Speaker 1: Made a decision have thanks sunny sun on. I hadasionn.
Speaker 2: So what's that there, buddy?
Speaker 3: Can you believe last week when we started the show,
we had a whole bunch of stuff about.
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving and our plans. And normally you would do that
and then Thanksgiving would happen and then we'd come back
and be like, hey, how is your Thanksgiving? But they
made Thanksgiving so late this year and I don't know
who they is, like big Thanksgiving calendar, big calendar. But
now yeah still has Thanksgiving and when you listen to this,
it still is not gonna be thanks Yeah.
Speaker 4: True, that's true.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, Well I'm getting my Thanksgiving on, getting my
my plans.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you about are we doing? I'll tell you
should we do our shout out?
Speaker 2: Sure? We got Dick who's frolicking around just being a
happy dick, Kelly Luddy. Do you want any other dick
other than happy?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, happy dick.
Speaker 4: Everybody likes their Dick's happy Sure.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Karen up keep Katie Murphy is rolling on e Nikki
call your girls sometime, think about it. Elizabeth Williamson has
so many kids.
Speaker 4: We love them all.
Speaker 2: But you know what Rita is so generous in rocking
them in her basket. It's so nice of her.
Speaker 3: Yep Athena, we love your lipstick. You're cute girl, Polly,
We live your pancakes, Valerie, Bubba Fenwick, Katerina, check out
Moeller jacket. That just reminded me that I have to
make a dental appointment for Elsie for this week. Thank you, Katerina,
Gabby and Missy girls.
Speaker 2: Girls, they're they're girls. They're volunteering down at the shelter. This. Oh,
you guys are making up for you. If they're not,
they should pass ishan vashpeg that baby first Thanksgiving with
your baby, Ah, congratulation, Yeah, Rebecca and open the show.
Cut Kelly Brandt. She will take you to planned parenthood
if there are any left soon.
Speaker 3: Alicia Escalante from the city of Olle Monte. Leslie is
still coughing, which you're about to be.
Speaker 2: Stephanie's a stinker wrinker. Sarah is our Paisano. Aaron is
a dirty Sanchez still, Jennifer, get up, Sandra, it's not
easy being green. Jacob, you're Growley. We absolutely adore you. Hello.
So yeah, getting ready for the big meal. Yeah, I'm nervous.
Because I haven't cooked Thanksgiving meal and probably five years now,
I think, are you gonna forget like how to make stuff?
I lost my cookbook that had all my notes. Oh yeah,
because Wendy was the one that originally like over, I
don't know, it's thirteen fourteen, fifteen years ago. She's the
one that gave me the recipe on how to cook
everything from scratch, and I kept it on this you know,
I kept it in my cookbook, you know, with the
yellow It's like written on a yellow notepad. And I
can't find it ever since the move. But good thing
is is I could just call her and ask her. Yeah, exactly.
But the nice thing is is usually every year I
make a big turkey because I'm cooking for like I
would cook for a baby. I think about sometimes it
would be like ten to twelve people mm hm. But
this year it's only like a couple of us, just
the kids and maybe a couple friends that are coming
by and that's it. But I want to have leftover.
So yeah, I'm just a little nervous because I haven't
made it in a long time. The whole meal. I'm
going to cook everything, mashed potatoes, you know. Wow, yeah, yeah,
you're a better woman. Well, we do our different things.
Speaker 3: I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure
out I think this was this week, going back and
forth because remember I told you I wasn't going to
do the Gelsons because they keep making it smaller and smaller,
and we do homemade sides.
Speaker 2: I don't. But the one of the couples that we
Thanksgiving with makes stuffing and she makes the green bean castrole,
and none of us want to try to.
Speaker 3: Make a turkey. We did it a couple of years,
and both years it came out badly. One year it
was so bad that we were saved by the fact
that a friend came over with a smoke turkey. So
we hate that really, which was pretty good. Yes, are
the turkey?
Speaker 2: It was, Jeffany, I could tell you how to make it.
Speaker 4: It's so easy.
Speaker 2: Well, the hard part is brining at the night before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I never brian it.
Speaker 2: The hard part is the cleaning of it. Once you
get it cleaned, then the rest is easy. You just
you know, you just rub it down and with all
the stuff, and then you put it in the oven
and you time how long it's going to take, depending
on how much it weighs. Yeah, I'm not good at
the I think the thing you're not understanding about is
but I can mess up.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is with me and cooking.
I can take a recipe. Robin gave me a recipe
recently from like the New York Times cookbook that she
had made with her husband and said it was so delicious.
I made it and I was like, what you did
does not look or taste anything barely edible.
Speaker 2: My kids were so polite.
Speaker 3: I served it to them, and I was like, this
is like the worst thing I've ever made?
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 2: It was made? It was sausage and not orzo. What
do you call the no chi?
Speaker 3: I made not chi with roccoli and garlic and olive oil.
And you think that sounds pretty good and pretty easy, right, Like,
how do you fuck that?
Speaker 6: Up?
Speaker 2: Right? I did? I don't know how I did.
Speaker 3: I either used too much no chi like I thought
I was following the recipe. I knew it was kind
of a lot on the cookie tray. You make it
on a cookie tray and then you bake it in
the oven, really put olive oil on it, and you
put yeah, it did not.
