Speaker 1: I made a decision pay sunny sun on. I had
a vision nice what's up party, people in the house, wooooo,
happy birthday and all the geminis out there.
Speaker 2: When is your birthday? Wait? Oh my god, is today? No,
Tomorrow's their birthday?
Speaker 1: Yesterday was Sunday, Natali, Yeah, it was yesterday, and Sunday.
Speaker 2: Today's eighth Yesterday yesterday. Got happy birthday, Corolla tweet Lucky
number seven. Natalia as I like to pronounce it.
Speaker 1: All her friends, a lot of them call her Natalia.
She says Natalia sunny and I say Natale.
Speaker 2: Ever get over the person who is like, you pretend
that you're friends with Linette and you can't even pronounce
her daughter?
Speaker 1: What his thing? Italian?
Speaker 2: Nataliyah as I again said, I was like, I think
that's because she has that Cleveland accent.
Speaker 1: It is. I know, I have a twang, and everybody
says that.
Speaker 2: So I always assumed that her name's actually Natalia and
you pronounce it Natalia.
Speaker 1: It's probably right because she says Natalia. Her friends actually
they all call her nat Not a big fan of that,
but it's cute. I call her t t Yeah. So
they had their birthday yesterday. The thing was is like,
so I was talking to Sonny because he was a
he's an Oregon she's at home, and I was like,
he's never asks for anything. He's like, I'll let you
what do you want for your birthday? I'll let you know. Well,
I'm going to get him a car eventually for the summer.
Well during the summer when he comes back, I'm gonna
have to get him a car because he's going to
need it for work.
Speaker 2: But just a car for the summer.
Speaker 1: No, a car. I'm going to get him a car
this yeah, not just he'll take it to Oregon. He'll
probably drive it, yeah, back to Oregon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you going to use Adam?
Speaker 1: Oh, Adam Lerner's got a car for sure? You crazy?
Of course I am. So I'm going to get him
a car. But you know, it was his birthday and
I was like, what are you doing? And he's like,
I don't really have a lot of plants because Monday's
Monday's finals and all my friends are like, you know,
hunkered down and we're all studying for finals. And he's like,
I got work to do. But I was like, but
you got to get out and do something. So he
did go to his friends in the evening, but I
wanted to send him something, so I sent him my cheesecake.
Then I Ali sent him and he loved it. Yeah,
like you.
Speaker 2: Made a cheesecake and sent no, sent different cheesecake.
Speaker 1: Have you met me seventy?
Speaker 2: Is there just a service that does cheesecake. Yeah, there's
a cheesecake factory by him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I sent him his blueberry cheesecake that he likes. O.
I know, I know. So he brought it with him
to his friends in the evening and they hung out
and watched some sports and stuff. But like Natalia, you know,
Natalia was like birthday weekend starting Friday, oh yeah, all
through Sunday. Yeah, so they went out, they went to
the beach.
Speaker 2: Some people think you this Pride month. Other people know
it better as Natalia's person.
Speaker 1: Italian's birthday month. Yeah, so she went to the beach.
Her boyfriend's in town and all her old school friends
were there, Olivia, who I love since second grade her.
They have such a great friendship. It's so cute because
Olivia is at Penn State. Wow. Yeah yeah, and I'll
tell you this, like they the story she was telling
me that they were in a she was in a
she was in a lecture hall with like a whole
like the whole place was filled, the teacher's lecturing. It's quiet.
Natalia starts texting her. She's like, I'm in a lecture
right now. Then Natalia calls her and her laptop starts
ringing and she's like, bitch, I told you. And Natalia's like,
I will not be ignored. She's like, that's an Italian.
I love nutshell. They have such a cute, like sweet relationship.
I love her parents. Her younger brother graduated high school
will and went to the graduation party over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget that she likes doubled eggs.
Speaker 1: She does that. Oh that was Cammy.
Speaker 2: Oh that was Cammy.
Speaker 1: Cammy's still in the picture, but she moved. But yeah,
she was like, we would go to dinner and Adam
was the only one that wanted to order devil eggs,
and Cammy had dinner with us, and she's like, oh,
mister Corolla, I love deviled eggs, mister Corolla. That beard
looks good on you, mister Corolla. That was sweet Cammy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot that was a different yeah, because it
was the three of them.
Speaker 1: It was the three of them. Yeah, and they're still
they're still close.
Speaker 2: But is Cammy in college too?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's I don't know where she is, but she moved,
you know, she moved to Denver. Yeah, but yeah, it
was you know, when Olivia's home for the summer, it's
nice to see her. And her other friend Devin was there,
all her like little buddies that she grew up with.
