Speaker 1: Made a decision O pace sunny sun on I Haddayson.
Speaker 2: Night.
Speaker 1: So what's up everybody. Hello, it's me and Stephanie and
Stephanie and Kaylin me.
Speaker 2: We are Today's Tuesday. It's not Monday, it's Tuesday, did imension.
It's Tuesday, and we're gonna We're gonna do this episode
and then we're gonna post it so that all y'all
are like, where's our episode? Are gonna have it?
Speaker 1: Yes soon? Yes, it's okay.
Speaker 2: That's what happened, kaylen Uh.
Speaker 3: It was Thursday night. My mom's in town from England,
so she came over. She had dinner, and then we
were all kind of hanging out, and then Island Blake
ran off into you know, their nana's room and then
we just heard like like oh oh so uh yeah,
Blake threw up all over the carpet and then then
she threw up again every forty five minutes for the
rest of the night.
Speaker 1: Poor baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the way up until like nine nine thirty,
Like she was like sleeping in bed and then she'd
have to wake up, like I'd have to listen out
for her, and she'd start coughing and I'd run in
there and she'd wake up and throw up and then
go back to sleep. It's like, all right, Blake's sick.
So then Friday, I went and did my pawn work
all day and then I watched a movie and went
to bed, and then I woke up at like two
in the morning and I was throwing up for like
three hours straight in the middle of the night. So
I'd had the stomach flu all weekend, and I didn't
want to get you guys sick, so I said, let's
push it.
Speaker 2: What about Isla?
Speaker 3: Islif threw up? Uh, she threw up one time on
like Saturday. She and she never throws up. So she
threw up one time and we're like, okay, it's coming.
And then but that was it and she was fine.
Speaker 2: O fever anything, no, nothing, What about Amy? No?
Speaker 3: Nobody else got it.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is the worst when you're trying to take
care of a little kid and you're throwing up. I
remember being home by myself with the twins and throwing
up and they were like two, and I'm just laying
in the living room like just miserable. It's the worst
when you're trying to take care of your kid and
you're they're sick, You're sick. Everybody's puking.
Speaker 3: I don't do well with throw up either. And there
was one point where Blake was on the couch and
she like threw up, and I was in charge of
holding the bowl when she was throwing up, and she
threw up. And I was doing pretty good up until
like I caught a whiff of like the TwixT bar
that she ate for dessert, and I and then and
her mom were like, go, go, go, get out of here.
Speaker 2: I remember one time I was teaching my writing class
and I used to teach in person in Hollywood, and
I'm all the way in the valley. I was at
my class. Xander and Sadie both got the stomach flu
and was freaking the fuck out. He was like I
cannot handle it. They're both throwing up, Like you have
to come home and I had to. And I was like, really,
like you can't last like two more hours, and he
was like, I can't do it. I need help. And
I had to, Like I was like sorry, everybody. I
had to like wrap up class and just go home,
help clean up puking twins at home, changing sheets and like, yeah,
it's a good eighties band Puking Twins it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to have everyone sign a waiver. I
can't use that title.
Speaker 1: Yeah TM.
Speaker 2: Let's say hi to our our hopefully non puking friends
right now. We got Jacob, he's so Growley and Sancho's
Nightdsy being Green and Jennifer get up, and Aaron's a
dirty Sanchez, Sarah Sefano surprise him, Jephanie's a stinker wrinker,
Leslie's coughing, Thank god still Alicia as got from the
City of Elvante. Kelly Brandt, She's gonna help you clean
up some puke if you need it. That going open
so cute and pay.
Speaker 1: Baby Missy and Gabby. I think they're cleaning up some
pet puke after their own. Yeah yep.
Speaker 2: Katerina, check your molar please. Valerie hits it out of
the park. Polly, we love your pancakes. And Athena, we
love your dancing and your lipstick. Brita rocking a basinette
with full of Elizabeth Williamson's you know new kids, Geek's
having more, Nikki call your girl, Katie's rolling on e Kelly,
Laddie Dott and Dick is frolicking. Dick, still frolicking, still frolicking. Yeah,
still frolicking after all these years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's happening?
Speaker 2: Well, this was kind of exciting, if I may brag
on myself for a minute. Yeah, the things that bring
me the most joy at my age have changed. But
so I was the other day, I was playing a
little bit of my online poker I think I do
once in a while. I play on Global Poker, and
I play pretty low stakes. Do you win actual money? Yes, wow,
you play with real money. But I play like my
big spending is like eleven dollars. It's a ten dollars
buy in plus an eleven dollar that's how they make
their money eleven dollar raake site. So I play like
ten dollar games sometimes six dollar games. I like to
play Omaha high low and I'd play hold them anyway.
Sometimes if I really have a few hours that I
like on like a Friday night or a Saturday night,
if John's like doing some work at home, and I'll
just be like, you know what, I'm going to like
play a little tournament. So I played a tournament the
other day. There were one hundred people started with one
hundred people and like it was just going on and
on and on and on, and then all of a sudden,
I was like, oh, we're down to like three tables.