Speaker 2: It was not tasty. You know, you mean the pasta Yochi, Yeah, pasta,
and you baked it in the oven. You bake it
in the oven. Yeah, I have a pasta, right, maybe
that's well, it's not really pot it's like potato. Oh
it's the potato potato.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you think it just did not taste right
at all. And then, like I said, I've tried many
times to make like a whole chicken.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't. I don't cook it the right just
it's either too long or too either I take it
out and it's still pink in the middle, or it's
too late and it's tough. That's the hard part, is
trying to figure out how long to cook it and stuff.
But that's what a meat thermometer is for, I know,
I know.
Speaker 3: And so on Thanksgiving with the Gelson's turkey, you still
have to bake it in the oven. You don't like
pick it up, but.
Speaker 2: Still you bake it.
Speaker 3: And we can still fuck that up, like oftentimes we
get them. One time we did a meat thermometer and
the thermometer melted in the turkey.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of oh my god, yeah, yeah,
maybe Thanksgiving fails. So that's why when I was like
reading the recipe for mashed potatoes and it said be
careful because the thing that can happen is they can
get gummy. I was like, if that can happen, that's
what will happen to me. And Thanksgiving morning, I will
have mashed potatoes for twelve that are not edible, and
that's everybody's favorite part of the meal.
Speaker 3: So anyway, though, I was searching high and low for
how to get a turkey, that's the way they do
it at Gelson's, and eventually I realized that it's just
they Ralphs. I have a more different conversations with Ralph's.
Speaker 2: They have it. They advertise, they're like a little pamphlet
there and you can do your ordering. Well.
Speaker 3: First of all, I went to the order section and
every time I went there it was like it wasn't
it was down, So I'm like, okay. So then I
tried calling the store, but you get like the national
chain of Crapper and it's like a phone tree. It
was worse than freaking blue Shields. I was expecting a
chicken in the background, or maybe a.
Speaker 2: Turkey, Like are those turkeys no ma'am are those chickens? No, ma'am,
there Turkey's.
Speaker 3: So finally I was like, I finally get the store
on the phone and I was like, okay, I'm trying
to figure out, like do you do the turkey just
the turkey by itself in this whole turkey meal?
Speaker 2: And she was like, oh, we're out. And I was like,
what are you out? It's Friday, It's a week before Thanksgiving.
And she's like, yeah, we only had thirty. Really you
could try another store. I was like, and I ordered
the turkey from Gelson's. You did, but I didn't do
the whole meal. I just ordered the turkey.
Speaker 3: Which Gelson's, as we have talked about on this show,
is a maybe it's not a national chain. I think
it might be a southern California thing. It is the
most overpriced grocery store.
Speaker 2: Priced it's like going to air One, but I don't
know if everybody has an Airwan either. It's like the
whole foods of regular grocer stores. Like if you want
nothing fancy, not organic, not health food, but you just
want to pay triple the amount that you would normally pay,
go to Gelsons, right, I don't know what the benefit is, Like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't get any of them.
Speaker 2: There's not shorter lines. No, I know, I don't get.
I don't get because I have a Gelson's and a
Roush like practically across the street from each other. Why
would I go to Gelson's, Like, for what, it's the
same ship as Ralph, It's the same brand, same thing.
There's maybe once in a while if I want to
get like, I don't know, sushi. I like the Galson's one.
Speaker 3: Right, that little bit of seafood that I like. Right,
they have a little pokey bar, right, Yeah, but there's
also a pokey place across the street from my Gelsons.
So I'm like, why would I get Gelson's overpriced twenty
dollars for a little bowl of pokey when I could
go across the street to an actual pokey place, spend
fifteen dollars and get.
Speaker 4: Like yeat Yeah.
Speaker 2: Glsons? Oh, Kaitlyn Kaln mike On Kaylin said they have
a great deli section, Galson's. Does they do have a
good deli section? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I used to go get their sandwiches there all
the time.
Speaker 2: Oh, get like made sandwich.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like a sandwich and then two sides. And it
used to be pretty cheap too. You could get it
for like ten dollars, but I don't know, it's probably
more expensive now. And they also have the wolf game. Yeah,
the pizza section, and the wolf game is great, like salads,
like really easy to make the salads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is true. That would be okay, I stand corrected.
That would be the only reason to go to.
Speaker 2: Gell I forget about the wolfgangs. Well, yeah, the pre
made stuff. But here's the thing that I think buying
the turkey at Ralph's was going to be ninety dollars,
which is crazy. Well, what depends on what what size turkey? Well,
that's the thing.
Speaker 3: I couldn't figure out how big the turkey is. So
the one that I'm getting from Gelison's is like a
fourteen to twelve to fourteen pounds, that's the range. And
it they wanted one hundred and forty dollars for just
the turkey, but I had a coupon for twenty dollars
off anything over one hundred dollars, plus I had some
points accrued from all my overpriced seafood bar stops, so
I ended up getting the getting it for one hundred dollars. Okay,
all right, ten dollars big for not going to Ralph's.
Speaker 4: Right, So you're picking up the turkey whatever, and.
Speaker 3: Then I'm going to go to Costco and get the
mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and gravy.
Speaker 4: Mashed potato, sweet potatoes and gravy.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: And then somebody else is making stuffing, and somebody else
is making green bean casserole, and then my sister in
law is providing her beautiful home beverages, dessert and appetizers.