They went to the beach, then they went to dinner,
and then they I when they came back, I had uh,
I had a like a a pie but was like
all chocolate, like Natalian loves chocolate. So I got her
that saying happy Birthday, and then watched Love Island. I didn't,
but they did. And that was our birthday weekend. And
now I have to go to Oregon, like maybe on
Wednesday because he has to move out deep by the
end of this week he's done.
Speaker 2: I think it's the same exact schedule as UCLA now LB,
so maybe last day of Crosses is Wednesday. Yeah, Elbie
has finals and then she graduates Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Oh this Saturday is their graduation wow. Yeah yeah, so
I'll be packing it up for sunny and getting him out.
Speaker 2: And then so how are you going to do that?
Are you going to put stuff in? Story?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like student storage places. They you know, you
just pack everything, they come, they pick it up, his
TV and stuff, put it into He doesn't have much,
he doesn't like the bed's already there, like. And then
the new place he's moving into has a kitchen and
has everything, has a bed. So I'll be going back
in September to do that, and I'll be going back
in August with Natalia to move her into a new place. Oh,
they're both moving into a new place. Okay, yeah, so yeah,
so I'll be moving. I'll be out there this week
market a lot.
Speaker 2: And then do you want to tell us about Yeah,
I feel like I'm going to end up crying on
this episode because I don't know. I think both of
us are so much transition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a busy week too.
Speaker 2: I did. I had a really busy week. But I
feel like we're both have things ending and things beginning
and hot on our poor psychees. It is it's too
old to be going through this much change.
Speaker 1: Well, it's toll. You know, when you go to the
graduation of your daughter's best friend's little brother, Like I
remember he was like a little kid. Now he's like
this tall senior just graduated high school. I feel so old.
Like it's just like weird to see. It's one thing
is when your kids graduate, but then to see their
siblings of their friends graduate high school and then see
other mothers yet you haven't seen a long time, You're like, wow,
you got a lot of botox going on.
Speaker 2: I went to this girls. I went to somebody's a thing,
an event for somebody, and her mom was there. So
this girl's like she's young, she's like twenty nine, but
her mom was like looked older, you know, like more grandma, right,
And then she said she was sixty two and I
was like, oh, that's like only a few years away
from me, isn't. And then I was like, oh, no,
I know, I'm within three years of this person, right right,
How is that possible?
Speaker 1: I'm not an old lady.
Speaker 2: I'm just not, I know.
Speaker 1: And it's it's also funny too when my kids tell me,
like I remember they were telling like their teacher is like,
there's we have a teacher that's like ten years younger
than you, mom, and like she looks like she's ten
years older than you. That that you know, then there's
that too, right, you know? Yeah, I feel like you
and I are still hip. I like your shoes. Oh
you got your didas. Yeah, we're both you see, we're hip.
We're hipsters. No, we're hip.
Speaker 2: I get told a lot that I look a lot
younger you do. But I'm always like, that's just because
I'm hip. That has nothing to do with my face,
because I'm super wrinkly. It's just that I try to
keep it, try to keep my hair cue. Yeah, yeah,
you know. But then I'm like, can't be bothered to
like wear makeup that often? You know, neither.
Speaker 1: I barely wear makeup anymore, but I did for Natalia
on Sunday. I got, you know, looked cute. I put
on jeans instead of yoga pants, cute shirt, did my
because she likes you know, she likes me look nice
instead of walking around my hair and I look right now.
Speaker 2: Take your hair out of a ponytail.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Before she could even speak, she was in
the car seat behind me pulling my hair out of
the ponytail, trying to make me look pretty. That's Helen Paradise,
by the way, she's to do that to me.
Speaker 2: So okay. So Sunny's going to come home and then
he's going to look for a job.
Speaker 1: I think he's got some he's trying. He's trying to
line up a couple of things.
Speaker 2: Yeakay.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then Natalia is going to come back here and
spend the summer here, but then she's going abroad. Is
there a date for it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's going like the just staying one semester here
and then and then the second semester they go abroad
for semester.
Speaker 2: Oh, so what does she do for a semester?
Speaker 1: She's going she's taking classes. So she's starting the year
in August for the.
Speaker 2: First semester Santa Barbara's community. Yeah, but hasn't she already
done two years? Didn't Charity get a degree?
