Speaker 1: I made a dicsion. I'll paced sunny sun yet on
I had a vision.
Speaker 2: It's what's up, everybody, I'm back, bitch, is Linda's back
back again?
Speaker 1: Wow? You it's about so you were out with You
were really sick. I have not been that sick in
a long time. What happened? What happened? I think I'm
allergic to my kids now. I know it's been so long.
Speaker 2: I feel like since I've been in the studio, since
I've seen you. But basically I started getting sick last week.
I have a upper respiratory infection, but that's been going around,
I guess. And so last week I did a friends
giving for an Italia like kind of spur the moment, like, Hey,
me and seven of my friends want to come down,
can you cook us dinner? Like, bitch, I'm gonna be
cooking turkey a week from now, Like I'm gonna be
cooking turkey two days in two weeks in a row.
We'll bring all the sides and stuff if you.
Speaker 1: Could just do the turkey. So I did the turkey.
Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, they really didn't bring any sides I did.
Speaker 1: I swear to God as you were saying that, I
was like, they didn't really did bring it.
Speaker 2: They probably salad and some fruit, and so I was like, okay,
I'll make stuffing and I'll make the turkey and then
you know whatever, bring whatever you guys want. So then
so that morning I woke up not feeling great, but
I powered through made the freakin' turkey and then it
turned out, eh, not one of my best, but it
was okay. I mean, I've done it so many years
in a row, i can do it in my sleep.
But so I did that. Then I started feeling not
that great.
Speaker 1: Then they leave then, but this was like the day before.
Speaker 2: This was the week before. This was the Thursday before Thanksgiving.
Oh so a full week before, yes, okay, So then
and then that's why that Monday I was down for
the count. Right that Monday, Sonny came into town. And
now it's the Monday before thanksgive the real Thanksgiving, and
I just could not lift my head off the pillow.
I was coughing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like by Saturday, that's when you texted me and
You're like, I'm really sad. Yeah, I had a fever.
Speaker 2: My fever was like one oh two, it got up
to yeah, oh my god. Yeah, So I went to
the urgent camp. Yeah, I mean pretty much, and they said,
you know, all this is going around, it's everybody. It's
like a lot of upper respiratory infection, blah blah blah.
So anyway, so then Sonny came in that Monday, and
I was okay. Then in the middle of all that,
I'm like, try. All I could do was sleep. That
was the only thing I could. I couldn't even keep
my eyes open, and I like try to listen to
like datelines, and I just kept going, Okay, once I
wake up, I'll feel better. And then I would kind
of feel better, but no, no, And then in.
Speaker 1: The middle of all of it, Phil starts throwing up.
Oh my god, Like you know, he didn't eat anything.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he goes on walks and he'll like get into
stuff and I'm not paying attention. I have to pull
him away. I don't know if he got some I
don't know, but he didn't eat anything. This time he
was he had an intestinal bacterial infection, which I didn't know.
So I had a whole day of him throwing up.
Every time he would eat something, he would throw it up.
Even if he drank water, he threw it up. And
then I knew that that's bad. So then the next
day I could barely lift my head, but I drove.
I left a message for the vet the night before.
They called me first thing in the morning, bring him
right in. I brought him in and dropped him off.
They wouldn't even I said, I'm really sick, and they said, just.
Speaker 1: Pull him front. We'll take him out of the car.
Left him there for the day.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, like I'm looking at in a couple of
days of Thanksgiving and there's just stains all over the carpet.
Speaker 1: I can't keep up. I'm trying to clean.
Speaker 2: I mean, if I bent my head down, my head
was going to explode. I had such a bad headache
that wouldn't stop nothing. I took took care of it.
And so anyway, in the middle of all of that,
he gets sick. Now it's like, Okay, I decided because
I made the turkey last week, fuck that I'm not
making another turkey. And my kids don't even care about turkey.
So I said, how about I talked to Wendy, my
my chef, uh you know, concilier, and she's like, why
don't you make cause one year years ago I made
a prime rib roast standing roast, and it was so easy,
but I forgot how to do it.
Speaker 1: So she's like, it's so easy, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: She gave me the recipe, and so it takes a
little bit of prep the night before, you know, to
get it all coated with all the seasoning, and then
you just put it.
Speaker 1: In the oven and you're just done.
Speaker 2: And so I was like, okay, I'm gonna do that,
but then I had to go pick up I ordered
it at the butcher. I was going to go have
to pick that up. Luckily, like Sunning Italian now in town.
So I put those two to work. They went and
got my medicine at the pharmacy, one went and picked
up Phil from the vet, and one went and got
the roast. And then you know, it was a group evert.
And then I was like, I was going to make
all these sides, and I was like, no, I can't.
So I ordered sides from Glson's and I had one
of the kids pick it up.
