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of waiver today that you understand today's actually Monday. Yesterday
Sunday was my twins sixteenth birthday.
Speaker 1: Woo wooh. I can't believe there's sixteen. I know, I
remember when they were three, four, very crazy. Yeah, lord, sixteen, imagine.
Speaker 2: I had this moment of gratitude for the fact that, well,
first of all, it's annoying that my kid's birthdays are
so close to the holiday. Yeah, I know all three
of your kids, all three of them, so it is.
It feels like a lot of pressure because I wanted
to be special. I was talking to my friend who
some of you guys knew who she is, Bonnie McFarlane,
my comedian friend, and she was like, oh my gosh,
she lives in New Jersey, and I was telling her
that I wasn't so we still weren't really sure what
we were doing. And she was like, oh my god,
out here, it's like the sixteenth birthday is like a.
Speaker 1: Big sha deal.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, out here there's a lot of
big Hispanic community, so Keen scenaras are a big thing,
Like my kids are constantly getting invited to King Snaras.
Speaker 1: Fifteen. But sweet sixteen, no, I know, not nothing, really,
not so much. No, doesn't really stand out out. Here's
more of an East Coast thing, I think, so yeah, so,
But I was having a.
Speaker 2: Moment of gratitude for the fact that, although it's pressure,
this is the first year, I think where I have
truely felt like my kids have friends, they have a group.
Like through the years, both of my twins, Albie has
always had a group. And the reason why, and I've
said this many times, is because I was hell bent
on making mom friends when Albie was a baby, and
a lot of those friends she stayed friends with some
of those kids. So she's known quite a few kids
since they were five years old, and it becomes kind
of a built in, like she's not necessarily like besties
with them at all times, but it was like, oh,
when it came to time to go to high school,
it was like she had some people to go to
high school, right that she hadn't even been in school
with before, right, that were her friends through her whole
You know, she's had a friend that they've been to
every single one of each other's birthdays, so the first
one that's so cute, every single one. So I've just
never worried that much about her. Maybe one brief period
in middle school where she had that remember.
Speaker 1: When I was old, Yeah, hot and cold. Oh my god,
the old day.
Speaker 2: But we're still in touch with Who's totally fine now
like when away to college, Like she and LB are
totally cool. But yes, middle school major drama for one year.
I'll be like, had no friends for a brief period
of time, but then she had a best friend, and
then that best friend moved away. But then she fell
in with a little foursome, you know, and then they
and then high school she's just been fine. Yeah, Sadie
and Xander, as you guys know, four years it was like,
what am I gonna do with these kids? What am
I gonna do? They're not making this school's hard? Then
this school's hard. And then everybody was like send them
to the big public middle school. They said, they're gonna
do great there, they said, And then Sadie was promptly
traumatized by that. Right made like one friend there.
Speaker 1: Whatever happened to the kid who his dad was like, uh,
he had to go pick him. He left him at
the airport. The kid had to get picked up from
the air Oh.
Speaker 2: My god, I forgot what I named that kid. Yeah,
they know that we're not in touch with those people
out Okay, Now I wonder if his dad's still waiting
at the airport. There have been some random Yeah, there
have been some randos. I was just saying to my
kids yesterday. I was like, it's so interesting that this
high school has been very good to them. Xander struggled
a little bit there last year, but now he's like
found his groove and he's like really involved in a
lot of things, and they just have this nice circle
of friends. They're just like nice kids, right, And it's
not that they're like it's not because of I know
that I've I know that Sadie came on our podcast
and talked about how a lot of these kids are
like using substances and blah blah blah, and you know whatever.
It's a little bit of an alternative school, but it's
artsy and there's just like they just all the kids
are very inclusive with each other and they've just fallen
into this nice groove. And I think I told you
that Lyle is le Crocodile who he met in middle school. Yeah,
and then we all helped out that mom who Haram
is still struggling a bit because she's like makes minimum
way trying to keep her family afloat. It's been hard.
