Speaker 1: Made Dess.
Speaker 2: Face sunny subord on head vision. It's nice.
Speaker 3: Too, chy every.
Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, don't joke, and welcome to for crying out loud.
How's it going. How's everybody doing out there? Hi, Caylin, Hello,
Good morning Vietnam. No, my I was drinking water because
my throat is still dry and you're hydrating. I'm hydrating
from Vegas and like the smoke and stuff, and I'm
all stuffed up because of the allergies. My eyes are anyway,
I'm I'm a mess. Howard Stern talked about what a
mess he is, but I'm no Howard Stern, but I
am falling apart.
Speaker 3: I like Howard Stern these days, so does not give
a fuck, no fucks to give.
Speaker 1: He's not apologetic. He's just like.
Speaker 3: And also I like the fact that Howard Stern has
gotten much more progressive in his thinking, yeah, and his politics.
Speaker 1: He says that and he doesn't apologize for it. He's
just like.
Speaker 3: And he used to be like, I'm never getting married,
and then he was like, I don't fuck care I'm
getting married. You guys think, yeah, I know, and he's married.
He's like, I love all the cats and I love
Beth and I love my wife and he doesn't even
care that he's whooped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got an argument with one of the whack
packs that wanted to, uh don't wanted to adopt a dog,
and they all say the other whack packers are like,
don't let him. I don't remember, I don't know all
their names, but don't let And then he was like, listen,
I don't know Henry, I can't remember who was. You're
not gonna I'm not going to allow you back on
the show. Like you could hear it in his voice.
You are not equipped to own a dog. It's it's
it's selfish. The dog is going to suffer anyway. I
love him. I know I love him too. I listen
to every Day I Love Him show.
Speaker 3: That's a good example of like he's not trying to
be super politically correct, but it's also not part of
like outrage culture that like he's like he's not going
to say something that's really mean and fucked up because he.
Speaker 1: Like has a heart, he's had a ton of therapy.
And he even said it when Jimmy was on, because
he was talking about how much he loves Jimmy, and
he was like I love this guy. He goes, Jimmy,
I love and then they were like kind of making
fun of him, and he goes, listen, I've gone to therapy.
It's taken me a long time to get to this point.
Now leave me alone and let me talk about much
I love him. Oh, I really I wish I could
meet him. Yeah. I went to his wedding. You did,
You went to his wedding to Beth? Yeah? Yeah, Oh
was that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I know, Billy Joel, I mean yeah, it was a
lot of fun. It was a long time ago. It's
like the kids were just born. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Did you talk to celebrities there? Kelly Rippa was very nice. Yeah,
everybody was very nice. Billy Joel saying, I can't. I mean,
you know, it was a lot of fun. Jimmy and
Sarah went with us. Sarah's so sweet. She was on
the show recently. I heard the interview. Great. I love Sarah.
I miss her. I mean very honest. I like her.
She's very honest. Yeah, yeah, you check out her show.
I want to check out her show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I LOLU America Yeah yeah, okay, okay, so listen,
I have an update for you.
Speaker 1: It's really good. Yeah. First of all, I have two like.
Speaker 3: School things to tell you that are really good. Okay,
So remember on a week ago last Friday show, I
went on a very I was complaining about Sadie and
the reading thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, we got a big response to that. Okay.
Speaker 3: First of all, a couple of people got confused the
recess being taken away. Yet well, actually you weren't confused.
So the thing was that if Sadie didn't finish her
reading goals, they were going to.
Speaker 1: Take recess away. And yes, I was freaking out.
Speaker 3: And yes what I said last week was true that
she had been reading Wonder for like two weeks. It's
four hundred page book and she wasn't done yet, and
the teacher had said if they're she was, Okay, it's
so dumb at her reading levels. And I know I
talked about this last week, but she was supposed to
be reading like three to four.
Speaker 1: Books a week a week the fun and.
Speaker 3: Her reading level is only one behind Xander's and Xander
only has to read one to two books a week.
What And for some reason, I think that the thinking
is all crazy. I think it's like, oh, well, Sadie's
reading level is easier than Xander's, so she could read
more books. But it doesn't matter because really they rate
the books when you're up in the higher levels, and
they're in the fifth grade, so they're in upper levels.
They're not reading picture books, they're reading chapter books, right,
So it's really more the content, like the subject matter
that gets a little bit more challenging.
Speaker 1: It's not that the.
Speaker 3: Words are harder or that there's more pages or fewer pages. Okay,
So anyway, here's what happened. I made an appointment to
go talk to the teacher good good, and I was like, okay.
I was like, I have so many issues because all
the kids are in trouble for okay, so this.
Speaker 1: Area is okay. And the boiler alert it's Wilder Tailor's
back boiler alert. This this has a happy ending.
Speaker 3: But so I if you recall, they had said that
the kids weren't allowed to pick their people. They were
going to be within their cabin and they were all
having assigned tables at the lunch tables because they'd all
been bad. But Sadie and Xander had no idea what
they'd done wrong. Everything happened right, Something happened right, and
then on top of that, and but remember that I
told you that Xander had a sub and Xander had
to skip recess and read his book every day because
he hadn't turned in his reading log.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what are my kids in like
a re education campaign? Like what is happening?
Speaker 3: I know school, I know it's that's supposed to be
like this, so so okay, so I make it a
So I'm like, okay, I got to put out fires
one at a time, the right like I can't come
in with like.
Speaker 1: And then another thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was like, first I need to just
go talk about the reading thing.
Speaker 1: For Sadie.
Speaker 3: I got to put up that fire because I can't
have her missing starting to miss recess. I was upset
about Xander having missed recess all last week, but he said, Mom,
don't don't bring it up, like just leave it alone.