Speaker 1: She's working. I guess she's working into the no. I
think she still needs some credits, Okay. And then she's
doing like what her roommates did last night, because they're
year ahead. So she she's got it all figured out,
and you know, she's got her plan, got it? Yeah,
and Sonny too. Sonny's excited. He's he's going to be
applying to the university, and I guess during the winter
is when he's going to apply. November, Yeah was when
the application. Yeah, well, I guess he could apply like
inn October. Yeah, then he's going to apply for spring
admission or for the following year. I think, I don't know.
I don't know. He they you know, I they figure
it out. But I just know that they did really well.
And ntil he got all a's in one C and
finishing her five classes, and Sonny got all well, he's
in his you know, his thing, but he's doing really well.
He said, he's all his tests, he's done. He comes
home and he shows me his his like you know,
uh presentation he had to do for like a film class.
Did really well on that. So he's he's, you know,
doing his finals this week.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, but so is he going to do
another semester? Like what's he going to do while he's
waiting to apply to you know, because he's already done
two years.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna Yeah. So I think he said
he did say he's going to be applying in the
winter for the new right, But so what would you
be doing in the meantime, I don't I don't know,
is he going to stay it here? I don't know. No,
he's going to be going back in the fall. I
think he needs another I don't know. I think he
needs more credits for him I should find out.
Speaker 2: I would just be curious. Yeah, what they're doing. What
they're doing. Yeah, no, I mean I check in with them.
Speaker 1: I add a talk with him about it, and he's
like that that's my path, that's what I want to do.
I want to see it out. I want to transfer,
go to the new university.
Speaker 2: So it's just like, will he take because he now
he'd be in his third year year of community college, right.
Speaker 1: If he goes back and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he only needed a few more credits, you said.
Speaker 1: To yeah, be so he might be taking classes during
the winter. Actually I don't know, got it because she's
doing a class during the summer. She's doing a summer
class as well online. Probably yeah, online. She said it's
like four weeks. So yeah, oh they're they're working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sadie's trying to go to Pierce. But of course
she we she applied and then I was like, okay,
so what's next. Do you have your student number? Like
we have to apply to this thing. Called the Promise Program,
which makes community college in California free, and she's like,
well I don't have somehow She's like I don't. They
didn't send me a thing, a letter saying what my
student number is. And I'm like, really, did you check
your spam? You know? She's like no, they didn't. Then,
like you know, I just start getting frustrated because I'm like,
why can't anything just be like yep, I enrolled right,
Like why I have to say in for everything? And
I'm like, let me let me see I look through
her email. I can't freaking figure it out. It's so
complicated and like when you had to go into the
portal and understand the okay, So we try to go
into the portal and then it keeps saying that her
thing is invalid and she's like I'm telling you here's
my password, and I'm like, well, something's fucked up, right.
So then we're like, okay, if you want to get
help at Pierce College, you can go into this virtual
lobby for help and it's like your number twenty three
in line. So she's like laying on my bed. Time
goes by. I'm like, where are you now? She's like
still twenty three. I'm like, what, I look at it.
Sure enough, Yeah, she's still literally, like thirty minutes go by,
she's still number twenty three. I'm like, well, something's wrong.
So I emailed this friend that we have that works
at the school, and she was like, well, did she
try going into the virtual thing? And I'm like yes,
So we're just going to go in in person, bring
her computer and go. Please help me get enrolled at school, right,
somebody should be able to help.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to go in person. It's the only
way to get it done. Yeah, so we're going to
do that. But this week is the last week of school. Okay,
So today's Monday when we're recording, So the kids have
this is their last full day of classes. Then tomorrow
they have some senior like paintball pizza party for two hours.
The next day is grad night, so Xander is going
to be at Disneyland from seven am until two in
the morning. Then the next day they graduate.
Speaker 1: Is Sadie going to grad night?
Speaker 2: Deal? She had no interest in being at Disneyland from
seven am to two am The following morning, She's like
saying hell to the no, Yeah, yeah, she'd be done
after two hours, right, right, this is a kid who's
never done that well at Disneyland. She can't drive herself,
like they do not let the kids. You absolutely cannot
drive yourself and you can't leave early.
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 2: So what it really is is seven am. They meet
at school. Yeah, they don't really get to Disneyland until
let's say nine am, right, realistically, Yeah, by the time
they get in to Disneyland, right, it's nine thirty right,
then at midnight, so it's kind of like a regular
day for like super huge disney fans. Yeah, and really
they're from like nine thirty am to like midnight, midnight.
They all meet and then they go get on the
buses and then they come back to school.