I'm helping her out here and there as much as
I can. But Xander and Lyle, Lyle's like it's he's
had a lot of trauma, but Xander has They are
still really good fronts.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: And so Xander like basically the mom moved him over
away from the big high school right after ninth grade
and he's now joined Xander that's his school and like
he's having a good time. So that's the friend that's
left over. And then Sadie made one friend at the
big public middle school and that she's still friends with
that person, but everybody else is kind of like newer friends.
But they're cool. And I was so pleased they so
I kept asking them, what do you guys want to
do for your birthday? This was the first year that
I didn't have to be like, Okay, I'm bringing all
the kids to even busters or you know what I mean,
because they wanted to make their own kind of plan, right.
They didn't want me planning because I was like, you
can have everybody come over or and they were like, eh,
well were thinking about it, right, Well, what they ended
up deciding they wanted to do Laser Tag again. So
they're like, we're just gonna we're going to invite a
couple kids to come over like earlier, and then we're
going to go play Laser Tag from six to eight
and people can just like pay for themselves. And I
was like whoa, okay, but then it turned out that
Elbie was working and it was like she was like, yeah,
I'll try to get them some free games, you know.
So I was like okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So then it kept getting so I was like okay,
so all I really have to do was first I
was like, well, do you want me to like order
in some like nicer food than like pizza, And Sadie
was like, I mean everybody pretty much likes pizza. So
I was like, okay, let me order from somewhere a
little better like Stumboomenomenoes. Yeah, ordered from Fresh Brothers. Oh
is that nationwide? I don't know, but it sounds good.
Speaker 1: Pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So ordered some pizza, literally, made some onion dip, bought
some chips they didn't even use that, bought a couple
bottles of sprite, and they were just having a few
kids It ended up being like ten kids at our
house to start with, and then a couple more met
us at the Laser Tag place. It was so fun
and my kids as opposed to Elbie. They were like,
come and play laser tag with us, and I was like,
I don't have to ask me twice, all right, I
like laser Tag, I'll do it. We get to the place,
so the kids come over. It's like super fun. They're
kind of just doing their own thing. John and I.
So we get this pizza. So John and I steal
some pizza, eat it in our bedroom, hang out. Then
they're like, okay, we're ready to go, so we drive over.
Both John and I drive load of kids over to
the place I stay so Elbe. Elbie's co workers are
like so sweet. Her manager at work loves Sadie and Xander.
Did not let them pay for anything. They just played
game after game. Elbe did the the briefing basically, so
it's like they get the safety briefing and they tell
you how to play laser Tag. We're all in there,
and there's also like so there were like fifteen of
us of our party, including me and Sadie and Xander
and all their and then.
Speaker 1: So you got to watch LB do hers spiel?
Speaker 2: Did you catch her spiel? Well, so we I walk
into the briefing room and everyone's already in there, and
there's like these drunk adults with and then there's like
two separate parties, rowdy parties, and then all the kids
and I walk in and some guy goes, eh, that's
somebody's mother or something, and then hey, and then the
kid my kids go that's our mother, and they're like.
Speaker 1: Hey, standing ovation.
Speaker 2: Stand. They all start clapping, and then they give me
a standing ovation and then yeah, it was like hilarious.
I mean, my kids thought that was the funniest thing
that ever happened.
Speaker 3: Then I know this Laser Tag place. I grew up
going to this Laser Tag place. Yeah, it was the
number one birthday party. Yes, you know destination. So yeah
that you know, fifteen to thirty people or whatever area
this room. I maybe went there like one or two
times when it wasn't for a birthday party, and there's
just a bunch of random people in there, and like
half of them were drunk, and I was like, oh,
this is a different experience. All of these grown up
with drunks drunks in here rather than little kids in
their birthdays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but it's fun.
Speaker 3: But get this, got our ass kicked by them.
Speaker 2: The guy, uh one of the drunk guys.
Speaker 1: Do they serve alcohol there? No, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: No, no, no they don't. But there's a bar right downstairs.
Speaker 1: Oh got it.
