump through for this girl to be able to come
to our house, very overprotective mom.
Speaker 1: I couldn't spend the night right, Oh definitely not.
Speaker 3: But this one was even a little bit more than that.
Speaker 4: She didn't trust her to come over to our house,
so I had to work my way up. I had
to go remember I had to meet them at a
pumpkin patch, oh yes, And I had to like go
and meet her and meet some of the siblings and
then we had to like spend a while together, and
then we went out for ice cream together another time.
Then she allowed her to come over, but she was like,
I want her to call me as soon as she
gets to your house, and don't give her any snacks, right,
And I was like okay, Like so I she was like,
don't let her, you know, show like I want to
eat like all the snacks.
Speaker 3: And I was like, okay.
Speaker 4: Well they snuck and got into the talkies and and
the fruit by the Foot, So I had like a
Costco box of fruit by the foot and I came
in and there was just like food detritus all over
the floor, like the fruit by the foot, wax paper
wrappers you could just see, and like a family size
bag of talkies like almost empty.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So later that night I get a text from the
mom and she's like, I forgot I forgot the girl's name.
Actually I just remembered it with Sienna. She was like,
did she goes?
Speaker 3: Did she eat anything red?
Speaker 4: And I was like, uh, yeah, actually sorry, she ate
they ate a bunch of talkies And she was like, well,
she's been puking red all over and I think I
have to take her to the emergence.
Speaker 3: They ended up taking my emergency that.
Speaker 1: What for throwing up.
Speaker 4: Up And then the doctor apparently at the emergency room,
was like, talkies are really bad for kids' stomachs.
Speaker 3: This was before people knew what talkies were. I know,
I don't know any days of talkies.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what takis.
Speaker 4: I was telling you, and you were like, I've never
heard of this. And then suddenly everybody I told this
story and everybody was like, oh my god, I saw talkies,
like in my grocery store. I remember we almost at
our live show We're going.
Speaker 3: To pass out. We were trying to get talkies to
sponsor us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because my kids.
Speaker 3: Freaking love talk I know.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a gas station food, like some
snack you see on the you know, a gas station
on a road.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, now there's like a now there's
oh really Yeah.
Speaker 4: They have their own brand of like of taki. You're
called like chili tortilla roll roll rolls.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I see them all the time at my gas station
that I go into, and they're like blue flavored, and.
Speaker 4: Like oh yeah, god, Yeah, it's bad enough that they're
red flavored.
Speaker 3: Now you got to introduce blue flavors to them.
Speaker 1: It's all die you know, number nine shit. Yeah, but
they're good.
Speaker 3: I mean they're kind of tasty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they I just ask, uh, what's her name?
They can be addictive.
Speaker 3: Vienna, Cira something like that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So then okay, so I had told that whole story,
and then the dad was like, she can't ever spend
time with you again. She can't ever come to your
house like she was like, my husband says, they can never,
she can never come over. And I was like, I mean,
after all that I had, I brought this on myself.
Speaker 3: And then but then, what.
Speaker 1: Are you supposed to do? Lock it up? You know,
how are you supposed to know that she's gonna, you know,
and go through your pantry and just eat everything because
why she doesn't get junk food at home?
Speaker 3: Yeah I don't know, but yeah, but I fucked up.
Speaker 4: So then I had forgotten this until I was listening
to an old episode. Apparently i'd worked my way back
because she came back over. It was like a few
it was like a while later, maybe even a few
months later, I don't remember, but I was I but.
Speaker 3: Then I let them.
Speaker 4: Apparently they walked to the park and then the mom
was going to come get her and I was I
was freaking out.
Speaker 3: John was like, oh, they walked to the park and
I was like, they did what? Oh my god, find them?
Speaker 1: Go search for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god. It was a nightmare, that's right.
Speaker 1: And you couldn't find you didn't, You didn't You couldn't
get a hold of your kids, right or something.
Speaker 4: I don't think Sadie had didn't have a cell phone.
It was pre cell phones, didn't They use an iPad
and some pre cell phones in general. But I didn't
get an iPad. But you would only have internet in
the house. Yeah, right, Like so that didn't do any
good exactly. So yeah, in the house or in the mall,
like she could she could, you know what I mean,
if she wanted to walk in the mall by herself.
That's how I first let Elbe walk around the mall
by herself because she had an iPad. By the way,
this isn't only like Hispanic families. There was a lot
in our elementary school, a lot of that situation where
they were like and our families that listen to this show,
our Latina moms. They know, they're like, oh, hell no,
don't do sleepover.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, my parents Italians do. Yeah, very my
cousins in Cleveland. Nobody's allowed to have sleepover.
Speaker 3: The Jews very loose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what it is. Well, they send
their kids to camp for three months, they sure do.
Speaker 3: The Jews are like I see in six weeks. Yeah,
you're seven good having good summer.