Speaker 2: Nice. Oh it's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's nice. That's good. What do you doing, Kaylen?
For Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6: Amy's mamas always does a very big Thanksgiving dinner with
the whole family. She does Thanksgiving and then her sister
does Christmas. So every year we have a big Thanksgiving
at our house with I remember, yeah, twenty five people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so much.
Speaker 2: Be nice for people that don't have to just cook
or just show up to somebody's house and just chill
and watch the game, like Kaylen.
Speaker 3: Back when well, this is a little story for the
Ford that I've told on this podcast before, but back
in the day, my mother liked to have the Thanksgiving
meal at her apartment. She had a two bedroom apartment
in West Hollywood, and even though so we would come,
but the problem was she expected everybody had to make
something and the final two Thanksgivings. Being a part of
that crew, I had just gotten out of the hospital
having LV I'd had a sea section like ten like
ten days before Thanksgiving, and my mom was still very
adamant that I make mashed potatoes, which I did. Now,
I know what you're thinking, Well, couldn't John have made
mashed potatoes? Yeah, but neither of us were fucking sleeping.
I was still hopped up on pain pills. I'm in
like great pain still you remember, Yeah, I do. It's
not easy to recover from a sea section. My mom
had zero like after no, and I was like, uh, well,
but not only did I have to make mashed potatoes,
I had to drive to her house, which was kind
of far like with all this stuff and a new baby,
and her freaking friend was sick had a cold.
Speaker 4: And oh that's right.
Speaker 3: And I was like, maybe we shouldn't calm and she
was like, no, it'll be fine, and I got I
felt pressured into it. So I made mashed potatoes. I
showed up. I cried in another bed in the bedroom,
trying to breastfeed because at that point I was still
she was a new baby. I was still really trying
to get to make the breastfeeding work. I was in
the bedroom so long, like with a crying baby, trying
to get her to latch. And then my mom got
very annoyed at me for being out of the room
for forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Elbie was like ten days old. Yeah that's a
that's a bad Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: And then the next Thanksgiving, that's when I was like,
I don't want to take my now one year barely
one year old baby across town make food. I want
to keep her where she can have a nap, right,
so she's not going to sleep. She was already this
baby when she was ten week like ten months old.
I was trying to do the thing we've talked about
this many times where I'm like, I'm just going to
bring her to party to be fine, and she was
not fine, and she would never sleep anywhere else but
in her crip. So I was like I can't. I
would rather I'd like to have Thanksgiving up my house
and like we can cook the meal at my house
and then my mom was no, no, so I elected
to not go there. And then my brother and sister
in law came to me and we had a lovely
Thanksgiving and added some friends, and then my mom didn't
speak to me for like eight months.
Speaker 2: And that when your tradition started having Thanksgiving with your
with your brother. Yeah, yeah, And now it's been isn't
it great? It's not nice twenty years. Well, it's been
like eighteen years.
Speaker 4: Really since then?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, nineteen years. Yeah, yeah, I've been doing it
the same way for all these years. It's nice when
you have your own tradition that you enjoy. It's so nice,
and it's so low key.
Speaker 3: We we are such a fun like little group. It's
me and my brother and my sister in law, my
niece and nephew, my kids. And then we have a friend,
a couple, friend that we've known for twenty five thirty years,
well not thirty years, but that I've known for like,
I guess before Alby was born, because it's my brother's
I want to say friend from call from like anyway,
it doesn't really matter, but her and her husband and
their daughter, and it's we're all just like whatever, show
up in your sweats. Yeah, you know, watch football. We
don't sit down at a big table and have like rules.
It's just like we just put out all the food
on the big.
Speaker 2: You know, kitchen star thing, and then we just grab
food and sit at a table or sit on the
couch or like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 3: And I bring people and then my brother and I
traditionally take people for like a long walk around they have.
They live in Santa Clarita, so it's like like a
gated development kind of, so you can kind of have
like all like really quiet and you can just kind
of walk around the streets and then I catch up.
Speaker 4: And that's so nice. It's like a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 2: It's really fun. I'm very grateful for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really nice. It's nice when you can do that. Yeah,
I think I have to.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about taking Phil to his day camp
for the evening. I guess while we're eating, because the
least the last thing I need is for Phil to
just jump up on the counter and take food. So
I don't know. Then now Sunny's here. He got into town.
Oh yeah, he's got into town over the weekend because
of this big U because of this big storm that's happening,
you know over like in the Seattle area, Pacific northwest.
Uh huh. Both of his flights got He's taking two
flights to get in. They were both canceled. Oh no, Yeah,
so I had to reroute him like that day and
luckily I got you know, the airlines work with me.
So but anyway, he got in. Had to pick him
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Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: Did Sonny call you and say my flight's canceled or
could you tell? Well no, because he he's so close
to the airport and Eugene that I know him that
he cuts everything to the last second.
Speaker 4: And I woke up in.
Speaker 2: The morning and I knew what time he had to
leave for the airport, so I just checked just to
see if his flight was delayed because I knew all
this weather shit, and uh, a lot of the flights
out of San Francisco were getting delayed and canceled, and
so he was able to get he was gonna be
able to get it out of Eugene, but he has
to stop in San Francisco. So uh, then his flight
was delayed like three hours, so he would have never
made it to Burbank.
