Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Face Sunny Sun on Ihad Vision.
Speaker 3: What's my.
Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?
Speaker 3: It's for crying out loud. We got a special guest
and studio, very exciting show.
Speaker 4: This is just like an add on, Yes, drop by,
it's a holiday.
Speaker 3: Day we're recording, so we brought a family member in
a very bipopular demand.
Speaker 1: I'm a family member, Yes you are, You're my son.
Speaker 4: It's Xander Taylor.
Speaker 3: Everybody, that's right, Xander Taylor from the son of Deranduran
John Taylor. Yep, Hi, Xander, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming in, Thanks for clearing your schedule world
to come in today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we really appreciately busy I had to fit
this in.
Speaker 4: So we asked Sander if he wanted to like say
hi to our people. Yeah, he's gonna do his best
not to butcher it.
Speaker 1: Go for it all right. Here's the squad we got.
Oh my god, what's.
Speaker 2: The first I'm just gonna call you, Rachel newcomer because
I heard I heard them say that.
Speaker 1: Fine, Randy may Ames was up? Was up?
Speaker 2: Lori Gory? Oh my god, Nikki, what's your last name?
Nikkier Colliery Ashley? She Chic Ashley chic sheic as fucked
she she gos fuck Leslie Acosta, right, Jacob Crowley, Yeah,
Rita Bassett Bassie it close enough.
Speaker 1: That's good. It's okay. You have a new name. You're good,
all right. Hero. Yeah, that's all you need to say
is Hero. Everybody Hero.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows you except for me. Yeah, nice to meet you, Hero.
Elizabeth Williamson. That would be really embarrassing if I got
that wrong. She has a lot of kids. Yeah, you
have a lot of kids. Athena insured Polly, Polly Butterfield.
It's a cool name. Yeah, Valerie, Valerie Bub, I'm just
calling I'm calling you Valerie Bub.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Cat Katrina is her name, Katerina Moeler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, alright, alright, just do your best. There's a lot
of pressure on because that's okay. You're doing great.
Speaker 2: Gabrielle all right. I'm just not gonna ask questions. Gabby fun,
Gabby Fonseca, Hey, Missy Schaeffer.
Speaker 1: Sean, I'm just gonna call you. Hey, he knows who
we a. We all know you, Sean, even I know you, Sean.
Speaker 2: Rebecca Lubin, Kelly Brandt, She's so cute, I'm gonna take
your word for it.
Speaker 1: Kelly Brandt, she's your aunt. She'll take you to him
like this name, You're.
Speaker 2: Ready for this? Alicia Escalante and then Leslie Leslie wike
Off and then Sarah Stefano. He's like, oh my god,
Jennifer falls. Yeah, she falls all the time. I first
stop falling. Hey is christ he Sandra Green? I bet
you don't fallow as much as Jennifer. Krista stroop. It's
telling me to say you make me want a stroop
even know what that means. And I'm sorry Christa, Stephanie
Stinker Wrinker.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, sad, good job. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, squad, what's up, so Xander? I got some questions?
Speaker 1: You're ready? Yeah, I got some answers.
Speaker 3: You're very funny. Do you think you get your humor
from your mom or your dad? Because your dad I
hung out with over the weekend and he's pretty funny too.
Speaker 1: Are you sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm positive he was cracking us up between me and
that's funnier.
Speaker 1: M hmm. I think Pipo's really funny. He does want
to answer that?
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, I can't. I can't answer it. Mom, what
what is it? I got another question? What is it
like having a celebrity mom?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Is it annoying when like people come up to you
and want, like they want a picture with her and
get autographs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: No, it's only when they go to find her instagram.
Oh like, okay, y'all, okay, take a breather. I've had
to clean out my instagram.
Speaker 4: Oh really, and Sadie, they're both they just get embarrassed
by stuff because you know we in your instagram. If
you go all the way back in my instagram, you
just told a lot of pictures of them when they
were little.
Speaker 1: Oh you didn't like that, well, it told her to
take those down. I told her to take them down. Look,
I'm a I'm a teen.
Speaker 2: I can't have I can't have my people seeing those pictures.
Your squad, my squad, and I have to be like, okay,
my mom has a transgender profile picture just because she's
an ally.
Speaker 1: She's an ally.
Speaker 2: Yoh you mean to like the people that, like, I
haven't told yet. I'm like, guys, there's nothing wrong with
being in LA. It's Pride month now, well not anymore.