Speaker 1: Right yeah no, but not for Yeah, the the Latinos.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, there there are way more like protective and
those are the the kids that remember this was back
in the day because I had different there were different people.
I had one girl that Sadie was always trying to
be friends with, that that modeled Keen Sinnara dresses.
Speaker 3: Remember I would call her Keen Sanara.
Speaker 4: Yes, there was talkies King Sannara and like another one
that's the right one.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, oh my god, we gotta find those
up that I did.
Speaker 3: I had in there.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, she's in there too. You got to listen
to this episode. Yeah, so that is so that's Talkie's Returns.
That's from this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that aired yesterday as you're listening.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I thought I was, it's so fun.
Speaker 3: It's like fun to listen to the old episodes.
Speaker 4: Are like, oh my god, I forgot that that happened.
It's like finding old photo albums.
Speaker 1: Yeah they forgot right, Yeah, listening to these stories and
stuff that we used it. Yeah, oh gosh. It is
a good idea doing the old school.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that just that's that's fun.
Speaker 4: That's an answer to don't we never take breaks? Even
when we did take a break. I posted three old episodes.
Speaker 3: So that's what I was saying.
Speaker 4: If you want to go back to Christmas Week and
listen to all three, they're all good ones.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, nice, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: So I just want to say this. This morning, I
woke up and I usually I write out, I type
out some stuff in my notes app of like topic
like oh what's happened this week that I want to
talk about?
Speaker 3: So I did that this morning. Okay.
Speaker 4: Then I went to go walk Penelope and I looked
at my list because I was going to add something,
and I had written gloves, and I was like, why
did I write gloves?
Speaker 3: And I still have no idea.
Speaker 4: So from the this morning, I wrote down the word gloves.
It never came back to me, I don't know what
I was talking about, Like, what's happening?
Speaker 3: What glo? Do I have Alzheimer's? What is going on?
I know I wrote the word gloves. I obviously had
a strong thought about talking. I was going to talk
about gloves. It does not ring a bell whatsoever. I
literally wrote it this morning because I opened a new.
Speaker 1: You're watching You're watching something that No, it was this morning.
Speaker 3: I was laying.
Speaker 2: What is it in the notes app because maybe I
could have auto corrected, just like you were trying to
write something else and auto correct. That happens to me
all the time.
Speaker 1: Me too, Yes, the notes app does autocorrect all the time.
Drives me nuts.
Speaker 4: But it's like, okay, because I have Here's like the
note it goes New Year's Eve and then basically what
I was talking, what I talked about on Patreon, and
then gloves, and then the next line goes birthday brunch.
So I'm like, it's not like I.
Speaker 3: Was writing like a line and it changed the word
even simple words.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the fuck glow gloves glow?
Speaker 4: Yeah nope. Anyway, so that's the way I'll.
Speaker 2: Be come home from a from a rave with some
with some new light gloves like mine.
Speaker 3: Uh no, no, no, hm, she did. Elbe went to
her rave Near's eve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how was it?
Speaker 4: She every this kid is so easily pleased. She's just
like everything she does is like the best is the
best day of my life? Like I had the best.
I could not have had a better time. Like what
drugs is she doing?
Speaker 1: She does not like a No, She's always been that way.
She's very class. She does stuff.
Speaker 4: She says she's gone to raves sober and she's done
some drinking. According to her, she's never tried molly and
is not ever planning to God. Yeah, but she's like, yeah,
I have fun either way, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But she was like, yeah, best time ever of
my life.
Speaker 1: And they're up all night. Ugh yeah, that just would
I would like we talked about like I would be
sitting in a corner, like with a sweater on cold,
Oh my god, Like can I go to PARKA?
Speaker 3: I would be like a sweater would not do the trick.
Speaker 1: These girls what they wear when they go out at night.
It's freezing, it's the winter, and they're dressing like it's
Malibu nineteen seventy eight, Like, come.
Speaker 3: On, moody short. Yes, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: It's us wow, like of course, and Natalia's had this
cold non stop for like weeks now, Yes, it just
doesn't end. I'm like, no, wonder, I mean, hello, look
at what you what? Look at what you wear when
you go out? Yeah, aren't you freezing?
Speaker 3: When does she go back?
Speaker 1: By the way, she goes the twenty third, not till
the twenty third, not to the twenty third. Her friends
go back soon.
Speaker 3: I thought she's on the quarter system like Elbe.
Speaker 1: No, she doesn't go back until that is so late.
It is late.
Speaker 3: That's like a full month off.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Her friend her roommate too, wow, because they go
to the same school and then sending together.
Speaker 4: They're at community so yeah, wouldn't be together. Yeah, so
that's a it's a different yeah system.
Speaker 1: And but Sunny goes back next week okay, and then
he's coming back over the weekend for the UFC fight.
Oh really, got tickets from his dad for Christmas? You're
in La. Yeah, this kid's coming and going. But yeah, interesting,
And when does Elbe go back?