Speaker 1: Do they at least get to go to California Adventure. Yes,
they have Park Hopper. Oh that's good. Yeah, well, which
we paid for. It wasn't free, right yeah, right, but
at least they get to.
Speaker 2: Go to the like I can't imagine to do both,
and then there's a little party for them at the
end of the night. Did your kids have grad night?
Speaker 1: They did? They they went to Yeah, they went to Disneyland,
same thing they could. They had to go on the bus.
It was a whole day. But my kids loved it,
both of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are the days.
Speaker 2: I think. For middle school grad night, they went to
Magic Mountain and I do remember that Sadie was pretty done.
I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're coming back right, and
I was getting texts going, mom, I'm done. I was like, well,
go sleep on a bench.
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you know, participating.
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Speaker 1: Boom nice. Yeah, so I did go and look at
houses this weekend? Yeah. Valentia, Suzanne and her boyfriend moved
into their house, which is really cute, and I wanted
them to come look at the new developments with me
to ask them what they think. So when that happened,
I also got a listing that came up of a
new house that just came on the market like five
days ago. And it's exactly like my price point, a
little smidge higher than what I would like, but we
can We're actually so okay. So looked in the pictures,
looked great, has mostly everything I like, except there's just
one bathroom between the kids rooms. So I wanted to
see if, like maybe I can add a bathroom whatever
other than that perfect it is two story, but whatever,
how do you so?
Speaker 2: How many bathrooms does it up there?
Speaker 1: There's three bathrooms, so there's a guest bathroom downstairs, there's
a bathroom in the primary, and then there's a bathroom
between the two bedrooms upstairs to share. And it's pretty small,
but there's a laundry room, huh up there, And I
wanted to see if we could put the laundy washer
dryer in the garage and make that laundry room a
bathroom to attach to one of the bedrooms. And my
realtor and Suzanne's boyfriend who knows a lot about that stuff.
Think it should be easy to do, no problem, no problem.
So okay, So I then I took them to see
the new development. And then you look at the new
development and it's like, okay, but you got to you
get it at this price. But then you got to
pay for the you know, the landscaping, you got to
pay for all the extras because they're not done, so
you have to pick out the tile. Blah blah blah.
So what's that price going to be after all said
and done? You know, So we're trying to still figure
that it'll probably be around We could probably negotiate it
to around my budget, but that's going to be you know,
a lot of extra work. And also it seems to
be in a big fire area. There's a lot of
brush around these houses, so how much is fire insurance
going to cost? And blah blah blah. You know, whereas
this house, this other house that I really like, is
not and the new development is like nine minutes off
the it's really high. It's away from Suzanne's house. It's
about ten minutes from her house, so it's you know
where there's the new listing that came up is really close.
It's like five minutes from her house. It's right, it's
pretty close to the free day not too close, but
you know, right, yeah, you know. So it's just moving.
It's read at Mountain Magic Mountain Parkway.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's just there's not much to do except
maybe add bathroom.
Speaker 2: So I was like, okay, honestly, even if you didn't
add a bathroom right.
Speaker 1: Now, how yeah, when are they going to be home
around the same time?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, So it's not something I would need to
do right away, but I would would like to do it.
I know, Sonny and Natalia, they're not going to like
to share a bathroom. He's not going to want to
share a bathroom all that spray tanning all over the
towels and shit like, you know, But how often are
they going to be there at the same time, you
know too? I don't know. But I so I really
like this house. I was like, Okay, let you know
what's going going on.
Speaker 2: Is there a room for a pool?
Speaker 1: It has a pool?
Speaker 2: Oh, it has a pool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has a pool. The backyard is awesome. It's
got like a built in barbecue. It's great. It's really great,
I know, but I don't want to. So they said
that they were going to have an offer. They said
over the weekend. Well, so then my.
Speaker 2: Plan was, so when did you see this Saturday? Saturday,
so two days ago.
Speaker 1: Yes, so they said they expected an offer to come in, so.
Speaker 2: From somebody who had already seen it, right.
Speaker 1: So then okay, So then I wanted to My plan
was is to take Ray. Because Ray reached out to
me after he saw my kids at the you know,
Star unveiling, and he was like, yes, this is so great.
So I started talking to Ray and I was like,
you know, I could use your help to look at
some of these houses. Maybe. He's like, I'll totally help
you talked my ear off for an hour and a
half about other shit, like he's still a little same Ray,
but you know he's like, no, i'll help you. So
I was going to go up there on tomorrow to
look at it with him, and then my realtor called
me this morning and it was like they are expecting
an offer today and they are not, and he wanted
them to hold off and they said, no, we're not
going to hold off. And so now he my realtor
is like, I think we need to come up with
an offer and present them with an offer. So he
was going through comps and stuff. And then I had
a call into my accountant anyway.