It was six people at a time, then down to
two tables, so.
Speaker 1: It's six people at each table.
Speaker 2: Six people at each table. At one point there were
one hundred players. Okay, So and then it's a tournament.
So once you're out, you're out of the tournament, right,
and then the tables keep getting you switch tables. The
goal is to make it to like the final table,
because that's where the money is. So then like the
money starts like a little bit of money at like
place eighteen. Let's say you know, like like twelve through eighteen,
you'll make like six dollars, you know, but you've bought
in for when. Yeah, so then as you get higher
and higher, you get more money, right, and so anyway,
I just kept hanging in there and I was having
to you know, you have to make some poker decisions.
You have to be like, Okay, if I'm on the
bubble of making money, like do even if I have
like a good hand, do I want to go in
or do I want to wait to like let somebody
else get out? For anyway one first place. Wow, yep,
I won two hundred and twenty dollars holy shit, which
I know it doesn't sound like a ton of money,
but when you're yeah, you know, for a few hours
of playing poker and having fun, I was like oh.
Speaker 1: Hey, yees, oh my god.
Speaker 2: I kept getting and Sadie was in the room like
keeping me company, and I kept being like I was
doing a lot of like what the oh, I go hand,
I just want to big hand. I just got two
people out, you know, and Sady would be like, okay,
go mom, you know, and then I'd be like, oh no,
I just pass, you know. But it was a lot
of that and then so fun. And then when we
got to the final, it was two of heads up.
I was playing against this guy. He had a lot
more ships than I did, and he was like, hey, like,
you know, great play or something, Buddy Bud or whatever.
And I was like, yeah, by the way, I'm a
girl because I had my avatar is just like a
guy in a hoodie. Yeah, with like a you know,
smoking a cigarette around. It's like a total bro. And
he and he was like he didn't He was just
like yo, okay, well guy, girl whatever, and I was like, no,
just wanted to let you know you're running against a girl.
I just thought you should know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should go, you should do like, you don't know,
think about doing it a little bit on the side.
Speaker 2: I just like for fun. I wish I would love it.
Speaker 1: But they have these kind of tournaments and in like,
uh you know at the City of Commerce or something
Commerce Casino.
Speaker 2: Yes, they do, but it's kind I.
Speaker 1: Don't know even sit there with Ben Affleck.
Speaker 2: I've told you my stories though. I I one time
I used to play at this place that was really
gross called Crystal Casino. It's no longer, I'm pretty sure.
And I got a guy was threatening me because I
I mean, I'll never forget this because I and I
had four of a kind and I slow played it
mm hmm. Got this. This guy like lost a lot
of chips to me. So it was a tournament, you know,
and uh, I played it like I didn't play dumb,
but I just slow I just slow played it, you know.
And people freaking assume that women, especially I don't look
like a professional poke re put you know. And I'm
there with a guy friend of mine, and you know,
I was probably acting a little bit like I wasn't
sure what I was doing. And then you know, but
I kept like okay, I'll call you know, and then okay,
well and then at the end, I raised and then
the guy was like, you don't fucking have anything, so
he called me. Then I turned over four of a
kind and then he was mad, like really mad, you know,
basically because I because I outplayed him. He was like,
you shouldn't have even been in this hand. Whatever. Okay, well,
then literally like two hands later, I got four of
a kind again, and then the guy was threatening, like
hurt me. It was really scary. I mean, the guy
was like, she are cheating, but you go outside right now,
like I'm gonna kick your ass or whatever. And then
they were having to like, oh, my security was having
to go like you know, dude.
Speaker 1: Well maybe not that casino. I not like that, like
the Palm Springs casino. So there's like the chumash.
Speaker 2: This is my fear though. Okay, let's say I get
all like big for my breeches and I'm like, I'm
a pretty good poker player, right, and then I go,
I drive all the way to Palm Springs to play poker,
and I just immediately like lose my mind.
Speaker 1: Like well, so I mean, you win, you lose.
Speaker 2: One time I played at Caesar's Palace. Uh, I was
just like I'm gonna I was really nervous and I
played and it was like a tournament. It wasn't super expended.
It was like sixty dollars. It was the buy in
and I didn't really know what I was doing and
these people were clearly they were all really good. And
then I didn't know that the proper protocol is that
you chop at the end, so you know what that means,
Like when you get down to the final three people,
they want you to like just split the money. And
I was like, well, I'm way ahead. So I ended
up winning this tournament, but I was pretty far ahead.
And then I got myself kind of like bullied into,
I mean because I was intimidated, and they were like, yeah,
we should just like chop, you guys want to chop,
and I was like oh. And then somebody else was
like she shouldn't have to chop with you guys, like
she's she's got the chip lead. And they're like, well,
we'll give you like ten dollars more. And then I
had to be like okay, and then so then basically
it takes the excit learning end of the game. You're
down to three people and then it's basically like we're
all gonna split the money no matter what, and we'll
give you an extra ten dollars. But I wanted to
play it out and like meet them right, because who cares.