Recess for a week, just the first recess and he
was reading.
Speaker 1: And guess what.
Speaker 3: I told him he could read less time at home
at night because he got that. I don't like it either,
but it happened, and that's over. I had bigger fish
to fry with Sadie.
Speaker 1: So I make an appointment.
Speaker 3: I go in the first day, which I believe was
like the evening after we recorded, I had said to
the teacher, Hey, could I talk to you and she
was like, oh, I have a cold, Like yeah, we
do it, so maybe I had Okay happened.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I made an appointment.
Speaker 3: So I went in and like in my car, I
was doing a little like Okay, you're going to keep
it friendly, like you can't go in there. You can't
be confrontational like that shit does not fly with my teachers.
So so you have to come from a and you
can't just fake it either, like you have to be
feeling like open and because.
Speaker 1: Are you talking to the rear view mirror at this
point now, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like just I'm like just like being Then I'm like
eyes closed, sitting in my car doing some deep breathing, going,
don't come off like a cunt.
Speaker 1: Don't be a cunt. Just don't be a cunt. Oh
my god, curb the cuntiness.
Speaker 3: So it's like, go in and I'm like, hi, you know,
start light, you know. So I'm like, okay, here's the thing.
You look nice, so pretty. Oh my god, are you
wearing wonder beauty makeup? So I'm like, okay, Now, this
teacher had Sadie in the second grade.
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, here. I was like, so,
as you know, Sadie is like not the greatest reader
in the entire world like you you remember. And she
was like, I know, but she's gotten so much better.
And I was like, I know totally. I was like,
but she's still is her reading is still.
Speaker 3: On the slow side. I go, believe me, I know,
we both know she's come a long way. And she
was like yeah, and her fluency is like way up.
And I was like, absolutely, she's doing so great. I go.
Here's the thing, now, Sadie, you know, I said, she
has this she's supposed to be reading like this her
reading goal, and it's just too high for her.
Speaker 1: I go, just given who she is.
Speaker 4: I go.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying like it doesn't work for every kid.
I said, you know, it's just that Xander is reading
at this level and he only has to read one
to two books. I go, And Sadie has to read
like four to four books. I said, And she's only
one level behind him. And I said, in the bottom
line is she can't do it. And I said, and
so last year, her teacher adjusted her reading goals, and
I said, and I was just hoping, I said, because
she told me if she doesn't reach her goals every week,
she's going to lose recess for the day and have
to read. And she was like, okay, first of all,
oh boy, you're a cunt. No she Oh my god, sorry,
I've said the C word so many times in this episode.
She said, First of all, she's not gonna lose her recess,
she goes. But second of all, yes, we can reduce her.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, well it's okay, okay, okay, okay. I knew
she was going to say that. Can I ask a question, then,
why the fuck are you saying that to them in
the first place? Why are you scaring them? They always
do that shit. No, they're not going to read this
is what she said.
Speaker 3: Well okay, but I still don't agree with her, because
what she said was that it was never going to
be the whole all of the like the days of recess,
but it was their snack recess. Okay. That is like
twenty minutes, I guess at the beginning of the day,
and then they're all going to sit together and like
read there they can have a snack and read and
I was like, in my mind, I'm like, still not happening. No,
she's not missing recess to Rea when she already hates reading. Yes,
but that's okay because I said, look, she's like here.
She said, here's the thing. Here's the thing that Sadie's
not doing. She's not writing in her reading log anything
like she's skipping turning them in.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, that's not good.
Speaker 3: And she goes, let me show you, like here, all
they have to do is write I read this book
or I read this many pages of this book and
who the author is.
Speaker 1: Ye, she's just not turning it in. And I said that.
Speaker 3: I said, the reason I think she's not turning it
in is because she's not reading the books and it's
so many books that she's like, well, might as well
just not turn it in, Yeah, because I didn't read.
And she said, well, she needs to at least turn
it show me something like She's like, she's not going
to get penalized if she just just showed me what
you were doing during the week. And I was like, okay,
that is no problem. I will talk to her, especially
if she only has to read one to two books.
That's not a problem because she can do that. And also,
in my mind, I was like, and the books that
she's going to read, we're not even going to talk
about the levels, Like if she wants to read Dork
Diaries Diary, I'm not going to I'm just going to
have to write it down that she read it. And
if you don't want to accept it because it wasn't
on her level, then fine. It's not like she's trying
to read like Crime and Punishment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, you know.
Speaker 3: It's not like she's reading that or Harry the Dirty Dog.
Like she's not reading something that's way too hard or
way too easy. She's reading right around her level, books
that are interesting to her. So I don't think there's
anything for them to be so concerned about, like, well,
if she's not reading right on her level, those levels
are arbitrary. I agree. I nobody's there is no science
to it. It's like, listen, this book is about a
can't read in middle school. You want to make that
for a higher level. Fine, But the Dork Diaries, even
though they're about a girl in middle school, they're easy.
Speaker 1: I know, they're very simple.
Speaker 3: Lbie, can I mean Sadie can read one of those
in a day, so they don't. She doesn't need anyway.
The point is the teacher couldn't have been nicer. And
I was like, thank you so so much, love being
have a good day, and I just kept it.
Speaker 1: That was easy because she'd agreed. Nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was like, just have her turn in a
reading log, whatever she's done, have her just write down
if she's if she's still working on a book, if
she's reading Wonder and it's the second week, just say, wonder,
here's the pages I read this one?
Speaker 5: Nice?
Speaker 1: A question? Why didn't they put that in their memo
or tell the kids that in the first place, Just
you need to put you need to turn in your
reading log. That's what we need. Whatever it is. Why
threaten with the recess shit, I don't know. I don't
like that. And then and then Xanner missus a.