Speaker 4: So I caused it.
Speaker 2: But it was delayed in San Francisco. His flight was
going to be delayed, Yeah, in San Francis in San
Francisco for three hours, Okay, so they wouldn't have been
able to get him to Burbank. So I call him
and I said, you're you're we need to get you
on a different flight because the all the flights are
changed and canceled, delayed whatever because of the weather, because
of this bomb cyclone they called it, so I you know,
so they called the airline and they they they had
other flights, but he had to go into lax So
I had to drive to lax Oh Friday night at
like eight o'clock. Now you would think eight o'clock traffic,
is no. I mean, as soon as you get into
like one mile from the airport, you're just dead stopped.
It's just it's the friday before Thanksgiving week and everybody's traveling.
Speaker 4: It was a disaster.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: I was in the car for like two hours just
to get to him.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, but you could have driven to
freaking Santa Barbara.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now I know.
Speaker 2: So he's home for the week, which is nice, and
Natalia's coming home on Tuesday. I went to see Natalia
last week for the day because she keeps talking about
this boy that she likes, and she's like, well, uh,
so they told her maybe I would come up and
have lunch with her and help her with her laundry.
She wanted to deep clean her her dorm room. I mean,
the place is a freaking disaster. Oh god, oh, you
just cleaned it the last time you were there. Don't
these kids, you know what their vacuum is broke. The
most of it is just they need a vacuum because
there's just crumbs on the ground and stuff by the sink.
But their vacuum was broken. Come to visit.
Speaker 4: Yeah she did.
Speaker 2: She left the trail, she left her trademark. Yeah. Now
you know in the bath when the vacuum, you know,
it's bad when the vacuum is blowing air out. So
it's just like it's just making more of a mess. Yes, yeah,
so listen, I know from vacuum is shoes, right, I know,
I know. Yeah, So I just I drove up there
and we spent the afternoon. We went for a long walk.
I didn't realize how close she was to the ocean. Yeah, yeah,
like really close. So went for this long walk, this hike.
You know, me with hikes, but she likes to go
on hikes. So we went on this really nice hike
by the by the ocean, and she's, you know, telling
me that her and her friends go out there like
for sunset. You know, they'll go for walks and stuff.
Sometimes she'll meet her friend for sunrise.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 4: It isn't that cute.
Speaker 2: So that she's she likes this kid, she's been talking
about him as a friend. It's not this other guy
that she oh, not the guy she went on the date.
Now he's too BROWI she said, Okay, which I love
that about her.
Speaker 4: She has good taste.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Olbe doesn't like she's like these FROP boys
are too douchebags. Yeah, She's like, he has no sense
of humor, no personality. All he does want to talk
about it, you know, hazing and all the shit he's
got to do. Yeah, it's like or you know, the
things they have to do to get you know, rush whatever. Yeah,
and she's just like not she just wasn't into it.
But the one one of the guys that she was friends.
But she was talking about him for a long for
you know, not a long but like for the last month.
I would hear her talking about this German exchange student
that she's hanging out with. He's so funny, he's got
the best sense of humor. He's he's Jewish and German. Uh.
And he's got like a little bit of an he's
got an accent. Uh. And then he texts, you know,
like he writes things wrong, like instead of k n
O W right no, you know, and like she'll have
to like try and figure out, you know. She like,
you know, fucks with him about how you know his language,
and he's like he's such and she's like, he's very
nerdy but really really sweet. And she said he reminds
me as sunny, and and she's like, I want you
to him and want you to meet him. So we
went on a walk and she took me by where
he where he stays at, you know, his frat house,
and he came out and he was so sweet. Just
said hi to him, and it was cute, very very cute,
very cute.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like like.
Speaker 2: That black curly hair and like huh, blue eyes and
hair skin. Yeah, he's really cute and it just he's
so sweet. Took her to like sushi on the beach
one afternoon, Yeah, for lunch. He's just really like very considerate,
you know, very gentlemanlike. So yeah, it was a nice
it was a nice afternoon and spent the afternoon with her.
Speaker 4: But yeah, she likes him. So it's really cute.
Speaker 2: But I think he has to go back. I don't
know when, but he might have to go back to
Germany if he doesn't get an internship. So yeah, does
he go to UCSB or is he yes, he does, okay, yeah,
oh so is he a senior.
Speaker 4: I don't know what Grady's in. Actually, I didn't even know.
Speaker 3: If he's a student. I wonder why he Oh, because
he's an exchange student. In exchange, I see, Yeah, a
lot of them just do six months or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not there for very long, right, Yeah, well
I know, but m m. It was a nice afternoon.
We had a good time. Yeah, I was really sweet.
And she said, you said she comes back tuesday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's coming home tuesday.
Speaker 2: That same with Lbie. Yeah, I'm telling you, I see
so I know.
Speaker 4: I feel like I see my kids a lot.
Speaker 2: She's home right now. I picked her up yesterday. She
was just like, now I'm starting.
Speaker 3: To almost get and I'm kind of kidding, but like
it's almost like like she's She called me yesterday or
texted me and she was like, is there any way
you could come pick me up?
Speaker 2: And I was like, what, You're coming home tuesday? And
she was like, I know, but I I want to
go see my friends play with all my other with
my friends all going to see our friends play. And
I was like, oh, okay, Like I actually wasn't busy,
so I was like, all right, I'll come get you.