Speaker 3: She's back? So I dropped her off last night and
she's she's Yeah.
Speaker 4: She also has a cold and it never goes away
because she's She was like, Mom, I think I need
to start taking vitamins. Yeah, it's like I get sick
a lot. It's from she says, it's very common with
like college students.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Probably, they're all in close quarters. Like she has all
these roommates.
Speaker 3: You know, there's like an eight of them living in
a small apartment.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, she should take vitamins. Italia
takes a lot of vitamins.
Speaker 4: We used to have a lot of vitamin sponsors. I know,
I can't remember any of them anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, she should take some at least the
the basics vitamin C and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure. Yeah, I'm gonna get her that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I dropped her off last night. Took her grocery
shopping first. She's always so nice to me when she
wants me to take her grocery shopping.
Speaker 3: What are you doing? What are you doing? Later?
Speaker 4: Like, I don't know, playing threes on my phone and
listening to a podcast.
Speaker 3: She's like, can you take me grocery shopping? Mama? Seat up.
I'm not going to say no.
Speaker 1: Anyway, right. I know. Natalia is extra nice when she
wants something to Yeah, it's me. It's been laundry. Her
laundry's just been piled to the ceiling.
Speaker 3: Elbe did all of her own laundry. I had nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 3: All last night she just did loads and loads of laundry.
Speaker 1: See, they get used to it, you know, when they're
out on their own, because they have to and she
can do it.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Elbie's ever done laundry. She says
she's tried once or twice at the one in their building,
but she said it's really hard and there's always somebody
like using it or you.
Speaker 1: Know right, yeah, yeah, my kids have been doing. Sunny
does his own laundry. He's been doing it for a while,
and Natalian knows how to do it. But it gets
out of hand with the girls. You know we've talked about.
They try something on, they take it off, and it
goes into the dirty pile.
Speaker 3: What I know. Also, the towel usage is out of control.
Speaker 4: My kids take it like one or sometimes two showers
a day at times, and every time they use a
towel into the hamper, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: Hell no, I taught my kids like you, that's your
towel for the week.
Speaker 4: Right, except for the fact that I have done that,
I have laid down the law. But then how do
you police it? Because I'm like, I don't know. Yeah,
but I'm like, how is your hamper full of towels?
Speaker 3: Again? How am I always washing towels? I now, Yeah,
Lady's like, I don't know. Yeah, it's really annoying.
Speaker 1: Well, and also, you know they use towels like Natalil
puts her hair, you know, in a towel. Yeah, or
she'll take a towel and put it down on the
floor to get it get out of the shower. Yeah.
You know, it's out of control, right.
Speaker 3: And then those go in the hamper.
Speaker 4: Right then you got a hamper full of like damp,
damp towels with you know that smells great?
Speaker 3: I mean I get so, I really do get mad. Yeah,
the towels thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I get really frustrated because I'm like, you
guys are not using your towel more than once and
say they'll be yes, we are, mom, I swear like
you know, but you know what they'll do is they'll
hang They'll use a towel, hang it over the shower.
Speaker 3: Right. Then they'll go get another one for their next hower,
hang that one over.
Speaker 4: Then like after a week, they'll just gather all the
towels that are hanging in the bathroom and put them
in the hamper and like so like, yeah, they didn't
hit the hamper after one used, right, but they still
you're still using one every time, different power right right,
And I'm still having the problem, by the way, which
and somebody from our Facebook group told me what it was,
and they were right where the face stuff that they
use is getting on the towels and then it's bleaching. Yeah,
I have like each stains on a lot of my towels.
Speaker 1: What face done?
Speaker 3: Like whatever face pimple stuff?
Speaker 1: Oh oh for acne and stuff. Yes, because I have
makeup all over my towels from her like spray Tan makeup, makeup, Spraydan,
spray Dan makeup. It's all the same, huh, just like
but luckily that washes out.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, well so your towel noticing I was getting like.
Speaker 3: These bleach spots all over the towels.
Speaker 4: And I couldn't figure out what it was like at first,
I was like, did I accidentally add bleach to a
little laundry?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: And then know, somebody was like, it's the stuff they
use on their face is getting is there?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: So then I.
Speaker 4: Started just getting white towels for their bathroom. But what
happens is I'll put the white towels in with other
towels maybe, and then the bleach still comes out, and
then like I'll have a.
Speaker 3: Nice dark gray towel that has a little orange spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no good towel for teenagers. No, because I
get the dog. I've gotten the gray or black even
for her makeup to wash, you know, right, but those
get lost and used for washing cars, cars going to
the beach. Yeah, you're like, you did not just use
a forty towel to go to the beach now, right?
Or when we had the swimming pool, all their friends
would come over and all the towels we used for swimming,
and then they just leave them out and then get
sun bleached outside, right Yeah, yeah, I can't wait till
they go back to school. You don't have a pool
at your no house? Okay, Phil's missing a pool.