Speaker 1: No. You know, well, I could tell you this later,
but I'm telling you last year and then again this
year Costco Costco. I know, I know, mashed potatoes Gelson
tries to charge you like so much money for this
small amount. I know CO makes this big as thing.
Speaker 2: Problem with me and Costco is that Costco's pretty far
from me and Glson's is like walking distance from my house,
got it? And I know the manager that Harry's my friend. Yeah,
so I'm like, you got to help his sister out,
so he yeah, put all the order in for me.
So yeah, next I was going to make everything, and
but I didn't even have a chance to go the
grocery store yet, you know. So I was like, I'm
just gonna you know, it's just me and the kids
and Natalia's roommate and that was it, just us. So
I'm like and even Natalia was like, mom, you don't
need to cook, like, don't worry about it. We can
just order food. And I was like, no, no, no, no,
I want the house to smell like something's cooking.
Speaker 1: I already bought the roast.
Speaker 2: So they went and got all that stuff and that
morning I just put everything in the oven and then
it and then I had to use chat GPT all
the way, like how do I know when the roast
is going to be done? I take a picture of
how much it weighed, you know, this is how much?
Speaker 1: Is what?
Speaker 2: And then I had fricking three meat thermometers that were broken,
and so I kept putting it in and the thing's
not moving, and it's like, when it gets to this temperature,
take it out and let it rest for an hour.
Speaker 1: It's like, well I can't. I don't know what temperature
it's at, you know.
Speaker 2: So then it's like I had to send one of
them to go get me a meat thermometer. And then
it was just like I don't know how I pulled
it off, but I pulled it off by the skin
of my teeth, and the roast came out great, The
sides were fine, and the kids were happy. And then
finally I got my medicine, and then I like the
next day I started feeling better, and so now I'm
all pretty much all better, you know. But that's like
and then in the this is kind of gross. So
then I went and get Phil and I bring him
home and they're like, he has a bacterial and testinal infection.
Speaker 1: Here's his antibiotics. So I'm like on the phone, I
bring Sunny, brings Phil in the house. He's got to
go to the bathroom. I let him out in the backyard.
Speaker 2: And I'm in the kitchen doing my thing on the phone,
like looking for something.
Speaker 1: I let fill back in the house.
Speaker 2: I'm not paying attention, and we have hardwood floor, and
Sonny comes out and he's like, uh Mom, And I
come out and Phil's laying there with a big long
string hanging out of his ass, like a string string,
like a string like with like with poop attached, like
as long as my from my elbow to my fingertips,
that's how. And then I had to pull the rest
of it out, like really slowly because he's been hurt them,
you know, or you could damage them, you know. So
I'm like, I'm like, what the fuck fuck me? Like, yeah,
so I don't know what the hell that was, but
maybe that's.
Speaker 1: What gave him the infection. I don't know, but uh,
And then I had to clean the carpets. Then. I mean,
it's just been like it's been a rough week, two
weeks week. So how is Phil doing now?
Speaker 2: Though he's back to normal, he's fine. He was fine
as soon as he got just like me, as soon
as he got on it's like he's got sympathy pains
or something like. It's just because I'm sick. He's got
to get sick. He's a one upper fucking asshole.
Speaker 1: My god, that Vet. Do you always bring him to
the same place? Yes, yeah, you must just be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh they love Phil, they love Phil, and I
can hear like when I drop him off side, you
can hear.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, Phil's back Phil.
Speaker 2: And they tell me like, oh, we love Phil. Yeah,
they're used to him, and I love is. The vet
is super sweet, little Poindexter guy with like a bow
tie and uh uh, probably seriously from the Corolla family
between Molly and Phil because it's basically the same place.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so he's back.
Speaker 2: To normal and I'm back to normal. And that was
like my miserable things kidding.
Speaker 1: So then you're just now feeling well. And then you
had to go say bye to Sonny. And then today
I dropped Sonny off.
Speaker 2: Natalia left on Sunday yesterday, and.
Speaker 1: They were cute.
Speaker 2: They got along great this trip, like they were like
laughing and joking around, hanging out.
Speaker 1: They went. I mean it was like a hometown reunion.
Speaker 2: All their friends are in town and they all went
to these different parties and their friends are coming. And also,
I look like my hair is a rat's nest and
their friends are like this this Corolla and I'm like,
I don't come near me, don't come near me. And
then I think I was telling you this that Natalia
was on a date.
Speaker 1: Natalia pas, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: So Natalia got asked on a date by this kid
that used to look just like him and Sonny played
basketball together when they were like a third fourth grade.
Speaker 1: I've known this kid since fourth grade, third grade, and
his parents are great. We would travel to Vegas together
and stuff.
Speaker 2: And he was a real like his dad was like
a football coach, and they took him out of that
high school to go to a private school to go
play football.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: And so now he's like at Princeton playing football and whatever.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I.
