Speaker 1: Made uh Desan John, I'll pace Sunny sun on.
Speaker 2: I had a vision nat here.
Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome to our show. I'm your host, Lynnette and
Stephanie over there.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, it's stupid.
Speaker 2: And that's our show.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's Friday.
Speaker 1: Yes it's the weekend, and uh, let's see. You know,
it's been kind of so weird having Natalia gone at
the house because well, now it's she left, and then
I got family that came to town. But in between,
there was like I don't know, four or five days
where it was just me and Sonny hanging out. And
Sonny does his own thing, goes and hangs out with
his friends and stuff. So I'll be like, do you
want to eat dinner tonight? No, I'm gonna go eat
dinner with my friends. Or he'll say yeah, I'll eat dinner,
and then he falls asleep, and then I'm texting him like, hey,
what do you want for dinner? What do you want
for dinner? I'll make you want me to make the chicken? Sleeping,
he doesn't answer. Then he wakes up at eight o'clock
and he's like, oh, sorry, fell asleep the fuck.
Speaker 2: You know. He's a typical teenager.
Speaker 1: At that age, and it's just it's interesting, like how
quiet the house has become and how like weird it's
gonna be weird when your.
Speaker 2: Twins are gone.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're gonna see well I see too much
of John as it is, you know, because he works
from home. I mostly work from home. And it is
like we're just gonna be staring at each other all
the time. We're gonna have to come up with other
projects to keep busy because only takes so much of
like what person without the without distractions and the kids
and things to do and can you take the I'm here?
Can you like.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be like, yeah, now I want to
listen to a podcast. Yeah, yeah, it's really it's it's strange.
But I got a lot of good suggestions on Facebook.
By the way of uh, what to give Phil for treats?
Oh yeah, I don't know if you saw that. No,
but people were like, don't give them those those raw
hide bones.
Speaker 2: I immediately went out in the backyard, dug his bone
up and threw it away.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a lot. There's a lot of controversy about
raw hide bones. What are they just bad for dogs?
Speaker 1: It's not good digestible, yeah, I see it stuck some.
And then there's you know, different opinions on bully treats,
which Phil usually enjoys a bully treat some plate. Some
people are like, yeah, it's okay, but just once a day,
you know. You got, of course, keep an eye on them.
I always give them this stuff when I'm around, right,
But and then, but I'm gonna be looking into something
better for Phil. That's more, I guess, digestible and healthier.
So if anybody has any suggestions, I'm sure we'll get some.
Speaker 2: But thank you, I.
Speaker 3: Need some suggestions, if I may be so bold and
hit up our audience. So Penelope does not like her food,
and she's always been extremely finicky since we got her.
When we got her, the rescue told us to give
her merricks. They were giving her merricks salmon, and the
woman who had her was like, she's very picky about
what she eats, but we found this food that she likes. Now,
the rescue only had her for like six weeks, but
they had already been through the fact that she doesn't
eat a lot of food. It's crazy to me love
snacks though, like loves people food, you know, But anyway,
So we tried that food. She ate it for a
little while, then she like just stopped eating it. She
didn't want it. So then we've tried so many things,
and then we have her on this food for like
overweight dogs for senior who are low low activity dogs.
And then we add a little bit of ground beef
to it, which you would think she would love, and
she will is when we first start, and then she
gets over it really fast, and now she leaves her food.
She just won't eat. So I need something else to
feed her. I've tried ground turkey. I make the turkey
and the beef in broth so it's more flavorful. Yeah,
I don't know what to feed her. Oh. I used
to try the Farmer's Dog because it was our sponsor
years ago, and they sent us a bunch and she
really liked it, you know, for like a month, and
then she went and then she just lost interest in
that and didn't care.
Speaker 1: Saying to me, because I got a dog that NonStop,
wants to be fed constantly, will not turn anything down.
In fact, jumps up and will snatch a bagel off
a kid's blake.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, we would love a bagel, but she just
doesn't want dog.
Speaker 1: Doesn't want dog food. Phill will eat whatever I give him.
He's been on the same dog food for a while.
All his vet put him on this prescription like dry kibble,
but you have to wet it, get it soft, and
he loves it, eats it all the time.
Speaker 3: I think the prescription dog food is a scam.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people whose dogs are on
prescription dog food, and I just have I just wonder it.
Speaker 1: Is like a brand though, that we can get online.
We can just it's not like I guess it. I
guess it was a brand of food that was suggested
for Phil because of his digestive and because he can't
gain weight and stuff. And he's slimmed down really nicely
since we moved, so he's gotten used to get you know,
table scraps from Adam.
Speaker 2: Now that's been cut out, and he used to get
in the.
Speaker 1: Trash all the time, and he would get into people's
backpacks all the time. Not in our house anymore. Now
it's like everything is shut on the lockdown.