It's sixty bucks.
Speaker 1: You could say no right if they say you can,
But like, but you didn't.
Speaker 2: You all the people really mad at you. Now they're like,
proper I don't. I didn't know what proper protocol was. Yes,
later I asked another friend and they were like, you
could have said no, and it was like I felt
like intimidating. Yeah, of course it wasn't as fun as
like just sitting in my house on your computer Joe's cheese,
popcorn and you know, doing other multitasking and like you know,
then you have to be like really, have no tells
and sit there for our I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, no, I get it. I don't know. It
just sounds like it would be fun, something fun to do. No,
I would, and then it would be good tournament. Yeah,
well I told you.
Speaker 2: You know the story of how I played in the
World Series of Poker, the Women's division. I'll take that
story to lunch as long as humanly possible. That John
bought me in for one thousand dollars for my fortieth birthday.
Speaker 1: It's a great gift, by the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was forty. Yeah. The twins were really little,
I guess, or maybe I wasn't pregnant with them. Maybe
I got pregnant with them like shortly after. Maybe Elbe
was still like a baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I went and it was like there were celebrities
there and it was really fun, really fun time. It's
it wasn't the official it was. It was an event
in the World Series of Poker, so it was women
and they didn't take it as seriously because there was
a lot of like celebrities, you know. Yeah, Parney Wilson
was like one of the people, and but it was
the best time ever. I was so scared. I was
just like, oh my god, these people are all like
My experience playing poker to that point had been I
don't know if I played online at that point. I
mostly played in like a poker game. A bunch of
comedians that you all know about and had been for
years and was easily intimidated in that game, right, Like
oftentimes I get like scared. I think everybody has a
better hand than me. And my John's friend's dad was
like an old school professional poker player played the circuit
in Texas, and he offered to talk to me and
give me a pep talk. Do you remember this story? No,
So I'm at the World Series of Poker. I'm freaking out,
the vent is about to start. I'm so nervous, like
I'm shaking. And John was like, do you want to
talk to Kelly's dad, Like he'll talk to you and
give you some advice. And I was like, yes, and
I'll never forget some of the advice he gave me.
He first of all, he was like, I was like,
there's all of these Asian women that are very intimidating,
like they do not do tells. They are they're very
poker you know what. It might have started and we
might have been on a break and I was scared
because these Asian women they like click their chips, they
stare you down, but they have like no expression.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And I'm not hashtag not all Asians, but I'm saying, yeah,
in the poker world, there was a group a lot
of Asian women that were very very intimidating, I imagine.
So they do this thing where they're holding their chips
in their hand and they just click them. They're shuffling them,
shuffling them with their thumb and they're in their palm
and making like a noise. That's just like and it's intimidating.
And then they just bet without like they barely look
at their cards, like they don't they don't look at
their cards and then like think about it and then
look at their card. They they just like stare you
down and just like make a bet. And so anyway,
go on a break. And I was like, what am
I going to do about these like really intimidating these
Asian women and the my friends dad said, you're who
cares like they are playing with the same cards that
you're playing with. So as often as you have a
good hand is as often as they have a good hand,
and oftentimes they don't have a good hand, but they're
always going to play like they do, So play your cards,
don't play them.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's great advice.
Speaker 2: He's like, okay, and he was like, also, para jacks
is not the hand that you think it is a
lot of hands can beat you if you're in the
middle position. Do not start raising with a pair of jacks. Also,
king jack not a good hand. It's very deceiving. Looks
can be deceiving. Too many cards can beat you middle position.
Like he was.
Speaker 1: Giving me, that's position advice.
Speaker 2: So like, if you're sitting next to the dealer, if
you're the first to act, you don't want to go
out and bet with a hand that's kind of weak
because somebody with a better hand later is going to
raise you way up and then you're gonna have to
call the rais or fold. So anyway, he gave me
that advice, and then I got very far in that tournament.
But I tournament, it's okay, off everybody, dare you? Dare
you treat me to bully me? Like this got my
pronunciation of tournament.
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 2: I got very far, but I was I got out
on the bubble. I had ace queen and this person
snuck in with they had a pair of They had
a pair of sevens. A seven came up on the flop,
but also an ace came up on the flop. No,
a queen came up, So I had a pair of
queens with an ace kicker. They ended they had three
sevens and they slow played me and I went all
in and wow, and they called me and they took
the rest of my money.
Speaker 1: Oh how long did you play? For?
Speaker 2: Hours?
Speaker 1: Hours?
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least like six or seven hours.
Speaker 1: Holy shit. Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 2: I almost made it through the whole first day, and
then I think I would have been in the money,
like the barest money. I think it was going to
go into the next day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's amazing. I know, you should do it again.
