Speaker 1: Made sansom.
Speaker 2: O face sunny sun on, I haddasion Nice.
Speaker 3: What's up everybody sitting here in our new studio. Yes,
it's really cool.
Speaker 1: You guys can't see it yet because we don't have
the cameras hooked up.
Speaker 3: But it looks great, the two big cute orange chairs
and the sofa. But the only thing is I can't
see Kaylen he's behind me. That's the only thing that's us.
But it looks really good in here. They're doing a
great job.
Speaker 2: I came in on Saturday with Patrick and we took
everything out of here. We moved those shelves, we painted
the floors, we sealed up all the cracks in the walls,
and then you readd the bathroom and then yeah, I
had to This is the setup that we wanted. But
I had to leave because the floors were all painted.
I had to get back home. So Pat put this
all back in himself.
Speaker 1: Nice. Oh did agree, great job. All we had to
buy was the chairs. Yeah, we got off easy, Yeah
we did. We just need footstools. That's all footstools, yes, ottomans? Yeah, right?
Is there a difference? Is it is footstool just another
name for an ottoman or is an ottoman just a bigger,
bigger footstool. I guess, yeah, yeah, sorry, maybe it's called odaman.
I think another thing that's definitely my no, she and
my odaman. Yeah, tournaments. Every time I say to tournament,
I always go tournament, tournament.
Speaker 3: I think I start saying it tournament, tournaments. It's a
tournament though, right, I guess it depends on where you live,
I think, right, yeah, yes, I'm trying to say tournament, tournament. Anyhow,
any Who's I've got a great story for today. Oh good,
But first, let me say hi to our fabulous people.
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Speaker 1: I just got back from Vegas a day or two
ago and I saw them. Did you really? Yeah? I did.
I went to Vegas. Oh my god, yeah, I cannot wait. Okay,
you didn't tell me that.
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That's nice on our Patreon peeps. Well, let me hear
about Vegas first. Then that's so fun. Well, I mean
it was.
Speaker 3: It was very spur of the moment. Yeah, cause my
girlfriend down she's a huge gambler at Caesar's and they
her pit boss or whatever called her and said if
she doesn't get she's she's a few points away to
becoming a seven star member, which is the top tier.
Oh she's yeah, which's been taking her a long time.
Since COVID she lost a lot. She I guess her
points went down or something.
Speaker 1: So Ever, since COVID she lose points from losing I
would think that that would gain you points. They'd be like, yes,
please come gamble here more. I think that's because she
didn't go. I don't know, she said.
Speaker 3: Ever since COVID she's been down, so she's been trying
to work a way back up. She was getting close
before anyway.
Speaker 1: So and what does that get you? If you're a
seven point Oh my god?
Speaker 3: Like comped rooms, everything is comped car picks you up
at the airport. You can go to any restaurant that
no weight in lines and ever, even if you're going
to the cashier to catch out to cash out your chips,
if there's a line, you go right in the front.
Seven Star members write this way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys need to invite me to Vegas. I
know we should. I know we would have fun. I'd
go with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because she plays poker, that's her thing.
Speaker 1: That would be so fun. I know poker with her.
I know it would be fun. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So she's so her Sir Pitt Boss said, she's, you know,
very close, but she has until December thirty first, otherwise
she'll she won't she'll lose. I don't know how it works,
but she has to December thirty first. So she was
planning on going with her husband, Like when was Thursday
of last week to Saturday and her husband couldn't go.
Something happened and she called me and invited me. So
we went and I was like, I don't really, I
don't know enough money, Like it can't be gambling right now.
It's Christmas and shit be traveling and everything. And she's like,
don't worry, you know, I I you know whatever, I'll
pay for everything. And so we went and it was
there was the rodeo in town. Okay, right, there was
cowboys everywhere.
Speaker 1: Every god this I know it totally was.
Speaker 3: It was cowboys City and they were and they're cute
and they were very sweet, polite, and they're fun to
play craps with. Oh my god, I had a ball
playing craps with them. It was we had a best time.
Speaker 1: So we were there. She made it to seventh star.
What Yeah, she got the seven star. Wait, but tell me, okay,
so how did you fly your jet blue sweet or
whatever that's sweetweet? Yeah? Yeah okay. And then so you
where'd you guys stay? Oh? Caesar's Caesars. We stayed there, yeah, okay,
And there was your room comped.
Speaker 3: Our room was comped, oh yeah, our every all meals
were comped.
Speaker 1: Everything.
Speaker 3: We went to a great steakhouse there for dinner or
seafood house. The next night we ate, I mean, and
then she took me to the show Abstinin Okay, yeah,
I've heard of it at Caesar's. It was okay, Like
she's she's you know, she's like, you're gonna love it.
It's hilarious. It's so funny, and they do acrobats, but
it's funny there. They fuck with the audience and stuff.
