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Speaker 1: tuning in.
Speaker 2: It's not the Halloween Show, it is not.
Speaker 1: It is not. It's in fact, our last show of
Speaker 1: the year is this is what we look like. I'm
Speaker 1: Laura Kane. In case you can't look at can't figure
Speaker 1: out who I am. This is Eric Rimmer. Hello, we
Speaker 1: have producer Brian behind the mine. All right, Okay, So
Speaker 1: we did our terrible Timu Christmas Exchange our last episode, okay,
Speaker 1: and we cut it off before Brian made his final
Speaker 1: decision on who bought who the worst of the worst
Speaker 1: that Tumu has to offer. Let me just finish this
Speaker 1: off by saying, I bought each of us one of these.
Speaker 1: They're fake and you just blow on them, so it
Speaker 1: looks like you're smoking.
Speaker 3: Oh my golly, what what where does the smoke come from?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but but I thought that they were funny.
Speaker 2: They're not probably gonna drop that, but.
Speaker 1: This goes with the actually both of your outfits, they're
Speaker 1: going they just want to know where the smoke's I
Speaker 1: don't really know, and it kind of has like a
Speaker 1: light at the end of it. Maybe that's all the smoke,
Speaker 1: but anyway, so there's that. So anyway, there we go, Darling. Okay, Darling,
Speaker 1: So Brian, oh, maybe we should show our get up,
Speaker 1: both of us at the same time or.
Speaker 3: One at a time.
Speaker 1: Okay, just a quick standards ladies first, okay, now be advised.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing sea through and both the boys said it
Speaker 1: was okay.
Speaker 3: I think it's okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's as close to your vagina that I'm ever
Speaker 2: as I'm ever gonna out.
Speaker 1: And then my nails and then my and okay, that's
Speaker 1: my outfit, thank you very much. Oh yeah, Eric's Eric's
Speaker 1: gift to me. Now it's Mary, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Now it's all like.
Speaker 3: The smoke.
Speaker 1: All right, Oh yeah, baby.
Speaker 3: Honestly, the cigarettes really selling it for him.
Speaker 1: He's wearing his boots. You don't want to do that, Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: Producer Brian, let.
Speaker 3: Me give a quick break down of what I thought
Speaker 3: both you guys did good. Okay, Eric, I think you
Speaker 3: really nailed it with the feet shoes. I think those
Speaker 3: are hilarious. Those are really gross. I think the the
Speaker 3: shirt's great too. And I think the combination of the
Speaker 3: wig and the glasses works really well. But it almost
Speaker 3: works too well because they look too normal where they
Speaker 3: actually just seem really fitting. Now Laura's is not out more.
Speaker 3: What Laura's gift for Eric is not as outrageous. But
Speaker 3: there's a couple of things that I think work. One
Speaker 3: is it all of Eric's lake hair sticks past the
Speaker 3: fish that's and it's very obvious.
Speaker 1: It's coming out of every single square.
Speaker 3: Also, the mulletwig works really well, and it is pretty outrageous.
Speaker 3: And I think that don't talk to me on wearing
Speaker 3: crabs or I have crab shirt is really good. But
Speaker 3: I think the shirt Laura's wearing is also very good.
Speaker 3: Ants are definitely interesting get up, but they're not as
Speaker 3: outrage as I thought they're gonna because her underwear is
Speaker 3: actually pretty. It's actually a little scary. But yeah, so
Speaker 3: I think the person that's gonna be walking in Vond's
Speaker 3: is gonna be Eric.
Speaker 2: Now I demand a recount.
Speaker 3: I just recounted anyways. Now, the reason it works, the
Speaker 3: reason the reason I chudge you, Eric, is because what
Speaker 3: Laura has crafted is a pretty good story of what
Speaker 3: looks like a really sad retired stripper. Oh me, right now, No,
Speaker 3: he looks like a sad retired.
Speaker 1: Stripper, like like a male escort.
Speaker 3: Especially him sitting here with his fishnets in his booty shorts.