Speaker 2: So people go drinking. And then they decided it's like
a hilarious idea to go play laser tag. Yeah, so
it's funny. So and Elbie thought it was hilarious, Like
she wasn't bothered by it. They were like harassing her,
but in a but they thought they thought they were
being funny. But Elbie later told me she's like, oh,
I love it when that happens. I don't care. Yeah,
because they just kept interrupting her thing and then she'd
be like ahh and then so at one point.
Speaker 3: She get a couple jokes in there.
Speaker 2: She got a couple of laughs. Couples stand up. Oh yeah,
she's got her like jokes. And she does her little
thing where she says like, okay, if you get hit,
like you're out of the game forever. And then she's
like or five seconds, like you know, or it might
feel like forever, but it's five seconds. Anyway, the guy
said something and she was like, no, something, and he goes, oh,
modedded Did you just say moded wow?
Speaker 1: Love you wow? Valley.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it was so funny. So anyway, we play
all these laser tag games. It is so super fun.
And then we go back to our house. Oh and
I had bought This is how low key I was
about it. Yeah, and I was so happy. Didn't even
order them a cake ahead of time. I went to Ralph's.
I got them a Carvel, a little like car of
all ice cream cake on sale for twenty dollars. Had
them right, I had the bakery right. Happy Birthday, hose
how cute? And I told her to spell it hoze
because I was embarrassed because I didn't want her to
get the joke, but I wanted the kids to get
the joke. But she wrote it in such fancy like
cursive that you cannot tell what it said. Really some
weird design, but weirdly John had no I was like,
can you read this? And he goes, I don't know
what is that? And I was like, forget it. But
Sadie and Xander knew.
Speaker 1: It right away. You're like a theay birthday home. They
speak oh language, so funny.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was like a really really fun and
I've we'll take a quick break and I'll tell you okay.
So anyway, the nice thing was that I think this
was the very first birthday where I just didn't feel
like I felt like they were self contained, do you
know what I mean? Like it wasn't dependent on me
to make sure the birthday was fun. And it was
so nice to see them have all these friends that
showed like I know that Xander felt like he told everybody,
don't you don't have to get me a gift, but
like the kids that did get them a gift, it
was like sweet. It was like stuff that they know,
like that shows they know them right right. Like one
of Xander's friends was the one he was in like
the speech and debate tournament with got him and they
did this like scene from Trolls was like kind of
ironically and she got a a Trolls poster and then
like all these like little inside private jokes.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's so nice to see. Yeah,
yeah that is my kids have friends that like they
like show up for them, right, Because do you remember
when they were maybe like eight, probably eighth or ninth birthday,
Sadie wanted to have a sleepover.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this, and nobody RV.
People just either didn't RSVP or they're like now. And
then one and then one girl was like, I can come,
but I have to leave by nine and so like
and remember this, And then Xander was going to have
a laser tag party. Huh but he and there weren't
like he just didn't even know who to invite because
he was and I was like, fuck it, forget it.
We're going to Great Wolf Lodge. Remember that I canceled
both parties. And I was like, and I told them
each bring one friend. That shouldn't be that hard. They
each found one friend and we and then I took
LB so it was me and Elbe. Each of the
kids had a friend. We got one of those bigger
rooms a Great Wolf Lodge, and like, have a good day, right.
I remember spent the night there. But and I was thinking,
I'm always a little bit on edge, you know what
I mean, Like are people going to show up for them?
And this was the first year that I was like wow,
because it's year two of school. So last year they
did laser tag and it was a bunch of people
that they didn't know that well because I hadn't been
at the school that long, So they just invited random people. Yeah,
and this year it was like actual friends that they
talked to outside of school that they've had over to
their house, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And it looks like they found their people at this school.
Like it's nice. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I'm happy for that.