Speaker 2: Guess that he hasn't seen the town. They haven't seen
each other since they were kids, but they follow each
other on social media. And Natalia said that he's been
asking her, asking her on a date for a long time,
like every time there's a break, are you around?
Speaker 1: Are you around? She's always been giving him the heisman,
you know.
Speaker 2: Like eh, So finally she's like, all right, I'm gonna
go on. I'm going to go on a date, and uh.
He was taking her to the sushi place that's next
door to dry Bar, and I wanted to go to
dry bar so bad because I didn't have energy to
blow dry my hair. I wanted to look back to normal,
like come back to life. And he picked her up
and I before dry bar, and I was like, can
I come say hi? And she's like, no, you cannot.
And then I go, well, you know, I'm going to
be passing you guys on the way to dry bar
because my appointments at the same time you're going on
your date to that sushi place. And she's like, please don't,
please don't, and I go, well, if I do, I'll
come after I get my hair dried, of course.
Speaker 1: And she's like no, no, no, don't, just don't.
Speaker 2: And then I get my hair dry and I come
out and it's like this restaurant and the windows are tinted,
but I'm still like trying to look and I'm bumping
into people and I'm like looking through the window and
like peering through into the glass trying to find them
on their date in the restaurant. And then I get
a text that she goes, I just saw you and
then she wrote stupid.
Speaker 1: Moded But I didn't see you guys. I didn't even
get to see them on their date.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Yeah, so they had her and Sonny had
a nice weekend or whatever with all their friends. And
then Talia left yesterday and she's coming back on Wednesday
for one night for some I don't know concert or something.
Speaker 1: Oh what, I don't know, I don't know. I didn't ask,
but she's coming back. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sonny left today and he's coming back next Tuesday, wow,
for the for winter break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's happening so fast because Elbe was home, has
been home for a while, Like I don't even know
when she came. I guess she came home last Tuesday night.
So she's been home for almost a week. And then
she's going to work from our house. Then she's going
to come back home and get her stuff. Then she's
coming I feel like she said she's coming back home again,
like tomorrow something, and then she has like a final.
Then she's going to be at school for like a night.
Then she's going to come home for night. Then she's
at school for night, then she's home like next week.
She's I guess home. She's done. Yeah. So it's just like,
and I know you have this too. It's like, so
we have to pay for your rent in December because
it's not school housing. It's not like even if it was,
it would would be the same thing. They charge you
every it's included every month. But like, I pay for
your for a month and you're not even not even
they have but I now not weird. Yeah, and come
use all our water and electricity. Yeah yeah, yeah, So
I mean it was really it was nice having them home.
Speaker 2: I just didn't have any energy to do anything. I
wanted to go like Christmas shopping the next day with
her and stuff.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, you know, but then they'll be home early,
you'll have time. Yeah, yeah, they'll be home. And then
the twins, you know, who have separate names. I hardly
ever call them the twins. If people only knew how
much we still joke around about that. Sorry to call
them the twins, but I know they're different people. They
don't get out of school the way that it falls
this year, because December twenty fifth is always Christmas, so
the break could start a little bit earlier or a
little later, depending on when Friday is. But this year
they're not often till like the twenty second.
Speaker 2: Oh or what they're not. Oh, they don't get out
until the twenty second.
Speaker 1: So their last day of school, the nineteenth is their
last day, so I guess that's like a week before.
So they get how many weeks off too? They get
three weeks off? Three? Yeah, so that will actually be nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're eighteen year old twins.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're eighteen eighteen, everything changes. You have
no miners at home, no miners at home, it's crazy. Well,
I have quote unquote all adult children, that's right. Yeah,
and people treat you differently when your kid's eighteen, Like
suddenly they don't. They don't want your input or support.
Not the kids, but like doctors are now yeah, no,
we can't go through you anymore. They're eighteen. I'm like, bitch,
they're still on my insurance. I know's paying twenty six
Yes exactly, I'm still paying for their they're still in
high schoo right but no, yeah, the therapist, the all
of it. It's like they don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you still have to make their doctor's appointments
for them. You still have to go like renew their
their prescriptions for them.
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on product and plan purchase. Boom boom, Yeah, okay, I
have a funny story about Sadie getting her tattoo. Yeah,
oh my god, Sadie got a ginormous I didn't know
it's going to be that big. Yeah, neither did I.
So when Sadie first, First of all, we've been talking
about this since she was sixteen. Some of our listeners
might remember that I was like, I want to take
Sadie to get a tattoo at sixteen, like with parental scent.
Uh uh, nobody will do it. It's very illegal. Oh
so you have to be eighteen. You have to be eighteen.