Speaker 3: Week of no recess for that was for not turning.
That was for turning in his reading log late, like
five he said, it was like five minutes late.
Speaker 1: Insane. Sonny was, so, I think they're.
Speaker 3: Trying to teach them responsibility, yeah, because middle school's coming,
and like, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't really, I don't know. I don't think that.
I don't think it might work in short term. I
don't think it works long term.
Speaker 3: The funny thing is in sixth grade, LB, do you
remember when Elbe started getting infractions in the sixth grade
and she was freaking out.
Speaker 1: She got an infraction one day for forgetting her.
Speaker 3: Planner, which is a big, huge, fucking who cares because
the teachers write the stuff on the board. All she
has to do is like text a friend and go
what was the homework or whatever?
Speaker 1: So she forgot her planner, It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: But they gave her an infraction for forgetting her planner,
I guess because they're teaching the sixth grader's responsibility. But
the thing is, once they're out of sixth grade, they
really stop giving them distractions for stupid shit. And you
can better believe that Elbie still forgets her planner because
that's just.
Speaker 1: Who she is. She's just never been cited for it,
right exactly.
Speaker 3: And oh and if they forget their water bottle for
pe like they're trying to train them to be, but
that stuff doesn't really work.
Speaker 1: They are who they are. They are who they are,
They have a default setting. Yes, you can mold them
and teach them things, but I don't. And you can
also you can also discipline them. But taking away a
free time like that, it just for me, it seems
like it's a punishment, and then it makes it they
don't want to read to me. If that happened to
me or Natalia who doesn't like to really read, or Sonny,
they don't, They wouldn't. It would be a punishment like reading.
If I said let's read on the weekend, they'd say,
forget it. You know what I mean. It's a it's
a I just think it's it's not right. I don't know.
I agree.
Speaker 3: I think you have to keep it as something that's
like fun and enjoyable. If you put a negative pressure
on putting.
Speaker 1: Too much pressure on them. I have a situation. Please
bring it well. So Sonny's school's basketball teams seventh grade.
They Natalia's got her bet, she's trying out for her basketball.
But he's trying out for basketball tomorrow. And only like
thirteen or fourteen people make the team out of his grade,
out of his whole grade. Any how many kids in
this grade?
Speaker 3: I asked him, I have no idea how many kids
in the whole school nine hundred maybe eight hundred, okay,
and that's between three grades. No, no, it's seventh and eighth,
and then it's high school. They're with the high school campus. Okay,
but you're talking about just the seventh seventh graders. Okay,
So there's nine hundred kids in two grades.
Speaker 1: I think no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
I don't know. I think in the two grades there's
probably I would say I would say the two hundred
two fifty. Okay, that makes sense because.
Speaker 3: There's three schools that feed in there. Okay, Okay, how
many classrooms per grade?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I stay away from that, all right.
Speaker 3: So if there's like two hundred and fifty kids per
grade basically in the two grades, so there's at least
he's competing with probably like forty kids, or I'm always.
Speaker 1: Competing with pretty much. I can get an approximant because
these are the same kids that are on his other
leagues because they're in the area. So I would say
there's probably forty of them. And he's a really good
basketball player. He is, but he's it's competitive, and I'm
worried that his all his little buddies are gonna make
it because his two of us, you know, his one
best friend is is like one of the top. He's
gonna make it. I know that, But like his other friend,
I don't know. And what if they make it again?
Like the football team. You know they made the football team.
He didn't. That's still made me mad a lot of it.
I know they go on a bus. I know.
Speaker 3: It's so sad he doesn't make his basketball team. That
is just sad, I know, and I'm worried about that.
I don't know what to do. Tomorrow's the Tomorrow's the thing.
And yesterday I said, Sonny in the afternoon, I said,
let's go outside and practice, or let's go to the YMCA.
And he's like, can we go to the park and
throw the football because that's his favorite thing to do.
Speaker 1: I was like, but you're you got to warm up
for that. Anyway. He has practice tonight with the hardcore coach.
So but they all do so saying kids, So, I
don't know, it's gonna be. It's gonna break my heart. Well,
let's assume that he's gonna make it. Let's assume he
doesn't make it.
Speaker 3: No, let's assume he makes it, and then if he
doesn't make it, then we deal with the fallout. Because
he's going to He's going to try out, so that's
for sure. He's going to try out. So let's assume
that he's gonna make it.
Speaker 1: He does. I've seen videos of him playing basketball. He's
got everything. He's got. He's got the ball handling skills,
Like he goes around the black they're all chasing him
and he goes around the backside and front side under
his leg. He does all that. Yeah, he's got it.
He passes, he assists, he does all that stuff. He's
not he doesn't drive. He doesn't have that that when
I say he doesn't have that drive meaning physically, he
doesn't do the act of driving the ball down the
court and making it into the basket. His friends who
got worked on a team while he was not well
he got his injury. They during that time, I think
that's when they kind of came to life and really
got they because they got they started working with kids
that are older than him. So in practices, they you know,
they learned how to do that and they're doing that
still now. But there you know how to do it now.
He doesn't, so now he's doubly intimidated, if that's makes sense.
So while he when he was in the hospital and
he got sick or whatever the bike accident, that's when
his team, his buddies, got to work with the other kids,
the older kids, and it was a challenge for them,
and they made it. You know, I think they got
they got their confidence. Then now they're still working on it,
but now they have the confidence those kids have. His
friends have those that confidence, but he doesn't. So now
he's even he's intimidated.
Speaker 3: He's but there's thirteen spots. Yeah, I think he'll make it, Okay.
I don't think there's twelve other people that are better
than he is.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: He's this he's I wish they just let everybody on
the team and then just split him up into different teams.