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Speaker 3: So I went to.
Speaker 4: A brunch so my big mom's group, mom group, we
celebrate everybody's birthday. Remember I was telling you that, like
for my birthday and for someone else's birthday. We went
to this place in the valley that I told you
called Red Ginger where there was a it's a sushi place,
but they have a guy who sings seventies songs.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about that place. Yeah, yeah, super
fun because me and the girls were looking for a
place to go. So there's there are in Woodland Hills.
Speaker 3: Right, That one's in Woodland Hills. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so there are like I want to say, whole group,
maybe like eight or not even like eight of us
at least, So someone's.
Speaker 3: Birthday is always coming up, you know.
Speaker 4: And I wanted to discuss this with you because I
think you're going to be completely on my side on this.
But birthday gifts for grown hoss women, right, Yeah, your
gifts should be that we're taking you out like that,
You're getting your meal paid for and you're going out.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Like me and my girlfriends don't do birthday I mean,
we'll do little ones like our big group, we don't.
We get together like Christmas time or like you know,
sometimes during the summer. But we'll break off into littler
groups like you know, Suzanne, Melissa and I will go
and celebrate the three you know, each birthday something like that.
But the big group, yeah, it's too much.
Speaker 4: It's too many of us always going to be buying
gifts for people.
Speaker 3: That's the case.
Speaker 4: Now in this group, I'm close. I'm especially close to
a couple of them, right, and I so I know
them really well. One of them, my friend Laura, loves
her birthday like is you know, okay, God bless her.
Speaker 3: You know. I used to almost resent that about her
a little bit, but now I'm like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our thing, right, she loves her birthday like
that's her big thing. But even she will be like,
no gifts, like and sometimes the thing that we'll do
is donate to a charity, like for the person that
the person a charity they like, okay.
Speaker 3: But then there are a few people in the group
who don't say no gifts. And there's one in particular
who also loves her birthday and also.
Speaker 1: Really loves getting gifts.
Speaker 4: So this person, when my friend Lara said no gifts,
this person wrote to like group chat group text was like,
Lara says no gifts, but I'm getting her a gift
because she's not the boss of me, like being kind
of right cheeky, but also annoying because it's like, okay,
but then if you get her a gift, it kind
of looks bad for the other people unless the rest
of us really go listen, she said no gifts, so
no gifts. Then you look they then like somebody else
is like, oh, I also kind of like to get gifts,
and I know Lara, so I got her this thing.
So now pretty much then there's gonna be like three
of you that are like.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, I followed the rules and didn't
get her a gift exactly. So then you end up
getting a fucking gift anyway.
Speaker 4: But then you go like, well, it's just something little
I just saw this little thing. Okay, here's what happens though,
Then with the person who you're not even that close to,
who doesn't say no gifts, right now, you gotta go
freaking shop for that person because then every you know
what I'm saying, everyone's like, well, they didn't say no gifts,
so now we got.
Speaker 3: To get this person a gift.
Speaker 4: Yeah, meaning the one that was like, I'm getting her
a gift because she's not the boss Tom. That woman's
That woman's birthday dinner was like two weeks after Lara's. Okay,
so now I gotta go. I had to go shop
for that woman, right. So that was in December. Now
it's only the beginning of January. So I had to go,
like to Worldmark get look around and go, what would
this bitch want?
Speaker 3: You know, like I got her?
Speaker 4: Like and then you don't want to be the chintzy one.
Like everything's like, oh, you know, so and so loves
her birthday, so I got her.
Speaker 1: Like you know, there's always that one person that knows
how to get good gifts, great gifts and very thoughtful clever,
and you're like, oh man, why didn't I think of that?
Why didn't I think of this? You know, this subscription
to like you know, None of the Month or whatever,
you know, a flower of the month, right, you know,
it's just something like.
Speaker 4: Then if it's just your group of like mom friends
that are having a birthday every every month, you're also like, well,
I want to keep it around like twenty five bucks. Right,
We're not here to like get somebody one hundred dollars gifts.
Speaker 3: We're taking them to dinner.
Speaker 1: That should be enough.
Speaker 3: That should be enough.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: And I will say like, no gifts, and I mean it,
And then like here's the thing. People will get you.
Speaker 4: Stuff anyway, but it's like little stuff that you don't
then it's just like crap.
Speaker 3: You know what it reminds me of. It reminds me
of the adult version of goodie bags.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, going to the leaving the
birthday parties.
Speaker 4: And you got like a frickin' super ball, It's like
rolls under someone's seat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got like a Chinese fingercuffs, right, and.
Speaker 4: You gotta like lives in your stupid stuff that you know,
a spinning plastic top that costs like twenty five cents
that somebody orders from Oriental Trading and gets like a
bunch of crap that comes down to the find it.
Speaker 1: When you're at the car wash. You're going through your
car to throw all the trash out.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay.