You can't be taken in there by a parent. So
since she was sixteen, she's been saying like, I want
to get a tattoo and I'm eighteen. So we've been
planning this, and of course I was like, well, figure
out what you want, right right, might tell you? Did
she tell you what she wanted? No, because I don't
think she knew what she wanted. But you know, she's
not a basic bitch like LB. So. Elbe got a
tattoo when she was eighteen, but it was like a
little dainty flower. That's what I thought, right, I was
picturing Sadie getting oh cute flower. Yeah. Sadie was like, no,
I don't want that. Like Sadie is edgy, right, Yeah,
she's very different from Elbe. Yeah, so she Okay, So
we remember I think you were here when I was
talking about how the one tattoo artist wanted seven hundred
and fifty dollars and I was like, that's a lot
of money. Right. So I have this friend who has
a really cool tattoo that I was going to go
to for getting a California tattoo on my forearm. So
I showed Sadie a couple of I showed her that
artist and I, look, California tattoo. What are you gonna
want me get the outline of the state of California. Oh,
that's kind of cool. That's cool. I haven't done it yet.
More on that, okay. So I had an alternate tattoo
artist for her. So she found the guy that was
very expensive because she liked a design and it's called
cyber sigillism, okay, some artsy term that is like kind
of abstract lines, and it's the it's the tattoo she got.
So she had showed me a picture and I was like, yeah,
that but like half the size, right, and she was
like yeah no now, So then I said, why don't
you ask this other tattoo artist what the price would
be for that? So he came back and he said
five to six hundred and I was like, well, listen,
it's her eighteenth birthday present. We've been talking about it
for all these years. It's permanent on her body. But
that does sound like a more reasonable price, you know.
Speaker 2: So now it makes sense because of the size of
how much the price When you were telling me this
a week ago, I was like, that's a lot for
a tech for.
Speaker 1: A small testo, which I thought would maybe be like
two to four inches bag, right. So they start going
back and forth. I'm like, my name's Paul, that's between y'all.
This is your present, but like, I don't want to
be the go between. I don't know what the fuck
design you want. So she had to like man up
and like right back and forth to this tattoo artist
who was like, let's talk design. So I guess they
talked about it. Okay. So the big thing was she
needs to be eighteen. I'm like, don't worry, it's on
her birthday. He's like, okay, she needs to bring ID.
I'm like, Sadie, you need to bring ID. You know
where this is going. So we live in the valley.
Not to be that SNL sketch, but we were driving
into the heart of West Hollywood. Yeah, which is far
you know on a weekday. Oh, there's no easy way
to get there. You have to go over what we
Californians or la people know as Laurel Canyon, which can
be very trafficky or it can be kind of open. Yeah,
either way, you're not getting there in under thirty minutes.
So our drive that day was forty five minute drive.
So we leave, we get literally blocks from the place,
and we're running late because traffic had been more than expected.
So we're almost there and Sadie goes, mom, I forgot
my wallet, and I was like, oh, when I tell
you all the blood drained from I was like, first
of all, we're already late, all right. It was at
eleven am. We got plans because this was on the
day of their birthday. We needed to. I don't know
how long a tattoo takes, but I'm in my mind,
I'm like, could be six hours. Yeah yeah. I'm like,
oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, you
had one job. You had one job. Now I'm paying
for it. I'm driving your ass there, Like, are you
kidding me right now? I was. I was kind of mad,
but I'm like, okay. Then, so then we call John.
He can find her wallet and hopefully like take a
picture of her ID. So I'm texting the guy going
through Instagram by the way, because I don't have like
a number some instagramming him. I pull over i Instagram.
I'm like, hey, I am so sorry, she forgot her ID.
Can we can we show you a picture of it?
And he's like, no, sorry, I have to physically see
the ID. Which it's like, you're a tattoo business, can
you Yeah, outside the law, but no. When I had
to take.
Speaker 2: Natality to get her ears pierced for the fourth fifth
time or whatever they this was before she was eighteen,
I had to bring like an actual you know, uh,
the certificate, like birth certificate to show them. They wouldn't
pierce her ears. That's crazy, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never experienced that, like maybe because we've done
it like at them all right, like she went to
an actual place. But anyway, yeah, So I the guy's like, no, sorry,
but he was super nice, and he goes, well, do
you want to reschedule it? And as soon as I
saw that, I was like no, And he goes four
an hour from now, oh how about noon? And I
was like, oh, okay, But in my mind, I'm like,
I can't get to the valley and back in an hour, right,
It's going to take me forty five minutes each way.
But then I'm like, you know what, I call John.
I'm like, I need you to I need you to
drive the ID to me. Sorry. Yeah, but it's her birthday.
She fucked up, right, And he was like, okay, leave
it now. God thank god. So he comes down, we
get the ID in there, we go in. It's this
guy named his name is Adrian, and he's at in
case you're in LA and you want a tattoo because
this guy was the best, so nice, so talented. His
name is Adrian and he is with the Honorable Society.