So I came toget her.
Speaker 3: A lot of traffic going to Westwood because of the
same thing this was, although this was well Sunday, for
some reason, there was like traffic around Westwood anyway, pick
her up, bring her home, hung out with her for
a little bit, but then I had to I had
to do this zoom meeting, so then I couldn't really
talk to her. And then she left, and then she
didn't come home. Then she slept at her friend's house,
and now she just came back home. But I may
not even see her because by the time I get home,
John might have driven her back to school. But then
I got to pick her up again tomorrow the she's
and then she'll be home. Then she'll be home for
the rest of the week. Yeah, then she'll go back
to school. Then I believe, like two weeks later that's
the thing for a month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, home for a month.
Speaker 3: I feel bad for all these parents who have kids
that are flying well, you included, because a lot of
them get out.
Speaker 2: For Christmas break, like they go back to school and
then two weeks later, on my back, that's a lot
of flying your kids by now Suzanne's doing it with
her daughter. Yeah, she's coming home for Thanksgiving, then going
back to New York and then coming home like a
couple weeks later for December.
Speaker 4: It's expensive.
Speaker 2: That's really expensive. And what are you gonna do? Tell
your kid now, don't come home for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4: Right, you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, it's at least like Eugene, it's not
that far. Like cross country is more, you know, plane
tickets more expensive, you know. And also if I plan
ahead of time, you know, for sunny you know, but yeah,
not a plane tickets back and forth. Yeah, you know
what else is really expensive?
Speaker 3: On Thursday, I believe it was Sadie was. You know,
she's been driving to school. She and Xander drives bitch
and she uh, she's she's the driver. I'm coming home
with people. I walk people in the morning. And then
I came home right as she was leaving, and she
backed out of the driveway. It was trash day, so
all the barrels were out waiting to be picked up,
and she knocked the side mirror off. I literally thought, like,
I was, I saw it happen, And I was like,
and she's you could tell she was kind of stunned
because she knew she did something, and so she stops
the car and then she sort of rolls down the
window and I was like, yeah, Sadie, like.
Speaker 2: Pull back in the driveway. I was like, I'm gonna
have to drive you to school. I couldn't even be
mad because it was like, I mean, she didn't do
it on purpose.
Speaker 3: It's hard to maneuver around the trash can. And you
got the other car next to you, so she didn't
want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you drove her to school in the other car.
Speaker 3: She drives one of our cars, our pre right, Yeah.
And then our car that Adam Lerner got us, our
Tech one is next to it.
Speaker 2: So I had to.
Speaker 3: I was like, pulled back in the driveway, took the
other car. Then I have to call our guy who
fixes cars.
Speaker 2: Oh, something happened in the car. She knocked the side
mirror off of the car.
Speaker 4: She knocked the mirror.
Speaker 3: She broke literally broke the mirror off the car. As
I'm I'm walking toward, the mirror broke off the car.
Speaker 2: She hit the trash can so hard the mirror snapped
off and was hanging. My god. Five hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah,
h wow. Yeah, well we could have gotten a cheaper.
We could have gotten it for one hundred dollars cheaper
if we used a different part. But my guy was like,
it won't match one hundred percent the other mirror. It'll
be hard to tell. But I was like, like, two
different color mirrors, even if it's just a little different.
Like we go to selve a car and they're like,
why are both the rear, Why are the mirrors different colors?
Don't worry about it. Yeah that's a yeah, Like for
one hundred dollars more, make a match, right right. I
called my friend and I told her and she was like,
oh yeah, my daughter's done that twice already, really, both
within the first year of having her license. Usually the
mirror would like full bend in, wouldn't it, or like
fold but it was.
Speaker 3: But when she was coming out, the mirrors already out.
Let's just say she's not going the right direction to it.
The way she was going was the wrong way. Yes, yeah,
snapped it off. She like broke the neck of the mirror. Yes, yeah,
had then we didn't have a car for well, then
we had to Elbie's car. But then Elbie came home
and started driving her Cary. Yeah, so that left us
with one car. Yeah, it's been annoying.
Speaker 2: I know. Yeah, Kaylen, you've been in some car accidents.
Speaker 6: I've just gotten re rendered a couple of times.
Speaker 2: But that's it really, just driving too slow. Well, one
time I tried to make it his fault.
Speaker 6: I actually got I've been re rended three times. One
of them was in it was Amy's parents car when
I was up in Big Bear, So that was fun.
When I was going snowboarding, this guy re rendered me
and then it took him forever to fix it too.
I felt so bad.
Speaker 2: Oh no.
Speaker 6: Another time I was stopped at a light and a
guy on a motorcycle flew into the back of my
toyo at a highlander and caved the whole back of it.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's when I was leaving the studio.
Speaker 2: Was the guy okay?
Speaker 6: Oh no, he was fucked up?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god. Did like the paramedics?
Oh yeah, wow, what did you do? Like you've heard
a crash into the back of your car.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it crashed and all the glass flew out like
into the into the front of the car and he
scared the fuck out of me.
Speaker 2: Were you in the car by yourself? Yeah? Uh huh?
Where were you?
Speaker 6: I was right by the old studio. I was like,
just leaving the studio.
Speaker 2: Were you on the freeway? No?