Speaker 4: Adult presents are kind of like that, like in less Okay,
So I go to World Market, I get like a
candle and a diffuser, and like another candle for the
one that was in December, but now this just happened,
So this was this yesterday.
Speaker 3: Had to go to a brunch for another one. She's
a little bit on the outside of the group. Like
she's not even an outlier.
Speaker 4: She's I'm at social events with her all the time
because she's in the group, but we're not, like, we're not.
Speaker 1: Close friends, right, you don't text?
Speaker 4: I like her, but like no, I always enjoy seeing
her and talking to her. There's literally nothing wrong with her.
She's very she's fun. But I've never like had a
text conversation outside of I'm super close, really in the
group with like two of them, and then I'm friends,
very friendly with a few more, but they're like because
the main girl in the group, My main two friends
I've known since our kids were like, I've been very
close with my friend Cecily that I've talked about. We've
been really close friends for like fifteen years. My friend
Laura was my first mom friend. We've literally been friends
for twenty years, close friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
Speaker 4: If she wants a gift, I know what to get her,
yes right, I know exactly what type of stuff she likes.
But anyway, so Sunday yesterday we had to shot. We
had to get something because this woman, who none of
us are close friends with, did not say no gifts.
So now we're all calling each other feeling resentful about
like why did.
Speaker 3: She say no gifts? Like how do we get hurt?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: We got to go to brunch she we're not even
close friends with her and figure out what the fuck.
Speaker 1: She wants, right, and what is the price? Like we're
on the price point for these gifts that you guys.
Speaker 4: So like, okay, so that's where I was. I was
having trouble. So one of my friends like, I don't
think any of these friends listen to my podcast, but
they're like, okay, what do I have in the house already?
Like so this is how it becomes, like where you're
just exchanging. Some people have stuff that they buy, Like
when one girl got her this really beautiful full candle,
an anthropology candle, but because she had a bunch of them,
because they she'd got shopped for on sale.
Speaker 3: For this exact purpose.
Speaker 1: Oh smart, like so that she so she has.
Speaker 4: Like a closet and then she goes in there and goes, oh, okay,
it's someone, say's birthday anthropology candle. Right, who doesn't like
an anthropology candle?
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 4: But other people are like, Okay, let me see some
stuff that I've been gifted, you know, like regifting like
what would be a coropriate for this occasion. But then
all we're doing is moving stuff.
Speaker 1: Around to the next and trying to hide the fact
that it's a gift, right, you know, like making one
hundred percent sure nobody's tampered with it, nobody's opened it
to like smell something in there, like right.
Speaker 4: So I was just like, you know what, I'm just
going to do a gift card. But then I was like, well,
if I do a gift card, how much?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Because like you don't want to do like a gift
card for like fifteen dollars, but you're like, I don't
even know her really, right, So then I'm like, well,
do I do like twenty five dollars gift card?
Speaker 3: But then to what to like target? You know, So
I was gonna do that.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, you know what, fuck, and I'm gonna
make it easy on myself. I'm just gonna go get
her a gift card. Meanwhile feeling resentful because I'm like,
we're also going to be going to brunch at not
a cheap place by the way, right yeah, And you
know what you can say, Well, it's just a fun
excuse to get together, but it's a pricey excuse to
get together.
Speaker 3: But that's no ever.
Speaker 4: I got a brunch or a dinner every month plus
a gift, right Yeah. So I was like, so I
was talking to my friend and and she's like, what
about getting her like.
Speaker 3: A bottle of rose?
Speaker 4: Like there's this really pretty it's called I forgot what
it's called, but it's a rose. It's a brand of
wine wine that has a rose on the bottle. It's
a really pretty bottle. And she's like, yeah, it's usually
on sale too, like and I was like, oh, that's
a good idea to.
Speaker 3: Get her a bottle of wine. Yeah, she's a chick.
Chicks like wine, yeah, especially rose.
Speaker 4: So then my friend goes, I have wine bottle like
gift you know.
Speaker 3: The bags bags wine?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, pretty gift wine gift bags, and I was like, oh, okay, great.
So I go to Trader Joe's. They had the wine,
got the bottle of wine. It was like it came
to like fifteen dollars.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 4: And then I got that she gave me a bag
and so I brought that. It was just kind of
funny because our other friend who we drove with, so
three of us drove together, the friend that told my
friend Cecily who told me to get the wine, and
then this other one and she goes, oh, Rose gives
me a headache, and I was like, right down, do
not say that at the brunch for one thing, but
also these bitches looked like they.
Speaker 3: Got really thoughtful gifts. So it's really funny.
Speaker 4: Okay, I really pray none of them listen and it's
all in fun guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's just it's radio talk, right, radio talk mamas.
Speaker 4: So like the point of this story is I kind
of look like the cheap asshole because so although she
was like, oh I love this bag, so.