And then I was I was like, you know, me,
I don't like comedy, like I don't like funny, yeah,
you know, but I like the acrobats and stuff like
it was cool. You know, I'm not gonna complain. It
was a free show. Yeah, and it got her off
the tables for a while, you know, because she goes
and gambles, like I'll wake up in the middle of
the night. She's gone out of her bed.
Speaker 1: But last time you guys went, she won a ton
of money. Yeah. This time, no, she went home with nothing.
Oh yeah, but did she did she lose a bunch
of money? She did. She lost all her money that
she came with. Oh no, I know. And she's like,
you know, you win, sem you lose. So she's so sweet.
Don She's really sweet.
Speaker 3: She's so polite to everybody she brings a card to
and then tips her her boss that takes care of her,
you know, and like she's so nice. She's like a
little too nice. She talks to people all the time,
like all right, come on, don move it along.
Speaker 1: But she's she was, you know, she was.
Speaker 3: She was up for a while and then I went
and gamble. But when I go with her, I'm by
myself a lot because she just sits there and gamble.
Speaker 1: So I was that was way bring. I know, I know,
and you and I can hang out while she's so busy,
or like I could go play poker. Yeah, she could
hang out with you. Yeah, or you know, we should
have a friend I know, I know, I'm serious. We
should do that. I'm totally serious. I would totally go.
Speaker 3: And now she can get like friends and family discount
rooms for as I think. I don't know how many.
I'm sure there's a limit, but yeah, so we get
discout rooms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or she could get a suite or she can sleep,
yeah she can do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then when we go to dinners it's all comped.
Speaker 1: That's so fun. I know, that's great Vegas and.
Speaker 3: Listen, it wasn't easy for her to get there. She's
been gambling for years. I mean for years, like I
think about twenty years now she's been going. She goes
to like Palm Springs. Sometimes she'll go to like too
much because you know, do you.
Speaker 1: Think she has a problem? You know, I did think.
Speaker 3: But she doesn't gamble when she's home, Like, she's not
online gambling or anything like that. It's just when she
goes to Vegas, which is a couple times a year.
But when she goes, she goes, she brings a lot
of cash and sometimes she wins and sometimes she loses.
So yeah, but I had a great time playing craps
at the crap stable with the cowboys.
Speaker 1: Did you meet any boys?
Speaker 3: I met a lot of them. It was so fun,
and they're so polite. They're so sweet and nice. Uh yeah,
but it's fun when you're playing.
Speaker 1: Ride the Cowboy. Yeah, oh my god. I had the
best time though, gambling with them at the craps. It
was fun. Yeah, did you win? I was winning?
Speaker 3: And then I kept going and then you know, it
was early in the evening and I didn't want to
go to bed yet, and I so then I took
my winnings. I went and I'd stopped for a while,
sat down with her, and then I was like, oh
fuck it, I'm going because I had so much fun, right,
and then you go back the second time that h
you know, yeah, yeah, so I didn't win nothing.
Speaker 1: The hard thing is when you're playing crops, because I
also love craps. But the scary thing is, okay, so
you start, you get on a little streak, but then
you take all of your money. Caitlin, do you play crops?
Speaker 2: I played it once when we did it once or
twice when we did a Corolla event in Vegas. Paul
Brian was teaching me how to play it. I hate gambling,
so I was just doing it for I played like
one time and it was the most confusing thing I'd
ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't love gambling either. I love I like
playing poker. That's different than loving gambling. I don't like
things that are like very by chance, Like I don't
like Roulette, I don't like I don't mind video poker.
I'll play video poker just because it still has the
poker aspect to it, even though it's very specific. Like
you have to know poker, but it's it's you just
play that you're not there's no psychology. Yeah, you're playing
a machine. So it's just the facts a poker like
this hand beats this, so you have to hold these cards.
But the thing about craps is just the fun of
being at a table with a bunch of people and
you do get this little inno wish intuition, like you're like, oh,
I think a six is going to hit, you know,
and then you go I want six the hard way,
and then you can go like, oh, I think I
also feel ten, so you put place bet on ten.
So the thing about it is that so hurts your
heart is when you're all on a streak and then
all of your money ends up going covering all the
covering all on the board, and then you crap and
then they hit craps and it's like bye bye to
all that money.
Speaker 3: I know, and believe you me, I felt that the
other night. Yeah that's what happened.
Speaker 1: But when you're when you then you know the numbers covered,
and then they're just hitting their numbers and they're hitting
them the hard way, and you've got like I want
I want five dollars on hard ten days it would
be I want ten dollars. Yeah, on hard ten, I
want ten dollars on this And then the numbers are
hitting for the hard way and you're just they're just
shoveling money, I know, and you're like, oh my god,
yeah I know. And then it's like oh, it's all gone, yeah,
and a heartbeat's gone. And sometimes there's people it happens
a lot with women where they're just really unlucky and
they're just like, oh, I don't really know how to play,
and then they blow on the dice and then they
do it one time crops.
