Speaker 1: I made a decision.
Speaker 2: Pace Sunny Sun on Ihad a vision.
Speaker 1: It's nice.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, what's happening. We have a pal in studio today.
I'm so excited. We have Julie Caseum in studio.
Speaker 1: Yehi, Julie. Hi guys.
Speaker 4: Oh and we just did Patreon with her, yes, which
was a.
Speaker 1: Real good Scott to Zite people Stota zite.
Speaker 3: But it was good. It was really good. Went long too, right,
A little long A little.
Speaker 4: Bit yeah, not even a half hour though. Yeah, it's good. Okay,
we got no plans. Yeah, what are we doing? We're here,
Thanks for coming, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Now, with my new job, I have Mondays and Fridays off,
so nice. Yes, so I can. I can come to
the pod everyone. That is your job. I love it.
So I'm so Now I'm working full time as a
physician assistant doing home visits for palliative care and I'm
really enjoying it. I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Last year
I started this job and I was still working at
the school. So I was doing this working as a
fifth grade slash fourth grade TA for the last six
years at this school, and then last year I was like,
I kind of want to get back into medicine, Sophie.
My youngest is driving now, so I have more flexibility
in my schedule. I can work longer hours. She doesn't
need me as much in that respect. She still needs me,
of course, but you know what I mean. So I
worked at the school three days a week, and then
two days a week. I found a job in palliative care,
and I was like, okay, let me dip my toe
into it. See if I like it before I get
rid of my school job. And I like it, so
I was like, Okay, that's so great. Yeah, perfect for that,
thank you. Yeah, And the company's just unbelievable. I'm just
so happy. So it's going really well. I really like it.
But I decided I want to work part time because
my days are longer so it's more tiring. So I
wanted my and Friday off and so yeah, that's great,
good for you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. But you were taking over for a while
for a teacher. Is that done? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah that So my last year at the school,
the fourth grade teacher got fired mid year and so
myself and another person kind of had to step up
and teach the second semester. Really yeah, there was the
old old fourth grade teacher did prepare the curriculum. She's like,
I can't be the full time teacher because I've retired,
but I'll prepare the curriculum and you guys teach it.
So I didn't have to prepare curriculum. I just had
to teach it. So that was a great It is tough,
isn't it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't have to do math if I
had to do math, forgod.
Speaker 3: Wasn't that like the science fairs and all the home practics.
Speaker 1: But the school has their own science teacher, their own
science class all that we don't have to cover science.
It was actually pretty chill. Yes, cool, you have to
teach them because for when you're in fourth grade, you
go to the fifth grade teacher for history, you go
to science teacher for science. So we basically had to
teach English and like some writing, but even the fifth
grade teacher does writing with them. So it ended and
they had a We had a separate math person come
in to do math because now myself and the other
girl were like, I can't I can't do this math,
Like I know how to do it, but to teach it,
I don't know it deep enough to teach it. I
was like, hell no, so it really wasn't that bad.
I mean, I can't complain.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, cool, Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, well we
got great news. I'm sure everybody already has heard the news.
But on my way here, I got a phone call
from Suzanne at ABC that Jimmy is back on the air. Yes,
tonight we'll be back on I will be watching also
watching it.
Speaker 1: Justice prevails. Yeah, justice prevails.
Speaker 3: It's like such good news because it's been a really
tough week. It's been hard. I was really sad. And
Anthony is at my house, my nephew, Anthony and his wife.
Anthony worked Atkimmel for eight years. He was a writer's assistant.
He worked with Mollie, Jimmy's wife.
Speaker 1: Wow, they were so good.
Speaker 3: Jimmy, I mean we've said it a million times. He's
a great guy. And I just I just know because
I know like his mindset. I know that he's extended
his contract because he loves his staff and he doesn't
want them, and he also loves his job. He's a workaholic,
but he really worries about I mean, there's many people
that are that are working for him to this day
that were from The Man Show days, like he keeps
people around forever, He's super, super loyal, And it was
just really devastating week. It was really sad for everybody,
and we were hoping that there was going to be
good news. I personally was like thinking, to myself, Jimmy
must be fucking pissed and he must feel like I
don't know if he's going to come back, Like That's
how I was thinking. But I do know that they
were like still talking. So we got the good new
news today.
Speaker 1: The best news.
Speaker 4: I brought it up to John so little like peek
into my mind. So I also have rose pricks and
we're primarily Bachelor content, so you know, besides being very
upset politically, it's been just a crazy past week or so, right,
I was also just like, well, now what because like
if I so, My thinking was this, I'm just going
to be totally honest because that's what I do. My
thinking was, fuck, I'm fucked either way because it's not
a good look to go. Well, sorry, fuck ABC. But
also I'm going to watch the Golden Bachelor. The Golden
Bachelor starts Wednesday, so when you're listening it starts tomorrow,
and I was like, I mean, on the other hand,
my brain was going back and forth because I was like,
we don't have Disney. Plus I'm not really supporting we
had Hulu for like three dollars a month because it's
LB's college. They're not getting Hulu's not getting rich on
us and we don't even have Disney. So I was like,
I was just going to watch a Golden Bachelor on ABC.