Speaker 2: He hasn't gone.
Speaker 1: Got an into anything, which is great, except for one
time when I left and I came back and his
cabinet was open. He I accidentally left it ajar and
he got it open and got into his treats. It's
like jerky treats. Oh, which was fine, there wasn't that
much left, but whatever. But other than that, No, he's
been great, like he's he's been fine. But uh yeah,
he's he's.
Speaker 2: Been in better shape. And the coyotes are back now.
Speaker 1: By the way, they're out of control in our neighborhood.
Sonny walking home at night sees them all the time. Really,
Anthony got into our house and came into town on
Sunday night. He ran an aaron down the street. He's like,
I almost hit a coyote there. And then Saturday morning,
I'm sitting like in the kitchen and I hear it
was like ten am in the morning, and I hear like, oh,
like them howling, and I go, it sounds very close.
Speaker 2: I look outside. They're in my back yard. Oh no,
there's like the read at least that I could see
in my backyard just.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what the hell. Phil doesn't even care.
He's just sitting there looking out the window.
Speaker 3: Oh my God, would lose her mind.
Speaker 1: I mean imagine, I don't A lot of people say
that they're afraid if they won't come by Phil, but
I don't know.
Speaker 2: If they're in a pack, I'm scared.
Speaker 3: Oh I've heard that if they're in a pack, they
don't care. They don't take down a big dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm not leaving Phil outside. I haven't since
they came around the first time. But they came around again,
and it's just it's it's insane.
Speaker 2: So uh.
Speaker 1: And then last night we were going to bed and
it was like, I don't know, eleven thirty, twelve o'clock
and you hear them.
Speaker 2: Like they're right outside our door.
Speaker 1: I've never had I've never seen this many in our neighborhood.
I guess because we live we're right up against the foothills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I mean. Our neighborhood is right near the
Ela River and there's end right by a park where
there's a whole area where they go. But like knock
on Wood, I haven't had like.
Speaker 2: A scary Yeah, they probably.
Speaker 3: You remember I went through a period. There was one period.
I guess maybe it had been a really bad drought
and they were hungry and I don't know, but I
was seeing them a lot and having Remember I had
to like call John to come get me one time
because two of them were following me with Piedelope. Yeah,
and I had to call John to come with the
car and put us in the car and take us home.
Speaker 1: It's scary when you're out walking the dog and there's
like two of them or whatever. Yeah, and asked Sonny,
I go, aren't you bothered by them? And you're walking
at home late at night? And he's like, now, they're
they're scaredy cats. They don't they don't come near me,
like he can see him, like kind of far away,
and he doesn't seem to doesn't bother him.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'd want to bring like an airhorn
with us or something.
Speaker 2: I got him one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, he won't take it with him.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've got my kids trained to take pepper spray
with them when they're out wandering around at night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean Sonny's you know, over
six feet tall, and he's eighteen now and stuff.
Speaker 2: And he's not that far from his friends.
Speaker 1: His friends all live so close, especially in this new house,
they're very close by, right, so he can just walk
over and to their house and then just walk home.
Speaker 3: Well, we have a lot of like really nosy neighbors
who can be very persistent, and I feel like, you know,
you could tell them like, hey, i'm kind of busier.
I'm listening to a podcast, but they don't listen. So
sometimes just a little quick spray of pepper spray, Yeah,
that's there, you go can ward them off. And then
it's also preventative because then they might think twice before
going like, hey, what's up, like nice weather we've been having.
Then they're like, maybe not with her because she's pepper
sprayed me.
Speaker 1: That's funny because I was Anthony was like, uh, he
had a T shirt on with these guys on it,
and I was asked him about it. It said blink
one eighty two, but it wasn't three faces that are
blink one eighty two And he goes, oh, he goes,
you don't get it, and I said no, and he goes,
then you don't watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen that show?
Speaker 3: I've seen it, but like a long time ago, but.
Speaker 2: He loves it and he and then he showed have
you seen it?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but a long time ago, the early like
four or five seasons, which I think were about like
ten years ago, maybe longer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So he showed me two episodes last night before
we went to bed, and one of them they moved
into the suburbs and the neighbor was just nosy and
the guy just had enough of him and like threw
his commuter and mug at him and oh like.
Speaker 2: Just flipped out on him. So reminded me of that.
But it's cool.
Speaker 3: It was the blink. It's just it.