Speaker 1: Have a varsity and a JV. That's what I said,
And son, he was like, there's too many kids for that, Mom,
there's too many kids. I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's what they do. That's what Elbe School does. They
have three separate tip basketball teams. She played on girls basketball.
There's a sixth grade team, a JV in a varsity
and she's team captain of her varsity team?
Speaker 1: How many kids are on saying that much? Guys, the
kids aren't they're not good. But how many how many
kids are on her team?
Speaker 3: Well, there's only six on her team because only six
girls were good enough to be varsity.
Speaker 1: What about the other teams?
Speaker 3: The the JV team has like I'm going to say,
like at least thirteen or fourteen. And then the sixth
grade team has, however many sixth graders. There were probably
twelve of those, so they know, maybe sixth grade or
so make the team. Yeah, everybody makes the team. All
the sixth graders who wanted to be on the team, well,
there weren't that many that wanted to be on it.
But let's just say there's twelve. There weren't that many.
That's but but and then the rest of them are.
Speaker 1: On the JV. Right, I don't know, we'll see the
seventh and eighth grade girls that weren't good enough. But
to the adversity, he's been on a regiment, like since
October first till October thirty first, he said he was
going to eat scrambled eggs in the morning. He wasn't
gonna have he was gonna have one soda during the
day if he like, if he had a soda, he
would only keep it to one, no junk. He was
gonna have fruit when he got home, not chips. So
I was like, why are you doing He's like, I'm
getting ready for the tryouts. But also I just want
to do it. Just I just want to discipline, just
want my because Adam talks about discipline, discipline, discipline not
to him, but like when he was growing he talks
about himself. Shocker spoiler alert. Adam talks about himself at
home a lot, like how he was growing up and
how he was doing the football and this is what
he was just he wanted to eat this, but he didn't.
So Sonny, he was like, I want to do I'm
going to do it. And he did it before. And
it was so sad because the other day I forgot
their lunches. I was like, oh my god, I forgot
to make you guys lunch on the way to school.
And then I was like, okay, what do you guys want?
And then of course they both want something different. He
wants to bout lay. He wants the healthy, like just
the chicken and the whatever from and she wants Blaze
pizza and and so okay. So then I came here
and then I started working. Happened and the good old
days of just getting subway, I know what the so anyway,
so I was here working and I completely forgot it
was I had to go get their lunches. Natalia calls
and she's like, mom, where's our lunches because you leave
them on the thing. And I go, oh my god.
So I only could go to one place, and I
went to Blaze was the easiest, and I went there.
And so anyway, I go, tell Sonny you and Sonny,
I'm on my I mean, it was like it was
like like I felt like kojak or So I was
like driving my car like move out of the way,
like you know what I mean, like no time for backup.
I had the two pizzas in my car. And then
I was like, ohh, I forgot drinks that they can
get the water at school they can drink them drinking
found I don't care, So I pull I caught. Natali
is the one that's like doing all the well I
go where Sunny she goes.
Speaker 3: He's starving. He's here too. I Okay, meet me in
the front of the school. They don't not caut lunch
at your school.
Speaker 1: They do, but they didn't have money that day, and
I don't know, I don't know whatever they were serving
that day, I know, I said, I trust me. I
asked her, and she's like, we're starving so cause our school.
Speaker 3: By the way, just to interject, has to be you
can't just there's no cafeteria. They order from a service
and you have to order like two weeks ahead of time,
and then if you didn't order, like there's no food
that I don't love it because there's no way to
just have an emergency, Like if you forget the kids lunch, you.
Speaker 1: Just go, we'll just buy hot lunch today. Yeah. Well,
usually you can for the most part because they'll eat
pretty much everything. But like there's some days there's I
don't know, like fish, tacos, I don't know, and whatever
they don't want. Of course, it happened to be that day.
So I'm poll I go, go, okay, this is he's doing.
This is while this month, while he's on his diet.
I forgot about his diet, right and I got so
I pull up and I got him his Blaze pizza
that he usually likes with like sausage and memboroni. Put
the look on his face.
Speaker 3: I go, here you go and he goes, what happened
to Chipole? And I go, I'm sorry, Sonny, I forgot and.
Speaker 1: He goes his eyes teared up. You could tell like
he had that like agrav you know when you're starving
and then you pull up and you get food that
you don't want. You know, he's just that that that
that feeling like he had. I could see it, and
it's like his ear. His eyes teared up and he goes, thanks,
thanks Ma, and he just like walked away, and I
could tell him he's like and then I go, oh,
I got your doctor pepper. Oh no, and he goes, no,
it fell out of my car and it rolled and
and he went and grabbed it and he goes, no, thanks,
and he threw it back in the car. I'm sorry, Sonny.
He goes, he walked off with his pizza. Did he
eat it? Yeah, he was starving, but he was trying
to stay at his time, he's.
Speaker 3: Twelve, What the hell you gotta have pizza? I wonder
he's doing it to himself. I know that's what I'm says,
he's doing that to himself.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He's like, he's gotta he's twelve. He's got a fast metabolism,
have you, Yeah, he does. He's not gonna hurt, he's
not gonna affect anything. I know.
Speaker 1: He's he's not overweight by all. And he's not training
for the Olympics. I know. I think he's doing it
just to see if he's got the discipline to do it.
Speaker 3: That's what he says. That's why he's doing it. See,
I won't tell Dad.
Speaker 1: I won't tell I know Dad. Dad's let that fucking
ship say a long time and he can't win that argument.