Speaker 2: Cause you couldn't find out what that offer was going
to be.
Speaker 1: We don't know yet. Yeah, So after what we're done recording,
I'm going to be on the phone with him and
we're going to be submitting an offer from us. I
don't know how much yet. He's working that out and
we'll see, you know. But it's only been on the
market like five days and already they have an offer.
And like I said, every two days a week, I
would get listings of you know, houses in Valencia. Nothing
new pop. It was the same listings. There was no
new houses. This one just popped up. So and it's
a really great house.
Speaker 2: I think you can get it, I hope. So I
feel good about your chances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel Yeah, he does. My realtor does too.
But we don't know what this other I don't know,
you know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: So what if it was at him fitting against it,
He's just like, no, I don't want you in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 1: Saw there, Yeah, I know. Well, now he's got his
house out here and where we live in Lakenyata, and
it looks like it's pretty much ready from what the
kids tell me. So they can stay there too. Oh true,
they have a place to stay. Yeah, and they want
to be around their friends. So yeah, so it's it's perfect.
It's really great. I don't want to get my hopes up.
But you know, my realtor said, even if this house
doesn't work out, things will eventually, especially during the summer,
we'll start popping up more. There'll be more listing. So
just you know, it's really it's perfect.
Speaker 2: That's exciting. So did you have that feeling tell me
about Like, so you went out there, did you see
from the listing that you were already going to like it?
Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, I when I sent the listing, I sent
it to Suzanne, I sent it to Wendy and they
were like, oh my god, this house is I could
see you in this house perfect for you. To me,
I was going to on my way in here so
you could see it. I was, I was going to
send it to you, but I was like texting, driving
pulling over. Uh so yeah, so I but but I
was like I want to wait to see it. You know,
I wasn't getting I was like, I don't want to
get over my skis the last time I got excited.
You look at pictures and you think, oh, this is
going to be great and then it turns out but no,
it was. It was. It was beautiful, and it was
the same people that have lived there since it was
built in ninety nine, so they took really good care
of it. Okay, yeah, really good. And it's staged so
you see, like with the furniture, how good it looks. Yeah, yeah,
i'll send it to you.
Speaker 2: How many square feet?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not I think it's like I
don't know in the twenty twenty twenty seven, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh that's big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's two stories, two bedrooms or no, four bedrooms,
oh my god? Three bathroom? Yeah wow. I want a
guest room, you know, for Dawn when she spends the night.
Speaker 2: Yeah's your own room, bitch, Yeah yeah, go snore down
the hall right exactly.
Speaker 1: It's nice to have a guest room, you know. And
uh so well, and it's a great price, and it's
got everything I want except for that bathroom.
Speaker 2: And we'll see, okay, fingers crossed. Yeah, after the offer
goes in today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got to call him as soon as
we're done.
Speaker 2: How long will your s Scroby?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm guessing by the time I
might be moving in after Natalia moves to Santa Barbara,
and then Sonny might have another month with us, and yeah,
so I don't know, we'll see. It'll be great to
just move when they're both gone. You know, I don't
need them, I'll I'll pack everything up. You know, they
don't do much help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they probably need to pack up their stuff.
Well they did just move, not that long. Yeah, we
need to have acquired that much stuff. No, No, Sonny,
they only live in the house you're in now for
like one year after high school. Two years we've been there,
right so yeah, so no years after then they they
moved in and then they went to college, right right, Yeah,
so they can't have acquired that much stuff after they
moved from the last time.
Speaker 1: And Natalia she just did a day where she gutted
her closet. She got rid of a ton of stuff.
She like send the herd out a lot, which was great.
She had a million and bathing suit with these girls.
Oh my god, So what are you going to so
so she so, Lbie's graduating this weekend, but she's does
she move out for the for the summer?