Speaker 3: Right, and it's like really, yeah, yeah, I find yeah,
like beginners and stuff, or I get lucky a lot.
You find that, yeah, But when you really are trying
too hard, you know, that's when you start to lose.
I think, Yeah, you know, you have to just kind
of go like, Okay, I'm just gonna play with this
money and see what happens. But you went for two nights, yeah, yeah,
I mean we got there kind of late the first
night and we just kind of went to dinner and
hung out, gambled a little bit. But then the second night, Yeah,
and during the day we went to the mall and
stuff and you know, it was but it was fun.
Speaker 1: We had a good time. She's very sweet. She's sweet.
How's her like? She getting like forgetful? Was she being
like or was she being fine? Yeah, she is still forgetful.
Speaker 3: I feel really I'm really worried about her actually, because
she's got a lot of medical issues. I mean they
she goes and gets checked all the time, but she
has to take I mean she took like handfuls of medication,
you know, like twice a day. She's, oh, I gotta
take my pills. Oh I gotta eat so I can
take my pills. She has so much pills and it
makes her body bloated, and I feel like her faces bloated.
And then her leg got really bloated while we were
in Vegas, and her her ankle was all puffy and
swollen and stuff. It was awful. And she's it's just
the because of the medication. But yeah, she does get
forget forgetful sometimes some timely the same story. Like we'll
go to dinner and she'll tell me, like her daughter
started a new job at this company that she really likes.
Speaker 1: That'll be at dinner right.
Speaker 3: Then the next day we'll be at breakfast and we'll
be making we'll talk and I'll mention her daughter and
she'll go, oh, but you know, my daughter got this
job that she really likes it.
Speaker 1: I just sit there and go, oh, really, like I
heard it, never heard it before. Like she doesn't have
any sense of like did I did I already tell
you this? M She doesn't do that. No, I feel
like I just told you no, no.
Speaker 3: And then sometimes like I'll go, lead, don I know
you already tell me? She goes, Okay, all right, I
know everybody tells me.
Speaker 1: I repeat myself, you know, but she she is worrisome. Yeah,
she could she have like early on set Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3: No, it started after she hit her head that brand, Yeah,
at Caesar's. She fell and hit her add at Caesar's
and had to have like she was in the hospital
for two weeks in Vegas, had to have stitches, and
you know, and ever since then her memory has been fucked.
Speaker 1: But wasn't it also kind of bad before that too?
Speaker 3: Well, she was always you know, kooky, but not with
the memory thing that started. I think after that, I think,
but she was always kind of you know airheaded or whatever. Right,
But yeah, it's I am worried about her.
Speaker 1: It's hard because you know, you get to a certain
age and every time I'm having any kind of memory thing,
I'm always like, oh, no, I know, I'm losing my memory, right,
John and I have so many arguments about like did
I already tell him that? You can already tell me
something like it happens all the time. While I'm like, no,
I know for a fact I told you that, and
He's like, no, you absolutely didn't tell me. And then
I'm like, you're losing your memory, right, I know. Well
see the thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But the thing is is me, you and my
sister in law and a lot of my friends are
feeling the same way.
Speaker 1: Their memory.
Speaker 3: When you get to a certain age with women, their
memory starts to kind of go what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's menopause for me, because I definitely
started to have it. Yeah, that's what I think. First
I was having the reaching for a word like and
then it would be an obvious word like not like
car or keys, but like you know, a word you're
trying to even think of a word like tarot cards
or something, And then I'd be like you know those
cards that can like tell your your fortune. Yeah, it
would usually be a word that I don't use all
the time, but that I'd be like, oh my god,
I I know that word, like it's a common word.
And then somebody would be like tarot cards and I'm like,
oh my god. And then it became sometimes words that
I was like, okay, if I would be like, I'm
never gonna I will never think of it, and then yeah,
you'd you look it up or whatever, you go, what's
another word for blah blah? And then I would go,
I dot. I never would have come up with that.
I know, I do that.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I know that happens to me too, and I get scared. Yeah,
like how did I lose that word from my I
don't know. Especially as a writer, it's very disconcerting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet well. I mean we can go talk
to doctor knock around and see if it's normal.
Speaker 1: I mean I kind of think it is because it
is John. It has the same thing too, though, huh.
I mean I know for a fact sometimes I tell
him things and it's not like, oh, maybe I told
him and he wasn't really listening. He was only half listening.