Once in a while he'll say, you know whatever, he complains,
but he keeps it for the podcast and complains about
it on Drew Show. You know, But anyway, that's h Adam,
by the way, loves the Lackey's here now. Yeah, okay,
it's perked up. We have. We went to dinner the
other night with the kids and Adam and I were
talking about work stuff and he said, and I said
something about the ads that Dylan did for the Corolla
drink stuff, and I go and they were they were
really funny, he did, you know, and he goes, I
know those guys are coming to life. I go, what
like they were like in sleep mode? He goes, yeah,
you know they're coming alive. Now they're coming to life.
I like it.
Speaker 3: They could do better, they could, you know, they know
what's funny. They always pitch stuff to me and I go,
just whatever, you think it's funny, do it?
Speaker 1: What do I you know? I go, but you're Adam
and your at your show and you know, and they don't,
you know, they don't want to hear it afterwards and
go that was dumb or why do we do that? So,
you know, he he gets irritated that they pitch him
stuff and he goes, just do whatever it is, just
do it. Just pick the better one or pick the
funnier one. I'll let you decide.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we still like to check with him, though, you know,
we don't want to just go right.
Speaker 1: They can't win with him. I know, you can't go wrong. No,
you can't pine pain in the ass. I hope he's listening.
No rogue. So what's going on? Well?
Speaker 3: Over last weekend, I just want to report that I
went to see Robin's son.
Speaker 1: In a play. No, and he was so cute. I
really say, how he is turning sixteen? Oh it's fifteen.
Speaker 3: He has I don't think Robin would mind me saying
that he's very high functioning but he has autism.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, but it's so interesting, like you wouldn't know it.
I mean, he's.
Speaker 3: Quirky, but he's so cool and he's really really kind,
like sweet kid. Yeah, he's like like when you talk
to him, you're like, okay, does like And then if
if she was to say, like, oh, he has autism,
then you'd be like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: But it's more like a quirkiness.
Speaker 3: But I know she went through a lot with him
when he was younger, and like there was a ton
of therapy and stuff. But he's such such a cool kid.
And here's the main thing. So he got the lead.
He's in this like children's playhouse, Ah, which is awesome. Yeah,
kind of near you. I'll tell you what it is later.
But and so they were doing Beauty and the Beast
and he was the Beast. Oh, and I brought Xander
and we've hung out with them before but one time.
But so we went to see the play and Xander
loved it and he was so good in it, and
it like made me cry. These kids were so talented.
Doesn't that always like a little theater company always cry
when I watched those plays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like.
Speaker 3: Fun because it's Robin's kid, and like, you know, just
seeing him perform. And then so afterwards he came out
and then we all went to dinner at Caro's and
Jack hung out with Xander and Robin and I were
like sitting and talking and you know when like a
kid is like a little bit older and they're they're
talking near kid, but you're like, are.
Speaker 1: They just humoring Mike? Are they babysittings?
Speaker 3: Or are they Like I was feeling kind of bad. Yeah,
but we kept looking over and Jack was being so
funny with Xander, like they were talking about how cringey
it is when people do Fortnite dances.
Speaker 1: That's me, and they were and.
Speaker 3: Xander was getting like you could just see he was
so lit up telling Jack and Jack was really like
acting like hanging.
Speaker 1: On every word that Xander was saying, and he.
Speaker 3: Was like yeah, And then at one point Jack was like,
you know, this is so cool, Like here you are,
you know, in the fifth grade and here I am
like in the junior and yet we have some of
the same issues with our friends. And it was the
sweetest sweet thing.
Speaker 1: And then when we went home, I mean.
Speaker 3: They talked for like over an hour. We were there
for like an hour and a half. I love that
they talked the whole time, and Jack acted so interested
in what Xander was saying, and.
Speaker 1: Just I'm sure he was inty. I mean, you know,
I love when I see bigger kids like that.
Speaker 3: It's so sweet and so like, oh really, and then
oh that guy said, what h that is so annoying,
Like I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've had that happen to me. He was just
like that.
Speaker 3: And then when I went to leave with Xander in
our car, he was just like I had such a
good time, like he was.
Speaker 1: High from it. Mm hmm. Yeah, when can we see
Chack again? Like, yeah, It's just so sweet, isn't it sweet.
I love when kids at our young age, you know
the age of our kids, and then they meet an
older kid they do that gives them attention. They want
to be with that kid, you know, that genuinely gives
them attention, you know, like at Christmas time. If we
go to our friend's house, they have niece. They see
these girls once a year at Christmas. Like we don't
know them very well, right, but these girls they're they're sisters,
they're they're you know, sixteen, seventeen years old. But there's
so and then there's a kid table, so they go
sit with them.
Speaker 3: Hey, how's it going Italia, Sonny, you know it's been
a year, Like, oh my god, I love your dress.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I mean, They're they're into it.
And then they leave and then the kids are like,
oh my god, I love those girls. When do we
How can we never get to see them? We only
see that, you know what I mean? Yes, it is.
It is a very sweet thing.
Speaker 3: To And also Xander doesn't really have any male figures
in his life. Yeah, I mean John's not a no,
just kidding, no, but I mean besides dad, he has
a dad, but he has two sisters and me strong personality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even even our dog is a girl.
Speaker 3: So like there's just a lot of female energy in
the house. And you know, so John does try to,
of course do stuff one on one with Xander, like
guy stuff, and they have their you know.
Speaker 1: But it was so nice to see them. Like.
Speaker 3: Also, and this is going to sound ridict crazy, but
Robin and her husband, Wade, went with John and Zay
to a football game. Really yes, and Robin's husband and
Xander totally bonded.
Speaker 1: So I know her husband is so nice.
Speaker 3: He's really really nice, fun guy, and he was you
would have loved him because he was giving Xander all this,
all these self parks to watch self park recommendations. So
Xander came home all, oh, Wade says, I have to
watch this self park and you know what he's going
for Halloween?