That's the tattoo place, and his instagram is Sinister Underscore Apples,
Sinister Apples. But it's so nice and so accommodating. Then
he brings out these drawings and I'm like, uh, they're
kind of big, you know, but I'm like, you know what,
I'm gonna keep my mouth shut. It's just not my business. Yeah, Like,
I got to like let go a little bit. So
they go back and forth. She's happier than I've ever
seen her in her life. This girl loves a piercing.
She loves the idea of a tattoo. She loved it well,
she loves coloring her hair. Yeah, she just loves doing
GONI yeah, yeah, yeah. So she was high from it,
like she was so key drugs, right, I don't know, No,
she was so excited and then she was like, oh man,
that's sick. I love sign. And then he was like, okay,
and I have different sizes for you. I did these
sketches and and he said, he goes, so what you
sent me? You know this cyber sigillism. He's like, I
haven't really done that before, but I really got into
making these sketches for you. And then she was like,
oh my god, this is perfect. And there was one
that was slightly he said, more feminine, and I was like,
I kind of like that one, Like, no, she wanted
the one that looks like like barbed wire, right or
tribal or something. Yes, And I'm like, is this gonna
go the way of the tramp stamp? In ten years?
Is she going to be like? What was iful?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, like, don't they have tattoo removal now?
And probably in ten years, it's heard tattoo removal is painful. Well,
maybe technology you'll get better. I don't think she's good.
I think she seems pretty happy.
Speaker 1: I mean she's never regretted anything else that she's done. Yeah,
but so anyway, and she's got it on her waist
up to her ribs, and everybody, like on our Facebook
group was like, dude, that's going to be really painful.
Oh yeah, how did it hurt? No, she was like
a rock star. Wow, she just laid down on that
table and she was like, oh is that all? I
had it in my mind that it was going to
be a lot more painful. I guess that areas that
seems like it would be sensitive too. On her side,
she said it was not that bad. Wow. How long
did it take? I would say from beginning to end?
Like from him the putting the stencil on her, I
would say two hours. That's not bad. No wow, No.
Then it was funny because he's like, hey, do you
want your California tattoo? Because I had done that to
him and he had done a sketch for me really
and then oh and because we were there early and
we couldn't do it, he was like, well, do you
want me to do your California tattoo? And I got
so suddenly nervous and I was like no, I wasn't
planning on it and I haven't eaten, and like no,
thank you. He was kind of laughing at me. And
then afterwards he goes, well, what do you think, like
we have time, like do you want to do it?
And I was like no, still, no, thank you. Don't
really coming back. That's hilarious. Oh my gosh, that's so
great though.
Speaker 2: I'm glad she got it done and she's happy and
and is there like any upkeep with it or anything?
Speaker 1: So they put this like thing that looks like saran
wrap over it, and then she had to keep out
on for a few days. I think she might be
able to take that off and then all she has
to do is rub like lotion, a little bit of
lotion on it, like a couple times a day. Wow.
Oh that's great, I know. Well, good for her. So
that was and then the price at the end, he
was like I had given him one hundred dollars deposit
and he was like five hundred. Oh that's nice, which
is not bad. Yeah, it was like three times as
big as what I thought he was pricing, right right right, Yeah,
So love this guy. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well she's happy, that's you know. And she's not
like something she's been thinking about overnight. You know, she's
been thinking about it for a long time. She's been
wanting one for a long time. Yeah, and she knew
her own mind about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And then that night we just uh, Xander
brought Liowhyle crocodile. So his mom dropped him off at
our house and then we took and then Sadie had
her bff so and then me, so our family plus
the two extra kids and we all just went to CPK.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nice. For their birthday. What did Xander give
for his birthday?
Speaker 1: So he got something called a scarlet, which is it's
a piece of recording equipment that you hook your guitar
and it hooks it into your computer and so you
can produce music. Oh that's cool, play your guitar into
the computer. That's really cool. A little like a little
pass between I don't know, John picked up. John knew
what he wanted and got it for him and he
was super happy.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so nice. That's nice. Now you got Christmas
to think about.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, but I already knew something that I'll be wanted,
which is these speakers for her DJ business, which she
told me about a long time ago. So I got those,
and then I'm getting Xander a microphone that like a
good quality microphone so he can like record music into it.
And then I'll figure something out for Sadie. I'm gonna
just try to be easier on myself this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have no idea what I'm getting these
kids for Christmas, just I don't know. And then we're
supposed to everybody wants us to go to Chicago at
least for the actual Christmas like we've done. But you know,
it's like more chi ching, chi ching, cha ching. But
you know the family wants to go, the kids want
to go, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I got to figure that out. And it's not just
the flights for you, which is not nothing considering you
have to fly them around right well not really, Natalia,
but it's then you have to buy gifts for people.