Speaker 2: Dude, my whole life is so in flux. Yeah, she
she's moving out. Okay. So her apartment is not a
university it's not university housing. Her last apartment, her first
year at UCLA, was all part of the tuition included
her housing, and she was in even though the apartment
was off campus. She was in a two bedroom, two bedrooms. No,
wasn't it four bedrooms? Right? Eight girls? Right? Yes, a
four bedroom, two baths, right, Eight girls lived there, so
two girls per room. Yeah, and it was small. It's
just like you go down the hall there like bedroom, bedroom, bedroom, bedroom,
and then yeah, anyway, and then so, but this apartment
is a two bedroom, one bath and four girls live there,
so they split up basically all the roommates, but they
all live in the same complex. So it's very close
to campus. It's really close to her last apartment. But
that none of that matters. The point is that it
is a year long lease because it's not through the school,
so they don't give a fuck. They're not like, Okay,
you can lease it for nine months. They're like, you
sign a year lease. So from the beginning, I was like, well,
what are you going to do next summer because I
pay eleven hundred dollars rent for her, right, And she
was like, oh, yeah, no, we'll sublet it. So these
other girls, and I don't mean this in a disparaging way,
I really don't, but none of these girls have that
I can so far that I can tell now this
is not fair. I'm not going to say none of them,
but few of them have never had a job. They
don't pay for any of their own stuff ever, and
Albie does not know how they get their money, but
obviously their parents give them a lot of money, and
they have no sense of Like a couple of the
girls are like, well, I'm just going to keep the
apartment for the summer, right, right, I'll have somewhere to
be sometimes. But like these girls live in the valley
like Elbe does. So she's like, okay, well I'm not
going to do that because Elbie's job is in the valley.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So she's like, why when I graduate college would I
want my home base to be so far from my job? Yeah,
especially because she's there her job cannot wait for her
to graduate because they want to give her a lot
of hours, which I have mixed feelings about because I'm like,
I don't know that you need to be like a
full time restaurant working just because it's the summer, Like
I think you should be. This is the hard thing
that I want to talk to you about. Yeah, and
you're not there yet. But like Elbe is graduating college,
but they're still young, Like she's still only twenty one
years old, and I don't she is not in any way,
shape or form, like ready for the real world. Yeah,
she doesn't pay her on bills. You know, she's and
she wants to still kind of be a kid. I think, yeah,
And just like and on the one hand, and I
know I've been preaching this, I'm like, she should she
should go do fun stuff. What I don't think she
should do is continue living like she's in college but
not taking classes. Like just work at a restaurant, make cash,
go drinking with her friends, right, Like that's what I
don't want her to do. Yeah, either graduate and get
a real job. Oh and then she pitched this to
me the other day. She's like one of my friends
works part time at a law firm answering phones, and
it's really good money. And I was like, well, first
of all, that's a that's a trap, yeah, because has
nothing to do with anything you want to do. So
answering phones. You and I both know that that is
soul sucking business. Start being a receptionist, Like, first of all,
I did that, but that's because I didn't fucking go
to college, right, Like I didn't pay for UCLA tuition
for you to go answer phones at a law four
turns out twenty five dollars an hour. It's like, girl,
that is not a lot of money. That's got good money.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's also not in the business she wants
to be in.
Speaker 2: That's what I said. Yeah, so you're going to be
paid twenty five dollars an hour, which is not much
more than you're making now, probably less to consider that
she's making tips. She's making minimum wage, which is like
out there where she works, it's like six, like seventeen
dollars an hour, let's say, But when you add the
tips in there, she's probably making twenty five dollars an hour.
So you're going to supplement that by going three days
a week. Far it's going to be far to a
law firm where you will be bored out of your mind.
It will be so stimulating. Hi, Terrence, Smick, Millan and
Smith exactly, Oh you want to talk to Terrence?
Speaker 1: Okay, mister Terrence like line four, Like no, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: No, You're going to be so bored and you I
want her, I said, I don't think you should do that.
I think you should work at the restaurant. And in
the meantime, be sending out your resume for every contact
that we have, for every fun job we can think of, yes,
or taking some money out of the bank that is
in her savings account, and go take a couple of trips,
go to Europe with your friends. And if you graduated
from college and have a lot of money, Yeah, what
does she think? What a freaking Italy? Go travel around,
go seed some youth hostels, her friends, some of her
friends have done it. That's when you do it right.
You do it at twenty one. Go see the world
a little bit and then come home and start like yeah,
and then work full time and also send your renumes
out and like I said, I'll help you try to
get like work at a casting office or like if
you're going to answer phones. Do it somewhere cool, right,
for sure? Absolutely? Do it like a music company? What
she is? Yeah, what does she think? She was like, yeah, no,
she thought that was a good idea. I think she's
Does she want to travel? I think so? But it's
like she has to figure out who's going to be available.
Like it's not as simple in her mind as like, oh,
go just go travel. She's got to figure out who
will do it with her. What other people's plans are.