Speaker 3: I just in the crab shirt. It just really works
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is the best day. This is
Speaker 1: the best Christmas gift you could have gotten me. Brian.
Speaker 3: Now, ideally I think both of you guys should go
Speaker 3: to Bonds in your outfits though, because it's that it's
Speaker 3: that close to being a tie.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: I was gonna call it tie initially, but I figured
Speaker 3: I probably should have a winner. But I think both
Speaker 3: of you guys should go.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about that. I'm good with that. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good with that on one condition, no conditions. You
Speaker 1: just have to do it that once again, Brian, you
Speaker 1: pronounce say, Laura Kane, you won the contest.
Speaker 3: Congrats everybody, it's a tie.
Speaker 1: No you said no, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Laura you won? All right?
Speaker 3: So I am not filming you guys when you get
Speaker 3: the Vonds.
Speaker 1: Okay, who is going to do it?
Speaker 3: You guys will figure that I will not be seen
Speaker 3: within the same distance of you guys. I'm standing outside
Speaker 3: the Bonds.
Speaker 1: Were counting on you.
Speaker 3: Film it selfie style. I do not want to be
Speaker 3: seen next to you guys at Vons.
Speaker 1: This on our You have to do this on our own.
Speaker 2: I'll get it.
Speaker 3: I'll get a couple of shots. You guys, I'm not
Speaker 3: following you around like I'm part of a cat and
Speaker 3: her crew. Hell no, oh my god, that's too embarrassed.
Speaker 1: God. Oh all right, now now we have to talk
Speaker 1: about I'm taking off this get up for now, okay,
Speaker 1: because I want to get you.
Speaker 2: Have a question for Brian, Wait, what if if Laura
Speaker 2: wore the elephant pants? Because we can always do we
Speaker 2: can always make her change because she's the one that
Speaker 2: picked this outfit. But I gave her three.
Speaker 1: Oh, so.
Speaker 2: I would like you to change into the elephant pants.
Speaker 3: Now. I will admit I thought the elephant pants are
Speaker 3: pretty funny, so maybe that would change my mind. But
Speaker 3: the reason I think what what Laura picked out for
Speaker 3: you is so good is because it really sells me
Speaker 3: on this kind of white trash stripper vibe.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, oh man, wow, that is I do think
Speaker 2: you should wear.
Speaker 3: I think you should wear that to Vaughan's well, partially
Speaker 3: because it's freezing outside.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I know it won't be freezing.
Speaker 3: I don't ask.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get cold. I'm gonna I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna put my pants back on.
Speaker 1: No you're not, No, you're not. We are going through
Speaker 1: with this, but I need to change out. Okay. Now, look,
Speaker 1: we have a very important sponsor who deserves respect, and
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna wear now. I know this
Speaker 1: shirt and this get up to do the commerce.
Speaker 2: You want to just put a towel over you.
Speaker 3: They knew what they were signing up for.
Speaker 1: I think they knew a full force and I know
Speaker 1: what it all. I'll turn this shirt around.
Speaker 2: Why don't you just put a jacket over you? Oh?
Speaker 2: Good grief.
Speaker 3: I do feel bad for Eric. These gotta go out
Speaker 3: in the cold with fish nets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very fragile.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I wouldn't do that. I would be
Speaker 3: a I'd be a pain in the butt. Say no
Speaker 3: and just no, I'm not. Yeah, I wouldn't blame you.
Speaker 1: This is fun.
Speaker 3: What's on your back, Laura? You have roast beef on
Speaker 3: your backside?
Speaker 2: Now here?
Speaker 1: Okay, you can take yours off so you can be
Speaker 1: that that wig is.
Speaker 3: That wig is really good? That that was part of
Speaker 3: it for me. That's that's kind of sold out.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Mine was better.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're getting.
Speaker 3: Realistically, it was a tie, but I had to name
Speaker 3: somebody and you won last year. Eric, I think Laura's
Speaker 3: edged you out just a little bit. But it was
Speaker 3: really close. It was a nail.
Speaker 1: It was a nail bier. Ooh that's good. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. Oh of course, of course I knew it.