That's the only thing, like my I was thinking about it.
Speaker 2: My list has shrunk so much throughout the years because
before it was always like, you know, all of Adam's
people we had to get gifts for and their kids
and stuff. But this time, like we did last year,
we did that white elfan thing, We're going to just
do that, okay, and then I'm just getting gifts for
the little the little ones.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you didn't you get your flashlight.
Speaker 2: I got my flashlight, my utility flashlight. The best gift
ever because it was right after the like right we
got back was when the fires we had to evacuate
and was like, where the hell is that flashlight? Lit
up the whole house and Suddy still uses it when
he goes for his walks at night.
Speaker 1: It's great. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2: I end you know, I have to end up buying
three White elf and gifts, one for each kid and
for myself and then so that's it.
Speaker 1: And then I just buy.
Speaker 2: We just buy for the three little kids that are
in Chicago, and that's really it, Like I don't have
to really buy anybody else anything.
Speaker 1: So what do you think are you going to do it?
I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just was talking to Sunny just now on the
way to the airport, so I told him I'll look
into flights later tonight. He really wants to go, he does,
she does too, But so, yeah, I mean, because what
else I don't know, what if we can hang out
at our house and they're home for so long, so
kind of it's nice to kind of break up that.
Speaker 1: But I got to figure out what to do with Phil.
I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can have see if Olga can watch him, we'll see,
but I can't take him with us. But yeah, I mean,
so I got to figure that out for Christmas. And
then I was going to have a Christmas party for
my a like the ABC girlfriends that we get together
usually every year. Last year we did it at my
house and Susanna was like, we should do it again
at your house.
Speaker 1: We were going to do it this.
Speaker 2: Weekend, but I got so sick and I got clean
those carpets and the house isn't ready or you know,
I got to get a Christmas tree, so we moved
it to next Friday. So and then I got invited
to the Ringer Christmas party, Bill Simmons' Christmas party. Oh
really yeah, yeah, which I'm excited about. But it's in
Malibu and it's like, do you know how far that is?
Speaker 1: Is it his house? I think? So, yeah, yeah, it's
at their house. Did he do you think he invited?
At him? They said he's not coming, so oh do
you think they invited him? Then got his RSB and
then said, hey, you can go. I don't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 2: His wife sent me a text really like we love
to see you, should come and blah blah blah, and
Melissa got invited at the same time as me. So
I don't know, but it's nice and I'm probably gonna go.
Speaker 1: It sounds really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just really far, but it was so far
for you. It's really far, uber, you know. But so yeah,
So I get some of that stuff coming up.
Speaker 1: I have one of my Jewish mom dinners one of
the birthdays on this maybe Saturday, and then the following
weekend I've got a Hanuka party, which is really one
of my favorite parties. I have to bully the one
woman into throwing it every year because you know, I
don't entertain So I'm like, you got to have your party,
and she's like you think yes. Sometimes I send like
a passive aggressive text like I'm like when there's a
group text and I'm like, and you're having the party, right,
So she's having it. That's the wet white elephant gift.
Oh that's nice where we get funny stuff and how
much is your limit do you guys put on? I
think we say like fifteen to twenty bucks. Okay, let's
people go over right. Yeah, But it's because some of
the stuff needs to be funny, right. It's not like
a real it's not like a family gifted k where
that's the only gift you're getting. It's like a funny
we play the game right, right, you know, where you
pick something and then if you know, you try to
get get rid of it. Remember last year, I think
I told you I got the Yiddish word refrigerator magnet
thing Yiddish words, and I was like, what the fuck,
I don't want this? And no, I went like really early,
and if you go earlier, screwed because nobody, if nobody,
nobody wanted the Yiddish magnet refrigerator magnets, so nobody took
nobody's going to have taken it. And I kept going, like,
you know what happens is when somebody picks something, when
somebody is going to decide do they want to pick
a new one or do they want to steal something
someone has, you know, everybody starts going, people go, what
do you got? You know, so every time I would
be really extra and be like, I got the Yiddish
refrigerators still available, hasn't been stolen yet, and they're like,
uh huh, yeah, see, we gotta this for our family thing.
I think it.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what the price was last year, but
they're upping it this time because there was you know,
utility utility flashlight to like a spa like nice spot,
uh you know face mask that smells really good. It's
like as batteries and stuff. So it's like, you know,
we're trying to keep everything like on the same level
the stuff that people would want I guess right, yeah,
so yeah, because you know they don't.
Speaker 1: Want to end up with the flashlight. I mean, you're fine,
and later you might see that you really like it? Right,
can you first open it? No, I know it's like
to be about shocking off and nobody's taking it from
me either. Oh do they do it like that too? Yeah?