You know. One of her really good friends is at Berkeley,
and she did the same thing as Elbie. She she
finished community in one year, went to Berkeley, but she's
doing one. She wasn't ready for college to be over,
so she's staying one more semester, right, Okay, she could
have graduated, but she was like, yeah, still having fun.
Speaker 1: Does Elbie want to do something like that?
Speaker 2: I want her to do? No, Yeah, no, she's done.
She's graduated. You don't need she's a sociology maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Like what's she going to do? Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, if she wanted to take some classes, I
wouldn't say like no, but right, no, she needs to
start sending her resume out.
Speaker 1: That's the only way.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that she'll be happy knowing my kid.
I think either doing something really fun, like I said,
with money that she has that's sort of been designated
for her to do someththing that college, or getting an
entry level job but in some kind of industry that
would be that's yea Jali, right, which is that's what
I did, and we like, I feel like it's not nepotism,
but I have contacts. Yeah, of course, Like I couldn't
get myself a job like that, but I can certainly
get her an entry I could help her. I can't
say I can get her. I might be back here
on this podcast, you know in six months going, oh
my god, But that's what people will hire her. But
I feel like she could get a job answering freaking phoney.
Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah, she just needs her She just needs
to get her foot in the door. Yeah, And that's
what a lot of parents do. They use their contacts
for their kids and help them get their foot in
the And.
Speaker 2: Then when she does that, with her work ethic and
her personality, she'll she'll grow eyes up and grow and
like learn the job. And I said, and see if
it's for you let's say I think casting would be
a really fun job. That's right up her alley. She's
so good with People's very friendly and like welcoming to people,
and she also loves TV right like she you know,
but she also doesn't want to be an actress, which
I think is helpful. Yes, I know a lot of
people with casting agencies.
Speaker 1: That's great. So I'm like, casting is a fun job.
I always wanted to work and casts. Yeah. I used
to hang out at the casting offices at the CBS
Radford Studios and watching all these auditions come.
Speaker 2: It's a fun job, super fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whenever I've had a job, and it's been a couple
of times where I've had to hire people four roles
on the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, super so fun.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I had this one job, Okay, I worked
for this hidden camera show. So we were hiring. So
one of the jokes that we did, I feel like
I've told you this before. So we were hiring people
to be actors on the Hidden Camera show, right right.
So one of the way we auditioned them to do
it was we had people come in for a different
project where they were going to be like reading copy,
like almost kind of news copy. So you had two
people reading copy to each other. But one of the
people we secretly to side and said, okay, so what
this actually is is you're going to fuck with the
other person, like you're going to be the crazy person.
Don't care what you do. But we want to push
them to the point that they just go, what are
you doing? Like you're going to try to knock them
off their game either be being really bad, right, like
a practical jokers kind of thing, exactly like that. Yeah,
so then the person so then the person has to
it's like person A who's doing the joke. Person B
so would have to do it. And it was so
funny and we I mean they would do stuff like
like interrupt or just start acting weird and the other person
thinks they're on a serious audition, so they're trying to
hold it together. Yes, it was so hard not to
laugh as the person hiring them. Right, And then when
the joke's done, when we got it, then we in
the room, Person B becomes person A. Now they find
out it was a joke, and then we send the
next person in and then then that first race the
next person. It was the best day of my life.
Speaker 1: I bet I got.
Speaker 2: I like, I'll never get tired of this. It's so
fun and some of the people were so funny, and
I was like, if this is what casting is, like, yeah,
sign me up.
Speaker 1: My niece just got a job in casting recently. Really, yeah,
I can ask her. She's just yeah, she didn't have
any experience, and she's she loved it. She loves it.
She's like casting for are you smarter than a second grade?
I guess they're bringing that back.
Speaker 2: Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
Speaker 1: Fifth grader? Yeah, it was about a year ago she
was doing it. Oh yeah, so I should I could
reach out there and ask her.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean I literally probably know like six
different Sure you did that. Our casting directors, I don't
know if they have big offices or if it's a
small operation. One of my friends was the casting person.
We had her. We had her on Sword and Scale
rewind Maybe you weren't there anymore, but her name is
Robin Cass and she's with casting because we had some
somebody who was on a show like I don't know,
committed some crime I can't remember. But she books or
cast squid games, the oh yeah game challenge. Yeah, yeah,
and she did. She was the casting director for Big Brother.
Wow twenty years Wow, that's a cool gig. I met
her on The Big Date, which was hosted by Mark
Wallber right, right, So we became like that was my
very first job in TV, right, And that was her
first job in TV. And she was the casting like assistant,
right yeah. And she and I became really good friends.