Speaker 1: What he because?
Speaker 3: So we're recording in Halloween for you guys, it happened
two days ago. For us, it's coming up. It's tomorrow.
But he's going as Cartman's as a cart robot cartman?
Oh really with the boxes it's like a really have
you ever seen this character? No self park robot? Really
out of boxes?
Speaker 1: That's cute. Yeah, And what's what are what's Sadie going?
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is funny. So I'm like, Sadie, what
do you want to be for Halloween? Sadie is such
a teenager. She's like, I don't know, I want to
be something funny. I was trying to get her to
be Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah. We were like, well, what's Xander
going to be?
Speaker 3: We're like, well, I thought it'd be funny if he
was a Kardashian, a girl Kardashian, but he was like, no,
I'm not, Mom, come on, I'm not going in drag.
So then I thought of Kanye and they my entire
family looked at me like, seriously, what he's going to
be blackface? Mom, come on, get woke. So I was like, okay,
of course, not that. Okay, So anyway, Rob Kardashian, No,
we suggested that. What it was like, Mom, no, what
about Robert Kardashian, a dead Robert Kardashian. So the lawyer, Yeah,
well okay. So so then Xander picked something else. So
Sadie was like I had suggested. I was like just
grabbing at anything. I was like, well, what about like
you could be like a ninja and she was like
hmm okay, okay, so you're just gonna love this. So
I'm like I want it to be easy, right, No
get her. I'm like, can we go to party city
and just get a ninja costume? She's like, no, I
don't want to wear like a costume. Lina, exactly, what.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Why why can't you just been
fucking Halloween? Why do you have to be difficult? I'm
not well, I'm not going to sew you anything about
from me.
Speaker 3: So she's like, here's the thing. Though, she's a She's like,
doesn't want to look like tryhard.
Speaker 1: She's like, I don't.
Speaker 3: She doesn't want to be all like she thinks a
ninja costume that that's really babyish.
Speaker 1: She just wants to wear. She was like, I'm just
gonna do like a hood and like something over her mouth,
like a bandana, and then but all the things she
describes sounds really ghetto, like just put together from an
old drawer, right, And I was like, well, okay, but
let's just go to.
Speaker 3: Party City and just see what like accoutrements we can yeah,
you know, yeah, So we go to we go to
party City, and of course I'm still trying to be like,
look at this already made ninja.
Speaker 1: Costume, right right, done and done, forty bucks, let's go.
You know, No, I'm not wearing that. So I was like, okay.
Speaker 3: So she was like, I'm just gonna wear like black
leggings from home, and then she wants to wear like
a black shirt.
Speaker 1: Then we found a ninja hood.
Speaker 3: Basically, I was like, can we just get the hood?
She was like, okay, this is what she was interested in.
She didn't to tell you what could be for. I
just want to do like really cool makeup on my face.
It's like, your face is going to be covered up
by a ninja hood. She's like, but they'll be able
to see my eyes. Let's get some lashes. So yeah,
where do you think We spent most of the money
on like red foil lashes, like beads those like stick
on the adhesive like like looks like a BINDI with
like on your forehead, decoration on your forehead and under
a little under the eyes, and then glittery makeup. And
then she's just gonna wear the ninja hood and like
black leggings and like a black shirt that we went
and bought at Q And I was like, okay, like
you don't want to wear like a sash?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: Did she have a sword? Okay?
Speaker 3: Things, so I tried to buy her a sword. I'm
like trying to spend money, and I'm like let's get
you a ninja sword so that people know you're a
fucking ninja. She's like, Mom, I'm already going to be
carrying around a bag of candy. I can't be like
weighed down by a sword.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: She's like, Mom, they're going to know I'm a ninja
because of the hood, right, And I was like, okay,
either that or an executioner.
Speaker 1: Like. I was like, I think we need a little
little something to like tip people off. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like what what? Kid is like, No, don't
buy me a sword. She I said, what's the real
reason you.
Speaker 1: Don't want a sword?
Speaker 3: She's like, Mom, it's just kind of like I don't
need a sword, like I just don't want it. And
I was like okay, I go okay.
Speaker 1: And then I go about some ninja gloves.
Speaker 3: Now, they made these gloves that have like Chinese or
whatever Japanese whatever Japanese.
Speaker 1: Like letters and whatever. It looks Asian.
Speaker 3: She's like no, but then picks up these fishnet gloves
that I'm sure really for like a Madonna costume or whatever.
She's like, how about these? I was like, now she'd
warn me down. I was like, all right, then sure,
and then you're like, I give up ninety nine, adam
On put them in the bag.
Speaker 1: You want a cheese string out, fine, let's go. You
want some loose sight heels, Yeah, that will work. They
go at the costume Natalia already with the short shorts.
What are you for Halloween? Me and my friends are
gonna be lifeguards, right fucking NiFe guards? Oh my god? Really,
you man me? Lifeguards?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 1: Because they have the short shorts it says lifeguard on
the bag and the red like cute red like leotard
and the jacket that goes, oh fuck that, like, are
you kidding me? That's you're gonna be. All her friends
have it too. She took a picture of all of them.
I was like, can't you be somebody from Fortnite? That
is so funny.
Speaker 3: One of my friends, who's whose daughter is one of
Elvis' already in Elvi's group, told me.
Speaker 1: That her daughter wants to be is it six eighties?
Speaker 3: But the reason she rarely wants to be eighties is
because she wants to wear short booty shorts and like
tuobed tube sox and like a taint, like a She
wants to wear like what do you call it tube
tube top tube sox and like, you know, short shorts, dolphins,
you know, like booty shorts, Yeah, really short shorts.