It's like sometimes I know that I've had a conversation
with him, and then he'll be like, you one hundred
percent did not tell me that, And I'm like, nope,
I remember where we were standing, I remember what you
said back right. And then sometimes I'll go no, because
you said this back to me, and he'll go, oh, yeah, okay,
I guess I did. And sometimes he'll be like, now,
you never said it. I guess that comes with aging. Yeah,
I guess, Kaylin, don't worry. You got like twenty years. Yeah, Kylen,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: I got time.
Speaker 1: It's really kind of sad. Yeah, it is. What do
you call it when it's like not happy? But it's
like when you're not happy, I'm just kidding. See we
think that's normal, right, Yes, the word for oh, you know,
like you're crying, like really upset, Like oh what is
that word? Yeah, that's how it's. That's what it's come to. Though.
It's like words like that that I oh, that's the worst. Okay,
But you know that movie still Alice Oh Julian Moore,
where she plays somebody who has early on set Alzheimer's. Okay,
that movie is very freaky because the part where she
The main way that she realizes something's up with her
memory is she's going for a jog to a place
she always goes and she gets lost jogging and she
can't find her way and she's like, doesn't know which
way to go home. And that's when she's like, oh,
I'm having memory shoes. But then she goes to the
doctor and they give her like a memory test, and
she pretty much passes it. Like they they have to
give her words to memorize, okay, And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They'll say like, okay, I'm going to tell you a
street address and then you're going to repeat it back
to me a couple of minutes. So they're like one
two seven eight Brown Street, okay. So then they just
ask her something else, how was your day yesterday blah
blah blah, And then they're like, what was that address? Well,
that's hard. Yeah, I would never be able to do that,
I know you think about it. Yeah, yeah, I'm like
I do it where you know, when you have to
look up a phone number and then you have to
go put it into your cell phone. But yeah, you're like, oh,
what was that number again? Yeah, I'm terrible at that. No,
I know, so is that, but I feel like I've
always been like that, Like, yeah, if I have to go,
like okay, two one, three, eight five, nine, four six,
seven five on there, I'm not gonna I can't remember
what I just I don't even know my kids a
cell phone number. Don't know mine either.
Speaker 3: I kind of know, like the first three numbers, but
then you know, I get, I forget the last I
mean same.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you any and especially Elbie's had her
phone for a long time. It's been the same number
the whole time. No, I kind of know it right.
It starts, I know it starts with nine, one, six,
and then I get I flipped the last couple.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Sunny and Italians are there. Their last two
are close, like one is zero one and the other
one is zero three. But I don't know which one
is zero one, which one zero three?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Sometimes I look at my texts and
so on my computer, I can see my text, but
it doesn't have the name for some reason. On my
phone it does, so I have to like click in there,
like I can't recognize the number.
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Speaker 1: So after so second night of Vegas. Yeah, so you
did your gambling the first night or mostly the second
mostly the second night, okay, And then you guys flew
home the following day, yeah, on Saturday. Yeah, and were
you so tired? I was, This is tiring. It is,
it really is.
Speaker 3: And then Sonny was coming home. So I couldn't come
to the show last week because Sonny's ankle was fractured.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, tell us what happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he he he was out with his friends
the first night or the second night that he was
home for the holidays, and I don't know he Italia
thinks he was probably drunk, but I don't know. But
he was with his friends and he told me they were,
you know, like I don't know. They were standing in
the driveway of nobody's house. It was really dark, and
then he stepped on a rock and he twisted his ankle.
Basically is what happened. And he refused to go to
urgent care the first few days. And I said, Sonny,
you need to go to urgent care because you can't.
You can't, you know, your your ankle is still swollen
and it's like bruised and black and blue and you know,
and you gotta you're gonna be doing some traveling, right
You're supposed to go to New York for a week
with your dad, So what are you gonna do? Like,
you can't barely walk? So anyway, went to urgent care.
Turns out he has a frank fractured ankle. They put
him in a boot and they said come back in
like two weeks, and well, you know, it took him.
I took him to an orthopedic doctor that day. That's
why I couldn't come in because.
Speaker 1: I was so had you already knew though? It was
broken from.
Speaker 3: Urgent Care the night before, right on Friday night and
Monday I had to find an orthopedic doctor to take
him to because he was supposed to go home for
UH to take his finals the test, and he couldn't.
He couldn't go, so and then he's supposed to fly
to New York that same week, a couple days later.
So I only had Monday or or Tuesday to get
him into a doctor to see what he needs to
do with his ankle. So the Monday I got in,
thank god, I got into a place Pasadena, took him
and they told him stay in your boot. You can
walk on it, but like you know, don't put too
much pressure and come back in two weeks.
Speaker 1: So okay. Yeah, So then he flew to New York. Yeah,
and he's been getting around pretty good because New York
is a walking city, I know, and he's to do it.
He did it, he said, he did it. He didn't
get to walk as much as he wanted, but he did.
He was okay, he's been walking on it. It shouldn't
be though.