I already hate the new Golden Bachelor, guy mel because
he's just a douchebag who's like an agist, and he's
the one that really fought saying yes, he was caught
saying he doesn't want any women over sixty really he's
sixty six or sixty seven, and he was like, yeah,
I don't want any and no artificial hips or like
what eggs?
Speaker 3: This is our Golden Bachelor or guy who's that agism?
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell? Yes, Like who are you dude?
Speaker 4: He was caught. He talked to a report. He basically
said all this stuff and then later was like, oh,
I didn't realize, Like I didn't realize. I was just
you know, yeah, I said some things, but like he
apologized and was like, yeah, that was really stupid of me.
And he said it before they started taping the show.
We were already mad, and we were hoping that they
would get rid of that guy and get somebody different
in there before they started taping, but they didn't. So
already like kind of fuck ABC in the first place, right,
And now it's like, well, The Bachelor's our main show.
We're rose pricks, you know. So then it was like,
I already don't want to cover this show because of
this douche, but now Jimmy's been suspended, Like how am
I going to go and cover this anyway? Then on
the other hand, I was like, but should a small business?
Would Jimmy want my small business as a podcaster to
be affected, you know by watching The Bachelor once a
week and recording it? And I was like, I just
don't know, but I feel like I should say something anyway.
So I was very relieved. But John was like, he's
they're going to make a deal with him because they
are losing so much money because of these boycotts. So basically, so,
as you know, it wasn't really ABC's decision. They were
pressured and should by their parent company and so, and
Trump was threatening with using it through the FBC to
take ABC's license. So this was all fear all around, right,
you know. But so basically the way it was kind
of explained to me is ABC had to kind of
go well, which is worse because the one who's really
getting hurt is Disney, Right, So Disney gets hurt a
nobody watches their shows, but also as a parent company,
there's a lot beyond just watching ABC proper write a
lot on Disney. So they basically made a decision to
kind of call Trump's bluff because their thinking was even
if the FCC pulls the license, which is what Trump
was like, well maybe they should just FCC. I'll have
the FCC pull ABC's license. Then I think they were
basically like, well, all right, Disney stocks are going to
go up. Doesn't really matter like you can't. So they
made a so we'll.
Speaker 1: See, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it was interesting, he didn't come out and
say anything. He was quiet this whole time, and I
don't know, I thought, maybe if he doesn't come back,
he's going to go on Colbert this week and do
something with Colbert maybe or I don't know, that would
have been great but I just thought, like, Jimmy's fucking pissed.
He's probably not. He probably doesn't want anything to do
with Disney right now. He's probably pissed, and I could see, like,
but I guess they worked it out, which is great,
so happy.
Speaker 4: I hope he does not apologize to anybody.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, knowing Jimmy don't. I can't wait
to see his mom.
Speaker 4: Sinclair, which is very very conservative, was they were the
ones putting out that he's going to have to apologize
and pay like a huge fine.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I don't. He's much a double standard. Our president.
The things that he says are so much worse and
so hateful and spiteful. I am, oh my god, it's
so frustrating. Look, I'm not saying like, look, I'm not
going to comment on what Jimmy said right or wrong
or any of that. But what I'm saying is our
president is all he does is spew hatred and division
and troll people. And yet, of course, as we all know,
the minute someone else says something, it's like, you can't
do that. It's just like right, it's the most frustrating,
it's sostrating.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So we'll see I know how I feel.
No secret, I mean, yeah, anyway, how.
Speaker 3: Else weak, Well, it's been good, I have you know,
I haven't like it came at a great time.
Speaker 1: I mean not a great time.
Speaker 3: But you know, when this when the news broke, it was,
you know, I was talking to my friends at ABC
and talking to my girlfriends and stuff, and then Suzanne.
Speaker 1: You know, she's like, nobody's said anything.
Speaker 3: There's not usually they get an email or something from
Bob Ayer and it's been quiet, which we started thinking, well,
maybe that's because they're still talking. So but then yeah,
so then Anthony, my nephew, came into town with his
seven year old and four year old and his wife
and you were asking me, Julie, like, how does that work?
Do you have to get up in the morning and
cook breakfast? No, they're they these two are a dream
team together. They and there and that, and it bleeds
into the the behavior of the kids. They're so well behaved.
So they they're like a well oiled machine. Like they
they're a partnership, a true partners which I just love
and adore. I'm so proud of them. And so like
they come they go to the grocery store. They get
all there. I tried to stock. I'm like, I got
some yogurt and I got some and they liked to
you know, they're very clean. They're they're very like particular,
you know, like the organic and stuff like that, which
is good. So they go to the grocery. So they
get so they're so the kids. Now they're up. It's
like in the middle of the night. For me, it's
dark and I got Phil. So Phil's in my room
and I just here like their little feet in the morning.