Speaker 1: And she was like, well, you know, you can't wear.
Speaker 3: That at school, but she wanted to wear it, you know,
because it's like any She was like, no, that's.
Speaker 1: Not to dress code. They're not wearing booty shorts to school.
And she was like oh.
Speaker 3: And then she was trying to find her other stuff
for the trick or treating and she really wasn't interested.
Speaker 1: She was like, I just need some tube sox.
Speaker 3: I just want the candy and an excuse to dress
like I think she is.
Speaker 1: I know what's already the slug costumes already. Can I
have another year of you, like wearing a princess costume
like something? You're already with the aerial for one more year?
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Now you gotta be Pam in Ice.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh, oh my god, that is too funny. Yeah, okay,
I think I had one more thing. I was like,
I have this whole list of things to tell you.
I have one more thing to tell you, and this
one's a little bit sad, but it'll be quick.
Speaker 1: But okay. So Sadie.
Speaker 3: So they got to pick their cabin mates for their
trip that they're going to.
Speaker 1: Where are they They're going to Catalina, Catalina.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Sadie came home yesterday and her feelings were very,
very hurt. She was really sad, and she said that
they had they all got to pick three people, and
she basically was at the on the verge of tears.
She was like, only two people out of the whole
class picked me, and all the people she picked, they
had all kind of planned to pick each other. This
group sod there'd be four people in the cabin.
Speaker 1: She said.
Speaker 3: None of the people that she picked picked her back.
They all picked each other plus one other girl. And
she was and this is what she said to me.
She was like, I just don't understand. She was like,
I'm not like I'm not crazy, Like I'm not like
really loud or obnoxious. She goes, I'm pretty nice, Like
I'm not mean. She's like, I'm fun. She goes, why
don't they like me? And I said, I just don't know.
I was like, cause I think you're so awesome and
you're fun and you're adorable, and you're hip and you're creative,
and you like to do lots of stuff. I was like,
I don't know, I said, all I mean, I think
she was like, she goes.
Speaker 1: People like me. She goes, but they don't pick me.
They don't they like me. They're around me.
Speaker 3: Nobody's mean to me, right, but they don't like None
of them picked me. And I said, so they like you,
but you're nobody's favorite. Is that how you feel? And
she started crying and she was like, yes, I'm nobody's favorite.
Speaker 1: That makes me sad. I think I know. I mean,
I have an idea of why, just because I've seen
it with Natalia and her friends. I think you have
to be assertive and assert yourself in to them. You
have to like insert yourself, like as what she did.
Speaker 3: She said, she has. She said, Mom, I have put
myself out there so much. I hang out with them
even when they're not coming to get me. She goes,
I include myself. I we all agreed to pick each
other and then they just didn't.
Speaker 1: How is that?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: What happens? I don't know. Well, so they'll put her
in a group, I mean, they'll put her with can
she can't they put her with them? I mean they
may not have picked her, but they I'm sure that
the cabins only fit for kids, is there may?
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe she doesn't want to be forced, like
have them be forced to ignore.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll put her with some people she likes.
It'll be fine.
Speaker 3: It was more the overriding like that she'll be with it,
She'll be with kids that everybody likes each other. But
I told her, I said, you know what, And I
pulled up a picture of myself in sixth grade, which
was still elementary school for me, and I showed her.
I was like, look at this picture. I said, I
look how sad I look. And it was so true.
There's this picture of me in sixth grade and I
just look defeated.
Speaker 1: I said, you should post it? Can you post it?
I can?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, the girl sitting next to me. So
I'm sitting next to this girl. Her name's Jill Hoffman.
She was like my best friend in the sixth grade.
But I wasn't her best friend, right, I've had that
she was my best friend and she was super nice
and she's still to this day is like the nicest person.
We're still friends on face Facebook. We got together a
while ago. She really liked me, but I wasn't her
best friend. She really liked a lot of people, and
she was popular. I use air quotes. So there was
this group of girls and they were all friends with
each other, and they were not friends with me. It
was very similar to Sadie. I was like, Sadie, look
at this. This was who I thought of as my
best friend. She did not think of me as her
best friend. I was her friend for sure, not her
best friend. They all loved her, and she loved all
of them, and they all went to each other's houses.
And I said, and I remember having a party in
the sixth grade and inviting them all and they came,
but none of them were my friend. I never spoke
to any of them after like elementary school, and did
none of them really remember me. I'm friends with some
of those girls on Facebook. They know they went to
sixth elementary school with me. They don't remember me. None
of them ever talk to me, I said, And honestly,
it was kind of like that in middle school for me.
Junior high had one friend, and even kind of into
high school. I said that now I have lots of friends,
right that I've been friends with for years. It just
took me an extra long time to like find my tribe. Yeah,
everybody finds their people, absolutely, and it's just going to
take you a little bit longer. Yeah, and don't change
oh you are, and try harder to fit in.
Speaker 1: No, No, I know, I've been there. It's happened to
me before, the same thing. I remember middle school and
I kind of see it with Sonny and Natalia with
their friends. Now they were friends and they're tight in
elementary school, but now with middle school, it's like, well,
what happened to so and so? What happened so? So
they're hanging out with this. They don't get upset or anything,
but I can see that they're not as close as
they used to be.
Speaker 3: Really, which one both of them? Italia's starting to happen Sunny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like his little his guys that he was friends with,
he's still friends with them. They asked actually text me
and said they want to go trick or treating because
Sonny and go with them. So he is friends with them,
and he see but I see like on a weekend
or if he's playing on Fortnite, he's I like who
you're playing with? It's it's sometimes them, but not all
the time. It's usually Now it's these new group of
guys who now in Italia is tight with right, but
those those boys are still tight. But Sonny's kind of
out and now he's with other guy I don't know.