Speaker 1: Once you watch the show, it kind of makes sense
cause they're it's kind of like watching improv actors. You know,
there's like lunch great guy and the other one are
like really over the top characters, but it's really witty
and funny and smart and uh. I Then after seeing
and getting to know the characters, then it kind of
made sense, Like they're posting his blank what aytail, but
they're not I see a T shirt? Because they're these
crazy characters, right. And Danny DeVito's one of the day,
he's like the main character.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And Kristin Olsen plays the is the woman in that show,
and she also plays in Hacks. She plays Gene Smart's
character's daughter. Oh she's she's really funny in that. Yeah,
she's a really funny actress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they very all of them. The cast is great,
really funny, and the writing's funny. I only watched two episodes,
but I was like, oh, okay, I'm I'm hooked.
Speaker 2: I'm in Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, I can't go back to shows that There's been
too many seasons, too many seasons. It was hard enough
to do Breaking Breaking Bad, you know, because those shows
came out when the Twin we had had twins, my
life changed so much. I had such a different like
I was into football, was I kept up on things.
It's like I went into some kind of black hole
in the early years of the Twins where I just
couldn't I was tired all the time. I could not
watch some of these big shows that came out. Breaking
Bad was one of them, and everyone was talking about it.
Oh and then The Shield had been out for a while,
and I freaking loved that show. But I think we
stopped it. We had to stop watching it. And then
it was later when the Twins got older, we were like,
let's watch all of The Shield, like from start to finish.
I loved that that show.
Speaker 2: So it still holds up.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, because it now again. When we
watched it, the Twins were a little older, but it
was still years ago. It was still sorry, at least
eight years ago or longer. But then Breaking Bad, it
was just like, oh my god. We kept trying to
watch the first season when the Twins were a little
and we'd get through like a couple episodes, but then
we'd forget to watch it for a while and then
I'd be like, now we got to start over because
I don't remember what happened. And then at some point
we were like, we're doing this, We're gonna commit, and
then we watched the whole thing. Another one that's like
that is The Wire. I never watched The Wire.
Speaker 2: I never watched The Wire. If you watch The Wire,
of course it's good.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3: We've tried it. So John and I have tried it
a bunch of times and we can't get hooked in
what What's wrong? Times?
Speaker 4: It just takes a show a couple of times to
get into it. Like with Breaking Bad, I think it
took me like three tries before I really got hooked
into it. And I mean, it's my favorite show of
all time. So once I got hooked, I was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was breaking bad.
Speaker 1: I got hooked really quick and I but I watched
it after it was over, and every I've done that
now with a couple shows, like everybody talks about how
great it is, and I think that was another show
when my kids were little. One of the other shows,
Game of Thrones, that everybody was talking about, and I
never and I was like, I'm not into dragons and
fantasy in any way, you know. But then when it ended,
so many people I respect that were like, like James
baby Doll Dixon.
Speaker 2: I was talking to him.
Speaker 1: He's like, Baby, you think I'm into these fantasy shit
dragons and shit, I'm not into it either, but you
gotta watch it. It's fucking phenomenal, you know. So I
was like, all right, let me try it. But the
other thing is I didn't have anybody to watch it with.
Everybody else is watching with people, so they can, you know,
bounce it off, like what's going on here?
Speaker 2: This story?
Speaker 1: There's a million storylines, and so I didn't have anybody.
But my nephew Nicholas was like, answer, Lynnette, any questions
you have, text me. So I would text him late
at night and then the next morning he'd give me
the answer, so that helped, and then I was like, wow,
this is a great show. Meanwhile, it's been over like
two years about that point.
Speaker 3: I'm always curious as to how these kinds of shows
come about because I'm so simple in what I like.
I'm like, give me a show where it's like, it's
about like this relationship. You know, this girl meets a
guy and like all the fighting that happens at the
beginning of the relationship until it's like, well, there, won't
they get to get That's all I need? And then
I'm like, oh, that sounds good, pretty easy to pitch.
I don't need. And then there's like a king and
that king have like eight k sons and then the
sons all I'm like, yeah, I can't yeah, but how
did those get pitched? Like why do you need all that? Still, like,
I don't know. I guess development executives are way smarter
than me and can see have some forethought to like
what's going to be a good show. But imagine trying
to pitch Game of Throne.
Speaker 1: Right, well, I think it was a book, right, yeah, Yeah,
it was books. Yeah, which that's always a good start.
I could start there, but uh, Yeah. Like the other
thing too was you know you we don't. It doesn't
seem like you have these anymore. But these big shows
that came along, it's like people the excitement was watching
it once a week and then talking about it with
your friends. And that was the fun when I was working,
you know, that's what we would do, you know, talk
about it the next day, can't wait to then you know,
cliffhanger and talk about it next week. Now it's like
everybody just binge watches everything and it's like, oh, I'm
not at the end yet. I'm only on season three
and it's kind of lost. It's it's excitement that way.
Speaker 3: Well, that's why it's interesting that like Max and Netflix
even some of them are doing are doing a rollout,
well not Netflix, more Max.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Amazon, Amazon and Max will do rollouts weekly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think they're trying to recapture that, you know.