And then Phil wants to end on the action, so
he's scratching at my door. By keep telling Phil, I go, nope,
go back to bed, Nope, lay down, and he listens
to me. Then he gets back on the bed and
lays down, and then like two hours later he's back
up again. And then I get up, you know, but
I'm you know, up at a decent time. Yeah, they're
making their breakfast and they're like, you know, like yesterday
his wife went and saw friend and Anthony drove to
Santa Monica to Bay City Italian Deli. If you haven't
heard of it, I have. It's the best Italian deli.
I love the bread the bread those sandwiches. It's like
a little bit chewy that it is, like it's like.
Speaker 1: A do bread.
Speaker 4: It's the best I used to go there.
Speaker 3: It's like crispy on the top, but inside it's very
fluffy and chewy. And he discovered it working at Kimmel
and he's like, I'm going to take the kids to
Bay City.
Speaker 1: Delhi.
Speaker 3: Brought me back a sandwich, brought back two loaves of
the bread, which was great.
Speaker 1: So, like they got plants.
Speaker 3: Today, they're like visiting his her grandmother and we're supposed
to go to Universal Studios tomorrow. I don't know that
his daughter's not feeling great, so yeah, I don't know
if that's gonna work out. And then they canceled Disney
Plus and they were pissed, but they planned this vacation
to Disneyland and Alley. I don't think Jimmy's gonna want
to disappoint my kids, but you know, they were like
thinking maybe it'll be empty. Like you know, Suzanne couldn't
go to work today because there was protesters.
Speaker 1: They told everybody stay home. Wow, I love this. Yeah amazing.
Speaker 3: She was working from home today. Okay, Monday, So are
you going to Disneyland with them. No, no, okay, so
they got that. But yeah, and then there's that protesting.
Yeah I'm protesting by chilling at home. But yeah, and
then they're here till the end of the week, and yeah,
it'll be nice.
Speaker 1: And then I have a week.
Speaker 3: And then the following week comes with Anthony's brother, Nicholas,
who also worked at Kimmel for years. Oh my gosh,
and his wife and their baby.
Speaker 1: He's two. So this is nice because I mean I was,
as I was saying before we started the show, like
what's it. I mean, I know last year you were
kind of an empty nester as well, but like, I
don't know, it seems like it's when the kids go off.
It's like can be lonely at times, but it sounds
like you got a full house. I do. Well.
Speaker 3: It was weird because Sonny left on Friday afternoon to
go back to Oregon, and these guys came Friday night,
so it's like I didn't have you know, I was
like one in, one out yea. And then Italia came
on Saturday and spent the night with us and hung
out with us. I babysat the kids while they went
out to dinner with their friends, which was so cute,
like watched Smurf and then.
Speaker 1: Laid with them.
Speaker 3: And then it's funny because she's like, like, I put
him to bed first because he's four, and then she
watched the rest of the movie with me, and she's
like cuddling next to me. And then I get in
bed with her and she's like, can you sing uh
the mocking bird song? And I'm like, oh God, what's
the words like for them? Like in the back when
the lush little baby don't say a word? Mom is
gonna buy you a mocking bird. If that mocking bird
don't sing, Mom's gonna buy you a diamond ring. And
then I didn't know the rest, so she had to
tell me the rest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I know it either.
Speaker 3: Mom's gonna buy you If the diamond ring don't shine,
Mom's gonna buy you a looking glass. If that looking
Glasgow's broke, Mom's gonna buy you a billy go okay, yeah,
And then I do it twelve times over and over
and over and over, and then I was like, Okay,
now I'm gonna I'm gonna lay on your bed with you,
and I'm gonna go nine night and then she fell
asleep immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I know. It's so cute, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It is so sweet, Like I'm like, oh my god,
I miss I forget how it is, you know. And
they're like they're they're coloring, they're playing playto like they're
not a lot of they're not big TV watchers, you know,
so like gotta like keep them busy, like they can
watch a movie at the end of the night.
Speaker 1: It's nice, you know, it's so cute. You forget. When
my brother comes with my nephew who's five, it's the same.
I'm like, I love this. I know.
Speaker 3: It's just like the way the high aunty one yet
you know, like the words.
Speaker 1: It's just so cute.
Speaker 3: And it's crazy because Wesley, the little one, looks just
like Anthony. When I babysat Anthony, he loves and his
mannerisms are the same. As eyebrows go up to say like,
he's just like Anthony. So it's like weird, it's crazy. Yeah,
it's been fun. Oh good, And then you'll have a
week off. Then I have a week off, and then
they come and then at the end of that week,
Suzanne me Wendy we go to Florida for a week
because Suzanne wants a week vacation.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how fun. Yeah, you go to Wendy two.
Speaker 3: We go to her place in Florida because she's never
been there and it's by the beach, and Suzanne hasn't
had a week vacation. And Suzanne, Wendy and I are
very close, We're like sisters.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So she's like, I want to spend time with you
guys and go to you know, the Florida house. I'm like, fun, Yeah,
it's pretty fun. Oh good, Oh.
Speaker 1: You're busy girl. I love it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: When any hiccups with Sunny leaving?
Speaker 1: No, Well, he called me last night.