Speaker 1: It would be some legal she would complain to.
Speaker 2: I know, I would have never heard out of it.
Speaker 1: It would have been you wouldn't have heard the end
Speaker 1: of it. No, you would not have.
Speaker 2: No, you would have bitched and moaned about it for
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Speaker 1: So now I thought what we would do is we
Speaker 1: would end the year because this is our last show
Speaker 1: of the year. You guys, we had a big freaking year.
Speaker 1: It was a lot twenty twenty four. Now, how about
Speaker 1: well each go around the room first, and I want
Speaker 1: you each to give me one word describing twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four for you as a whole. Okay, just based on tonight, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: as all as a whole. Like if you're looking back
Speaker 1: on the year, who wants to go first?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put this cigarette out in your eye.
Speaker 1: You're just bitter because you lost, you lost wholehard, or
Speaker 1: you go first?
Speaker 3: It's your show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, one word comes to mind, But then some
Speaker 1: things that happen that make me not want to say
Speaker 1: this word, but I'm going to say it anyway, because
Speaker 1: it was twenty twenty four. I'm going to say and
Speaker 1: this doesn't necessarily mean all bad struggle.
Speaker 3: That's your word every year this year, even.
Speaker 1: In a lot of different ways. Yeah, but because of it,
Speaker 1: a lot of good has come from it. So that's
Speaker 1: why I want to say that word. It's the first
Speaker 1: word that popped into my head, and so that's my word.
Speaker 1: But we're going to talk about more about our twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four What about you?
Speaker 2: Gratitude?
Speaker 1: I love that, always always have that. That's the way
Speaker 1: to live one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say direction, but I can't explain any of.
Speaker 1: It because the things under happening or okay.
Speaker 3: I love that, things in motion. We'll see if they
Speaker 3: come to fruition.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Okay. Now, I also
Speaker 1: asked you guys to give me your twenty twenty four highlights.
Speaker 2: So I took up smoking.
Speaker 1: How is it you're taking to it?
Speaker 3: It's great? Yeah, I mean it's really.
Speaker 2: I've already got the cop so I know you.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, I don't know. Maybe put some Christmas
Speaker 1: music under this because I'll I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: my twenty twenty four highlights. I'll start and then you
Speaker 1: guys can piggyback off. Oh, thank you, thank you. As
Speaker 1: I'm about to start, he gives me one final yawn
Speaker 1: for the year. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Got on you a cigarette too. Now gotta deal with Laura.
Speaker 2: Oh god.
Speaker 1: Highlights of my twenty twenty four Charlie getting married to
Speaker 1: Maya in July was a huge one. That was a biggie.
Speaker 1: Learning how to be a TV videographer from a helicopter
Speaker 1: was really are in cool, coolest job, one of the
Speaker 1: coolest jobs ever, I think. The Jeff and Jerry reunion
Speaker 1: and the award we received over the summer was a
Speaker 1: biggie because we haven't all been together since twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: and that was awesome. Evan and her boyfriend, who I
Speaker 1: met for the first time this summer coming to stay
Speaker 1: with us for a few weeks and it was just
Speaker 1: a beautiful time. I loved it, spending two separate weekends
Speaker 1: with my mom and Anti Doodoo. They're both eighty three
Speaker 1: and they I spent time with them in Oregon in
Speaker 1: time with them in Palm Desert, and I just I
Speaker 1: love listening to them their wisdom and what they've been
Speaker 1: through and just their their take on life. And I
Speaker 1: also love the fact that when I went to a
Speaker 1: casino with them when I was in Palm Desert, I
Speaker 1: won twenty three hundred dollars on the Frankenstein Machine. What
Speaker 1: very much? Told?
Speaker 2: I know? I didn't And how much should you walk
Speaker 2: out of there with all of it?
Speaker 3: What'd you buy?
Speaker 1: Uh? Car payment?
Speaker 3: Rent?