Speaker 1: It's like July.
Speaker 2: What Yeah, it's about to be July fourth. Guys, there's
even an American flag in here. I feel so patriotic
right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean I'm an ally, but I don't.
I'm not like advertising anything about my family. It's mostly me.
I'm pretty narcissistic self center.
Speaker 1: Do you take pictures with your mom?
Speaker 3: Like, because my kids, well, Sonny lets me, but Natalia no,
I can never take a selfie with her.
Speaker 2: I mean, mom just hates me, so she doesn't really
ask to take photos.
Speaker 1: I'll take pictures with you, mom, right.
Speaker 4: I In fact, I took a really cute picture of
him the other day, but I would I know better
than to even say, like, can I post this on
my Facebook? Because I know he'd be like probably not right,
But I and I always have to get everybody's permission
if I take a group photo, like if we're at
dinner together and I want to show a push of
all of us, right, I always have to say like, yeah,
I just usually let you you just I'm gonna be
real to all the fans.
Speaker 2: Mom doesn't take great photos. What that doesn't surprise me,
doesn't surprise anyone.
Speaker 3: Sander, We're old, We're not good at like selfies and.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty good. But he's a photographer, so oh,
I'd sayasy it right. He likes taking photos, he likes
he likes photos, he likes cameras.
Speaker 1: Xandra is good at a lot of things.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've heard, yes, and pretty talented. I am fascinated
at the fact that you taught yourself how to play guitar, bassic.
Speaker 1: Guitar guitar, Yeah, off of YouTube.
Speaker 3: So you just picked it up and started like looking
at videos and tell us what the.
Speaker 4: Process was because you originally, well, let's be real, Sadie
wanted to play guitar, so you were like, so do I.
So we got you guys an acoustic guitar and then
it sat around for a while and then what happened
And Dad had said this was during COVID, and Dad
had said, I'll get you guys lessons and then you
take it from here.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Duran, Duran bought a guitar during COVID. You'll
call him like John from Deranduran, right, Yeah, okay, so
he bought he bought a like acoustic guitar. Also, I
had been wanting to play for like a long time.
It wasn't just like, yes, I'm it wasn't just like Sincy,
but I've been asking dad. So he he got a
guitar for me and Sadie to learn. He wanted to
take it as lessons, but online lessons or like online
classes and stuff, it just doesn't.
Speaker 1: Really it does. It doesn't.
Speaker 2: It didn't seem that fun for me to be. So
he set me up on this one lesson and it
was trying to teach me how to play. Mary had
a little lamb on one string, and I was like, no,
we're not We're not doing this that I want to shred. Okay,
shredding has not Mary had a little lamb.
Speaker 1: So you did the one lesson though. I did the
one lesson and it got me nowhere.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you basically said I don't want to do these.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just said I didn't want to
do it. I tried it, didn't love it. So I
just I started using. This was in like twenty twenty
or like twenty twenty, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. And so at first I was just I
was kind of into it.
Speaker 2: So I was doing like I was doing like YouTube
videos and stuff, learning how to play. Like I remember,
I learned this one song it was like Shallow from
that one movie A Star Was Born, which was fun.
Speaker 1: Watch as a dive. And if you guys can't tell,
I also take singing lessons. Yes I love that song.
Speaker 2: Well no, no, okay, I'm done singing, so like, yeah,
so I did like a few. It was like I
was just learning songs. So I just went on YouTube
like easy to play, and then I think I just
kind of.
Speaker 4: But first, didn't you learn like some really simple songs
at first? Like country Roads?
Speaker 1: Remember you you taught me country Roads?
Speaker 4: But then you taught yourself because you came out and
you're like, hey, I learned this on YouTube?
Speaker 1: Did it?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Did it teach you literally literally teach you.
Speaker 1: Like the chords?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I like looked up YouTube videos and it
had to tell me, okay, so put this finger here.
This is It just told me how to play chords.
And then it was like this is basically howevery like,
no matter what difficulty. It's like, okay, so you're gonna
play these chords. This is how you play it. Put
them in this order, and suddenly you're playing country roads
mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And so I thought that was really fun. So I
did a.
Speaker 2: Few simple songs like that. I think I did like
heather By Conn and Gray, which was fun. I'm trying
to remember some other ones. I don't remember them all. Okay, uh, honestly,
there's not much to it. It's like, I think.