Speaker 3: He's having really bad issues with his WiFi, so he's
trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1: Like he went to get a modem.
Speaker 3: He said he was trying to watch the games on
Sunday and it was glitchy. Him and Archie went to
the Oregon game on Saturday, so that's why he had
to get back on Friday night.
Speaker 1: So that was Yeah. So I don't know he's working
on his Wi Fi stuff now. Is he staying in
the same place as he was last year?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh? Nice? Can he stay there like all four years basically.
Yeah he can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what he's going to probably do.
Speaker 1: God, that's so nice. It feels like when you're in
college you have to move every year somewhere new, I know,
like you did with LB. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well she's only going for two years. Yeah yeah, yeah,
so far I haven't had to buy her that much.
Speaker 1: You guys have your UCLA girl. Yeah, so Bella's but
so okay. First year dorm, second year sorority house, so
we haven't really had to deal with furniture or anything
like that because you just bring your stuff. Third year,
she's in London for the semester. She is, yes and
having the best time, and then she'll come back in
the winter and she'll move into an apartment. Everybody's already there,
so it's already fully ready to roll, like even with
a bed and a dresser, so she just has to
show up. Did you go to London? I dropped her
off in London, and then the whole family, sorry, my
husband and Sophie, who's a senior in high school and
I are going for the week of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's been nice. Girls are living the best life. Yeah,
so Bella's having fun. She's having the best time. She's
having the best time.
Speaker 1: They've already been to Paris one weekend, Ireland one weekend.
She's going to Majorca coming up for her Her other
friend is doing semester abroad in Spain and she's turning
twenty one on so I'm going to Majorca. So she's
she and honestly, she loves her classes like she's happy
with them. She loves her flatmates. They're all people she
didn't know. Two of them are from wash you in
Saint Louis, one is from UCLA that she had never met,
and one is from Berkeley. And they're living in this
like apartment. It's so cool and so cute. Honestly, she's funny, though.
She's like, because I keep saying travel, go, you know,
go and see Europe. She's like, honestly, I love London
so much, I don't really care to go anywhere. And
you know, she's such a musical theater person. She's walking
distance to the West End, so she's already seen so
many shows. That's nice. Knock on wood. It's just been
a really great experience so far. That's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but she has gone and traveled when you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she has, and I kept saying like, oh great,
now Majorca. Where you gonna go after that? She is,
I think going to go to Italy for her twenty
first birthday which is in October. But after that she's like,
I just don't want like I'm cool, like I'm ready
to I just want to stay in London and enjoy London.
Speaker 4: They're gonna go to.
Speaker 1: The Cotswolds like at some point, like they're just.
Speaker 3: So that's amazing, it's a experience.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, totally. I did not do a semester
abroad in college. And we didn't either, Stephanie.
Speaker 4: We didn't. We elected to just buckle down and like
really focus yes studies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. You didn't want anything to
distract you.
Speaker 4: No, We're just we were kind of nose to the grindstone. Yeah,
very career orient you know.
Speaker 1: Listen, you had your your mentor professors as your mentors,
you were meeting with them all the time.
Speaker 4: You didn't have to. We didn't. Zoom wasn't really a
thing yet would we do that?
Speaker 1: We have to be a thesis and overseas, right, right?
Speaker 4: So what about Okay, so Sophie.
Speaker 1: So then Sophie's senior in high school like Sadie and
Xander and doing the college location process. But we have
a college counselor for her, okay, so who's been very involved.
It's from our friend Lara. Lara recommended her and it's
been amazing and she's got a whole scheduler for her,
and you need this at this time. And then she's
already applied to a few colleges, like the easier ones
that don't have a ton of supplementals that you have
your essay you you apply, those are easy.
Speaker 4: So she's already done her personal statement or her common
app essay.
Speaker 3: That is done now, yes, yes, so yeah, because I
guess it's coming up right like I November, Yeah, November.
Speaker 1: She's applying early decision to school that she wants to
go to. So that's yeah, November. First, she kind of
had to have everything done anyway, so and you know,
these college counselors don't mess around, get your essay done.
So I mean, you're paying an arm and a leg
for them, but.
Speaker 3: Boy, yeah it's worth it, it's worthy.
Speaker 1: But she would not be here right now like she
would not have her essay, you know what I mean,
it's just and then you're arguing, I just keeps someone
Yeah done, Yeah at all. It's it's a lot. They're
dealing with a lot, as you've talked about, all the aps,
all the extra curricular and then they're supposed to like
write essays and supplementals and make it sound great and perfect.
What does she What does Sophie want to do? So
she wants to go into TV and film production. She
wants to be a producer. She's like, I want to
be the one, like I want to be ahead of
a studio. I don't know. Okay, that's great. It's it's
you know, they both want to go into entertainment, which
is fine, of course, you know, I will support them
one hundred percent. But as a mom, it's like, that's scary.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's kind of a tough business, but
it's a really tough business. At lunch, I feel like
you get you get your foot in the door.
Speaker 1: That's the hardest part is getting your foot in the door.