Speaker 1: I didn't buy anything fun, I didn't buy anything, I know,
Speaker 1: but it was like a blessing. But that's good anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh my hammock. I bought a hammock this year. I
Speaker 1: love that thing. I'm out there every day on that
Speaker 1: did I'm sorry, did my seventeen year token? That was
Speaker 1: a big eie. I get it again, well the eighteen
Speaker 1: year in March, god willing and and I love the
Speaker 1: fact that my brother put all these old eight not
Speaker 1: not even eight track when I was like a baby.
Speaker 1: What kind of film was it? Yes, he put those
Speaker 1: on DVDs for us and we got to watch me
Speaker 1: as a baby and my sister there is a baby,
Speaker 1: and just the funny things my brother used to video, like,
Speaker 1: he used to make these movies and stuff with his friends.
Speaker 1: That was just a highlight. We all sat together as
Speaker 1: a family and watched him and oh fun, it was beautiful.
Speaker 1: So those are some of my twenty twenty four highlights.
Speaker 1: And of course work and I still love what I
Speaker 1: do so much, and I'm just so glad I get
Speaker 1: to still do it. So I was very that was
Speaker 1: made very happy.
Speaker 2: Excellent. What about you twenty four?
Speaker 1: What are your highlights for twenty twenty four?
Speaker 3: Cigarettes?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Who says they're bad for you?
Speaker 3: Worth it?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: Am I right?
Speaker 1: Because you look really cool?
Speaker 2: Listen, you look so the.
Speaker 3: Biggest lie we tried to tell kids this smoking isn't
Speaker 3: cool because smoking is very cool. It's just also bad
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: Who wouldn't look great in Let's.
Speaker 1: Get up, okay go, you're look at he's giving me
Speaker 1: douvile eyes because he's pissed he lost.
Speaker 2: Can't believe I lost.
Speaker 1: Just give me your pilots twenty four The podcast, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. We had a great year.
Speaker 2: I love coming to work and seeing Brian every Monday.
Speaker 2: Oh I like that.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't I wouldn't come if it wasn't for Eric.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow.
Speaker 2: I love you so much and I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bryan. No, and I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: I love you to death.
Speaker 1: I love you more.
Speaker 2: You are inching your way back up to that number
Speaker 2: one spot and slowly but like the little edge and
Speaker 2: the could one spot right? Yeah, well now she's at
Speaker 2: like the fifth wrong on.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm I went down because the last week
Speaker 1: you took. I'm coming back.
Speaker 2: Up to work. I love my job and I love
Speaker 2: the people I work with and then my you know,
Speaker 2: chosen family. I love all love you so yes, and
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for my health for sure.
Speaker 1: And the fun trip she took.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fun trips I took. If I had to
Speaker 2: go out a loope. Yes, yes, and then I'm kicking
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five off with the bang. I'm going to Portovierta.
Speaker 2: Oh fun birthday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh his birthday January eighth.
Speaker 3: Everybody sixty three, make sixty three.
Speaker 2: I'm just three years older than Laura.
Speaker 3: Oh, you were three years younger than her.
Speaker 1: Guys are gonna get it, freaking get it.
Speaker 3: Laura will be the big seven.
Speaker 1: Oh oh shut it, wait, Brian, we can't wait.
Speaker 2: To be in that big bed with you.
Speaker 1: Ow Oh, that'll be fun. What that's not going to
Speaker 1: be for many many years? Please?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know if it's that far away. On
Speaker 3: guys are getting up there. This is a happened this year.
Speaker 3: My sister got married. That was cool. Went to Turks
Speaker 3: and Caicos, that was fun.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of a lot of just stuff happened.
Speaker 3: So good stuff, uh, some good, some bad?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you learn from the bad stuff? You did?
Speaker 1: You learn lessons from the bad stuff.
Speaker 3: Sometimes some of the stuff you don't learn from. It's
Speaker 3: just stuff that happens. Okay, So yeah, we'll see how
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five is. Twenty four was a it was
Speaker 3: a interesting one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now what are you guys hoping for in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five? I know Eric doesn't make resolutions, so I don't.
Speaker 1: We can't do we can't go there. And I, you know,
Speaker 1: I think about the just your typical want to eat better.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on a schedule, but I I just
Speaker 1: I literally can't get on a schedule because of the
Speaker 1: way my work is right now. It's a little topsy turvy.