Oh yeah, do the same way. So somebody could steal it. Yeah,
you could steal it. Yeah, exactly, So you see my pain. Yes,
so I got stuck with the utility, but it did
turn out to be, you know, helpful. Yeah. How was
your Thanksgiving? The same? So my Thanksgiving was fine? Yeah,
the food was really good. It's nice to serve a Patreon. Okay,
like next week, okay, because you have a good Patreon
for this week already. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, so
maybe next week I'll i'll i'll have processed it better. Okay,
all right, I will say this, which I don't want
to bring us all down, but you know, I don't care.
I know this is the regular show, but I'm just
gonna this is a this is a complaint, which I
hope isn't heard because then it's me not being confrontational
enough or but here's the thing. So, when I knew
that we were going to have to put Pepo down.
I told my brother, and my brother was super sweet.
He called me right away. He was like, Oh my god,
what's going on? And then he felt really bad and
the text I sent him was no People for Thanksgiving
this year. So people has been with us for every
Thanksgiving since we got her first Thanksgiving through last Thanksgiving.
Because my brother and sister in law live kind of
far and since they want to host every single year,
we have to drive out there and we can't really
relax unless we got like we'd have to hire a
dog walker, which we've just never really done. We don't
have somebody at the ready, and it's Thanksgiving and it's
not like I can get my neighbor to come over
and walk her. So we've always just brought her. And
then the first time we brought her, we were like, oh,
this is so great because she's the calmest, sweetest, like,
she's not a dog that tries to grab food off
people's plates. She would be there, she would like lay
on the floor, bull would come over and pet her
and stuff. And they don't have any pets. They have
no pets. Yeah, perfect, they have no pets. When the
kids were a little bit younger, they would be at
first a little bit wary of her, and then they
grew to totally love her, and then they would look
forward to her coming every year. So I told my brother,
and then my brother checked in like every couple of days,
and then when it happened, obviously it was super sad.
I talked about it last week. I don't even want
to like get sad and talk about it, but you know,
it was a hard day. So that had happened the
Friday before, right, it's basically been like a week and
a few days, and so like it had literally been
a week, no less than a week. We put her
to sleep on a Friday. This was the following Thursday.
Never heard from my sister in law. She never texted me.
And I said to John, like, it's kind of like,
it's weird that my sister in law like never texted.
First of all, it was on Facebook, which she looks
on Facebook. I'm like, it's just weird that she didn't
like even just comment on the Facebook. No comment, so sorry.
Whereas my other friend who we have Thanksgiving with every year,
was on the post. She was like, oh my gosh,
I'm so sad. People was amazing, like it's not going
to be Thanksgiving without her, you know, like so sweet? Yeah,
nothing from my sister in law. So the day before
she texts me like, hey, like, you got all the stuff?
You know, I'm running out to the store. Is there
any last minute thing that you didn't get or whatever?
And I'm like no, I'm all good. You know, like,
I'm sure my brother told you, like the Pepo that
we had to put Pepo down, And she was like, yeah, yeah,
he told me like a few days ago, and I
saw it on Facebook. I was like what and she goes,
I just figured we talk like when I saw you
at Thanksgiving. I don't know. Now, John will argue with
me that some people are just not like dog people,
so they just don't even think again it might be.
But here's the thing. Every year, every year brought the
dog to Thanksgiving. Yeah, every single year. Like you would
think we're a few we're two days, We're the day
before Thanksgiving. At this point you'd be like, I am
so sorry something. You must be hurting something. Right then
it just gets a little bit worse. And I know
I texted this to you, but I'm just telling the
show because what when we so we get there, and
she says, by the way, she kind of whispers me.
She goes, by the way, we didn't tell my niece
about Pepo, so like, I hope it doesn't come up.
Mm hmm. Yeah. So like, by the way, keep your
mouth shut because like and and my niece and nephew
who a guest don't know, never mentioned anything. No, it
was a real it sucked. It was not a good feeling.
Oh that does suck. I'm sorry because it was. I
was a little bit sad. I was, of course, you know,
it's it the week before, as I said to everybody
on the podcast, the week leading up to it was
one hundred times worse than even the week afterward. Yeah,
not that I'm not still really sad. And I hear phantom.
I hear phantom, like little pla steps in the house.