Speaker 4: Then you did some food fighters you did? Yes, Yeah,
I started ever longs that you did ever Long?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 1: Yeah I played ever Long. I played monkey Wrench, but
that was like, wow, you played monkey, Rice played Lunkey Wrench.
It's really fun. So no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no wa na na wanna my god?
We should be a duo.
Speaker 3: I know, jeez, yes, I could be the singer he
never wants to beatbox with you too?
Speaker 1: Hey, keep going. My name is Xander. I'm on a
podcast what rhymes with podcast? Word? Drop the mic?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 1: I can't drop the mic. It's attached to a table.
Speaker 2: Yo. Hey that's my mom. She's wearing green.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: That's great. This this is some talent right here.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: So then, so you did you how did you know
when to like up your difficulty because you've gotten really
good at guitar.
Speaker 2: I was just feeling bold. I was like Hey, this
song looks hard, let me try it. And then it
was really difficult, and then I got frustrated, and then I.
Speaker 1: Was like, hey, I can play it. That's so crazy.
Speaker 3: That's it must have been very satisfying once you get
it right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: I guess it was like I started doing difficult songs
maybe like a little bit too early, so it was
like really difficult, but then it started but then as
I just kept on trying them, it started getting less
and less difficult until they were all like pretty easy.
And then I went onto some like more difficult songs.
I do a lot of food fighters.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, But that's a great quick break.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, we're back.
Speaker 3: Now. What about the improv classes you've been doing, because
you seem like you're very you could be very good at.
Speaker 1: Improv ground lings, Yes and yes Andy and Slay. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Was that fun for you or did you, like were
people in your age group at that time?
Speaker 1: Because Natalia did done.
Speaker 4: So Natalia so Xander did is doing the one that's
for fourteen to eighteen year olds.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: What Natalia did was a drop in class and it's
open for ten to eighteen, so you're going to get
a bunch of younger kids because they do ten to
thirteen year olds and then fourteen to eight eighteen year olds,
right right, So but in the with the drop in,
it's all of those and they're mostly going to be
younger kids. But Xanders is he's going to be on
the young side.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely one of the youngest because they're all they're
all like sophomores or like, well, it's kind of weird
because it's in the summer, so like I'm an incoming sophomore.
They're all incoming juniors. But so I actually like being
on the younger side. Yeah, of this class, it's pretty fun.
We're all like, it's not like there's any ten year
olds there. I mean, we're all pretty similar ages. But
it's really fun because I feel like we're all on
like a pretty similar level. And I just, yeah, I
really enjoy the ground links classes. I think they're super fun.
Speaker 3: They sound fun, and I think you would be really
good at it, like the keep going.
Speaker 1: I think you would be great. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now we don't say the name of your school,
but I would love for us to talk about I
don't know if other parents out there I think a
lot of kids. I know that Xander has had, you know,
maybe some frustrations with like making friends and finding like
kind of his tribe, you know. But and I always
wonder if that has to do with like we've changed
schools a lot. But like I'd love to hear sort
of the pros and cons of going to a small school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so I definitely say I'm just a negative guy.
I'm gonna start with the cons first, So I'd say,
like the definite cons is, like there's not a lot
of friend options.
Speaker 1: So like, like you said, it's like pretty.
Speaker 2: Dang hard to make friends when there are forty five
kids in the freshman class.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: And I'm a social butterfly, and there just weren't I
couldn't flap my wings very much.
Speaker 1: There weren't very many.
Speaker 2: There weren't a lot of people that were like my
speed there, I guess. And then I did end up
finding some people like beginning of year, but then shit
hit the fan, and like drama started out of nowhere,
and then suddenly like those people aren't as close, and
it's like I'm constantly trying to like find some new
people to hang out with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty difficult.
Speaker 3: And this is the school you're at now, yes, okay,
and it's an it's it's like a performing arts school.
Speaker 4: No, no, it's a it's an academic school. Yeah, it
just happens to have a lot of arts to your
kids there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a college prep school. But there's a
lot of really I mean, it feels like an art
school to me. Like it's actually that's something that I
really like about my school.
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of really cool I mean, there's
a lot of really cool things about it, like music.
Speaker 2: There's the music program thing, and then there's like there's
a lot of different arts and then I mean the
dance team's not that good.
Speaker 1: Not to call anyone out.
Speaker 4: But like you have compared to a lot of bigger schools,
you have all those things. You have like school newspaper
that you want to work on. But plus in addition,
you have music lab, which is like a whole performing
arts It's like, yeah, people can either bring in their
own instruments, but they provide a ton of instruments and
they just form little bands and.