But some people are like like you and me that
were like, well let me let let me let it
be over so that I can just watch the whole thing.
We're still figuring out ways to binge it.
Speaker 2: Are you still watching Love Is Blind? UK?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's done, it's done. Oh the finale is on today. Okay,
so we're recording today on a Monday. Holy shit finale.
I think it's gonna air though, at nine pm tonight,
so I will. I will watch it, probably after I
watch The Bachelor, because you know, I have to watch
The Bachelor and the record that tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Now, would you say it's like one of the better seasons.
Speaker 3: These things are always like candy to me. It's like,
while I'm watching it, I'm like, oh my god, I
want to see every episode. Well, here's the thing. When
you get to the wedding episodes, I fast forward through
the entire thing, like I get invested, and then I
make my predictions and I'm like, oh, I think this
couple's going to get married. I think this one's not.
But then I don't care about it.
Speaker 2: Don't try their dressage dresses.
Speaker 3: I do not care about the whole day of the
wedding because I'm like, it doesn't matter if they say no,
it doesn't matter that I watched twenty minutes of them
going like I I'm really excited. This could be the best,
this could be the rest of my life. I'm putting
on my dress. I'm talking to my dad like I
don't care shut up and fast forward even through the
vows I don't care. I get to the end, and
then when they say the thing and now is the
time that we ask is if Love is blind? That's
where I come in. And then I go, oh, okay,
I thought so, right, But then it's the reunion. That's
what I'm all about. Lynette and I. You guys might
recall went to the reunion of the Love Is Blind taping. First.
It kind of sucked because right, but if you recall,
it crashed, so it couldn't. We waited for hours in
the cold studio, and also we got no juice because
it was live. So what everybody saw was what we saw, yes,
all the only difference is that we saw them like
sitting on the couch, we can see who seemed actually
kind of happy, but no questions were asked.
Speaker 1: That weren't aired, right, Yeah, it was tortuous sitting in
that studio in the freezing cold.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they kept going dunung okay, and they kept going, Okay,
we're gonna start, and you'd hear the beginning of Netflix
going du dung, and then you'd wait and wait and
they go, all right, we're not it's not ready yet
still crashing.
Speaker 3: And they took our phones. Oh that's right, So we
had no phone, no phones, so we had to talk
to each other.
Speaker 2: And they think we were starting to get hungry.
Speaker 3: We were starving.
Speaker 2: We were starving.
Speaker 3: Your friend went and got us like chips from somebody
went and got us chips. Yes, which is good. So
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Speaker 2: Bim.
Speaker 3: So, Kaitlin, you just went on a vacation with your kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got No, we did not bring the kids,
Oh no, left the kids at home with the grandparents.
Just me and Amy got a hotel room on the
beach in Carl's Bad and had a lovely time there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh sweet, what's going on with you guys? Are
you guys planning a wedding?
Speaker 4: We haven't got your game. We kind of like look
for spots, but you know, we still don't really have
the money for it. We're still not really exactly sure
we want it on a beach somewhere, but no, we
haven't really done a lot of planning.
Speaker 2: Now, what about like time a year, do you have
any thoughts?
Speaker 4: No, No, it doesn't matter. I mean, you know, I
wouldn't want it like either really hot or really cold
on the beach somewhere. You know, you can get all
cold and windy and I don't want that. But yeah,
I guess a spring would probably be preferable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nice Carl's Bad. I used to go there
when I was a kid. We used to go for
camping and stuff. My friends would go camping, but not
my family, right. Yeah, that's it's nice down there, very nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, my family used to go camping and I hated it,
really didn't like it. No, because well, no, I don't
really remember. I would tell you about how because the
road trip part I would just be bored and get carsick,
and like my little brother and sister really annoyed me,
you know, and just having so much work involved, and
like packing up all the coolers. I still remember the
taste of like food that came out of a cooler
that had been frozen, but then kind of thought and
like just not a good and the taste of like
canteen water, and just like it just was like, why
don't we just stay home.
Speaker 1: I could read a book, I could sleep out in
the backyard. And now our the high school, I think
it was more And when we were in junior high,
the school that I went to, the Magnet School, would
always at the end of the year go like camping,
have a camping trip, and I used to look forward
to it because I'd be well, go away from my
family and just be able to go hang out with
my friends for a few days with the school and.
Speaker 2: Loved it, loved it. But I never went on one
vacation with my family.
Speaker 1: Not well, once when I was like seven, they took
me to Cleave one to visit my relatives.
Speaker 2: Other than that, never really never went on a vacation ever.