Speaker 2: I know it was really fun. I can't bury though,
I get really scared. I'm not a badass, Like I
get very intimidated.
Speaker 1: Very easily. Well, I can imagine. But that's kind of
the fun of it too, though, right, Yeah, you know
it's a little thrilling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I definitely don't have like a thousand dollars
disposable income anymore. And also then you now you got
to think about Okay, so at the time, and I mean,
I'm still acquaintances with this girl, but I was friends
with this girl who was remember this story that I'll
tell that. I'll just tell you in like two lines.
I was friends with a girl who was the assistant
bureau chief at People Magazine. But I met her at
Target and we both our babies were like a couple
months old, and she was just in overalls and like glasses,
and you know she didn't. Yeah, but we made friends.
We met at Target, our babies were the same age.
We exchanged phone numbers, and then she called me and
we ended up like going to lunch and she was
on maternity leave and then she told me that she
had this job and it's like a pretty big job. Well,
once she went back to work, I started getting to
enjoy some of her perks. So she got flown there.
So I flew to Vegas and bought myself in, but
I stayed with her in her room and she got
like all food comped, and she was there covering the event.
Speaker 1: For People Magazines, right right right.
Speaker 2: So I was like, she was like, you should come
with me and you should play Wow event.
Speaker 1: So it was moral. That story is like make friends
with people at Target.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you never know they're gonna be yes. Yes, Wow,
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Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So, how was your weekend?
Speaker 1: Well, my weekend was kind of low key because last
week I went to the doctor. I made an appointment.
I haven't gone so long to get like I like
to get my dark spots lasered and stuff like after
after summertime. And so I went to the to the dermatologist,
to the to the woman that I go to, and
she was telling me about this new procedure that they
have this new laser. It's it's called Ultimate Wait a minute,
it's called Ultimate Clear. It's kind of simple. Yeah, yeah, laser.
Speaker 2: I could look it up in my text.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's called I think it's called Ultimate
Clearer Laika. And so she she was showing me, like
all the ladies in the office just had it done recently.
And one of the nurses came in and she said,
you know, you have to have five days of downtime
because you're you're gonna get really red. But then once
five days is over, you should pretty much heal pretty quickly.
So they the women that had it done were showing
me what they look like before, what they look like afterwards,
they showed me all these before after pictures and I
was like, you know what, I don't have anything this week,
and I said, let's do it. The only thing I
have this week is Natalia. What's it called ultra clear?
Ultra clear? Yeah, I knew there was a U okay,
okay ultra clear laser. Yeah, so you can look at
up to do. The only thing I had to do
was Natalia was coming for the weekend to spend the
weekend with me. But I'm like, by the time she comes,
it's going to be four or five days. They said,
five days of downtime. Well it's been a seven days
by now, and I have scabs on my neck still.
My face is still peeling.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look bad.
Speaker 1: Today is the first day where it doesn't really look
as bad as it's been looking. It was swollen for
a while. She went pretty hard, like on my lower
half of my face. So what it does is it's
it's it's for pigmentation, but it also is for tightening
jowls and tight like because I don't like to do
fillers and stuff, so the laser is more appealing to me.
So she said it really super tightens underneath your chin,
you know that area around your mouth, you know, kind
of pulls everything, sucks everything in. And so I had
it done and yeah, now I'm seven days and now
I wish I didn't do it. The weekend Italia came
because we ended up Like when she walked in, she's like,
holy shit, what happened in your face? Because it looks
like I don't know if you guys seen the Orange
County reunion.
Speaker 2: Yes, you were talking about when Tamra got her got
her COEO thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, burned up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did look pretty bad.
Speaker 1: It looked like that. Yes, that's what my face looked. Yeah,
I sent Stephanie pictures. It was really look like somebody
took a frying pan in my face. Yeah. And you
see all the little you know, uh track marks, yeah,
you know, like little dots from the laser that. But yeah,
so I really wanted I wanted to get it done
like after the like before the holiday season kicks in
and after the summer. So uh yeah. But Italia walked
in and she was what the fuck? And she's like,
I really wanted to go to our favorite place for
lunch and she's like, yeah, no, I'm not. You don't
need to go, like we can just eat here.
Speaker 2: It's like, what's your favorite place? Is it the place
she worked?
Speaker 3: Uh? No?
Speaker 1: In Pasadena? There's a there's a Mexican place that she loves.
It's called I can't think of the name. It's just
like this boutique Mexican place in Pasadena that she loves
and she gets like the salmon salad. I don't get
salmon salad in a Mexican place.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that sounds good, but god, she's
so healthy, I.
Speaker 1: Know, so so yeah, so I got that done and
now like just now it's really itching me really bad too.
Oh yeah, itch is really bad because it's you could
feel it, like and there's like the skin still falling
off and it's peeling and stuff. You know.