Speaker 3: It's really cool. It does sound like a performing arts school. Yeah,
it's super fun. I mean, I love the music Lab program.
I mean there's I normally really love the music Lab program.
It's a little hard when you're a freshman because like
me and my friend Alec, Me and my friend Alec,
we're the only two freshmen in that class. But overall
it was like really fun because you get to be
really creative and there's a lot of times where you
could like there's a lot of times where you could
just jam, and then there's other times because we have
this we have this like concert type thing that we
do like maybe like three times a year where we
all get into groups and like form songs and perform
them in like kind.
Speaker 1: Of like a club.
Speaker 2: It's it's like a kind of club formatty thing where
it's like there's like a set list and everything, and
it's like it's really fun.
Speaker 3: That's really cool, And you guys have to come up
with your own songs or do you go do you
cover songs?
Speaker 1: It's a lot of covers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then there are some people that really want
to do their own songs.
Speaker 1: And that's okay, good for that, good for them.
Speaker 3: The rock stars of this generation, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean they have that, and then they have theater
and he was doing some cool stuff in theater and
he did this monologue that I really wanted to post
online because it was so did a.
Speaker 2: Monologue, really, yeah, I did a monologue. It was really
fun from what I don't even know. It's like not
from It wasn't from like any type of movie. It
was just like one that people write.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: It was this monologue and it was I'm like this
Karen who's like following. It's like, I'm this Karen who's
like following around this lady because she threw a bag
of trash onto like the four or five and I'm
like chasing them to like it's it's really funny. Really,
my favorite part about it was that I got to
target some rent. It was like a showcase we were doing,
so I got to target some random person to be
like the lady and the red prius who I'm arguing
with praise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the whole thing was.
Speaker 2: It started with hey, you lady and the red prias,
like it was really funny. But I got to target
my teacher, like my history school, and he's normally really strict,
so it's really funny because I was just like yelling
at him and I was like getting really close to
his face and.
Speaker 1: Like, your face. Wow, that's so cool. It's really funny.
I love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just don't feel like, I mean, because
whenever he's having just a hard time with school and
you know, and I go, oh, but and I would,
I would change his school if that's what he wanted.
But the one school that he would want to change
to doesn't have any spots. There's a very long waiting list.
And other than I'm like, I don't know how you're
gonna right. He's kind of a big fish in a
small part now, right, and then you go to be
a small fish in a big pond, which has its
benefits for sure. And I wouldn't tell him no if
that's what he wanted. But we can't get into that
school right now.
Speaker 3: So you would be okay going to another school without.
Speaker 1: Sadie, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I mean we've never done that right before, so I mean,
I'm not completely sure how i'd feel, But.
Speaker 1: I mean we don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't say we see each other too much,
like at the school we go to right now, I
mean we don't really hang out at lunch and we
kind of hang.
Speaker 1: Out with our respective people. But I mean, I haven't
really thought about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think i'd try it, but I'm not
sure how i'd feel when we're actually at separate schools.
Speaker 3: And what about the other school you were at was
a big school, right? How did you feel about that
middle school?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't care if you say the name of it,
because you're not there anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you like it?
Speaker 4: Or that's the one you started a month into eighth grade?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay? And Elbie went there, right? No?
Speaker 4: Oh, so they were at the school called Valley Charter,
which was a charter school, small school. This is where
I used to complain about the school, and people would
be like, send your kids to a bigger school. But
they but when it came to middle school, they didn't
want to go to a bigger school. They wanted to
stay at a small school. Right, So we stayed at
a small school. It didn't work out. Moved them to
another small school because COVID happened and the school they
were at really was sucking. I remember this other small
school then that wasn't then then that school Because sometimes
the nature of very small schools is the people that
are running those schools when when the head person the
principal quit and was like wanted to stay home with
her baby. And then the assistant principal had already quit too,
and she was they they were both like they were
the reason the school was great. So then it was
like all these changes and they hired really basic teachers
and so and then Xander's and then we call your
friend lyle Yle Crocodile. We call them so Lyle Lyle
Crocodile moved schools and Xander was like, I want to
go to school with Lylewyle Crocodile. So we moved and
that's when we went to this big school and then
what happened.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'd say, okay, so there's I'd say, it's
kind of like a complete flip of how I feel
about the school I'm at now because I think the
social parts of can I say the name, yeah that one?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'd say, like the social I went to Portola,
Like the social parts of it I thought were better
because it was like a really big school with a
lot of different options. So it was like if I
didn't really want to hang out with this friend group anymore,
there was like other people I could hang out with,
and I didn't feel I didn't feel like too much,
like I didn't have people to hang out with at
that school.