That's honestly, that's my biggest worry. Is like they've you
have to know somebody, you just do and like, so
if they can get their foot in the door, I'll
be able to breathe. Because they're very hard working. I
think they're very creative. I think they would do well
in those jobs. It's just a matter of getting your
foot in the door and like getting that momentum going right.
Speaker 4: Bella tried really hard to get an internship.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. She applied to like the NBC internship,
the ABC internship, the Warner Brothers internship. You know, they
have these internships for college students, and they're so extremely competitive.
And if you don't know somebody, are they even looking
at your application?
Speaker 3: To be honest, I know.
Speaker 1: She had so through her sorority. There was a woman
she had met at a sorority event who was a
high high up in a company. I'll just I don't
want to like, yeah that name when I think at that,
but it was a very prominent company that produces a
lot of great things. And so I was like, so
Bella's like, well I applied. I'm like, okay, now you
need to contact that sorority woman. You had already met her.
You guys exchanged numbers. She was so kind and and
just say, hey, you know, just want to let you
know I applied to these internships, and that woman was like, fabulous,
I'm gonna pass this on to the hiring department. We
were like, oh my god, oh my god, because otherwise
you've never been right and she had. They're like, okay,
well we have we have development and we have production,
so we'll interview you in both of those places.
Speaker 4: And she did.
Speaker 1: She interviewed in both. She did not end up getting
the internship. You know, this was for animation, and she's
an acting major. She's not an animation major. She's not
a producing major. She's not a marketing major. She's not
a So she was already like not in an advantage
because they're going to hire people that are going to
eventually be doing that. But Bella actually does want to
do that. She would yeah, she's an actor, but she
would love to do production and behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So she didn't get it, which is fine, but it's
so my point is is like Jesus, like, how hard
is it to just get your foot in the freaking door?
I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like Suzanne works at Disney and people hit her
up all the time and she's like, even though she
works there, she's like, I always just tell them just
go to the website first and look for a job.
And if you see something and I know it happened
to know some which is kind of not even if
she doesn't know them, like she's like, do I reach out?
Speaker 1: I don't hate it's top thing. Yeah, it's a weird
thing and I get it, like I'm all for I'm sorry,
but like nepotism, you kind of in this in this
industry to have a connection. It's just in history really yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And I think going to like you'll meet people that
might know you know, it's all about connections, you know.
Speaker 4: So hopefully you know, she's doing her best to network
and do all the things.
Speaker 1: She's in the right town right exactly, So yeah, hopefully
something will come to that. That's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot of pressure right now. I mean
I feel like Xander is always busy and there's so
many differents I have to so like I know, but
you know, then you just start getting nervous like are
you working on this? Are you working on that? And
then he's like, oh, how do I find the you
see application? Like it's like right, you know, like you know,
and they have heavy duty college counselor stuff too. Right,
it's just a lot I got to be on top of,
like two kids.
Speaker 3: I feel like Sonny and Xander are so much alike,
Like they wait till the last minute. They they then
they buckle down, and it's like, you know, when Natalia
is ahead of the car, like I want to make
sure I get this done before it happens, Like she's
constantly looking ahead, and Sonny's just like, I still have time,
I still have time.
Speaker 1: Right, No, dude, you not.
Speaker 3: You don't have that much to you know, right, come
on focus. Yeah, I know it's hard though, it's so overwhelming. Wait,
what do you mean I have to write an essay
about my life and something I've overcome or you know,
whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you even write about?
Speaker 4: First?
Speaker 1: You know, that's a whole other issue.
Speaker 4: There's so many topics they're not closed to write about too,
that are just like played laid out. Yeah, like they're
not supposed to write about mental health right at all? Yeah, well,
like Jesus, they all have mental health.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's what's happening in their lives. And
then you know, yeah, you can't like you know, do
the whole well, my you know, I'm a first generation immigrant. Okay,
I've been there, done that. Can you write about I don't.
Speaker 4: It's tough and it's hard because if they haven't had
it's interesting because also like for speech, for speech and debate,
a lot of these kids write about there. I've seen
kids talk about the fact that you shouldn't have to
trauma dump to win and win with a speech about
how everybody trauma dumps. But it's like, but that is
what they do, like most of the if you don't
trauma dump, then you're that you don't stand out.
Speaker 1: It's not interesting because.
Speaker 4: They're like, well, why am I gonna go for this
person who was you know, kind of funny and made
me laugh and talked about something sort of you know, lighthearted,
as opposed to this person who's like watched their parents
get gunned down or whatever, or their grandparents got gunned
down and you know somewhere. Yeah, it's like, well, you know,
as soon as you see the person that is talking
about like whatever the speeches that has a lot of
trauma in it, the other kids are like, well, there
you go, that's done.
Speaker 3: Maybe we should have made them put their cream cheese
on their bagel more like made it a tougher life
for them.
Speaker 1: Although our friend her son had a really great one.