Speaker 6: I stopped at a light and the guy was like, well,
the guy on the motorcycle was speeding. First of all,
he's going way too fast, and he was going down
the right side of all the cars, like almost kind
of like to turn right sort of, so he's bypassing
all the cars. And then another car pulled out of
like that car washed driveway, so he had to cut in,
and he cut in straight into the back of my car.
Speaker 2: Oh, so what happens? So you get out of the.
Speaker 6: Car and get out of the car, and I kind
of jumped around a little bit and then I just
left the car there, and he he was able to
just kind of get up and go over to the
grass and lay down there. And then did you call? No,
someone else did, and then yeah, police in paramedics showed up.
Speaker 4: Was he all bleeding and shit?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I couldn't really tell he had his helmet on,
but yeah, he was pretty messed up.
Speaker 2: Oh did you ever find out? Did you ever get
a follow up.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean I saw him one day. He was
in the car. We're meeting up to talk about getting
my car fixed, and I just saw him in the
passenger seat. He had some casts on and stuff.
Speaker 4: Wow, I've never had a car hit me.
Speaker 2: You haven't, No, have you ever hit a car. I've
never had a car hit you on the freeway? Yeah,
you in the No, that was we swerved into each other.
But I mean, like from I've never been like rear ended.
Oh got it? Yeah, and I don't. I've never rear
ended anybody but that one on the freeway. Yeah, we
like swerved into each other because I was like trying
to get over and he was trying to get over
and I don't even remember what happened. Yeah, that was bad,
But I'm never really been in a car accident. The
only other time I can think of is when I
would knock on wood.
Speaker 4: I know, do it.
Speaker 2: Superstitious like that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did that too.
Speaker 2: The only other time I could think it was when
I was first started driving and I was leaving my
friend's house and I was stoned like a teenager, and
I hit a mailbox because I couldn't. It was late
at night and the street was pitch black and you
were stoned and I was stoned. I remember being stone,
and then I remember thinking I am never going to
get high and drive ever again, because that was the worst.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I hit a mailbox.
Speaker 3: I got really high once and felt like I was
driving an airplane, like you know, I felt like the
car was floating. And then I was going down a
one way street and it took me forever to realize.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, I was like, I'm
going I'm on a one way street going the wrong way.
Then I was like, yeah, I should never ever drive
stone too too. Yes, that's my worst nightmare, like to
drive down in one way street the wrong you know,
like in Pasadena there's all those one way streets. Yeah,
and then I started thinking about my kids driving, Like
remember in Pasadena there's a lot of one way streets. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's talk about Quint.
Speaker 2: Okay, we love Quints. Quince's like high quality goods for
very low prices. Yes, already I ordered John a Kashmir
crew neck navy sweater for Christmas and it's already it
already came. It's gorgeous. Then so me and my friend
went in on Kashmir gloves.
Speaker 3: We got her for her birthday. She has a birthday
early December, so we did together. My friend was like, oh,
there's these great Kashmir gloves on Quince.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, guess what, we have a code.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we got the Kashmira gloves and a beautiful
like ribbed Kashmir scarf.
Speaker 4: Great gift idea, so many great gifts.
Speaker 2: I was looking on Quints the other day because I
want to get a new cardigan for the holidays. Yes,
like a fall color, and they have so many colors.
The thing we love about Quints is they have so
many different colors to choose from a lot of different colors.
I love that. But Cashmere for like such low prices,
Cashmere sweater for fifty dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gorgeous things, gorgeous stuff.
Speaker 2: I was doing this whole ad without even we know,
both of us are looking at each other.
Speaker 4: We didn't even look at our dad.
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Speaker 2: Nice boom boom what else? I can't believe. It's gonna
be the holidays soon. I mean it's gonna be Christmas soon.
Thinking about quins and date, Christmas presents and whatnot.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Uh, the Menendez the Today's Monday while we're recording.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Menenda's.
Speaker 3: The decision on whether they I think, get a new
trial or whether the sentencing. They're showing up in court today.
Today's the day there, Today is the day. Yeah, so
they may be out of jail to prison today.
Speaker 2: Well, what's the December they had? I thought they had
a December eleventh court date or something? Uh, I today
because I was talking about it with my friends last
night and then lest you excuse me, oh now I
can't find it. But yeah, can you google that, Kaylin
find out exactly what the Menandez deal is for today?
Definitely today, so that you think they could get out today,
I'm not. I'm not sure if they're deciding if they
get a rece sentencing today or if they're getting a
resentencing today because I thought that because we have a
new uh yeah, the new DA, that now he's got
to decide.
Speaker 4: It's up to him to decide.
Speaker 6: The meeting today is just to determine if the planned
resentencing hearing next month remains on the schedule or if
it'll be delayed until the new DA is sworn in
to Oh.
Speaker 2: Oh well, okay, so I guess never mind. So if
it remains on the schedule, then we don't have to
wait for the new DA, and then December eleventh is
their next court date. Okay, So I guess if we
don't have to wait for the new guy, then maybe
they'll be out by December. I thought they were going
to be out before Thanksgiving. So that are that's what
Garrigos was saying. Well, right, and there they are showing
up in court today. So I don't know. I guess
everything just gets delayed.
Speaker 4: You know everything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how Yeah, well, I guess it's been
how many years?