And Natalia there's one friend that's kind of like not
around as much, and now she's with these other girls.
She's with this one girl that I really not a
big fan. Really yeah, uh, it's only I don't know,
the jury's still out. But she's been over a house
a couple of times. She doesn't say hi. I walk
and I go Hi. Girls, she's just she looks down.
She doesn't she goes hi, but she looks down on
her phone or whatever she's doing. Then I ordered pizza. Oh.
Then we were going out one night and those two
were staying home. It was Adam and I were going
to the stupid El El Royal, and I said, what
do you guys want for dinner? And then Natalia was like,
can we get I don't know. She wanted like a
steak shack shack state with hamburgershock shake shack. Can we
get that? I don't really like hamburgers, right in front
of me, I go, okay, well, and then I threw
out some other blaze pizza or not. I said, like
some subway or someplace like that. She goes and then
Natalia was like all right and right in front of me.
And then I said, well, what do you guys, what
do you want? And she's like, cheese pizza. I was like,
all right, so I sund like that yeah, And so
I got the cheese pizza Adam and berserk. We got
home the leftover pieces. Natalia ate the leftover pieces that
she didn't eat. She took the cheese off and just
ate the crust. And the first of all, you gave
us a hard time with what you wanted. We're buying
you dinner. A little grunt and then sorry, but then
you like scrape all the cheese. You said, what did
you want? We said, what did you want? Cheese pizza? Okay,
so she said cheeseless pizza. She should have said cheeseless
fucking send her home, I don't know. And then she's
been oh. And then then the other day I had
to clean the house because the real estate shit going on.
The house was sold her house. No, the house is
because the colors. I think the house is spotless. Okay,
the floor is spotless. That girl was I walked down.
I go, hey, girls after school. She's eating a muffin.
She's biting into it while she's walking around. Oh so
everybody knows when you bite into a muffin fucking flying do.
Speaker 3: Not eat muffins mobile, No, you do not with no napkins,
just walking around eating a like going to pet pit
Phil And.
Speaker 1: She's just like eating. I go, we just cleaned the house.
Natalia didn't need it. I go, we just cleaned the house.
Can you get a napkin? Get a paper plate for
your friend, please? And finally I just was like, she
doesn't say hi, She's just kind of like, I don't know.
Something's up with that kid.
Speaker 3: Well, the eating the muffin thing is a deal breaker, right,
You don't just walk around someone's house eating a muffin.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't do that at her house, No I would.
I don't. I don't think, so I don't know. I
don't know what goes on in her house, you know.
And then I don't know I could go, And then
I was like then it was like one night in
Talia invited all these girls over in the middle of
the not. I mean in the middle of the week.
I go Natalia, it's a week night, and she she
was at someplace, at a volleyball whatever, and she goes,
can my friends come over for a little bit? Sure,
I'm thinking it's like Olivia and one other girl. She
writes four girls over And then these other two girls
come walking up to me and Olga and we're like,
why are we having a party now? I go no,
and I said to all the girls, everybody's got to
go home six thirty at the latest, at six thirty
seven o'clock. This is four o'clock. Okay, Natalia's got homework,
Sonny's got home, So you don't want to have a
bunch of chicks in the house anyway, Right, And then
of course the one girl she can't be picked up
until seven, seven thirty. What was she going to do
if she didn't get invited over? What was the plan?
What was the plan between her and her parents? Right?
Can't she go back to that plan?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Because why you know, we were invited her over, but
now she can't be picked up till seven, like, right,
I don't know, and just she doesn't say, oh, and
of course that's dinner time.
Speaker 5: Too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you got to feed your dinner like you
could at seven thirty. You're going to be like, I
don't know what you guys probably had your own plan
for dinner, so I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't vat and we didn't. I didn't. We had
leftovers for dinner, and Italia and her were in the
room and I didn't offer them dinner. I waited for
her to leave because she was already on my last nerve.
Oh my god, that's me ar. She wasn't mean, but no,
I guess respectful. Yeah, totally. You don't fucking look down,
you say when the wan mom walks in. Oh, I
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I like this basketball. Yeah, go in your.
Speaker 7: Fager swish, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: To the hoop, y'all, it's fastball.
Speaker 5: Tell me when are you in the join the night
will start one hundred point a win. Sol ticks one
tackles back the fact that didn't give nobody no kind
of fact.
Speaker 6: My winning Doctor James show the whole damn team with
Bo's that team right out of the dream, the wind with.
Speaker 5: The streams too so tall, playing.
Speaker 6: Deep with designs basketball.
Speaker 10: To the hoop, Yo, yeah, year girl, to the y'all
shoot based my slam dog man.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I get the ball, and then I don't play
let the superstar in the n B gig, the forest,
the sentence and oh the gods, the ones you see
on the bubble gum cards.
Speaker 5: Being home boy would go one and one thoughts playing
the game. It's a lot of fun. Survive the TV
and watch tomorrow. Of course, currents blows repping in basketball.
Speaker 6: Did you see that boy girl the other night? Take
that thing up in you and face man.
Speaker 5: I like Michael Jordan, you don't remember the old days,
the old days of the record with Doctor James.
Speaker 7: Take the whole team.
Speaker 6: Burn burning my song, burntas you use for one night.
Man was as.
Speaker 7: Man I like.
Speaker 6: Waiting for the Bill Russell.
Speaker 10: Was the man you take the man chick the point never.
Speaker 6: Had the boy.
Speaker 2: You have that speak.
Speaker 7: And that.
Speaker 2: Playing, that best that we have that beast pay and
we have that and that play in that play in
that spater hey, and that stress, that