Speaker 3: Cecily and I look at each other. I'm like she's like,
oh yeah, that's so nice, thank you.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, my other friend fully found a regift she's like,
oh my god, I just found this in my closet.
And she goes, I don't even know who gave this
to me. She goes, apparently it was from February.
Speaker 1: She's like, so, aren't you afraid?
Speaker 4: And it was some like Wilma's so Noma, like nice
like soaps, like hand soaps and whatever.
Speaker 3: And I was like, and she goes, oh, yeah, I
looked it up.
Speaker 4: It's like a third five dollars thing. And of course
got the ooze and as I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, this has been sitting in my friend closet, right,
but how you know, how do they know? Like I
would forget if a year went by, right, Well, she
knew I could be giving the gift back to this.
Speaker 3: She knew for a fact it wasn't given to her
by this person.
Speaker 1: Or somebody in the brunch at the at the well.
Speaker 3: She was like, she was thinking that.
Speaker 4: She was like, damn, what if it's what if somebody
in this group gave this to me?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: But then she she figured out that it was a
gift for the all the people in a bridal party
from a wedding that she was She was like, oh,
I know where this came from.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, so that was a perfect gift and then
sounds like a gift from a bridal party.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was just funny because the other so,
one of the other women got her this tote bag
with her initial on it, and oh that was like
the hit. And so our other friend was like whispering
across the table. She was like, where did you get
that or whatever? And she goes Amazon literally ordered it
like two days before.
Speaker 3: We got it on Prime.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So but you know, it looked like a thoughtful gift.
It looked like you went and had something like monograph,
right right, you Like I was the asshole that just
like gave a bottle of wine. But then the whole
way home, I'm like, you know what, I should not
have been in that situation.
Speaker 3: We are grown women. We should just have no gifts role.
Because of this one mom in the group who's like,
I'm not I'm gonna do what I want. I'm getting gifts.
I love gifts, she's hurt all of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, by the way, my friend and I
got her also.
Speaker 3: Quints, we ordered quints quince.
Speaker 4: But we got her a cashmere scarf and gloves. And
that is not why I wrote down.
Speaker 1: That's gonna say. There's always that one person though, you know,
like I just remember from years ago, you know, Jimmy
sal Adam Baby Doll, Dixon, like Daniel, all these guys
who all are well off, okay, but yet every year
everybody's got to like you know, top each other at
the Christmas party of who got the better like the
cool I mean, Jimmy comes up with the most thoughtful,
insant just crazy gifts. He needs to stop with that, yes,
And that's what everybody was saying to him years ago,
like all right, listen, mister ABC Late Night, like we
don't need to we don't need to come up, like
let's all just give to charity and call it just
buy our kids gifts. Right, that's it, right, that's it.
And then Jimmy go okay, and then the year comes
and nobody comes with gifts, but then Jimmy has gifts
for everybody.
Speaker 3: Oh and then he's like, don't worry about it, guy, right.
Speaker 1: So then what happens is the next year is like, oh,
Jimmy got his gifts. So now it's back to everybody
buying gifts again. You know, for all these it just
it never ended. So because there's just that one person
that's just gonna have to like show everybody up with
how great they are at their gift giving.
Speaker 3: Right. You know, one year, didn't he get your kids?
I feel like he got them like a bounce house.
Speaker 1: He yes, he did, he got he got him a
bounce house that we kept, not like it showed up
for a couple hours, that was, and he had it
blown up. So when the kids woke up in the morning,
they came out to the bounce house. Then he did.
And then that bounce house ended up in the pool, right.
Speaker 3: Like this was just like a row storm or something.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was so big. Uh so before we took
it down, the kids wanted it in the pool, okay, right,
So then that happened. Then one year we woke up
to a snow like this, there was snowing in our
front yard for them to sled down the driveway. Yeah,
that's the kind of shit, like just for that's the
gifts he gives to our kids.
Speaker 3: And then you're like, do you think they like this rose?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: It's in a roses shaped bottle.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Like what do you get? Jimmy's guys got every
His office was filled to the steiling with all these
things and Tchatsky's and gifts and this and that.
Speaker 3: Designated room for all the right but he does options.
Speaker 1: He does like it's probably got like a like a
old Atari machine. Oh yeah, it's just it's oh my
god maker. Oh there was that that they got each
other video game arcade games one year, Like it was crazy.
That's just the gifts, just trying to out do everybody.
But yeah, no, just I donate to Children's hospital every
year for Jimmy's kids. I mean I send them gifts,
but like that's it. Get a donation and they're very
happy with it. Okay, that's nice. Yeah, you know what
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So have you been you know?
Speaker 1: Yes, I haven't been listening to anything, but you put
me onto the vow again. Oh you did?
Speaker 3: Did you go back and listen?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 1: I started watching it. You know at night, I fall
asleep so easily. But I watched I mean I've seen
you know, it's kind of new already, and I kind
of remember everything. But yeah, I started going down that
and then Suzanne was like, I need something to watch
and I told her to watch it and she's never
seen it, not the first season or the second. Oh
yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Did she sleepover?