Speaker 3: We we he talked at the doctor. I wasn't in
the room when the doctor came. We waited for so long.
I had to go, like put money in the meter,
and as soon as I leave, the doctor comes in.
And anyway, so he said, the doctor said that I
can travel and stuff and I can walk on it,
but don't put too much pressure. And he told me
that he doesn't put a lot of pressure. It doesn't
feel like because it's in the ankle, which is better.
Speaker 1: It's not my foot. Okay, So as long as he
stays with the boot on, he should be. Okay, I'm
kind of an expert, I know. Yeah, you would be
with the boot, right, Yeah, yeah, I had that boot
for but my member of mine wasn't healing. I know.
Then I had to get the bone stimulator thing you geez, yeah,
which I gave away. Oh, he's probably not going to
need that. Kids healed quickly. Yeah, well he's you know,
he's been active, but I don't know. We'll see. So
he didn't go back to school. Then now he was
able to do his stuff.
Speaker 3: He was able to do his stuff. Yeah, remote, Oh
that's good. Yeah, he talked to the doctor, to the teachers.
But the boot thing, Oh, he's got to be in
it for like five five weeks. Oh wow, okay, yeah,
how long were you in your boot? I was in
it for like three months because it wasn't healing though.
Three months, but yeah, like yeah, holy shit.
Speaker 1: Well maybe longer because after like six weeks I was
supposed to be out, but then they kept that. I
was like, it's still it hurt so bad. When the
day that I took the boot off that I was like, okay,
it's been this many weeks and then it was so painful.
So I went back to the doctor X rayted. They're like, nope,
it's still broken. I mean, it was starting to heal,
but it was not healed. So he was like, no,
you got to stay in the boot for another like
three weeks. So then I did that, came back in
still still he could still see the break still hurt.
So then I was in the boot for like another
three weeks. So did you stay off your feet a lot?
So I was probably in it for twelve Yeah, for
three months. I mean I tried, but I had to
get around. I know, that's the thing. Sorry, I have
allergies really bad. That's okay. By the way, I don't
know why this just like occurred to me, but we
have a good Patreon for you guys. Yeah we do.
Should we say that we talked about Alison Biddell? Yeah,
why not? We did some trash talking if you guys
want to hear. Yeah, well we almost. We considered talking
about it on the Regular Show, but then we were like,
as well, yeah, save the Regular Show for our actual lives,
not other people's lives. No, it was good or super
interested in our lives, right exactly. It's so weird. Yeah, yeah,
we gave our opinions, some real strong opinions. Speaking of
New York is kind of why I thought of it, anythink. Yeah,
So okay, So he's though he's feeling better. He's hanging
with his Frendzi's home. When does a Natalia come home?
Speaker 3: Well she, oh my god, she was in New York
with her dad.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and then because they all went together, you know,
to you know, it's there a holiday time with Adam.
And then she flew back a day early from New
York to Lake Tahoe because her friends had a house
in Lake Tahoe for a few nights. Oh but she
fully done with school.
Speaker 3: Then, yeah, she did all her finals. Yeah, she was done.
Speaker 1: I mean that day she finished her finals, she left
and went to the airport in Santa Barbara.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so she she flew into Tahoe and that so,
but the day she was leaving and flying in, she
was calling me from the airport. Her friends are calling
her that are already there, saying, you know, there's a
huge winter storm coming.
Speaker 1: It's snowing like chunks of snow, and all the freeways
are closed. All the roads and freeways are closed.
Speaker 3: No, and I go, Natalia, I'm really now, what like,
how are you going to get what if all the
roads are closed, what are you gonna do? You're gonna
be stuck at Reno Airport right like what is she
supposed to do?
Speaker 1: So she she she did it.
Speaker 3: I said, well, you you know, call me and let
me know. And she got to Reno and then she
got an uber driver and she loved him. She said
he was great. And he got her to the place
to the house. There was a lot of road closures.
Speaker 1: But he got her there. Okay, yow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now she's coming home tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Oh so she's still there. Yeah, this was all just
you know, I picked Sunny up from the airport last
night when he came in from New York. Oh my gosh,
you've been so busy. Yeah, I've been while, I mean,
running around with everybody. Yeah. Yeah, So now the kids
will be home and then I don't know, we're supposed
to go to New York for Chris or to Chicago
for Christmas. Uh huh. But I don't know if we
I don't know. I feel like kids might need stay
home and relax. I feel like they've been doing a
lot of traveling and stuff, even though you know, they
really in Chicago. My family really wants us to come.
I don't know, Well, could you go to Chicago for
New Year's now? The kids want to be here for
New year's okay, So I don't know, I got to
decide like today. If you do that, then you're gonna
have to go get a bunch of Christmas gifts.
Speaker 3: I know, and have it sent to Chicago. Yeah yeah,
buy them online and haven't sent there, which I've done before.