I know, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: And just like a little update about you know, Xander,
he's just they're both really involved in stuff in school
and you know, getting good grades. And then Xander with
this music, you know, he started out in COVID, taught
himself how to play guitar. Because I told you, we
offered them lessons and neither one of them wanted to
sit and watch YouTube, right lessons, right, and it was COVID,
so they couldn't do in person lessons. And then we
tried to do he signed them up for these like
tutorials and Xander was like like and then Xander just
learned it off of YouTube and now he's really good
and he's in this program in school where they do
these shows, which you've all heard me talk about. But
so Xander wrote, two kids that are doing in a
band that are performing a song, ask Xander if he
would write a solo, a guitar solo for the song
that they're going to do, and he did, and then
he recorded himself doing it, which I posted on my
social media. But I want to just play it and
he was like, mom, do you want to hear the
solo that I wrote? And I was like okay, and
then I was freaking blown away.
Speaker 1: It's amazing, let's play it. That's insane. How do you
do that?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 2: I asked him, Yeah, how did you think of that?
Like I've never understood how people make music, like how
they think of it, Like how do you think of
a song? Like I would never be able to do
it because I would think of like how it starts,
and then I would immediately forget like yeah that to
record myself. I'd be like, oh, here's like a melody,
and then i'd.
Speaker 1: Do you get back to it? I know, or I
would start it and I would end up being like
so like Eric Clapton song or something I could turned
into somebody else's song.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, that sounds good. Yeah, and then someone's like, no,
that's a song that exists. That's how I would be.
I asked him, and he said because he's like, yeah,
it's he said, he doesn't know scales, he doesn't read music.
He's right. So he's like, but I know enough about
like I know what's what it sounds like, like what's
a half a step up? And what's a step up?
And he goes, So I think of how it's going
to start, and then I just interesting improvised from then
I just know how like I start it and then
I go to the next part and then I just
let it and I'm like, I don't that amazing?
Speaker 1: And so his teeth. Did his teacher ask him to
do that? Or is he no?
Speaker 2: So so the teacher it's so it's this program called
Music Lab and it's a class, but it's also like
they they the teacher split them all into bands, right,
and then all the bands get like twenty minutes. There's
a big show on December ninth, right, like, so it's
going to be like a four hour show on a Saturday,
and then all the bands perform and they all so
they so they can also mix and match. So if
one band is like, oh, we don't we need somebody
to do guitar solo in our song, they could like
ask Xander, hey, we're doing this song, will you do
it right?
Speaker 1: That's crazy, you.
Speaker 2: Guess, and so Xander so yeah. And this like last
year he basically the seniors were doing a lot of
the song, so he was only on like two songs.
But you know, but this year he's doing more and
he's a better guitar player, and he practices all day long,
like he practices for hours every day.
Speaker 1: It's amazing because it just shows you that if a
kid is interested in something, they're gonna learn how to
do it, whether they whether they have a lesson or not.
You know, they like he taught himself how to do
it because he's interested in it. Yes, and he's good
at it and he's just gonna get better and better.
Speaker 2: That's a and just so proud of him. And he's
such a go getter, you know. And then Sadie's also
like playing guitar a lot. She's playing guitar. Well, she
was originally going to be the bass player and she
can play a little bit of bass now, but because
her band needed somebody who was good at guitar. She's
kind of stepped it up and like she's gotten really
good and so she's I mean, it's cute.
Speaker 1: It's so cute. I love that they got musical, like
ears great.
Speaker 2: They don't get it from me. I'm telling you, I
am not musical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. What about John? No, nope, anybody in
his family or your family, not that I can think of. Well,
maybe it's in an artistic gene or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's weird. I don't know where you get it. How
do you get it? And also where do you get
your singing? Like when somebody can sing? Like, how does that?
How do that is that? I know?
Speaker 2: Because I cannot sing? Can totally sing?
Speaker 1: Yeah she can, that's yeah.
Speaker 2: She's got a beautiful singing voice, and she just never
I think she took it for granted. She was just
like I was like, where did that voice come from?
When she played Jasmine in Aladdin in fifth grade and
I was like, holy shit, where did that come from?
It's not from me. I cannot carry a tune. Neither
can John. Like a terrible thing. Nobody in my family really.
But then Elbe kind of took it for granted and
was like, right, it was fun. What else is what
else is out there to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's Albie though she likes to do all
these different things. But that's awesome. That's awesome. So they
had a good birthday. Then, uh it was so fun.