Speaker 1: No, she we were on the phone. She was like,
I'm like, you're gonna love it, and she likes cult stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I kind of went down that road of watching it.
Speaker 4: So I started listening to this podcast. It's called I Survived.
So did you know did we talk about I don't
think we talked about this because I think this is
a new discovery for me. So A and E remember
we love American Justice. Yes, okay, so A and E
is now American Justice is now a podcast, but caveat
no Bill Curtis.
Speaker 3: So it's just like.
Speaker 4: A random host and it's not the original like we
love Dateline and we love forty eight Hours because they
actually it's the show.
Speaker 3: It's just the audio version of it. Yeah right, right right, okay,
so the American Justice it's not it's.
Speaker 1: Okay, episodes.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know what.
Speaker 4: I think it's old episode, but it's not the it's
just like a yeah, it's hard to explain. But so
then I found but from looking from from listening to that,
I found I survived podcast. It's also any that is
based on the episodes.
Speaker 3: Okay, but here's the problem.
Speaker 4: Remember when we were we got mad because this one
woman went off on us about how we must love
like stories about like women getting raped and murdered and
right bad things happening to children, and we were like, no,
we don't. We What we like is like the psychological
aspect of it. We like stories about like scammers or
women that killed their husbands or you know, we like
trying to figure out who's done it. Like, no, we
don't just like listening to torture like that's horrible. Yeah,
well I survived is basically I don't understand why, but
it is exactly what that woman was talking about.
Speaker 3: It's like murder porn. I mean, it's it's but it's I.
Speaker 1: Survived this wedding.
Speaker 3: I survived.
Speaker 4: Okay, so buried in there are some stories that I
like that people that survived horrible things. But Lynette, when
I tell you, I cannot believe there is a show
where every single episode is about some woman being abducted
and then raped, horrible things happening to them, raped and tortured,
and then getting out alive, which is like, so I
would try. I was literally like fast forwarding you those,
but then they'll like open the show will open with that,
and she'll be like and then he was raping me again,
and every single story. And I was like, this is
a mainstream podcast, like it's it's a big podcast.
Speaker 3: It was also a mainstream show on A and E.
And I was like, why is every freaking story?
Speaker 4: And then it makes you crazy, Like it makes you
just go like, oh my god, is every guy out there?
Like anywhere you go, like.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of kidnapped in parking.
Speaker 3: Lots and people being kid you know, people's houses being
broken into and somebody just comes in and.
Speaker 1: Like my god.
Speaker 3: But it was I just was wondering if you'd ever
heard of this podcast?
Speaker 1: Well no, I mean I I stopped listening to it
because I thought like it was also about like I
survived like an.
Speaker 3: Avalanche, yes, and those were the stories.
Speaker 4: That's why I was there. It's like, oh, this guy
got in a plane crash and then like was stuck
like you know, on a hill, and this other guy
was like lost out at sea. Like there were some
stories like that, but I'm telling you that they will
be sandwiched between two rape stories. And I'm like, wait,
why I know now I got to fast forward it. Yeah,
like yeah, timestamp, but when I can move past this story, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Now, I like a good like I survived, you know,
an attack by a Kodiak bear or something.
Speaker 4: Okay, there are two of those two good bear attack stories. Really, yes,
that's I was like, that's why I'm here. That's that's
the get out the popcorn. I want to hear about
this guy getting scalped. This guy, this guy line up
a tree, this guy lost his whole scalp. Yeah, he
was in the hospital for six months. Like that's juicy.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I want to know how they survived.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what's so great about the podcast is because
they survived, so they can tell you about it. Right,
It's like they didn't die, so they're like tell you
every gritty detail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So why do they have to muddy it with
all these raps?
Speaker 3: I don't know, like the podcast would be so good
except that I'm telling you three out of four stories
about are about some poor woman who was the victim
of an intruder, and they.
Speaker 1: Were can you learn anything from them surviving those? Like
is there any nuggetive?
Speaker 4: So every at the end of every episode they say
to them, they say why how did you Why did
you survive? And they go, there, I survived because and
then it's always something really cheesy like I really wanted
to live.
Speaker 1: No shit, no shit, you're human.
Speaker 3: I survived because I did not want to die.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, as opposed to like, yeah, I have a
just a really strong I'm a strong woman.
Speaker 3: I just had a will to live. Shut up.
Speaker 1: I want to know, like hit them over the head
with a frying pan.
Speaker 3: A couple of them, well that's the thing.
Speaker 1: They made them away or do they know n sneak.
Speaker 3: Most of them? No, okay.