We've had Christmas there before many times. That's what I
usually do. So I don't know, we'll see Christmas. Can't
believe it's next week.
Speaker 1: I know it is so much because you know, for me,
I feel like my kids just had birthdays, right, so
that was all the what am I going to get
for their birthday? And then it goes right into the holidays.
And this has come fast because my kids finals so
Sadie and Xander, this is their junior year of high
school and it's really intense. They've had like all the
papers do and and poor Sadie. So I don't know
if I've mentioned this before, but both my kids are
very different, and they have different abilities and different interests
and different levels of how much they want to achieve,
how interested they are. And you know, Xander is a perfectionist.
He you know, wants to have straight a's, you know,
and Sadie, I know, like would like to get good grades.
She feels really good when she has good grades, but
like she's not. It's you know, she had to do
chemistry for school, hard classes. She's got hard classes for
her Yeah, you know, she struggles and toward the end
of the year because I think due to having ADHD,
it's very difficult for her to Part of the diagnosis
that she got was like her memory was it's called
like working memory. So it's not like memory to us,
like short term, long term. It's like how much stuff
can her brain store before some of the she loses it?
You know, And we make jokes about that all the time.
It's like how much information can we have in our
brain from our whole lives before something's got to go?
Like when am I going to forget my social Security
number because I just learned a new person's name?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: But for her, it's like she takes in all this
information in her classes and then some stuff just doesn't
know storage available. It's like computer like the processing speed.
You know, you can have stuff stored in there that
she can come back to. But while she's trying to
work with different too many classes, some stuff she just
can't take it in so like, for instance, when school ended, well, okay,
toward the very end of the year, the school year,
which was just ended on Friday, So this just happened. Okay,
So Xander had a bunch of stuff going on, which
I will get to in a minute. But Sadie was like,
I've got She was crying so much, Lynnette. It was
very sad that every day she would come home and
she would just start crying and she was like, I've
got Like and then she's like, my grade in chemistry
is a C because I have all these missing assignments.
So then she had a final too. So to me,
the missing assignments are kind of an unforced error because
I said, I'm happy to pay for a tutor. I
have paid for a tutor. If you want to have
a tutor that's just like once a week. Yeah, the
tutor is not even trying to reteach you chemistry. The
tutor is just keeping you organized and like, give all
the work that's missing, and the tutor can help you
finish these assignments so that you can turn them in.
Because what was happening is she was taking stuff home
thinking she finished it, but she didn't according to her. Yeah,
I don't know. And then all of a sudden, she's
got nine assignments that she just never turned in that
are bringing her grade down. So the night before the
last day of school, well, so she goes to her
chemistry teacher, why is my grades low while you're missing
all these assignments. If you want to finish them and
turn them in tomorrow, I'll give you credit for them.
So she was up until so she worked from like
four in the afternoon to two o'clock in the morning
doing all these assignments. She's so tired. Next day is
like the last day of school. The teacher only gave
her credit for some of them. I don't know if
that's the teacher or if that's she told her some
of these I can't give you credit for they go
too far back.
Speaker 3: Oh god, no, you know when my kids were in that,
and I think, yeah, it was eleventh grade. I got
them a tutor to keep them on track with stuff,
especially with chemistry, and for Natalia got her for chemistry
and math. I think, just to help her keep her organized,
to help her go like, oh, here's your missing a site.
Let's do these and get these done. It makes a
world a difference to have somebody help you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I always tell her, I'm like, look, so
she ended U up this this semester with two c's,
a push and which she shouldn't have to be taking
an AP class anyway, but a push and chemistry, and
then she did well in the other classes. But she
feels really bad about it. But I was like, coirl,
you're so far ahead of where I was like, I
lost interest in even trying. I told her, I go,
you know what. I never took one a single AP class.
I didn't even take honors classes. I've literally told her this.
I'm like, you just got an A and Honors English.
I wouldn't. I took English should have been my best subject,
and was spelling an English and grammar. I like decent
at it. I took one Honors English class and we
had to read these like hard books, and I got
a C in the class and then dropped the honors portion.
I was like, oh no, I took all general ed classes.
I'm telling you, I never took one AP class, and
I know they existed. I know, I know it's the kids.
I mean for her to get like the c's, that's fine.
I'm like, you passed. What do they say, c's get degrees?
That's right, you pass the class. Who cares like she's
not trying to get into Harvard. So I'm like, what
difference does it make? Okay, so you have a couple
of seas on your record, it doesn't matter. But it's
hard when you have other when your twin is like,
wait what final?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah that was easy. You know, it's just like hard
And I know, but I don't want like Xander to
have to like dim his r like like but at
the same time when he's like, wait what that final?