Speaker 2: And then but it was like, oh my god. Just
the buying them gifts though, is like it's it's pressure
at this age because they only want shit that they've
seen on TikTok or clothes, very specific clothes. So I
had to have Elbe help me. We got Xander death
Row Records T shirt and a puffer a brown puffer
coat from Pacsun, which we knew he would like. And
then Sadie I got her a pair of jeans that
she tried on it or Urban and liked, but then
didn't want to spend the money on herself. So then
I came home and immediately ordered them off of the
website because I knew what size they were, I knew
the exact you know. I furtively snapped myself a picture
of them so that I could go home and order them.
But like that's how what it's come down to. Yeah,
there's no like you can't surprise them with shit anymore.
Speaker 1: It's hard.
Speaker 2: I don't like they don't the surprise is going to
be only a bad surprise, right right right exactly. And
even when I think Sadie will like something, like for instance,
there was this sweater that they had at Urban and
I was like, oh, this sweater seems so Sadie, but
they didn't have the color that I wanted on the
website and I couldn't find it and it was out
of stock and out of stock, and there was this other,
another color version of it, and I was obsessing about
the sweater. I was like, I really think she'll like
this for Christmas. She likes these kind of big, oversized sweaters.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I finally broke down because I was like, we were
I was with her and we were at urb and
I was like, what do you think of that sweater?
And it was and she was like ugh no, oh no.
I was like, I'm glad you told me because I
was thinking about getting it for you for Christmas. And
she was like no, and then what if it was
in green? This like green and kind of light purple
color and she goes worse. Oh oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bullet dodged right. Yeah, I know, it's hard, like
I don't know what to get these kids anymore. And
Sonny's also he's the hardest because he doesn't really ask
for anything. He doesn't really nothing really excites him. The
only thing that excites him is football. Oh and he
was gambling in Chicago. Oh really, well he wasn't. His nephew's,
his cousins were so he they he gave them some
bet to do and they put like sixty bucks down
and it was thirty and Nicholas thirty from Anthony.
Speaker 2: They put it down.
Speaker 1: They were gonna give Sonny if it won, like they
going to get most of it to him. I don't
know what they he was I think inches of way
of winning them four grand like it when it was
it was the college game, Ohio State and Michigan, Michigan
and something with the something on the son he was
like explaining to me, like something with the on the
on the yard, something with the yard, the yards, like
it was shy of four inches. I don't know, and
he's like, this is we would have gone. They would
have won four grand I know. And I was like,
that's all right, slow down, you don't need to be gambling.
Speaker 2: But but he went.
Speaker 1: The only thing that he keeps talking about is these
these bowl games, Like he really wants to go to
a bowl game. And I think there's like the Rose
Bowl game. Is he's one that he's talking about, the
one on January first?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a bowl game.
Speaker 3: Well, Jimmy Kimmel has his own bowl game. Now he
can't maybe get him a couple of tickets for that one.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, Well Jimmy doesn't have that anymore.
Speaker 3: No, he doesn't.
Speaker 2: No, it's just a for it's this year.
Speaker 1: It's hosted by uh my boyfriend Krunkowski. Oh, Gronk Kronk,
he's hosting it. I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. They're like maybe they just switch
up the celebrity like every year.
Speaker 1: I okay, yeah, but I don't know. So that's about it,
like a football like other than that, like I don't
what am I getting stunted? Like I don't know. They've
been playing Fortnite though, have you been you know, play night?
Oh my god, we were playing Fortnite.
Speaker 3: I had to actually get rid of my computer, my desktop,
my PC computer because I was like getting two in touch. Yeah,
video games, Like once I start I just can't stop.
I had to put my computer into storage just to
like living myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see it being addicted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm just.
Speaker 3: Gonna play for like a half hour, an hour, four
hours later, I'm still sitting there all frustrated and angry
at the at the computer.