Speaker 1: But uh, I really for twenty twenty five, I truly
Speaker 1: feel like I want to think about finding somebody to
Speaker 1: share my libel.
Speaker 3: You should make that for twenty six too. It's gonna
Speaker 3: take a while.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to start in twenty I have. I
Speaker 1: got to tell you, I have not thought about dating
Speaker 1: or being with somebody because my brain is so full
Speaker 1: of other things that I'm worried about or I have
Speaker 1: to do, or work wise or home wise. That hasn't
Speaker 1: even crossed my mind, which is not good. Like you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time I've been like touched
Speaker 1: romantically by anybody. Romantically that's so romantically, man, put that cigarette,
Speaker 1: put that thing out.
Speaker 2: If you wear that here's the roast beef shirt.
Speaker 1: I get, Oh please, I don't know how I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it, but we're going to figure it out on
Speaker 1: the podcast too, going to be part of the podcast.
Speaker 2: I should get a relationship specialist.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, well I want to like kick off. Maybe,
Speaker 1: oh maybe we'll get Natalie Valeen.
Speaker 2: Okay, and then we'll get.
Speaker 1: A relationship nowly Vail is a resident psychic who she's amazing.
Speaker 1: She can kick off the year and tell us what
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five holds? Yeah, what about you? What are you?
Speaker 1: What are you hoping for in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Okay, you just screwed up your bullet?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's on your backward.
Speaker 1: It is on backwards. It looks dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're gonna look like it looks like.
Speaker 1: Like one of those little late those ladies I have
Speaker 1: like hairdews.
Speaker 3: You look like a Karen you do too.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna wear it like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually kind of better.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna wear it like this because it's
Speaker 2: all fucked up in the back. What what did you wan?
Speaker 1: Wow? Now I have to mark that's explicit. Thank you,
Speaker 1: it's a really nice thing.
Speaker 3: Sorry, we've been getting so clean. No, and then Eric
Speaker 3: says something that ruins it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, what what was it?
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Traveling? Uh? The podcast? Basically what I looked at forward
Speaker 2: to A four.
Speaker 1: Okay, because you had such a roaring year, a great year,
Speaker 1: you're going to do it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna quit smoking, ok after.
Speaker 1: Taking it up.
Speaker 2: I took it up five seconds ago, and I'm gonna quit.
Speaker 1: Brian.
Speaker 3: I look forward to joining Eric on his smoke breaks
Speaker 3: and reminding him to stay in a good fight, keep smoking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love I love your support, Brian. Thank you well.
Speaker 3: Tough times are coming. You gotta make sure you stay
Speaker 3: strong through though. Yeah, don't give up the things that
Speaker 3: are important to you. Yeah, fight for him. I don't know,
Speaker 3: we'll see it. We'll see go one way, they could
Speaker 3: go the other. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: They're going to be great, hope. So yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: If they won't, I'm jumping off a bridge.
Speaker 1: You know how, if you know how a sensitive and
Speaker 1: you know how i'm sort of you know, I'm almost
Speaker 1: every night. Well, okay, speaking of this, I kind of
Speaker 1: want to I want to tell you why now, especially
Speaker 1: more than ever, I'm full of gratitude. Last week we
Speaker 1: did on the Iheartstations our Rady Children's Hospital Givethon, which
Speaker 1: is like two days, and we interview families that have
Speaker 1: kids that are have gone through cancer, kids that have
Speaker 1: had terrible accidents, or kids that are born with heart defects.
Speaker 1: And it's, you know, it's it's beautiful and it's heart
Speaker 1: wrenching and it's touching at the same time. And I
Speaker 1: always tell the story about Charlie because he was saved
Speaker 1: by Rady Children's Hospital. Now this year, I did something
Speaker 1: a little different. I wanted to tell my story kind
Speaker 1: of in a different way because I've told it so
Speaker 1: many times. I thought, I'm going to try to do
Speaker 1: this differently. So I called my ex husband and I
Speaker 1: wanted to get his take on the events that happened,
Speaker 1: because some of the things I feel like I either
Speaker 1: have blurred out or I was so out of it
Speaker 1: because I had just had surgery myself that I didn't
Speaker 1: I wasn't fully aware of all the things, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to get his view. Oh my god, he reminded me,
Speaker 1: I I'm going to read something to you because I
Speaker 1: I wrote it down because I didn't want to forget it.