Speaker 4: I did listen to quite a few because I was like,
there has to be another reason besides me just listening
to this horrible story. And on a couple of them
they did like they would have their arms, like you know,
one woman was completely like duct taped, but she had
licked her lips before they duct taped her, and so
that there was some like moisture there, so it wasn't
sticking around her mouth, so she was able to like
there were a couple of them right where you're like, Okay,
I'm getting a little nugget, yeah, survival nugget out of this.
But most of them, know, most of them was just
like yeah, and then he finally got tired and like
let me go. It's like, God, why'd you survive?
Speaker 3: Just will to live?
Speaker 4: I guess like, and I'm not putting any I'm not
putting them down. I'm just saying you their takeaways weren't
really like at some point you'd think, like, maybe you
should stop asking. That shouldn't be the button to every
episode since yeah, most people don't have a good answer
for that. Like some people would be like because God
was just really with me that day, or because of
my because I was just like my kids, thinking about
my kids, like kept me like I was like I
am not going.
Speaker 3: To die today. But every episode is just like why
did you survive? I don't know. God loves me more.
Speaker 1: Right now? If you're going to do when I survive?
Have some tips, yes, like have some don't just be
just a full out you know, assault story from the
beginner and have some some tips on how did they
get out of.
Speaker 4: It behind Yes, yes, right, yeah, like number one bullet
points right, okay, number one if you're in a situation,
if you're lost at sea, here like this is what
we did and.
Speaker 1: It worked, right.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I got a tip I don't know, somebody sent it
to me on TikTok, a survival tip which I sent
to my kids, which is pretty interesting. They said, so
if you're like, if you're driving on a road trip
and you get lost, or you're hiking and you get
lot whatever it is, and there's no signal or your
battery is gonna die right before your battery dies, change
the outgoing message too. Hey it's Lynette and I'm on
the one thirty four. Oh god, this is where I'm
at and I'm running out of battery. And I was like,
this is genius for when you kids go to the
fucking Coachella. Yes, like, how about that if your phone's dying,
say hey, I'm a bathroom number twenty nine over at
the side stage of Yeah, that is such a great idea. Yeah, yeah,
that's the leave behind there you go that and serpentine.
Speaker 3: That would in my mind a lot I was.
Speaker 4: Likenett would have said, like, if you're being chased by
a gunman, right, Serpentine?
Speaker 1: My dad right, Yeah, my dad thought of it a lot.
M hmm.
Speaker 3: Okay, Lynette, we have just we've given too much good show.
I know, I agree they didn't deserve. Yes, that outgoing
message thing is gold.
Speaker 1: Isn't that great?
Speaker 3: That is a gold nugget?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but before we fully rap, let us let us
thank our Patreon people. Yes, let's thank every show. We
talk about Adam Lerner, who can get you a car.
Here's a tip.
Speaker 1: It's a good tip because it's hard to survive a
negotiation with a dealer, right.
Speaker 3: So Adam this is what he does. He deals with
the dealer so you don't have to.
Speaker 4: He also finds cars. He has ways of finding the cars,
and he knows everything about cars, and he is very blunt.
So like if you call him and you go, this
is the car I want, just know that, he may
be like, no, you don't. That's that's those are not
good cars.
Speaker 3: And here's you know, he might do that.
Speaker 4: You're like, no, that is the car I want. Then
he'll be like all right, I'll go for you and
go to Adams goot acar dot com and let him
be your broker. Also Ferncandle. That's our friend Kelsey. She
makes these yummy smelling candles My Fern Candle, very reasonably priced,
and just go to her website Ferncandle dot com and
get you a lavender sandalwood candle. Also, our friend Darcy
uses her business to amplify her brother Colin and sister
in law, Anna's The Get Up Show. It's a podcast
for younger people.
Speaker 1: Nice, you guys.
Speaker 3: Deserve a podcast too.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: They incorporate yoga and music and jokes and learning and
lots of fun and she says. Darcy says her daughters, who.
Speaker 4: Are seven and nine, love it and they listen in
the morning and at night. A lot of times kids
need a show to get up. But also like it's fun.
Speaker 3: For kids to listen to a pod. Yeah for bed, Yeah,
that's fun.
Speaker 4: Also, our friend Christine has Waves and Wonder Travel and
she her Facebook is Christine Concierge Travel Planner. But if
that's a mouthful for you, go to her insta which
is travel with Christine b. So Waves and Wonder Travel
you can look that up. And I'm missing one which
is oh our friend Sergio. He does like he does.
Speaker 3: What do you call it?
Speaker 1: Charity? And his is the ASPCA. I love it, which
is great.
Speaker 4: And you know what I feel like. Carrie Kibler is
not on here anymore, but she was and her charity,
which I'm just going to do anyway, was the Trevor Project,
which I just think is a really important charity charity.
Speaker 1: So go look it up and read about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Drunkish is out.
Speaker 4: Drunkish is out in paperback. Please grab a copy of
Drunkish And thanks everybody.
Speaker 3: We love you.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: You're a parent now, don't have for us.
Speaker 1: It's good
Speaker 2: Letting