Speaker 3: No wow. Yeah, And just as far as traveling, just
the one trip to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Just the one trip to Cleveland, I was the first
time I got on a plane after that. At that
point was when I was like in my early twenties
working at an entertainment company. When I went for Nappi
convention in Miami, that was like this first time as
an adult being on an airplane.
Speaker 2: I used to be so scared to fly too.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I was terrified of flying for a long time.
Speaker 3: But so did you feel, because I know I did
when you were growing up, like seeing all these kids
going like on ski weekends and stuff, or Hawaii. It's
a big thing to take your kids to Hawaii. Yeah,
I was always like, wow, I'll never never poor.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So on my street every Fourth of July weekend or
when Fourth of July came around, there was my next
door neighbor. Ray had a big camper that my mom
hated and planted palm trees to try and hide it.
So they had a camper. They had three kids. Then
the people across the street, they were good friends with them.
They had two kids, so I was friends with both family.
I hated Fourth of July because every year would come around,
they invite me to go with them, and I wasn't
allowed to go, and they all left town and they
were all gone, and they would be camping together, and
I was so upset and miserable, Like what I remember
crying going why can't I just go with them?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Like my parents were weirdly overprotective at some times, and
it's like, can't let me go camping with the next
door neighbors both of them?
Speaker 2: What the fuck? And then why not?
Speaker 1: You guys don't even take me on vacation? How might
let the neighbors take me?
Speaker 3: And would the neighbors ever say, like, who will ask
your parents?
Speaker 1: They thought my mom was crazy, so they got it.
They were like, Okay, we don't need any interaction with
Helen Paradise.
Speaker 2: We're cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wasn't ever every year was I hated it because
all my friends were gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, but I needed today. It's my birthday today, Yeah,
today's your birthday.
Speaker 2: I forgot.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, happy birthday.
Speaker 2: Whatter you thought about it when I was thinking about
fourth of July? Bitch you buried?
Speaker 3: What are you doing for your birthday?
Speaker 2: Oh? I?
Speaker 1: Uh, Suzanne is coming over and then like around three,
because she wants to see the kids, Anthony's.
Speaker 2: Kids, because she used.
Speaker 1: To babysit Anthony with me and Anthony was her favorite,
like I would take Nicholas or Megan. She always bonded
with Anthony. In fact, Anthony and Sam his wife, lived
with Suzanne when they first were married and get like
living out here in California. They shared a how Suzanne,
so she's pretty close with them, and she's never met
their their son. She met the daughter like when she
was two, but she's never she hasn't seen the daughters
now six and Wesley's like three. So she's coming over
and we're just.
Speaker 2: Gonna hang out.
Speaker 1: Like Anthony kept going, let's go to dinner for your birthday,
and I'm like, I don't want to go sit in
a restaurant, Like, let's just hang out at my house, Suzanne.
And by the way, Suzanne only has tonight because she's
taking Gracie on Tuesday to New York to drop her off.
Speaker 3: Where's she going to school?
Speaker 2: I think Pace is the name.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay, this is just a coincidence. Yeah, so
you know my friend who has a gracy, right, my
Suzanne who has a Gracie, whose kit is just is
at NYU, just moved her kid into NYU.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: So they must be the same age. Yeah, because her daughter, well,
her daughter was always one year younger than my daughter than.
Speaker 2: Elbie Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3: She'd be like one year older than No, but I
guess the same as your kids, because it was a
year and a half. Yeah, because your kids are only
one My kids are about when one grade level behind
elbe yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, because they just graduated and
Elver graduated last year. Right, yeah, so they're the same
age as my Gracie, isn't that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And I remember Suzanne was giving birth to Gracie and
I was like trying very hard not to throw up
because I had like morning sickness.
Speaker 2: Oh with my kids.
Speaker 1: Right, so my kids came nine months later after Gracie, Okay,
nine months older. So yeah, they're dropping her off in
New York. Of course, Suzanne like that's her one and
only child all the way across the country. But but
she has family out there that in the city where
she'll be able to see a lot that she's close with,
so that's good. But anyway, yeah, Suzanne's coming over later,
we're just gonna hang.
Speaker 3: Out, so just her and not Jodie.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: You know Suzanne, like I said, she grew up with
my nieces and nephews right right. It's you know, Anthony
was even telling me, He's like, we were watching old
videos at my dad's and we would see you at
the birthday parties. You and Auntie Suzanne in a corner
too cool for school, both hungover, like we could see
in the video like there there's Auntielyn and Auntie Suzanne
hungover on it. Because there I was like twenty one
when Wendy was throwing these big birthday parties at her
house in Canyon Country, and Suzanna and I would go
all the time, just being around a bunch of little
kids at age twenty one, right yeah, so.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I'm excited for Oh my god, do you
know what I you know what I remembered the other day.