Speaker 1: The things I.
Speaker 2: Didn't like were like the academics and stuff. I really
disliked a lot of my teachers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mister zippity dooda, mister zippity DooDah.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, nightmares, nightmares about that guy. And then
I was so close. I was so close to not
having this science teacher because she retired, like she really
like I was her last year. Then she retired, but
like really didn't like her. It was really difficult to
figure out how to like do well on her tests
and stuff. So I was failing them a lot until
I started, like, you remember that, mom, Like I kept
failing those tests even though I was like, I'm studying everything,
you're a student.
Speaker 4: She made him do a test by his first or
second day at school. I remember that the abl Yeah,
and then she was giving him a hard time about it. Yeah,
how would he know anything that you've been teaching.
Speaker 2: Right, I remember that, Yeah, And then it was just crazy.
I'd be like going home crying because I'd be like,
how I've studied so much of what you told me too?
How am I supposed to do well on these tests?
Until I just like figured out that there's a lot
of the stuff she didn't tell us to study is
what was actually on the test. Suddenly I'm getting like
ninety and one hundred percents on this freaking test.
Speaker 3: And wasn't one of the teachers really mean to Sadie two?
Was it the math teacher or oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah? And then I had yes, the math teacher
was That was when I had to write an email
and I had to And then when we had the
five oh four plan meeting and ill, yeah, lying in
the meeting and telling me things about how that was.
You remember he was mister Zippity Dudah was lying do
you remember the story and saying that you guys hardly
had any homework.
Speaker 1: And I was like, they have the homework.
Speaker 2: And it was like sixty problems doesn't sound like a lot,
but like the problems he was giving, they were all
like these long.
Speaker 1: It was it was gonna take like, yeah, it was
a lot. It was so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just you have like one after another.
I don't think you had. I think you have like
one teacher you liked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love her. That's terrible.
Speaker 3: It's so because Natalian Sonny. They've had teachers that they like,
they don't like. This year, I think every teacher she
has she loves, and it's made a huge difference in
her grades. She ended the school year, both of them
with a's and b's because these teachers in this girl,
they just happened to get this one grade there, and
they've been told like once you get to you know,
junior year, it's that all the teachers are great and
they like Natalie's like, mom, how when I ever interested
in American history?
Speaker 1: Like you know, she sits and she listens.
Speaker 3: She they engaged and makes such a big difference when
you have a good teacher that loves their job versus
somebody that's been there forever and is just collecting a paycheck.
Speaker 1: You know. I mean I crushed it anyway.
Speaker 3: So, yes, you're I think you're a good student, right, Xander?
Speaker 1: Do you want to go off to college?
Speaker 2: Of course I want to go off to college. Good
for you, thank you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, keep it up. Any ideas of where you want
to go?
Speaker 1: No idea?
Speaker 3: Now, what do you want to do when you grow up?
Do you know that's a great question. The two things,
like ideally like the two kind of fields. I'm looking
at either comedy or music, That's what I'm I mean,
something something like SNL is really fun for me. I know,
it's like very hard to reach and I get I
get that. So I'm just hoping to do like something
that I love, like comedy or music. Well, I'll tell
you at your age, if you stick with the comedy
at that at the groundlings and you keep going, I mean,
this sky's a limit for you.
Speaker 4: So in school, in like English class, they had to
do this project. And it's just kind of funny because
I sort of relate to this myself. But he wanted
to write. They had to pick something or they could
write or you could do write a song or you could.
Speaker 1: Do which one is this? Because we had like three
this is the.
Speaker 4: Thing that you won all spoiler alert he won it.
So remember so he had They had to write It
was about technology.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was about like AI and so we were
my English My English teacher has an interesting curriculum. She
likes to teach things that sometimes don't always relate to English.
So we had like this whole we were learning about
like chat GBT and stuff like that. So we had this,
we had this kind of creative project where we just
had to do something relating like that relates to AI
in any way. So it was like we could write
a story. We could, we could. It was like a
lot of writing. We could write a song or anything.
Speaker 3: Did you use the AI chat thing to just write
it for you?
Speaker 1: Nope? Thank god.