Oh that was pretty Yeah, I've been that ZiT. I
know I had that with the twins. Too necessary? Yeah,
I know, you don't need your commentary, Like tell me
that in private, like I can be like, oh, I'm
so glad it was you aced it because it's easy.
He's like one of the tests that Sadie really struggled with.
He's like, oh I got a forty five out of
forty Oh my god, Xander, save it for after Starbucks
all together, save it for home in private, like tell
me that. But you know, I don't want to be like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: Okay. So yeah, So anyway, all that is to say
that the end of the year, the end of the
semester for us, was very stressful and we didn't we
couldn't really have time to go get a tree. I've
been trying to rush to like buy gifts and like,
I'm sure this has happened to you before, but it's
so easy to buy for my daughters.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I want to know, like what you
what are you getting Xander? Xander like what what do
you want? And he's like, I don't know, gift cards
for clothes. I know needs to buy clothes Sonny doesn't
have anything, Like the only thing he wants is tickets
to a UFC fight. Well there you go. Yeah, like
his dad is getting him that because he has connections.
So now I'm back to square one. Yeah, I mean
Natalia is so easy. Oh my god, LB and Sadie
are so easy. You know what I got them. Here's
a gift idea for people. Okay, so you know how
they make those the Dyson hair wrap thing. Yes, they're very,
very pricey, and I would I certainly can't afford to
get them that. But there's dupes. And I heard Elbe
mention something about how she borrowed her roommate's shark. It's
called a shark flex wrap. Oh, so other companies are
now doing it. Other companies make it, but there's only
a couple that do one that's real comparable to the Dyce.
And so Elbie was telling me that she was getting
ready for this event and she borrowed her roommate's shark.
A roommate let her borrow her shark, and she goes,
it's like a it's a Dyson hair rap dupe. And
she was just telling me in the right and I
was like, ooh, gift idea because I like to get
them like one big gift.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I know, so then which has been in the past,
like a phone or like you know that's been like
a big gift. But so anyway, I talked it over
with John and he thought I was. I was like, yeah,
there's this dice in hair rap it's like five hundred
and six hundred bucks. And he was like, oh god,
I know. And then I said, but this is like
the dupe. It's still like two hundred dollars. But I
got it from Costco using my Costco membership. I got
a nice discount on it. So I got one for
LB and one for Sadie. Oh cute, and it still
left me. But I've also gotten a bunch of little
things for Sadie and LB along the way because sometimes
they mentioned something and then I find something funny that's
their personality. Meanwhile, I got like, I'm so I asked
on our fcol page and people gave me some good ideas.
So I bought him a guitar pick maker. Oh yeah,
that's cool, I know, but it's like that's just like
a little thing. And then I got him, Oh, I
got him a necklace he likes chains with an X
on it for his name. And then oh and by
the way, I was like this many years old when
I found out that you can hide your browsing history
because we all share an Amazon account. Oh, I know
it's possible to have separate accounts, but we have a
prime membership, so everybody just goes on the same Amazon.
I hate that. And then the kids see what you
bought him on it. But I found a way to
take something out of your browsing history so it doesn't say,
like recently looked at I don't need the shark thing
coming up.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I hate that too. I know, like there's gonna be
no surprises. I know, but I got him the pick
maker and the necklace and now I still have I
like I assigned it to John. Somebody people mention great things,
like a new guitar pedal for him, which I guess
creates effects. But John's like he has three of them,
Like every time he saves up his money, he goes
and buys a new pedal.
Speaker 3: So it's like, didn't he want a keyboard or something?
Speaker 1: Got it fromhim? That was his birthday present, that's right, okay,
which is actually was kind of a funny story because
so I gave him cash so that he could look.
I was like, we're not buying you a brand new keyboard.
They're like five hundred bucks. Like I guess they're not
that expensive if but anyway, I gave him some cash.
I gave him one hundred and fifty dollars cash, and
I was like, look up ones you want on Facebook
marketplace and then we'll go get it. So he found one,
and it's just funny because you know my experiences with
Facebook mark. So I find this one and it's like
I talked to I messaged the person. It's a guy
and I was like, JESU, is this still available? And
he's like yes, but it doesn't have it was missing something.
But then Xander. Then I came back to the guy
and I was like, hey, I think I want to
get this anyway. I didn't even try to negotiate Xander
see it at all? Or you just found it, Xander.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I had sent Xander a couple of options that I found,
and then I told him to search, but he ended
up coming back to one of the ones I found
and he was like, I think this one's pretty perfect,
and I was like, okay, it's missing the music stand. Anyway,
I write to the guy and he's like, hey, good news.
I found the music stand the music holder. And I
was like, oh okay, cool, it was only it was
eighty dollars. Oh nice, and it was new. So of
course I'm like, what's the catch?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm gonna go get I was gonna go
get it. John was doing something. He was like working,
but he offered to go with me, but I made
LB come with me. I was like, I gotta go drive.