So my sister in law, so my brother and sister's
kids are so they're their oldest kid is three years
younger than the twins, so there's a pretty a big so.
So their son is turning fourteen at the August thirty first,
So like in a few days he'll be fourteen and
then their daughter is ten. But when their son, I
was kind of in the thick of it with my
kids when their kid was a little, when their son
was like a little kid, but not in the age range.
They weren't old enough to be like the big the
really older cousins. But do you remember that time that
they had a birthday party? So it just was a
little bit off for hanging out right, right, So I
didn't see them quite as much when their kids were
little and they had moved to like Valencia, But anyway,
they do you remember when they did a party at
like Scooter's Jungle And I totally forgot about it, and
it was a big deal. My sister in law was
so mad. Well, I was just kind of scattered, And
I remember that she would always have these It just
reminded me because she would have had these big, elaborate
birthdays every year and always invite us, And this one
year it was like the birth I think I thought
it was at a different time. I don't remember it was.
I spaced on the time. Okay, here's what it was.
By the time I remembered that the party was happening,
it was. It was basically like almost over or like
I thought it was at let's just say two, but
it really was at eleven. So then I realized at
like one o'clock, and I remember calling. She was like oh.
She must have been like where are you? And then
I was like wait, I thought it's it, and then
she was like, no, it's almost over. And then I
was like, oh my god, I think she's still a
little bit mad. To this day. I thought that it
might have happened more than once, like it was. You know,
I'm bad with that.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: Remember we used to talk about it back in the day,
like they would be invited to a birthday party at
you know, I don't know, jungle gym somewhere, and I
would go and show up and there's nobody there and
they're like, oh, that parties tomorrow, and I was like
and then Stunny and Italia are like wait what, no
party right, And then I'd have to take them to
the park or something.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, go get ice cream.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's our punishment.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, it happened a couple times for me too.
Not like those.
Speaker 3: Indoor play places. There's one that was near us called
the play Source in the valley, and it happened to
me at least two or maybe three times where I
brought them there on the wrong day, so there's no party,
got the gift, you know, and now you're already at
play source. The kids are young, they're all jack up
to go to a party. So then you have to pay.
You're like, well, it was going to be free because
it was someone else's birthday and they were going to
get free snacks and pizza and some cake. Now I
got to pay twelve dollars for them to go plan
some shitty you know in the habit trail thing, get
stuck up. There no other parents to be watching looking
after the kids, you know, And I'm like, oh, now
I got to pay, and then still come back and
then it's the next day.
Speaker 2: Or the worst was. I get there and they go,
oh that party was yesterday. Oh that's the only thing. Yeah. Yeah,
Then they got to go to school, and the kids
like where were you two?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Then you got to still give them the present because
you bought it already. Yeah, unless you lucked out and
you didn't buy it until you just planned to buy it,
But either way, you had already bought something. Because now
you're at the party.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I know.
Speaker 1: And then it's like this should walk of shame, you know,
like you'd see the parents.
Speaker 2: Where were you on Saturday?
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was there on Sunday though. It's just someone What
happened to you? Kaylan? Probably not no, not that one.
Speaker 3: No, not Kaylin. I know he doesn't get it, don't.
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: What's hard to buying gifts when the kids are young
for other people's kids, right, there should be some kind
of a thing they really should have, like a registry,
but for like kid's birthday parties, because it would just
make it easier and have like cheap stuff. But like
you know what I mean, because I'm not going to
get your kid like you know, the Barbie's Dream House. Yes,
but like say, like, hey, this is a party for
seven year old they're really into like Barbie. Can't go
wrong if you get them some Barbie or you know,
my generation doll or whatever. They like dolls, they like
Barbie or whatever. They like hot wheels they like. Give
me a hint, yes, because they're too young for gift cards, right,
because kids at a certain age don't care about cash
or gift cards. They get to a certain age and
that's all they want. Yeah, right, and they like when
they got to a certain age, oh my god, give
them some.
Speaker 2: Birthdays were so much easier. Yeah, even like.
Speaker 3: By I would say sixth grade, a twenty dollars bill
goes at they're happy to get that, right, But any
darker than that Starbucks, Like they're happy to have their
own money. Yeah, but any younger than that, they don't care.
They're like, where's my toy? You know. And it's so
easy to disappoint, you know, or to just not to
get or when your kids would have a birthday and
then they get a bunch of crap that's like not
they're not really interested in. Then you just got to
regift it.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would have you know, they would get these gifts
and stuff and it's like it was either too old
for them to use yet they're still young, or I
was like, oh, they're never going to play with this,
So I would put them in the garage and then
I would have it backup right yeah right, and then
wrap it in toilet paper and.
Speaker 3: You know, and it put it in the Trader Joe's bag.