Speaker 4: I mean, so Xander was trying to brainstor him what
he wanted to write, and I told him he should
write something funny because he's really funny writer. So and
he was like, I don't know, like and then remember
then we okay.
Speaker 1: So there's this.
Speaker 4: Book called It's It's Do you remember Plants Versus Zombies
the whole thing? Yeah, remember that Plants versus Zombies. There
was a book that was called like Crazy Dave, Crazy
Dave's Guide to like Zombie what to do if there's
a zombie apocalypse?
Speaker 5: Zombie Apocalypse? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Something like that. So there was it was a really
funny book that we used to all read when the
kids were younger, and it's just just a funny, like
our sense of Camar. So I told Xander, like, maybe
you could write something like that, but about like how
to tell.
Speaker 3: Like a guide if there was if like robots start
like taking over or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good idea.
Speaker 4: So he wrote this thing and he read it to me,
and it was so crazy funny.
Speaker 1: I was laughing out loud. I think I came in
and told you about it.
Speaker 4: I was, yeah, Xander wrote this thing, and I was
genuinely laughing out loud, like if an adult wrote it.
It was making me laugh. And then he was like,
I don't know, like what people are going to think,
and then tell us how to So how did the
so they had to vote on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was like it was mostly it was
mostly stories. So I guess my English teacher printed out
all of the stories and then we read them and
then gave them a ranking. We read them and so no,
none of them had names. Yeah, it was a pseudonym things. Okay,
so it was like anonymous and then we read them
all then gave them rankings like one through five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my kids did this at one point, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we like narrowed it down to maybe
like top three, and then we did it again for
the other class, right, yeah, yeah, so we did it.
We did for all the classes and then just like
narrowed it down to like the top ones in every class,
then ranked it again until we just got one winner.
Speaker 4: Wow. And he was like, oh, I don't think people
liked it. Somebody was making fun of me.
Speaker 2: Someone someone was making there's always gonna be a trip
going to be someone.
Speaker 1: Yes, but that's what I told him.
Speaker 4: I was like, doesn't mean it's not funny, because he
said he's so easily player hating himself and he's like
somebody was like, oh, this one's like middling, right, he
was like.
Speaker 1: This one's mid. That's ridiculous. And then he won. Then yeah,
oh that's awesome, thank you.
Speaker 4: Hey, let's take another quick break.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask Xander.
Speaker 4: I thought this would be good about some like scandals
like things that we you and I don't really know, Lynette,
because we're old mom, yes we are. I mean we're
not that we're old for moms, but we're like, we're older,
we're moms, so we're not teenagers.
Speaker 1: Now I'm a mom. Why am I being left out?
Speaker 4: Remember when you would when you and Alb and Sadie
were being like the when you and Elbe especially were
being Christian moms, really.
Speaker 1: We had this.
Speaker 2: We had this whole group chat go like it was me, Elbie, Sadie.
We had this whole group chat and it was just
like the Christian mom group chat mom when you were
looking at my phone yesterday seeing that, like Stacey was
texting me, that's Elbie's Christian mom name. Really yeah, So
then Sadie's Flora, like the contemporary Christian mom, and then
I'm christa al great name. Yeah, we had this whole
We had this whole group chat going on where we
couldn't go out of characters, and we just made all
these plots like going out for like Sunday brunch and stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the three of you, how cute. It
was so funny. That's hilarious, or some of the jokes,
Like I don't even remember. This was in like twenty.
Speaker 3: Twenty one, So you guys went to brunch? Did you
go to after church? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Let me see, let me see if I still have this.
I think it was just called Christian mom chat.
Speaker 4: We were all like freaking out because didn't one of
them think their child was gay?
Speaker 2: Because we're not homophobic. I swear this is a character. Yeah,
I forgot who, but one of those was like, really
one of us thought ours, one of our sons was
gay and.
Speaker 1: Really freaking freaking out call the pastor.
Speaker 2: And then we would use like the crying laughing emojis
and like the wine emo.
Speaker 1: Wine clots of oji's constantly. That's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 4: But I wanted you to exp something because Lynette and
Caylen might not even know about this, but so do
you do you know who? You know who Miranda Sings
is right now?
Speaker 5: Really I don't either.
Speaker 4: What should we make Caylen play a little bit of
like a Miranda Sings video?
Speaker 1: Sure? Will that explain it to people? Probably? Probably?
Speaker 2: I mean basically, Miranda Sings was she was just like
this big YouTuber like like for for when my age
like when my age group was like younger.