It seems maybe a little bit shady, but it's like no,
it was at a like a warehouse, you know these
type of places. It's like a little business. You know,
he's a little business and it's not a mini mall.
But they're like, what do you call it when there's
just like a bunch of offices and it doesn't look
like anything like an industrial name an industrial yes, thank you,
seeing my memory, it's like an industrial complex. So the guy,
I was like, okay, so how am I gonna?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Do I have to go in? I was like, can
you just bring it out to me? And he's like
it's you're gonna you just pull into the parking lot
and it'll be out in a box. Okay. So Elvi
was just like, mom, what are we getting ourselves in?
And now right it's like I'm like seeing, I gotta
go to seven eleven and get some cash. Oh my god.
Then we got to go do this deal. But luckily
I pull up and there were other people out there
and there were a bunch of boxes. And then I
was like, so, so this is new and he's like yep,
and he's like, if it doesn't work, if there's anything wrong,
I will take it back. And I was like okay.
He's like, but just in the next like two days, like,
please plug it in, and he's like, I'll plug it
in for you right now to show you. I was like, no,
the last time I spend with you the exactly. It's
a good thing you brought somebody with you. But I
was like, well, where did you get it? And he goes,
that's that's a mean to know and unify. Yeah, story, wow,
So I don't know, like is it hot? Like I
know it could be, of course if he said if
he didn't say, and why wouldn't he say where he
got it? I don't know. But he wasn't like I
don't know. He had a bunch of stuff in this
little warehouse kind of thing, all new in the box.
Like listen, all I know is that it was he said.
He goes, this isn't like, this isn't a five hundred
dollars item. He goes, this was only one hundred and
fifty dollars new. So I was getting it for eighty Okay.
So he's like, yeah, you know what I mean. It's
not like it's completely anyway. So long story short, that
was for Xander's birthday and he loves it and he's
been playing the keyboard. Right. Wow, that's so cool. He
so musical that doesn't need anything. Yes, So on Friday Show,
I'm going to tell you about the speech and debate
tournaments of the year. Oh my god, I cannot wait
for this boiler alert. I had the best time. Oh
my gosh, I can't wait. I love that. I was
hanging out with my friend Tamra. Shout out to my
friend Tamra Mellow and she's really really cool and her
son is a senior this year and he's in speech
and debate and we've become friends. And she has a
jewelry business, which I just for fun want to shout
out to you guys because her stuff is so cool.
I did a giveaway of one of her necklaces for
the Our Fall Festival and it went for the most money.
People love her stuff. She's got like a legit Etsy
business that like I'll be with her and you can
hear on her phone. You'll just hear a kitching. Really
is that. She's like, oh, it's my jewel it's my
jewelry business. When people make when it makes a sale, Oh,
that's so cool. It was like, that's fun. So her
name is, her company's name is Gray g r e Y.
It's named after her son Gray by Tamra Mello And
ok so look that up on It's an Etsy store
and it's like, okay, check out ourself. So cool. Yeah,
but also check out our friend Krista Stroops project, which
is for her friend who lost her son to suicide
just so sad. And you know, imagine he was only
twenty one and just about to graduate from college. So
she wanted her friend wanted to do something so that
the grief didn't consume her, and she started this project
and it's called the Chase Hayley project dot com, so
please check that out. Also, triply speaking of sons, our
friend Laurie Bishop is promoting her son's business, which is
the Better test Prep act Guide. Go to bit dot
l y slash Better test Prep. Instagram is better dot
test dot Prep. Also, my friend I will not say
her name because she's talking all about her ex husband
who's crazy on her Medium account, it's beautiful stories and
it's go to medium dot com slash at Unbecoming Stories,
so go check that out. It's like really the best
writing ever. Also, podcast The Family Skeptical. It's a podcast
about raising kids without any kind of religion, non dogmatically
not go into church like you're not alone, So check
out The Family Skeptical. Also, if you're in Palm Springs,
which Lynette's friend Don is a lot diapple, she tell
her go to Wilman Freda I did. I told her
there's one in Palm Springs and there's one in Palm
Desert and they have such good food you're gonna love
it there so good. Also, if you're wanting to get
some Christmas gifts, go to Basic Becky just basic Becky
dot com or basic Becky on Facebook. You know She
makes the mousepads and the mugs and the t shirts,
and on every episode check out Adam Lerner. He's a
car broker. Adam's Got a Car dot com. And Ferncandle,
our friend Kelsey's business with sowet Wax, Great Smells. Her
Instagram is at Ferncandle. Uh yeah, all right, We will
see you guys on the Friday episode. And don't forget
our juicy Patreon this week that comes out tomorrow. Hi.
Thanks Kaylin her parent. Now don't if it up. It's
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