So he went to with some friends to the highest
point in California and the lowest point in California all
in one day. So he started at like whatever two
in the morning, climbed Mount Whitney I think, got there
at noon, turned around, came back down, and then drove
to Death Valley. So he wrote about that, and it's like, okay, cool,
but like our kids aren't doing that. They're just literally
trying to do well in school, do their extracurriculum, spend
some time with family, snap every once in a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah that kid, by the way, is that UCLA.
Speaker 1: Yes, wow, yes.
Speaker 4: Friend laras Son, Yeah they UCLA.
Speaker 1: It worked for him. Yeah, so they like Sophie go
freaking hike Mount Whitney and then we can write about
something like it's ridiculous if you.
Speaker 4: Look up examples though of essays that work. Sometimes they're
just super creative. But it's you still have to be
like a certain type of kid who you know. Some
of these kids will have like invented something but then
write about it like it was no big deal. And
I explain, it's like you have to find something that
you did and then humble brag the fuck out of it.
Speaker 1: You know, yes, right, So Bella had I thought a
really cool concept. So she actually went to a movie
premiere because her friend's mom is like works for one
of the big magazines and just gets all these say anyway,
that doesn't matter. So they're movie premiere and it's a
movie with Tiffany Hattish and they get into the elevator
and Tiffany Hattish gets into the elevator, so Bella is
like totally starstruck. You know, they go up the elevator.
This was actually pretty funny. So they sit down and
then I, you know what, I'm not going to do
it justice, but everybody who's in the theater and the
movie wasn't starting, and then Tiffany just yelled something out
like get the least out. So funny. Bella was dying.
But anyway, so she was like, I gotta formulate my
essay and she goes, what if I title it writing
in an Elevator with Tiffany Hattish And it can be
all about how life has its ups and downs, like
an elevator, but if you go through it with comedy.
And it was like gonna she was gonna talk about
like something that happened in her life that was really hard.
But how she's gonna.
Speaker 3: You know, find the humor, find the humor in.
Speaker 1: It and go through life and it's ups and downs
with him is great. And literally, like within a month
of her wanting to write that, Tiffany Hattish got canceled
for a second. Oh gosh. And so she's like, mom,
I don't know if I shouldn't and we're like maybe not,
just you know, we'll wait. And so she end up
Brady mything else.
Speaker 4: But I thought that she should have just made used
a different celebrity, you know what, lied and lied she
could have yeah care duh, Yeah, I didn't even think
about that.
Speaker 3: In an elevator with Blake Lively, Ye don't get me.
And then Tiffany Hattish actually was one of the guest
hosts during the summer at Kimmel and Natalia got an
internship because of somebody that she knows, and she loved it,
had a great time. But she was like, out of
all the co hosts, She's like, she was so sweet,
she was funny, but she was like like kind of quirky,
you know, and she was just kind of like doing
her own thing. But she was like she was like
one of my favorite because I asked her, like, who
was your favorite coach? She like really enjoyed her. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't know what she got canceled for, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember either. It was really good.
Speaker 4: I think she had some some mental health stuff going
on for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't remember. It doesn't have a mental health.
Speaker 4: It had to do with like I had to do
with sexual assault. Oh right, and involved somebody else too,
But I can't I'm.
Speaker 3: Not honestly, She's not canceled anymore.
Speaker 4: Like yeah about and like everybody, yeah, yeah, exactly cancel
culture right, yeah and speak.
Speaker 3: So Natalia sent a text She's like, should I text
Jimmy over the weekend? I'm like, sure, she said him
a text, and like within a minute, he writes back, thanks, Natalia,
you know you did a great job over the summer
and you know love you.
Speaker 1: What mean that's Jimmy? Wow, amazing, amazing. I can't imagine
how his phone must have been blowing up and for
him to take time to do that. I know he's special.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I've told this story before, but I remember,
since we're talking about Jimmy, when Natalia you remember when
she she cut her finger got stuck in one of
those remember those hoverboards that were hot at Christmas time? Yes,
she was sitting on it. And it was the night
that m the first time Jimmy hosted the Emmys, not
even the Oscars, And it was like five thirty at night.
Adam was supposed to meet him at a party afterwards whatever,
and he's like, he sent at Jimmy an email Natalia
cut her finger, can't make it tonight at like six
o'clock at night. Jimmy responds, Oh my gosh, I hope
she's okay, no problem. The next morning, flowers show up.
That's Jimmy Kimmel for you. Yeah, that's Jimmy.
Speaker 1: That's the Jimmy that is.
Speaker 3: Like people should know who he is exactly but anyway, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Just what a sweet lib tart he is. What a
sweet puss pussy cook libtard.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. It's just the best.
Speaker 4: What do we take a break or uh no, no,
okay too, Okay, I'll find a place for us to break, Okay,
don't worry, all right, Yeah, that's really sweet. So you
know what, while we're at it, we should think of
some essay topics for my kid.