Speaker 1: She was huge on huge, Okay.
Speaker 2: She she was like part, she was like a memorable
part of the childhood of a lot of people my age.
Speaker 1: So she was like this huge figure Miranda Sayings. And
so Miranda Sings was like, you can't.
Speaker 4: Play like a moment of a old Miranda Sings video.
Speaker 5: I got a hook in now, it's gonna take me
a minute.
Speaker 1: Okay, never mind, it's okay. Never mind, I'll just explain it.
Miranda Sings.
Speaker 2: So she was this character, like this pretty she she
this pretty annoying character, like it was supposed to be annoying.
And then the person behind Miranda Sings her name was
Colleen Ballinger. She was like the person playing I'm explaining
this too much. She was like the person playing Miranda Sings.
Speaker 4: And Miranda Sings is like has a really terrible singing voice.
Colleen has a pretty singing voice, but Miranda Sings is like,
think she's a really good singer about She's.
Speaker 1: How old are these girls?
Speaker 2: Miranda aka Colleen now is like thirty six, so she
was probably like late twenties early thirties watching her got it? Okay, Yeah,
so she was on tour.
Speaker 4: I remember Julie Casum took like her girls Randa Sings
and it was like a huge deal.
Speaker 1: She wrote a book that we bought. Wow. Okay. She
also had a Netflix show called Hater's Back Off.
Speaker 4: Oh I don'tkay, yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So she was this big you she started on YouTube.
She was like this big character. But now, wow, there's
like this big drama. Why is this happening with every
giant YouTuber. It just turns out there all scumbags. Basically,
she is under a lot of grooming allegations. Why so
I'm like non expert on this. I'm just like watching
TikTok and YouTube. Yeah That's where I'm getting my source from.
But okay, so she first of all, she's just done
things like trust. She like went into her fans, like
underage fans group chats like trauma dump about her divorce
what and then yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't even know that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she went she had a bunch of group chats
with like her young fans where she would like go
to like trauma dump on them about her divorce with
this other YouTuber, and then she would make like inappropriate
jokes and stuff. She sent this one thirteen year old
like used underwear on live on some live video. She
made a lot of fan her tour things were like interactive,
and she made a bunch of young fans really uncomfortable
on the stage.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? What's wrong with this girl? What is
wrong with her? I know? But so that's really dark.
Speaker 2: But the big thing right now that's making this so
different is that she made a response like like the
famous apology videos. She made this apology quote quote. I'm
quoting apology video because there was no apology, but she
didn't talk.
Speaker 1: She sang, it was Colleen. It wasn't Miranda, it was Colleen.
Speaker 2: She went on too, like the there's two separate channels.
There's like the Colleen channel and the Miranda channel. She
went on the Colleen one, just sat there looking MOPI
for a second, brought out her yuku lele. Hey, guys,
it's Colleen. You haven't seen my face for a while.
I've just been dealing with a lot. And then she
just starts singing this song called toxic Toxic Gossip Train.
What the hell where she's not apologizing. It's like a
mix between she's saying it's all lies, but she she's
like not apologizing.
Speaker 1: She's saying, like all of this is a lie.
Speaker 2: She's like, I'm taking accountability, but none of this is true,
and I'm writing the Toxic gossip Train.
Speaker 4: But didn't she actually say I've I've changed my behavior
Like she did cop to the fact that she had
to have been doing something because she's like, I'm taking
accountability and I've changed my behavior and I've.
Speaker 2: Worked on saying everything is God. She's saying everything. She's
like I've changed my behavior, but everything's a lie. Oh my,
like good. And then she was like trying to play
the victim for most of it. Like she the way
she wrote this entire song, like she she wrote this
whole song with a chorus and even there was a
bridge in there. She did some improv. She was ready.
You know, it wasn't just one take. You know, she
had to like read this multiple times. It was she
had like her whole lighting set up and stuff. I
don't know, I don't know what was going through her head, like,
but she just had this whole song toxic gossip Train.
Some of the lines were like tie me to the
tracks and harass me for my past.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Like it was like crazy, it was insane.
Speaker 2: It was like buy buy a ticket to the toxic
gossip Train where it's like spreading misinformation and stuff.
Speaker 4: But you, I think what you're you really have to
understand is just how famous Miranda sings. Yeah, like all
of our listeners every most people know like immediately like
Miranda sing a huge scandal out there right now.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And then did she get like arrested or anything for this, No,
there's nothing yet.