Happy birthday, peop No but I uh, I always love
the moms that would, even a little bit too young,
give you like the Amazon gift card or a Starbucks card.
I'd be like, genius, thank you, like they get it,
you know. Even though some people felt like, oh, it's
just so impersonal to give a gift card. I was
always like, hell no, a Michael's gift card, thank you?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I loved Michaels. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was good with that. I think that that's the target.
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Speaker 3: So, I just wanted to give you a little update
on my involvement at my kids' school. Yes, trying, It's
so hard, I don't I am. I can be such
a people pleaser, you know. And remember I usually I
usually save this for Patreon, but I'm going to try
to keep this as general as possible as some of
you who listen to Patreon may know. I am the
co chair of our kids of the fundraising committee. I
warn them that I'm not good at this. Like I said, listen,
I'm better. I like, I have some leadership ability, but
when it comes to stuff like this, a lot of
it feels over my head and I get upset by
all the emails and all the things that I feel like,
oh am I supposed to answer this. I have no
idea what they're talking about, you know, chatter up and
all these websites that they're going to use to do
the fundraising. I'm like, just tell me what to do
and I'll do it, okay. But somehow I tried to quit, remember,
and I got like pulled back in. They're like no, no, no, no, no,
we really need you. So they brought me back in
and I was like, okay, but I'm not that good
at this. So here's what it is. I get emailed
all the time, and I every single time, I'm like,
do I have to answer that? Like some days there's
like twenty emails in a day, and I'm like, I don't.
I don't know what's expected of me. I don't know
if they're getting irritated that I don't answer. But a
lot of this stuff is like so I thought that
the one thing that I would be good at is
I'm like, well, I will be the way. I will
reach out to a lot of businesses and ask for
like stuff for donations for we're having this big fundraiser
in October. And I was like, I'm good at that.
I get I think I have connections and I can
I can get some stuff right. Oh my god, it's
so hard. I went I spent like two hours looking
up businesses. Well I was trying. I was like, you
know what be really easy to get, I think is
like some passes to the comedy store, the improv. So
I went on like the website and I'm like, here's
a general information email. I email them, Hey, like, my
kids are having this thing. It's a really great school.
Blah blah blah. Can I get some tickets? You know,
nothing crickets. Then I was like, here's an easy one.
My kid's been doing the groundlings for years, Like, how
about some passes for the groundlings? You know, great nothing
crickets can't get home, you know. Oh, in fact, the
groundlings when I called them and they were like, oh yeah,
we sometimes do that. Here's the email to send. Here's
the email address, sent it specifically to the guy crafted
it thought about it. I tried to get tickets to
I Fly, which is like that skydiving thing at the
Universal I went to. I'm when I tell you that
I probably sent out like fifteen emails to people no response.
Speaker 1: I feel like, whoever it doesn't surprise me because when
you send these emails, it seems to me that probably
on the other end is nobody or somebody that's not
really enthusiastic about if their job is checking emails to,
you know, facilitate getting tickets to whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I bet that they're not their have I don't know.
Speaker 1: They seems to me it's just kind of they'll read
it and then just sit on it for a while,
and I'll get back to it and then never get
back to it.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't seem like people.
Speaker 1: For some reason. I just feel like whoever's on the
other end is not doing you know.
Speaker 3: I guess I just thought it would be easy, because
you know, when you go to other kids, when you
go to school functions, there's always these awesome items that
they have, and I'm always thinking, like, where do they
get them? Well, obviously they're giving tickets to things I
emailed like the Pantagious. I was like, would be so
cool to auction off like a couple of tickets to
like the Pantagious.
Speaker 2: Ye, that would be great.
Speaker 3: It would be great if one person would it back
to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I also think maybe it would might be easier
to get if you actually talk to somebody on the
phone rather than just to send an email to Nowhere'sville,
you know, right.
Speaker 3: I feel like, well I tried that. That's what I try.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like, for instance, I called Burke Williams. I was like, oh,
that seems like something I've seen a lot of on
a lot of auctions. You know, I called Burke Williams.
I talked to somebody. They're like, oh, that's the corporate office,
but you have to you have to email. They don't
have a person that answers the phone for like the
main like just the because I call the specific Burke
Williams and they're like, oh, we don't do that. That
has to come from corporate and you got to email.
So and that happened quite a few times. Or like
calling the comedy store. A lot of these places nobody
answers the phone anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: That you get a phone tree and they go leave
a message, and then if you just choose a message,
they'll go, this voice box is full or what. So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a tough job. Yeah you would think.
Speaker 3: I thought i'd be so good at it. Yeah, turns
out you're.
Speaker 2: Good at it. It's just there. It's not your fault
that on the other end there's nobody there.