Speaker 1: About it's kind of personal. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll
tell you off air. Okay, okay, yeah yeah. Are you
going to travel and go see schools with us? So
we did. We went and saw We toured Chapman, we
toured NYU, we toured Pace, we toured Syracuse and Emerson. Oh,
we did like an East coast thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what'd you think of Pace because one of my
friend's daughters go there.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not obviously it's New York, so there's
not really a campus. I mean there is, there's a building,
you know, And I actually really liked it for what
Sophie wants to do. They have a ton of connections
for internships for these kids in the summers, and they
really work hard to get them internships with all these
really great companies. So I would be down for Sophie
to go there. And Pace University gives so much money
because Bella applied there and the tuition was going to
be twenty five thousand dollars, wow, because it's normally like
fifty But yeah, every I mean almost everybody, So it
would have been like cheaper than U CLAS. I mean,
obviously not with the travel and blah blah blah, but I.
Speaker 4: Was very impressed. Including housing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was like some crazy number. Yes,
I think it was twenty five thousand including housing for
the first year because you're in the dorm. But then
I don't know how it worked. I don't know. Don't
quote me totally, but it was so cheap personally for
what Sophie wants to do. I was impressed. It's in
a great location. It's like downtown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, so what do they want to study because you know,
she's she wants to do marketing and she like for
fashion and things. Yes, so she uh you know, but
she's a West Coast kid that grew up out here. Yeah,
you know, and she's kind of quiet. You know, she's
not like like outgoing. This is New York.
Speaker 1: I mean you're walking, right, I mean you're walking to
your so like at pace. You know, every dorm doesn't
have a cafeteria, so you're going to walk ten minutes
to the next dorm just to eat food. So it's
you're immersed in the city. You have to really, you know,
it's not a college camp.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit of a culture shock at first,
and then she was kind of like, I'm second guessing it.
Maybe I should come like my second year transfer someplace
else on the West coast.
Speaker 1: Wait, so did she start?
Speaker 3: She did already start. Yeah, she's now going. She's back
doing her second year. Oh okay, so she likes she she.
Speaker 1: Now she loves it.
Speaker 3: Took a while, but now she's fine, Like she has
her friends and it's it's good. But it was like
a little bit of a culture shop. Also the weather
was like tough, you know, but yeah, she loves it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh good, okay, I'm glad it worked out for Yeah, yeah,
so you did the East Coast tour. We did, and
then Sophie spent the summer at NYU. She did six
weeks at NYU, living in the dorm and doing like
some She took a screenwriting class, a production class. Great,
oh my god. She loved it so much. She loves
New York City, like she does want a college experience.
So she's like, I'm going to apply to n YU,
but I'd rather go to a school that has like
a football team. It is more raw raw and like
so anyway, that's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, that's what
we sounded a lot because it was like, I want,
I mean, do you have to tour?
Speaker 1: No, you don't. You can tour when you get in
like obviously, but she wanted to apply early decision to
a school on the East Coast, and I was like,
you have to go see it. If we're if this
is binding and we're stuck paying a lot of money
and then you go there and you don't like it,
you need to at least see it, right, And she
loved it, So that's great. She's all about it. Yeah. Man,
she's a go getter.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: When she when she is into what she wants to do,
like she's in cheerleading and she's the varsity captain. Like
when she's something she really wants to do, Yes, But
when it comes to like doing homework and stuff, I
feel like, listen, let's just say this. She does it
in her own pace. And I realized I just got
to let it be. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh that's how a lot of our kids are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, I can't relate to that
at all.
Speaker 3: You know, Like Sonny wanted to go to a school
with a Gate like football, Like know, he wanted sports
and then he.
Speaker 1: Got it at Oregon is totally.
Speaker 3: Now he loves it it. Yeah, and Italia she just
wanted sunshine and beach.
Speaker 1: You know. It's so perfect for both of them, Like
I feel like they're in like they're both It was
so smart for them to go to like a junior
college away where they want to go to college eventually,
and then they have friends and they're immersed in it.
It's it's not everybody has. Most colleges don't have that.
Most community colleges you just go and then you transfer.
But this is so cool that they have those options
for not a lot of universities have them.
Speaker 3: Think yeah, right, and once he gets transferred to the
to the university, so this is his last year at
the at the community, he'll be right there because his
apartment is just right by the campus, which is great. Yeah,
but for now, like he's got to take the bus
and I'm I'm just concerned how the winter is going
to be this year. It was pretty mild last year,
but you know, if he's going to have to take
a bus in the snow and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's like, I'm fine, He loves it. Oh
my god, he's going to be so fine. I went
to Boston for two years. I mean I didn't I
in the snow. Yeah, And honestly I loved it because
you know, you're leaving, you know what I mean, you're
not living there full time, so you're like, oh my god.
You like, like personally, when I was in Boston, I
was like, we were at a restaurant in little in
the North End, which is Little Italy, and we're sitting
in this tiny, little Italian restaurant and then it starts
snowing outside, and I was like, oh my god, it's
like a movie. It is. You know, you're leaving, you know,
Yeah it gets cold and icy and you're slipping and
all that. But like it's short, sure, I mean right,
so you can from life and you can romanticize it
a little. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I hated living in a in the snow in Massachusetts Springfield,
Like the winters go to.
Speaker 1: Like April, right, Like they're just long.