Speaker 1: We entered the doors of Rady Children's Hospital before my
Speaker 1: son was born. After an ultrasoundtech blurted out, I can't
Speaker 1: find the baby's head when I was five months pregnant.
Speaker 1: He wasn't supposed to say anything. You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: say anything when you're at sonogram tech. But he couldn't
Speaker 1: find and then he goes, so I can't say anything else.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to see a doctor or I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be here Monday. This is for Friday. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: here Monday if you want an abortion. So I went
Speaker 1: a full week We went a full weekend thinking we
Speaker 1: had a baby that had no head and was we
Speaker 1: were going to have to have an abortion. So I
Speaker 1: blurred all of that out. I don't remember that at all,
Speaker 1: and uh wow, that got to me. Then, thanks to
Speaker 1: the guidance of doctor Drossman, who delivered both Evan and Charlie.
Speaker 1: I love that man to death, we went to Raidy
Speaker 1: Children's Hospital to see a surgeon named doctor David Collins,
Speaker 1: and when we got there he gave us a glimmer
Speaker 1: of hope because he says, oh, no, your son. He
Speaker 1: didn't say your son because I didn't want to know
Speaker 1: the sex. He says, the baby has a head, but
Speaker 1: what has happened is he is his insights are growing
Speaker 1: on the outside of his body as a hole in
Speaker 1: his abdomen, and part of his liver is out too.
Speaker 1: But he was very matter of fact and he showed
Speaker 1: us like these diagrams in charge. He goes, it's not uncommon,
Speaker 1: this happens, and I've done a lot of these surgeries.
Speaker 1: And he made us feel so much better and wonderful.
Speaker 2: And I can't imagine hearing that you're unborn.
Speaker 1: Child's that baby doesn't have a head.
Speaker 2: Well, and that that are supposed to be inside them
Speaker 2: or on the outside.
Speaker 3: Like a plot twister. He's like, no, no, don't worry. The
Speaker 3: head's fine. It's the organs you gotta worry about.
Speaker 1: Right, I know. But you know, at least, thank god
Speaker 1: we had that appointment when we did, rather than you know,
Speaker 1: go through with some the horrible yeah, something I can't
Speaker 1: really even imagine doing. So my water broke early, a
Speaker 1: month early, and that was on Martin Luther King Junior day,
Speaker 1: so everybody has that day off, right. Thank god it
Speaker 1: happened early. Enough in the morning, we raced to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Doctor David Collins was on duty, so he was there
Speaker 1: to do the surgery. They took him out of my stomach.
Speaker 1: They wrapped him up real quick and just went ooop
Speaker 1: and showed him to me super quick, and then they
Speaker 1: pushed him. They put him through this window to awaiting
Speaker 1: more nurses on the other side who wrapped him up
Speaker 1: and got him all ready and put him in a
Speaker 1: little gurney, a baby gurney, because between mary Birch and
Speaker 1: Rady Children's Hospital there's a tunnel, and they took the
Speaker 1: baby from mary Birch to Rady Children's Hospital through this tunnel.
Speaker 1: And my ex was telling me, he goes because he
Speaker 1: went with Charlie and the doctors through the tunnel. And
Speaker 1: I go, what was that? Because I didn't I was,
Speaker 1: and he goes, it was they weren't. They were. They
Speaker 1: were cool by not saying anything that was giving me
Speaker 1: bad vibes. But I noticed that we went faster and
Speaker 1: faster and faster, and soon we were running because Charlie
Speaker 1: was code blue. He goes, I don't know what that meant,
Speaker 1: but we found that later he was dying, and he goes,
Speaker 1: the way that the tunnel was, there was like light
Speaker 1: that would come shining in and that'd be dark light dark,
Speaker 1: and he goes. All I remember was like fast light,
Speaker 1: dark light dark. And I'm telling you, hearing his take
Speaker 1: on it affected me so much this year, more than ever.