Speaker 3: But how are these people getting these items?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: To me, maybe especially in this town, they probably have
a friend there or something, right, you know, a connection.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, Okay, So I wanted to get tickets to the
Magic Castle. So I was like, that shouldn't be hard.
I have a like, I have good friends who are
literal magicians who work at the Magic Castle. So I
hit up my friend who's been a magician there for
twenty years. He was like, I can't help you. He's like,
they're super cheap about it, and he goes, and even
if I got you, like a guest pass to go,
you're still gonna have to they make you buy dinner,
You're gonna have to pay for parking, Like they don't
do any kind of like VIP. But I feel like
I've seen that. I feel like I've seen people get
it and he's like maybe, but you'd have to ask
like the owner, right, and I can't do I can't
get you get it for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about like local yogurt shops.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, I could do that stuff.
Speaker 3: But like I thought i'd be the hero, right coming
in with like the big they like, oh, I got
you backstage passes to something like I thought, like, I'll
just ask for that people I know people, No, not
so much. I don't really know that many people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, too bad.
Speaker 1: Like the good old days at ABC, they gave tickets
to Disneyland like twice a year. You know, you would
get like two four tickets twice a year or two
tickets depends on how many people are in your family
kind of thing. And those were nice because then I
could I would donate those to people like my friends
that were doing what you were doing. But now they've
changed it and even like Suzanne is helping Anthony get
to Disneyland, you still have to like they have to pay.
They get a little discount. But you know, those were
the days, but it is that is a tough That
is a tough job.
Speaker 3: I mean, our friend Nikki who listens to our show
who I Love. She owns the restaurant Truckston's, which is
in Santa Monica. There's there. It's way on the west
side Torrance. And she gave me a thousand dollars in
gift cards for that restaurant.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 3: So that's really nice. I mean, I don't don't get
me wrong, I have gotten some stuff, but I just
thought for what they want me to be doing, I
just thought it would be I thought I it would
be easier. And now I'm just getting all these emails
and I'm just like, I that's I'm over my head.
You guys, hant you guys, I think you should do
this without me, Like I don't need to be c
seed on all these emails.
Speaker 2: Oh that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3: But I'm being c seed on every email and I
feel very overwhelmed and like suffolk, like I want to
just go like, hey, can can I not be on
this committee? But I feel like I already tried, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what I think You're doing a good job, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: I really do, but I'm not. That's the thing, just
the fact that you're doing it that I'm.
Speaker 3: Trying, but there's another woman who's helping, who's like on
the committee. She went out and came back. I guess
she went on foot, like just hoofing it around town.
But she was like, I got I got fifty dollars
to this restaurant. I got fifty dollars to that restaurant.
I'm like, you, I got one hundred dollars to costco
I got. I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know she go in there to these in person.
I don't know what she did, but that might be
a bridge to five to go into all these Yeah.
I'm more like I asked a friend of mine who
is a parent at the school who has a jewelry business,
which is really cool.
Speaker 3: Uh. I was like, hey, do you think you could
donate like one of your necklaces. She's like sure, Like okay,
that's where I'm at. Yeah, Hey, I got another parent
at our school to donate an item for our auction.
Speaker 2: That's nice. Necklace is nice, that's great. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know these schools have big usually have
like big ticket items.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're always like where they get them? How'd
they get them? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, I got you a job, I got you
a walk on part on a movie, you know what
I mean. Like the good schools will be like, yeah,
you're gonna get picked up by a limo and you're
gonna be in a in a Tom Cruise movie. You're
gonna get one line on the movie, you know what
I mean. And it's like, how the fuck did they
get that? But it's like Buckley the big private school,
and you're like, yeah, because.
Speaker 2: The dad is a producer.
Speaker 3: Dad's a producer on the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, our school's free.
Speaker 3: Nobody is. Nobody's got shit to like. I don't know, Yeah,
we'll see. But I'm just like, well, that's good. At
least you have stuff to talk about. No good deed
goes unpunished, though, exactly like volunteer and yeah, but you
guys will be happy to know. I'm off the breakfast committee.
Speaker 2: Thank god. Are they still doing the breakfast No?
Speaker 3: No, no, because without me on that freaking wall, like no,
who else nobody's gonna do it? They were like, no,
we can't. I was like, I'm not doing it. It
was a huge headache for me every month, and it's thinkless,
so like somebody else can do it. So they were like,
you know what, We'll just not do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good idea, good plan, good plan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, great. Well, speaking of great sponsors though, we've
got our some of our Patreon people like Marin from
Sugar Skull. It's a bakery and gift shop and they
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Speaker 2: Yeah awesome, Yeah, try to expand.
Speaker 3: The thing that I love to do more. It all right,
Thanks Kaylin, Thanks everybody, your parent.
Speaker 2: Now it's
Speaker 3: Letting