I think I see her out of the corner of
my eye, Like I walk into the room and I'm
like and then I go, no, ye're not there, and
her bed's not there, and it's I'm still really sad,
of course, but that day was extra sad because that's
a trip that she always comes with me, right, So
I was kind of sad on that day I was,
you know, I don't know, you know what. It kind
of sucked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine. I do think though, John
has a little bit of a point where people don't
if they've never had to if they've never been through it,
they've never had to do that, you know, it just
they don't just don't get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, has she ever actually had she's hat? Yeah,
and she she was, so she was the saddest. Oh
well that doesn't mean when her cat had to be
put down, Well, that doesn't make any sense. And right, Yeah,
And also the odd thing is that niece not telling
the niece because why you don't want to make the
niece upset, But then the niece you didn't even clearly
didn't even. Yeah, that's weird. That's kind of odd's fringe,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, that's strange. Yeah,
I thought it was weird. So well, that sucks. Whatever,
But I have another good story for you for Friday. Okay,
and you have a had a pageot, you've got a
good Patreon that you have been dying. Yeah, I mean,
I'm just gonna lay out the facts and let you
tell me. Okay, I can't wait. Well, let's say hi
to our our people. Oh that's right. Yeah, we got
Dick Frolicker and Nikki Call your Girls, and Elizabeth Williamson.
And by the way, some of these people sent money.
So Lyle Isle Crocodile. You know I always do like
around her. Yeah, I'm an extra gift for that family
because I don't know, I just feel like, I feel
like our whole community. I know we can't do this
for everyone, and I know everybody's struggling, and but they
were legitimately unhoused, you know, living in a motel. When
when I got to them and we all got to them,
obviously it was not me alone, like when I put
that out that original time many years ago, and this
whole community was like, oh, hell no, we're getting her
a car. Yeah, the off the I mean, these kids
were in shelter, I remember, now been living in an apartment.
But this poor mom, she still works as a CPN
as like at a nursing home for minimum wage. She's
really scared to change jobs, she told me, because you know,
unemployment is not I mean, I know Trump says that
no one's unemployed, but it's hard these days, and she
works so hard for her kids, like she is all
about her kids. You know, she comes to every school event,
front row at Winter Kids, and they're both at the
same school. And she just she wants to send her
son to college. You know, she won't be able to
pay anything, but I'm sure she'll get like full financial aid.
But and she really wants him to take his story
of this trauma that his family went through and use
it to like, yeah, further himself. And I just think
that's amazing. It is Anyway, a lot of these people
I put out a call on Facebook for donations for
Oh you did I could give okay them. Hopefully we'll
be able to raise a couple grand like we have
in the past, and people have already people on this
list come through. I just want to thank you guys.
If you're not on Facebook and you want to donate,
hit me up on Instagram or whatever. I'll give you
my swee. Yeah okay. So Rita Bassiet rocks all of
Elizabeth Williamson's kids and Polly We Live your Pancakes and
Valerie hits it out of the park in Katerina. Check
that Mueller girl and Gabby and Missy they were at
the Turkey Trot this year. I think I saw them
there on TV. Came in last and Sean Vob and
Rebecca and Kelly Bryant. She's your aunt, Alicia Escalante from
the City of the Avante. Leslie, I think had what
you had. Why is she coughing? That's why Aaron is
still a dirty Sanchez. Jennifer, you should get up and
get going. Andrew studiesy being green. Stephanie's a stinker rinker
and Christa get the Drop. And I'm not sure if
we're still doing this one, but like you can check.
It might be too late for Elf on the Shelf kids,
but check it on Etsy by searching Little Merry Moments.
Another gift idea is something from Courtney Moore. I e
embroidery on Facebook and they do hats, polos, whatever you like.
That's Ie Embroidery on Facebook. And then Kaylee Pettis. She's
a marriage and family therapist out of Seattle. She can
see you virtually all across Washington State and she is
really good with like relationships. So if you're having trouble
with your love life, check them out. And the website
is Emeraldbloomtherapy dot com. Also the family Skeptical. That's a
podcast about raising kids without religion, so you know, yeah,
if you don't want to do the religion thing, listen
to the Family Skeptical. My friend has a Medium column
called Unbecoming Stories. So go to medium dot com and
look up Unbecoming Stories and you will not be sad
that you did that. Okay. Adam Lerner, if you need
a car and you're anywhere in the United States, he
will he can help you. And he's very good at
just answering questions. Yes he is. So if you're not
even sure but you already to see how he could
help you, go to Adams Got a Car dot com.
If you want a candle, great gift idea is nice
smelling candle and by somebody who's a listener of our show,
check out ferncandle dot com. Jacob Crowley gives his shout
out to the A C. L U. Thank you Jaga.
We need them on that wall. They do a lot
of really good work. Thank you. And if you want
to go somewhere, you know, to travel to see relatives,
go on a cruse whatever. Go to Waves and Wonder
Travel on Facebook. She's Christine Concierge Travel planner. If you're
in Hawaii, why not go to Sugar Skull. That's our
friend Maren's business on the island of Kawaii. And if
you just want to check out their Instagram page, go
to sugar Skull eight oh eight. Yeah, and I'll do
the rest next week. Okay, thanks everybody, We love you. Guys,
your parent now, don't f it up that a