Speaker 1: And I feel like my whole entire body felt the
Speaker 1: trauma again because I don't think I fully have processed it.
Speaker 1: Because then he came around, he came along, he had
Speaker 1: the surgery. This is what he looked like the first
Speaker 1: time I saw him. Wow, this is what Charlie looked
Speaker 1: like the very first time I saw him. He was bloated,
Speaker 1: he was red, He had tubes and wires sticking out
Speaker 1: of every orifice. He had a breathing tube. And you
Speaker 1: know the breathing machines, they go up and down little babies,
Speaker 1: they go super fast, that's how fast they're breathing. And
Speaker 1: I remember the little breathing machine, and I remember, this
Speaker 1: is to what he looked like. And I remember I
Speaker 1: went down deep and I said, I knew because the
Speaker 1: nurses and the doctors there were always so positive. I said, hi, Charlie,
Speaker 1: And one of his little swollen eyes opened up and
Speaker 1: looked at me, and I was like, he's gonna be fine. Then, Charlie,
Speaker 1: when we brought him home ten days later, he had
Speaker 1: to have two surgeries after that and a lot of
Speaker 1: genetic testing because they thought he might have some syndrome
Speaker 1: look like this. Nobody wanted to hold him. He was
Speaker 1: really scary looking and he's just so cute, but he
Speaker 1: was really really redburn. He was so red people were
Speaker 1: afraid to hold him. Ah. But then I go. Then
Speaker 1: he turned out to look like this. Okay, no, I
Speaker 1: spilled water on it.
Speaker 3: He still looks and then.
Speaker 1: The creme de la creme. Then he got married, and
Speaker 1: there he is at twenty four years old, six foot five, handsome, beautiful, healthy.
Speaker 2: And I got it, sweetest guy.
Speaker 1: He is just the you know what Charlie Kane has.
Speaker 1: I know this sounds weird and like woo woo, like
Speaker 1: I get, but I'm telling you what, Charlie Kane has
Speaker 1: touched the other side. He has. He's died, he doesn't
Speaker 1: remember it, but there is a knowing in his eyes
Speaker 1: that you that am I can see and you just
Speaker 1: feel it from him. He's like such an old soul,
Speaker 1: like he's he knows more than he doesn't realize it,
Speaker 1: but I'm so in this year. I'm so grateful that
Speaker 1: he's alive and he made it, and I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: the hospital. I'm grateful that we do this giveth on
Speaker 1: every year because the money you donated goes to those
Speaker 1: little tubes, goes to those little wife they had, like
Speaker 1: these little tiny stickers that held his little tubes in place.
Speaker 1: Money goes for like buying little things like that, stuff
Speaker 1: to make the parents happy. And so anyway, I'm just
Speaker 1: super I'm feeling super grateful too. And of course Evan
Speaker 1: was born, she was perfect and thank God and no
Speaker 1: problems with her. And she's in her struggle year this
Speaker 1: year at Fordham University. She's making it on her own.
Speaker 1: She's working full time, she's schooling full time. She's commuting
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn to Manhattan every day. She's going through it
Speaker 1: and it's cold there. So she's like called me a
Speaker 1: couple of times in tears, you know, like these streets
Speaker 1: are so hard, and I can't wait to come home.
Speaker 1: And so she comes home on the twenty third, so
Speaker 1: I get to see my baby, and I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just filled with love and gratitude and I love everybody
Speaker 1: for just being part of our podcast family. It means
Speaker 1: so much to us that you listen and watch like.
Speaker 1: We do this because we love it and we love
Speaker 1: each other and we have so much fun. But we
Speaker 1: also do it because we hope that we provide an
Speaker 1: escape for you from any of the stresses that you
Speaker 1: might be going through and hopefully make you laugh, you know,
Speaker 1: and smile, and so that's that's our purpose, I think. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to share that and.