Speaker 2: So I want to hear about in Italia. But this
is a good segue to just saying that so Xander
has been taking acutane because he has really bad acne
and uh poor kid. He We've got to the dermatologist
over and over and over. He didn't not want to
go on acutane. He has a lot of like what
do you sensory stuff like he gets triggered sensory wise,
he doesn't like, you know, certain tags and stuff when
he was younger, but a big one is just like
the way like his skin feels. So he was saying,
I don't I don't want to go on acutane. But
then a friend of mine said that her kid went
on acutane and just went on a very low dose
and that it's working. So we asked the dermatologist said, oh,
he wanted to go on another round of antibiotics, and
the dermatologists said, You've been on too many rounds of it.
It's just not good for you, Like it's not going
to permanently help you. The only thing that's going to
help you is acutane. So I said, well, I heard
he could do a low dose, and he goes, yeah,
he can do a low dose, he just has to
be on it for longer. So I was like, so
he agreed to do that. Within a week, he was
just like, oh my god, my skin like it burns.
Can't put anything on it, and it really looked chafed,
you know, and he was just like, I don't know
if I can handle it. I can't. I had to
pick him up from school. John had to go get
him from school because He was like, I can't focus
on anything but how bad my skin field? So it's
been rough because I posted something on for crying out
Loud and everybody was like, you stay on it, like
it's worth it, Like it's the only thing that worked
for me. So yeah, what we did was we bought
him a bunch of products. Our friend Tara, Tara Diamond
Cool her son, got on the phone with Xander and
talked him down. Really his yeah products, isn't that sweet? Yeah?
I love that I got him some skincare products. But
he had to take like a two day break from
the apputin he was like, I get I can't I
can't handle it. So I was like, why don't you
take a night off? And then he took two nights
off and then he started back up again last night.
So we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but my question, actually.
Speaker 2: If anybody's listening, was is it possible that it's being
exacerbated because it's he's doing it in the winter when
because everybody's skin is dry in the winter, right, so
everybody gets chopped lips and your skin feels dry, right,
So he was wondering like, maybe I should wait until spring,
right and do it then but in my mind, I'm like,
it's probably gonna suck whenever you do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I mean, you know, I think
that that whole acne situation is so tough because it's
so hormonal to you know.
Speaker 2: And but he's going to be on hormones.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's not going to go away on its own,
right right right?
Speaker 1: You know, Well, I have a friend that's going to
be she's going to advertise on our show. And she
has a h in Woodland Hills. She has her own
she's trying to start her own business, facial business. She
has her own business. She does all tons of stuff,
and I think she also does a lot of stuff
for teens and they're acne. Oh yeah, and she would
probably give you a good, good deal. And she's out
in the valley. Okay, yeah, did she many laser machines?
I have to look at my notes, she might. Yeah.
So I'll I'm gonna do it on Friday show. I'll
let you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, perfect, Yeah, So tell me, okay, so tell
me more about Natalia. So, so she came, she went
to her dad's the Thursday night. She got in and
because there was some concert on Thursday night and Sunday
and Sunday and Sunday. What was it, Sabrina Carpenter on Sunday.
Oh m love Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know if that was what was
Thursday too? I don't know. I don't know who was Thursday. Okay,
So she was at her dad's Thursday. But then she
came Friday and we had a great She stayed Friday
to Monday afternoon. She left Monday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, what did she do Sunday night?
Speaker 1: Though? She stayed home at my house, So she stayed.
She came Friday, Yeah, Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday night,
and she.
Speaker 2: Went and did another concert though on Sunday and Sunday night,
came back and came back home. Yeah that's cool. Yeah, yeah,
it was so nice having her.
Speaker 1: I love, like, you know, making her favorite tomato and
eggs in the mornings and shah shuka. Yes, and I'm
like she loves salmon, made her salmon, you.
Speaker 2: Know, uh, I love salmon.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. She had the salmon recipe that
she wanted me to make. So I made. It wasn't
very good, it wasn't No, I like just the salmon
that's just doesn't have all the salt. It was like
you had too much called for, like mayo and garlic
and all the like. It was too pungent the sauce.
But it was all right.
Speaker 2: And when you make your salmon, do you bake it
in the oven? Do you make it in a frying pan?
Do you do it?
Speaker 1: I like to bake it in the oven, okay, yeah,
and I usually just put Sometimes I'll put terayaki and
like soy sauce or somethmber. We used to use our soyachi. Yeah, soyaki.
I love doing that, or just you know, butter, garlic
and some seasonings. That's pretty much. And then just put
it in the oven and then baked potato. So good,
and a salad. Yeah, I don't enough if my.
Speaker 2: Kids salm u Xander doesn't care for salmon. Sadie and
I are the only ones that really like salmon.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. So it's such a sunny doesn't like release
salmon that much.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Yeah, I went off salmon, which is very d
I used to like it and just suddenly stop liking
it really, which sucks because it's Amy's favorite food and
they eat all the time in the house, and now I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, you got sick of it?
Speaker 3: I got it? Yeah, so I'll just like, I'll just
make something else.