Speaker 4: It's just yeah, I just don't like being cold. Yeah,
because I'd lived on the East Coast for many years,
I mean on the West Coast. I lived formative years
two to twelve. I think formula formed my body's internal
temperature gage.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So living in Spokane cold a lot, and then Springfield,
I just didn't like the snow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it when you're living there, forget it.
I know I didn't in my excuse me, my family.
I mean I was born in Cleveland, but then we
left at three, age three, went to Tampa, Florida, and
then lived there until it was like six seven.
Speaker 1: Then we came here, so I never had to live
in the snow. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But when I go somewhere and it's snowing, I love
it because it's short term exactly.
Speaker 1: And also like to be fair, like they actually get
fall and they get spring. Yes, oh my god, it's
so beautiful on the East Coast in the spring. In
the fall, everybody's out, everybody's in a good mood. But
you just have to endure those winters.
Speaker 4: People love seasons. We don't. Is it something wrong with me?
I'm just like I would prefer to just be mild
and beautiful and sunny every day, three hundred and sixty
five days a year.
Speaker 1: No, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: If I don't cold, you don't like sweater sweater weather?
Speaker 4: No, I don't. Oh, I like, I don't care about
sweater sweater weather. I don't ever really appreciate.
Speaker 2: Beauty all that much, like you just dead inside, Stephanie,
just like I know, don't like holidays, don't like no
it's season.
Speaker 1: There's times where I.
Speaker 4: Drive down my street in the fall and then when
the trees there's like cherry blossoms sort of in my neighborhood,
and I'm like, that is really pretty. But that's like
one second out of the rest of the day. And
you know what I mean, I do I know a
roman in time where I go, oh, pretty, and then
I move on with my day, right, and it doesn't
really affect me because I'm like indoors, I totally alone.
I just don't. I've never thought about living somewhere because
it's just so beautiful.
Speaker 1: I mean again, I think we can all romanticize it,
like I think of like, oh my god, how beautiful
would it be to live in Montana or Wyoming, And
but no, like, yes, I'm with you, like I like
it here.
Speaker 4: I really do. Also like the beach in California. I
mean we live right here. The beach is right there,
and when you go to the beach, you're like wow
that this is gorgeous. Yet how often do we go
to the beach?
Speaker 1: Right right? I literally went once this whole summer. I
mean you used to go to the beach a lot,
used to take the kids.
Speaker 4: Of the beach, and the kids were young, I guess.
Speaker 1: And when I was a teenager, I was at the
beach all the time. I'm sure you were too.
Speaker 4: I was here at the beach every weekend.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, there all the time.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, like, for me personally, I'm like, yeah,
it is really pretty. I haven't even been since the
fires because I'm not driven by there. So that was
in January. I haven't been there either, and anything September,
I've not been town.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't e I've been. I'm is it closed
and what is it like?
Speaker 1: It's open now, But when we went down to Malibu
like a couple of months ago, I was like it
was a dream. It was empty because pH was still closed,
you know, going south, it was so nice. Now it's
back up and it's full and everybody's busy. Yeah, yeah, wow,
you know what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's say hi to our our Patreon subscribers. Why
why do you ask because we have Julie, that's right
for our Friday show. Yes, and I have a couple
of things to complain about, so that's good.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't be a show unless I just say needlessly
about something. And do you want to do you want
to spoiler alert? Yes, it's my buy nothing group. Oh
I can't, I got I'm phone to pick with my
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Speaker 4: Julie has told me that she fast forwards through the shouts,
so she's not going to be help helpful in this.
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want to put her in my pocket and walk around
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Speaker 3: Oh you know they were protesting this morning, Suzanne som
Thank god she got turned away. People yeah, they were
out there protesting in front of Disney.
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They sent us a bunch of stuff that I have
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I'll save a couple. But I do want to talk
about Adam Lerner. So Adam got me my ID four.
I am so madly in love with my car. It's
like insane. I love it so I love it so much.
Speaker 1: I dreams about Oh my god, I.
Speaker 4: Had a dream about it last week. I drive it everywhere.
Speaker 3: Electrics are good, it drives like a freaking dreams So
I feel so upscale and I can't believe it's like almost.
Speaker 4: One hundred dollars cheaper than my tig one.
Speaker 1: Well, and think about you're probably saving at least two
hundred to three hundred dollars a month in gas.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't think I spent that much in gas,
did you. Well, I were driving around a lot in
my mini van. Yeah yeah, yeah, because the tig one
was a gas guzzler. So this is so great. I mean,
you just charge it up and you're, you know, anyway,
you love it. Adam's got a car if you want one.
He's helped other people. There was just a thing on
our Facebook talking about that he got them another car
and they love it.
Speaker 1: Too, so awesome.
Speaker 4: Adam got you your.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sophie's car. Yeah, I'll see he gets around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure does so.
Speaker 1: Lynette Herk got me my car.
Speaker 4: My god.
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Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 3: Awesome, all right, thank you so much, Jamie, Julie.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys. I'll see you on Friday. Sound good, okay,
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