Speaker 4: I guess they could wait a couple weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I did want to ask you about Okay,
so my twins' birthday is tomorrow, really, yes, Okay, how
old are they going? To be seventeen.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable. I remember when they were three.
Speaker 2: I know, it's very crazy. It is like we always
say our kids were babies when we started thing, and
now they're grown ass adults basically yeah, yeah, I mean
next year, Sadie, Xander, the trailing babies will be applying
to colleges.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I know. Wow. They're just they're so happy right now too.
They're on their break. They're planning their little what they're
going to do for their actual birth Okay, so on
their birthday that I'm gonna take them. Albie will be
home and they're each bringing Xander's bringing his girlfriend, and
Sadie's gonna bring her bff, and we're gonna go to
just like CPK. You know, I can't afford to take
like all these motherfuckers to like a Benny Hannah. Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then so that'll just be their birthday and they'll
just get cake. And then.
Speaker 3: On their like on Friday, I think they're gonna do
laser Tag. And I told them they could invite like
they could. There could be like twelve of them, and
I'll pay for a few laser tag games and then
they might come back to our house, have more cake,
maybe have a couple of friends sleepover.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Lyle, Lyle Crocodile.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm going to be giving Anna, Lyle's
mom and the sister. I'm gonna be giving them the cash.
You guys have been so generous. Everybody's donated money. Annette
gave a bunch of money, Julie. Anyway, a lot of
you guys. If anybody wants the last chance to do it,
you just go on to the Facebook or Instagram me
if you want to chip in another like ten or
twenty bucks or something. I I'm going to do it
all like the week after Thanksgiving. I'm gonna go, oh nice,
give it to mama.
Speaker 4: That's nice.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm so excited about that. But anyway, Lila Crocodile,
a couple of friends will probably sleep over, and probably
Lyle's sister and but so now I'm like, but I
still want to get them a gift, right, But I
also don't want to I also want to get them
stuff for Christmas.
Speaker 4: You have this, but so I okay for you.
Speaker 2: I feel for you. So do you remember this story
a few years ago when they were younger so they
might It might have been ten or eleven. Maybe they
were eleven.
Speaker 3: Lbie had the Apple air pods, and I didn't think
my kids cared about like the brand of them. So
they had some like wireless eard earbuds, right, and all
was good, except for I knew Sadie really wanted.
Speaker 2: She loves to be like Elbie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so do you remember this story where you'll remember
this where I decided for Sadie's for Christmas, her big
gift was going to be some Apple AirPods and then
but I didn't get them for Xander because I just.
Speaker 2: Didn't think he cared. And then but for him, I
got him a bean bag chair but it ended up
being that ginormous crazy and it came orange instead of blue, and.
Speaker 3: It took up It was like a spaceship. Okay, so
I know that Sadie wants some wireless headphones this year.
Speaker 2: She just they're kind of in style right now. She
wants to wear them to the gym, and.
Speaker 3: She says that AirPods fall out of her ears too easily,
and whatever, whatever, she wants them.
Speaker 2: So the Apple ones are insane. They're like five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: I so fuck that, but I wanted to get her
the Beats what right, So anyway, the Beats ones that
I could find were the studio what They're like two
hundred and fifty dollars, So I was thinking, maybe I
do that for her big Christmas gift. But anyway, long
story short, I'm like, am I going to have a
situation where I get them for Sadie? And then Xander's
like really bummed because he really wanted them, but just
so I was like, you know what, I just can't.
I can't have that, so I'm going to ruin the surprise.
So I told Xander. I was like, Xander, I don't
want to ruin your like surprise, I said, but here's
what I'm I think I'm getting Sadie.
Speaker 2: This is that something that you really want? And he
was like, oh, honestly no, like I'm kind of fine
with my AirPods. And I was like, okay, because I
do not want to repeat. I do not want you
guys in sad and He's like, no, I'm totally fine.
So I was like, okay, good, Okay, anyway, does he
want a bean bag chair?
Speaker 3: It does not want to bean bag chair. But we
recounted that story, and he was like, and then remember
it just kept getting bigger and bigger because it comes compressed.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it just it just kept expanding.
Speaker 3: Until it was so big and we were just like,
oh my god, what is happening. Remember I couldn't get
Amazon to come get it because I couldn't put it
back in a.
Speaker 2: Box right right, it doesn't. It was so big.
Speaker 3: It was bigger than my whole front porch. And they're like, no,
we're not coming to get it. And finally they told me.
I had to fight with them. Usually they're just like, okay,
forget it, we'll just refund your money.
Speaker 2: But they wouldn't. They kept saying I had to return it,
and I was like, I cannot put this thing in
my car. It won't go in my car. So I
got somebody with a truck came and picked it up.
Oh my god, from like buy Nothing group, right yeah, anyway, yeah,
So anyway, I found the headphones for a much lower price.
Speaker 3: If you and I didn't know about this, okay, but
Amazon makes does products that are renewed so like furbished,
and apparently they're just sometimes returns, but they're if they
were broken, they're fixed and they're back in their original packaging.
So I got her this the most expensive kind, but for.
Speaker 2: Like one hundred bucks, basically one hundred and twenty eight dollars, Hattie,
where'd you just?