Speaker 1: You know, when I was pregnant, I was so turned
off by salmon, even though it was supposed to be
good for you for the baby's brains. I ate it
like a couple times, and then I was just like, oh,
it made me nauseous. I could not eat it.
Speaker 2: What did you crave when you were pregnant? Do you remember?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I craved like fresh squeezed orange juice, like a lot
of like juice, like fresh juice. I craved that. I
never had like a sweet tooth. So I never craved
anything like that. I just remember what I was turned
off by. I was also turned off by for some reason.
That's remember the store that all women went to for
pregnancy clothes in the MoMA pod, yes being the pod h.
Every time I went in there, I got nauseous. I
don't know why. No, weird, I don't know, it was
so weird. Tuna, salmon like that, that kind of stuff
just made me like interesting.
Speaker 2: I was addicted to elpoyo loco Caesar buls. I don't
know what was in there, but I mean it was
like rise. There was something maybe about the dressing. I
don't know, but I would I would want it every
single day and John would have to go, this is
getting embarrassing. At some point he had to tell them
at our local Elpoyo Loco. He was like, yeah, my
wife is pregnant and this is all she'll eat. And
so he said he would get a laugh every time
he came in there. They're like seazerable. I mean it
really was like five days a week.
Speaker 1: I really yea. Do they still have that?
Speaker 3: Never?
Speaker 2: They don't have it anymore. And then with my first
pregnancy with LB. I've told you this before. I don't
know why, but I was like, I need chicken wings. Really.
I still like chicken wings, but at the time I
remember being like, this is such a random, like I
wanted hot wings.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: When it turned out to be that I was crazy.
Was the vinegar oh so interesting? Yeah? Well, I wanted
hot wings because they're like like turt or something. And
then I couldn't figure out where to get wings. So
I started looking up recipes and I was like making
myself batches of chicken wings really all the time down
through the whole pregnancy, so you like.
Speaker 1: I know you both make them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would make I would buy chicken wings at
the grocery store and then I would pour crystal hot
sauce on it. That crystal is the brand name red.
Speaker 3: Oh. You would just buy it straight from the like
already made from the You wouldn't make them at home, No,
I would.
Speaker 2: Make them at home because I couldn't figure out where
to order them.
Speaker 3: I make chicken wings, I know you do, and I
like them in the air far. My air force too small,
so I get like a pack of like ten, but
I have to make them in two shifts the next one.
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like boneless chicken wings?
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just don't like the wings. I never like the wings.
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Speaker 2: So okay, so you made you made Shatchuka and you
know it.
Speaker 1: So we we hung out. We watched old Modern family episodes.
She love. We used to watch it when they were little,
and we haven't watched them in a long time. So
we watched that and then like, you know, I I
love watching a movie with Natali. So I was trying
to think, like, what's a good movie, and I thought
about Silver lining's playbook to watch and she already saw it,
so and then she's like, I want to watch something funny.
I don't want to watch something heavy. And then I
was thinking, and then I never saw Old School with
Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughan. I know it's a classic.
And then I asked her and she's like, no, I've
never seen it either, and I'm like, perfect movie to
watch with Italia because they go back. Yeah they started
fraternity right, Yeah, it was hilarious. Never saw it. Do
you remember it?
Speaker 2: I don't remember anything about it. Oh, I did see
it many years ago.
Speaker 1: Well, Ferrell goes streaking and yeah, they start their own
Owen Wilson's brother, what's Luke Wilson? Yeah, and Vince Vaughn
is like at his best. It was made in two
thousand and three is when that movie came out. Oh wow,
Yeah it's pretty old. Yeah it's old School, but it
was great. The music soundtrack was funny, it was hilarious.
It was a little raunchy at first, like the very beginning,
you know, I was like, oh shit, but I haven't
watched anything inappropriate in front of an Italian a long time. Now,
now that she's like an adult. Like she got up
to Pete at very beginning, came back and I said,
I think this movie's a little raunchy. And she's like,
I go okay, and she's like, yeah, I don't care.
I was like, all right, Like there's a scene where they're,
you know, Andy Dick is teaching them how to do blowjobs,
you know, like ladies with their bananas and their cucumbers.
And I was like, oh god, but it was hilarious.
So we watched that, and and then she hung out
with one of her friends that's still a senior in
high school that's in town, and then her other friends
that she went to the concert with, and then that's
that's that was it. And then she went back and
we just like hung out and you know, eight cooked,
watch TV, chilled like she loved seeing Phil. She misses him.
It's really cute. Yeah, yeah, it was really cute. Took
Phil for walks, you know, did that kind of stuff.
It was just nice just to hang out.
Speaker 2: Isn't it the best?
Speaker 1: It is? It's the best. Yeah. She hasn't been home
since she left. She hasn't spent the night home. Oh
the first time. Yes, And she left in August, so
it was nice. Yeah, she really liked being in her bed.