So she and I went on fen Fenn together.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I remember that.
Speaker 2: Neither of us were like fat, right I was. It's
similar story to like me going on GLP.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like in the one forties. I just been
very sedentary, gained some weight. She had to, we were,
And so we went to one of those fen Fenn
pop up places.
Speaker 1: My friend Donned, my friend Don was. I would never
I never wanted to touch it with a ten football
because she was My friend Don was on it, and
I remember I just remember it made her feel speedy.
Speaker 2: Well, I was only like, you know, eight years out
of doing cocaine, so I wasn't that scared. But I
was also like, as you know, we talked about hated
DEXATM tried it in high school and was like, this
is the worst feeling. I've ever had in my life. Yeah,
terrible jittery. So I was really scared of that. But
fenn fenn, the fen. First fen was the part that
makes you speedy, but then the.
Speaker 1: Other fen they came up. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, So the problem was I think I did lose
some weight, but I didn't love how I felt on it, right,
And then I saw I only was on it for
a few months, and so is she. But we were
laughing so hard. We left work. We did like an
errand together and we went down to like Culver City.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, on shack right.
Speaker 2: I went there. They put you on a scale and
then they go all right, here you go, Oh my gosh,
you're fat enough, check the box. Here you go, here's
your friends. Like cool.
Speaker 1: How do you find out about fen fenn back in
the day, like it was it ads in the magazines and.
Speaker 2: Everybody was talking about fen fen yeah, and we were like,
well we want some of that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing ads for it and like magazines back then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're back then. Your doctor wouldn't give it
to you. You had to go to like a fen
fin clinic. You see ads and you'd be like okay, whatever,
phone boah, yeah, I don't know. I don't think. We
couldn't look it up online. So it was the thing
like you just called them up and said, Okay, I
want to come in and get fen fend. They're like,
come on down, down, and it was like a little
like down call. Yeah, literally got on the scale, here's
your fen Fen. And we both thought we were so cool.
Like it went back to work and we're like, yeah,
on fen fen, like gonna get so fucking skinny.
Speaker 1: Did it work or you ll it?
Speaker 2: Did it? Did? I lost some.
Speaker 1: Weight, but like, yeah, it wasn't worth it.
Speaker 2: I mean, then we found out that it causes like
heart valve issues and stuff, and I was like I
was already off it by that point, right, right, But
now I didn't do it for that long, right. I
think we started hearing warnings about it like pretty fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I kind of feel like it came and
went quick and it was like gone, yeah.
Speaker 2: But we became like this little family, you know how
it is. Yeah, of course, because you're working hard, you
work really late. We were in the office till like
midnight some nights. Ye. You go do tape and then
you come back to the office and brainstorm material. For
the next day, so we spent a lot of time together. Yeah,
you developed that.
Speaker 1: I still have friendships to this day from people I
used to work with back at when I worked at
Genesis Entertainment, which was the syndication company. That was the
first job I had in the entertainment world, and I
started as a receptionist and then I worked into the
sales department, and I'm still friends the woman that ran
the promotions department that like the HR woman, I still
see each other on Facebook. In fact, the one from
the promotions department had boy girl twins back in the
day when I was there, and I was like, oh
my god, she's carrying twins, Like, oh, I hope that
never happens to me. I don't know if I could
add I don't even know if I could addle one pregnancy.
I was like scared. I was like, good for you.
And then I went and visited her when they were
babies and I had pictures of them. And now they
just turned twenty eight years old. I just saw on Facebook.
Oh my god, they're they're so they're adults now. Yeah,
So it's yeah, you become a family. So it's good
to have those connections. You know, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Feel like, I mean, listen, do I talk to her
very often? No, but every once in a while. I
hit her up on Facebook and like asked her to
come to Sword and Scale rewind. She was like, yeah right.
And then my other friend, who was already kind of
big and casting at that point, was also at the
big date, and I ran into her at Ralph's, like,
I don't know a few years ago. She was happy
to see me. I wouldn't mind just emailing and going, hey, well,
my kid just graduated UCLA's really the level would you consider?
Do you need anybody?
Speaker 1: Right? Like, I don't know, Yeah, why not? Well, I
mean it's not like she's just a kid or whatever.
She just graduated UCLA. That says something, you know, an
entry level position. She could find something like that. I agree.
Speaker 2: I think I think somebody will talk to her at
least I don't know. Yah. Yeah, anyway, so that's LB. Yeah,
oh my god, I feel like it's already forty five minutes,
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