Speaker 3: I just you have to search around. I looked them
up on Amazon because here's why this is like a
little in the weeds. But Sadie, because of her eighty
her ADHD, wants noise canceling headphones so that she can
put them on in class when she's taking a test,
and because she gets distracted by the noises around her
and they're not allowed to use their phone so that
she can't have her phone there and anyway. So but
the only the Beats studio version are noise canceling, and
the regular beats like they're called like Solo four that
are like one hundred bucks are not noise canceling.
Speaker 2: Oh so, but I didn't want to spend two hundred
five dollars that's crazy, yeah, on headphones. So anyway, I
found them, so I was like searching around and they
just came up at a lower price, and I was like,
what's this and they said they're renewed. So I did
a little researching and those products are like totally fine, wow,
brand new.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's great. So that's what Sadie's getting for
her birthday. Yeah. Now I got nothing to give Xander
for his birthday and it's tomorrow. Oh no, you have
a suggestion.
Speaker 3: He told me he wants money because he's saving up
to buy a keyboard. So if worst comes to worst,
I could just give him cash and you know, or
give him like, yeah, go happy birthday, I'm transferring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or you could save up he wants a keyboard,
or you could get him a gift certificate.
Speaker 4: What's that place, Guitar center.
Speaker 2: Guitar Center. Yeah, but like a new keyboard at a
place like guitar Center is gonna be like where would
you get oh like a best Buy?
Speaker 4: I don't know where you get it? Yeah, I know,
but like I'm thinking or online.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know how to play the piano right now,
so I mean, I know he'll teach himself off YouTube
like they all do. But I was thinking of just
doing like Facebook marketplace, you know, and not getting murdered
for that, but not make that obvious.
Speaker 2: I don't know what do I do? What does Sunny want?
Speaker 4: He's boys are hard.
Speaker 2: Boys are so hard. Girls are so easy.
Speaker 4: I know, so easy.
Speaker 2: Girls are easy. They all want the same thing. Yeah,
rush from TikTok, like makeup, like curling iron whatever, curling
like I was literally thinking for for Sadie for Christmas,
like those that beach waiver. Yeah, yeah, I have a
good day.
Speaker 4: Yeah I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boys, I mean the thing that I would say,
like Sonny would like tickets to something maybe interesting, maybe
like a comedian that he's into or something, or remember
we were going to go see Shang Wang and then
uh yeah he was sick. Oh yeah, I was sick.
That's right when I got COVID. Oh yeah, nobody went.
But we go see Patton Oswald at right, But I don't,
but I would probably get him that anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you remember any bands that are coming that
he might want to see He's going to see or
cover band at the end of this month, they're going
to see Dinosaur Junior.
Speaker 4: Oh John, Oh.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: And I wanted to take him to Queen Nation yea
at in Agora with with That would have been fun
with Lyle, but he has a speech and debate tournament
that day.
Speaker 2: It's all right, yeah, figure it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough though, Yeah, boys are hard.
Speaker 3: Because I thought about getting him a gift card to
like Urban Outfitters or you know, packsun or something, all right,
but he would rather have Like he's saving up his money,
so I feel like, why waste it on making him
go buy poths that he doesn't need when I could
just help him buy a keyboard.
Speaker 2: I don't know. And now, Caitlin, what would you want cash?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, boys, just give him cash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine, I'll do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, And then you could think of something for
his for Christmas.
Speaker 6: Yes, maybe you could do something funny with it, like
get like really shitty gift and then put the cash inside.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a cute. I remember one thing at the
dollar store.
Speaker 6: When do you remember my brothers gave me like a
book for my birthday and I was a kid, and
I got really mad and I was like, a fuck,
this sucks, and they're like, look in it, dummy, there's
cash inside. We're getting mad.
Speaker 2: That's a good funny idea a dollar store could have.
Speaker 3: Like I could get him a coloring book from like
the dollar Store and put it inside. Or he'd laugh
if I got him some kind of you know, they'll
they have like very cheesy like bibles and stuff an adult,
like a little pocket Bible or something that would make
him work. Yeah, sorry, religious people, Sorry to make fun
of your religion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good idea. Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, before we wrap, uh, we're going to
have a hot Patreon for you guys.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk.
Speaker 3: We're going to discuss some stuff. Yeah, you've gotten some
questions from you on Facebook, and most of the good
questions were things that are could only be talked about
on Patreon. Yes, so we're going to cover some territory yeah,
that people have been asking about for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, right, yeah, yeah, that's so. That's so look
forward to that.
Speaker 3: And then our Friday show, because it's it's not Christmas,
it's Thanksgiving, will be a best of yeah, and that
will be have the story about Sadie getting lost in
them all oh n. And then coming after that in
the month of December, we've definitely we've got Talkie's story,
the submarine traveling down to come find Mom and a
bunch of us and Steve and I thought we was
friends and like, oh my god, so many good classic,
nice old schools.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: All right, but before we go, let's say, let's say
thank you to all of our business partner friends and
you know what we're going to do them all. Okay, yeah, today,
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out to amplify her brother and call and her brother
Colin and sister in law Anna's podcast The Get Up Show.
It's a morning variety show podcast that gets kids from
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He got you know who he's helping right now.
Speaker 2: I just found out. She didn't even tell me. He's
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The plan is free and that's it. Thank you everybody.
We've happy, yes, happy Thanksgiving. See you tomorrow on Patreon
yep hi. Thanks Kaylin.
Speaker 4: Don't suck it up your parent now
Speaker 2: Letting