She loved it. And now Sunny comes home this weekend
for Thanksgiving? Exciting?
Speaker 2: Does she comes home too, though?
Speaker 1: Right, she's gonna be home I think in the middle
of the week, like Tuesday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving? Okay, yeah, yeah,
Elbie's not going to come home till she has a
class Tuesday, So I think I'm gonna go pick her
up Tuesday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I also just saw Elbe. I know, I
think I see too much of her. If she's not listening,
I'm like, all right enough already, I know, make me
miss you. Yeah, she's funny. She came home. I'm trying. Oh, okay, well,
because I think I told you the girl's running out
of money. Trying to teach her to save her money better,
and I told We've talked about this, I told her.
But I was like, girl, you have to work. So
she managed. I let her get very low on money,
like when I say, like, she had less than a
hundred dollars in the bank and I did not bail
her out. I was just like, wow, that sucks. Yeah,
I mean, I'm still giving her money for food and stuff,
But I mean in her bank account to spend, she
had one hundred dollars, less than a hundred dollars. So
I was like, you know, you really should go back
to your old job and try to get a shift.
So she did. So she was working a party on
and Saturday, I guess Saturday night. So how does she
get back and forth? No, she worked on Sunday, So
I have to go get her.
Speaker 1: You have to go get her.
Speaker 2: But it's not really a big deal. That's the thing.
It's easier. Here's the thing. She took her car around Halloween,
she came home, she took her car somewhere. She went
to Irvine. Then she drove her car back to Ucla
and kept her car in a lot for two nights
before she came home. Well, she promptly got a parking ticket,
so which, yeah, who's got to pay it? I do,
because she where's she gonna have the money to pay
the right. So I'm like, you don't need to have
your car. If you need to do something at home,
I'll come get you. It's not a big deal. So
Sunday I went. I went and got her at like one.
She came home. We hung out, I heard all the stories.
It was really fun and we gossiped. Then she went
to work, then she came home and I had to
go do something. Oh. I went to dinner with friends
on Sunday night, and then she came home. And then
the next day was yesterday and we weren't recording, so
she and I went and had a bagel. I heard
more stories, and then we did a little of her.
She did her laundry and then packed up her clothes,
and then I just drove her back to school.
Speaker 1: Right wow, and was like see in a week. Yeah,
see you in a week. So she brings her laundry
home and does it at home.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, she was telling me some horror stories about
the laundry facilities at the school. She's like, I've done
it a couple of times, but she's like half the
dryers are broken and you don't know. You put your
clothes in there and you set it to dry, and
then it kicks out halfway through and your clothes aren't
dry when you come get back, and you know it's
the pain.
Speaker 1: It is a pain.
Speaker 2: So yeah, she just did a load of laundry and yeah, yeah,
it's not like she came home with a humongous bag.
She just did a load of laundry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, but it's fun. It's like now it
is nice, Yeah, it is, it's so nice. Yeah, she
wants me to come up and do her laundry. I said,
why didn't you? Why didn't you bring it here? And
she's like, well, I thought I was going to go
to Dad's and then years our house, like back and forth,
and I didn't want to lug all that, you know,
all those clothes. And she's like, why don't you come
visit me this week? It's like, oh god, does she.
Speaker 2: Have a laundry. She doesn't have laundry in her building.
Speaker 1: They have a laundry in their building. Yeah, yeah, she's
just let's try it. She just lets a pile up. No,
she's been doing it. She's been doing it. She has
no choice. She's been there all this time. She's been
doing it. But I think she just like ignores it
and lets it pile up for a while. She's not
She's good at washing and doing the laundry, she's not
good at getting it back out of the dryer and
then folding it and putting it away. That's the hard part.
But she has to what's she going to do with
all of it? You know?
Speaker 2: I know, well it is difficult because these girls are
in a small apartment. Both of our kids are in
small apartments with a lot of kids in there. And
where like I use a drying rock because a lot
of clothes that I wash up to be hung to dry.
How are they gonna do that?
Speaker 1: I know, Well, she's got a balcony that they hang
stuff out on the balcony. She says, okay for her clothes,
but yeah, I mean a lot all the girls, she's like,
the all my roommates, they have like mounds of clothes
in their you know, little quarters that just get piled up,
you know, And then then I can't And then Sunny's
doing his own laundry. Now it's just is so funny
to me him doing his laundry, But they have to
what are they gonna do? Yeah, you know, but he
knows how. He knows, Oh yeah, now he knows how.
He knows how. I think he just throws everything in
a in a I think he has two baskets, so
he just throws his socks and underwear and two different
baskets and just leaves it as it is like that
instead of you know, folding them.
Speaker 2: Oh I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah I don't
fold underwear.
Speaker 1: Either, No, not the but like the socks, you know,
like he just kind of matches them up as he
as he goes, right, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: What we do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We have one big communal drawer of our bedroom of
socks because we just keep buying. Well, we have our bombas,
but I have I hoard my bombus and in my drawer,
but we have a whole drawer of like white sports
socks basically, and they're all kind of different brands, you know,
So they're all in one drawer and the kids come
in every morning grab a pair of socks.