Speaker 1: I mean it was I mean being canceled.
Speaker 2: That's like a that's a tough subject because of course
no one's gonna like her, but she's still gonna be
making money.
Speaker 1: So she's really like canceled, right right.
Speaker 4: But then again, is she she's not even that popular
anymore anyway, right?
Speaker 1: Or is she?
Speaker 2: I mean she's she is like on a decline, like
no one really people more know her from like the past,
but she still has like a platform like.
Speaker 5: Ten point seven million subscribers on YouTube still.
Speaker 1: Wow, my god.
Speaker 2: And then she has like a bunch on TikTok and Instagram.
It's and then she has like two channels. She's like
the Colleen one and the Miranda one. It's just combined.
Speaker 1: It's Colleen, her her alter.
Speaker 2: So Miranda is like the character she's playing car He's
the actual person.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to see if I could, so Miranda
sings as her is our stage name or it's her.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's her character that she does. Got it.
Speaker 4: I bet you If I google of the name Colleen,
it's gonna be the Colleen Balinger is the very first
thing that comes up.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yes, crazy.
Speaker 2: So it's like her entire thing was supposed to be
an apology, but she didn't discuss anything. Like one of
the lines was I'm just gonna focus on the facts,
and then she gets into nothing. She gets into nothing
about the facts, doesn't even address the things that were already,
like there were screenshots of her conversations with these children
on like these group chats. She she sent that young
thirteen year old boy underwear on a live video. So
she was saying that she was focusing on the facts.
But I addressed none of the facts and just said
everything was a lie. But I'm sorry guy, Like she
was like, I'm sorry and taking accountability, but it's all fake.
Speaker 4: Story in the La Times right now is Colleen Ballinger's
ex husband reacts to grooming claims, and then the Independent
has an article about all the grooming allegations against Colleen Balinger,
who created Miranda Singh's and then somebody guitar player shreds
Colleen Bollinger's apology video.
Speaker 1: Ye really, Oh, I learned how to play it on
guitar too. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2: I'll be on facetimes with my friends and not just
randomly be like, hey guys, it's me Xander again, I
haven't been on this FaceTime for a really long time.
Speaker 1: I've just been dealing with it. Because that's her intro.
She like just starts talking.
Speaker 2: She's just talking, and then suddenly she's like, but all
aboard the toxic gossip train, saw me on the tracks
and harass me for my past. These rumors look like
facts if you don't mind the gaps. It's so my god,
wow horrible. The funny thing is she kind of likes
she likes to pretend that some of it's improv She'd
like pretend like she's thinking, and then suddenly she'd like
gome out with the whole other verse. There's this moment
like maybe like twenty minutes into the video where she
acts like she's about to end it. She's like holding
the camera, then she puts it down. She saw She's like,
you know what comes out with this whole other verse.
She like acts like she just had like a bunch
of inspiration as she was turning off the camera and
she was like, just because people make mistakes, does it
mean you're a bad person?
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? Right? And I'm like, Miranda, I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of people haven't made a
mistake this big. Yeah, this isn't like, this isn't the
mistake that this isn't like I don't know, yeah, this
isn't some small mistake that doesn't make that person.
Speaker 3: I mean the fact that she gave an underage kid
her underwear on on on the screen. There was more
that she did, but I'm just weird. It was so
weird to google this shit. It was like worse that.
Speaker 2: I mean, YouTubers are notorious for making horrible apology videos,
but this one has to be the worst. I mean,
there was this other one. It was like this TikToker
like Siena may or whatever. She was under these like
sexual assault allegations against this other guy, and her great
decision was to make an interpretive dance.
Speaker 1: And are you kidding?
Speaker 2: It was like the reason why it's better is because
she actually somewhat apologized, but it was mostly just like
her doing like choreography. She it was her doing her
interpretive Chorea, like on this on this camera, like under
a sunset.
Speaker 1: That's insane. Oh my god, oh my gosh. Well this
has been super fun.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming in and listen, keep
going with that improv and your music. But I think
you're gonna I think you're gonna go pretty far with
your improv. I could see you on SNL just a
few short ears toxic gossip training. Fuck Pete Davidson, you'll
be the next youngest.
Speaker 1: Anyway. Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3: Thanks everybody, Thank you, Xander, my squad.
Speaker 1: You're a parent. Now, don't it up. Don't f it up,
guys
Speaker 2: Please, it's let angle.