Speaker 2: Glad you did.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I love you. You're the best mom.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, I've seen better but not bad.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Now, like.
Speaker 1: On that note, we're gonna end. We're going to end
Speaker 1: the year, the podcast year. I do not want to
Speaker 1: go to Valinsar right now. I don't, but we gotta
Speaker 1: do it. We got to follow through. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 3: But we'll put it off the next year. I do
Speaker 3: feel bad.
Speaker 2: It's like really cold outside, freezing, and look I look
Speaker 2: like a whore.
Speaker 3: It's like actually like in the low fifties right now outside.
Speaker 1: You're putting out on me.
Speaker 2: You're the one that pussed out first.
Speaker 3: You get to wear pajama pants too comfortable. He's got
Speaker 3: fish nets.
Speaker 2: I'm going to put a speed order in on Timo.
Speaker 3: Or whatever you saying it'll take four weeks instead of eight.
Speaker 1: I know, right, all right, well we'll take pictures regardless.
Speaker 1: And anyway, I love you so much.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being on this ride with me for freaking
Speaker 1: five years and going I know, five and a half
Speaker 1: years and a half years.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: We started on your bed.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: And Brian, you're adding you was the biggest It was
Speaker 1: freaking depends on who your miracle. That's true, That is
Speaker 1: not a lie.
Speaker 2: Thank you for responding to Laura's personal ad.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3: And you know what, I only clicked on because I
Speaker 3: saw the name Laura Kanaan. What a mistake that was.
Speaker 1: You had no idea, didn't you?
Speaker 2: Oh fabulous?
Speaker 1: No, I can't believe.
Speaker 3: It now I'm just glad to be here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're fucking fabulous.
Speaker 1: Oh would you? Now I'm telling the story of Charlie,
Speaker 1: and now I have to mark this explicit because of
Speaker 1: your beast language.
Speaker 3: Let's also remember the Keanu Reef saga, and it happened
Speaker 3: this year. I totally forgot about that O Bard poster.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: Inwenty five. Actually may see him come in here right now.
Speaker 3: I would put money on Now.
Speaker 1: What why are you starting ball dropper? My balls haven't
Speaker 1: dropped it. Oh my god, whatever that was years ago? Yeah? Whatever?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, is there anything any want to say
Speaker 1: in closing? Or have I said it all?
Speaker 2: I fucking love the hell out of you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jesus, Wow.
Speaker 3: My young young ears are bleeding. Yeah profanity.
Speaker 2: I love you, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: My head's about I love you too. I love you too,
Speaker 1: I do I do. Shut it now, no more bad words.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, that's it for I think you love this
Speaker 2: one twenty four.
Speaker 1: This is that's it for twenty twenty four. Guys. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with a bang in the beginning of January,
Speaker 1: don't you worry.
Speaker 2: And by bang we mean Laurea will be getting.
Speaker 1: Some I hope so well.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we got a nailed down strategy for that.
Speaker 1: I know, we do. We will. I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: That thing is going to get some action.
Speaker 1: Stop it. Oh my god, I just turned I turned
Speaker 1: around my shirt, thank god. Okay. Anyway, on that note, gosh,
Speaker 1: we love you guys, Thank you so much for supporting
Speaker 1: us and love of your podcast.
Speaker 2: God, Merry freaking Christmas.
Speaker 3: He's so cool.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he does, he think because he's never smoked
Speaker 1: with cool.
Speaker 3: We should go get a pack of cigarettes after this
Speaker 3: and let him just like throw up immediately.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh I totally throw up.
Speaker 1: No, come on, no, we're not doing that, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, Merry Christmas, Okay, yes.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Yeah, and happy New Year and all that
Speaker 1: and all your dreams come true and hold gratitude in
Speaker 1: your heart always.
Speaker 2: Absolutely marry, marry, Merry Christmas. And oh love your podcast.
Speaker 1: I love you, my sweet babies so much, so much
Speaker 1: it hurts ma. Love you guys.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.
Speaker 1: Next year.