Speaker 1: That's smart.
Speaker 2: Otherwise they just I don't know, yeah, because I guess
they could keep some of their own socks.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I do all the laundry and then I just take
I hang stuff to dry, and then I tell them, hey,
the laundry is done, and I'll take clothes out of
the dryer and I put them on top of the
dryer and then I go, guys, there's loads of laundry.
Go take what's yours?
Speaker 1: Right? Smart?
Speaker 2: Do I end up yelling a little bit about it
like it has will it be like four days later
and there's a pile of clothes on the dryer. Do
I have to go like, hey, I said, go get
your clothes and they go, oh sorry, Mom.
Speaker 1: They yeah, yeah, just a mound of clothes. I'm just
I'm happy though, Like they're they're doing, you know, they're
doing their own there. It's what they're they should be doing,
you know, doing their own grocery shopping. Sunny. I'm a
little concerned because the weather's been really bad in Eugene.
It's been really.
Speaker 2: Cold, shocking. I know Oregon weather.
Speaker 1: And it's like raining like every day. But I talked
to him about it last night and he's like, it's
it's it's fine. He's like, it's not that bad. He says,
even though it says Ray, if you look at the
weather map for Eugene, it's every day raining, you know,
eighty percent chance of rain, like every day for the
next ten days. And he says, even though it says
it's raining, it's like it rains and then it stops
and then it rains. Well, it's not like it's pouring
rain for long periods of time. But when he goes
out like in the evenings, he'll go walking, you know,
to meet his friends, and then you know, he'll like
get stuck out in the rain and have to like
wait it out, you know, until it kind of blows
because he's like, I have a raincoat, but it just
sucks being out getting pelted by the rain. Yeah. Yeah,
So there's a little adjustment. And then meanwhile on the
Tali is like, oh, the weather's beautiful every day, it's sunshining.
I love it. Tell sunny should come to Santa Barbara
so much better. In Santa Barbara, it's always sunny. You know.
I'm like, well, he likes it. He likes it over there.
Speaker 2: I know my uh my kids could never do school
in Oregon. Even when LB was at her saddest about
not getting into school and she was kind of really
trying to get me to consider organ in the back
of her mind she knew. She was like, I'm not
gonna be able to handle that weather. She's a southern
California girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And Xander is already telling me that it's he's very
much affected, even just forget rain. It's getting dark earlier
now and he hates it. I hate it too. It
looks like it's midnight by now I'm thirty. It could
be the middle of the freaking night.
Speaker 1: It does. It feels like it's late to Why do
we have that?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, because of the farmers back in the day, I
don't know. But enough like Arizona got rid of it.
I think they don't. They don't have it anymore.
Speaker 2: No, there's a couple of states that have it.
Speaker 1: Why can't we do that?
Speaker 2: Right, California is a very powerful h state. We have
a lot of people. If we decide something. Yeah, I
think we should decide it for every vote. Who do
we talk to? And we need to get rid of
the penny see to like enough with pennies.
Speaker 1: Pennies not necessary anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, them in a big pile and they can make
some like copper jewelry out of them or something, right, Yeah,
get your return on your investment. Yeah, also nickels, we
don't need th dimes.
Speaker 1: Why don't let's just go with quarters, right?
Speaker 2: Quarters? If you want to just keep change, We'll keep
quarters because we need them for laundry for certain things.
Speaker 1: Right, you want to get a soda pop out of
the vending machine?
Speaker 2: When are you ever going to really need a dimer
a nickel.
Speaker 1: I know, even even vending machines now, even the laundry mats,
they all it's all on an app.
Speaker 2: They all takes yeah, parking meters, right, you're never the
parking meters. Don't even really take nickels anymore. Now, they're
like a trickle. Yeah, what are you what are you
gonna get a minute? Right, that's dumb. Yeah, pick your
nickel back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know, as much as I don't use them,
they do come in handy when I'm giving them to
my daughters, and they think they're getting something of real
value by taking my nickels and dimes instead of my quarters. Okay,
they go through my wallet and want my money and
go take the nickels, take the dimes, and they get
all happy that they get those ones. They take a quarter.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no, no, not that one.
Speaker 2: You're like, that one's not worth as much. It's counterintuitive.
Speaker 1: So they're they're good for the for human beings that
are zero to five years old.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, yeah, before they're onto you. Yeah, well this
was fun. I have another story for you, but I'm
gonna save it for Friday, Okay, And I have a
crazy Patreon I can't wait, which I heads up. I
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Julie. Okay, I can't wait. I can't wait
to hear it.
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seven zero four three zero two three nine three nine. Yeah,
we'll do the rest on Friday.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, Thanks everybody. You're a parent now, don't if
it up.
Speaker 2: It's letting go.