Speaker 2: So so a bull ticket that sounds expensive, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, I if it's you know, I don't know,
Like it depends on the seats, where the seats are,
I don't know. And that's about it. Like he doesn't
I can't buy him clothes. He doesn't want clothes. I
mean albums maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 2: So then you have to get like some big ticket item, right, So,
like this is what I'm running into. I hope my
kids don't listen to this podcast. They won't know, they're
never going to listen to this, but yeah, because so I.
Speaker 3: Feel like you say that every year, everyone's like this
is what I'm going for my kids. So I hope
they don't listen, and then you just talk about whatever
you're gonna get your kids.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm obsessing because here's the thing. Sadie needs a guitar.
So we have an acoustic guitar. Xander had to earn
getting the electric guitar because and he it ended up
being his gift for graduating middle school. Right, because all
these freaking parents by their kids extravagant middle school graduate.
Even though you have heard me say that's ridiculous. Who cares.
Of course you're gonna graduate middle school, like right, it's
not the nineteen thirties. Yeah, you're expected to graduate middle school,
like even high school. It's like, I don't know that
we need a huge kudos to graduate in high school.
Speaker 1: But you find of like, that's thank you.
Speaker 2: That's hard that didn't do it, Like maybe if there
was some incentive, like I thought I was going to
get a gift, okay, whatever, Yes, my kids get things,
lots of things, and I and I'm concerned about I
don't want to just I want them to have to
want things. On the other hand, Xander is a lot
like Sonny and that he doesn't there's very few things
that he really wants. And Sadie needs a guitar because
now this is what I said to John. Can we
just buy her what I go to Facebook marketplace and
get her like a used guitar, like I would think, Yeah, right.
But John's like, well, then it's very unbalanced because Xander
I made him earn this guitar, like and then he
got to pick it out like it wasn't like so
the bass guitar I bought off Facebook marketplace. I was like,
I don't know if you're going to be that into
playing the bass, Like, I'm not buying you a new
bass guitar, it's not necessary. Found one on Facebook marketplace
seemed fine. We ended up having to have it like
it turned out that they'd done something weird with the
that it was not a usual way that something is strong.
So something broke and we had to bring it to
Guitar Center and they were like, yeah, this is we're
going to redo this for you because this is not
it's not easy for her to play. She didn't know.
She hadn't really played bass before. Anyway. John's like, well
then you run into like somebody's guitar that they've changed, Like,
you know, you want your kid to be able to
go and try the guitar and figure out what the is. Anyway,
I'm like all right, so and he's like also, so
Xander got to have that experience and now Sadie's been
really practicing and practicing and she should. So I'm like, okay,
but if we get Sadie guitar for Christmas, like Xander's
what now what then what's Xander gonna get?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I know that's the hard part is making things
even right.
Speaker 2: And especially when they're twins. I know, and remember, we
all we all remember the pain of when I thought
that Sadie would enjoy air pods and I was like,
Xander won't care. And Xander was crying in my bedroom
because like, how come he didn't get AirPods and he
really really wanted them? And I was like, what about
this beanbag chair that I got that takes up the
entire living room?
Speaker 1: Hey, you don't like that the bean bag chair, that's right.
Speaker 2: I was like, Jesus Christ, Okay, it was one hundred dollars.
I didn't even get the most up to date AirPods
for the in the first place. I was like, I
wish i'd known, but like he never made a peep
about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. God, I haven't even started. I mean,
I gotta figure out my Christmas stuff for me. It's like,
let's just can we celebrate, Like the niece's a nephe
in Chicago. I know, we gotta get sunny in Italia something,
but like I don't know, like let's and then let's
adopt a family too, Like let's do something like that,
Like that's what we're gonna do, like you know, because
at this point it's just there's just a super.
Speaker 2: Canna adopt lile lyyle crocodiles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we should do that. Should we do that?
Speaker 2: I feel like we should. I mean, so these kids
have been through so much. Yeah, this mom is always
trying to provide for them.
Speaker 1: And I maybe she gets if she gets a Christmas
list or something on Amazon, everybody can just go on
Amazon and buy something off her Christmas list.
Speaker 2: That'd be a good idea.
Speaker 1: That's a good yeah, because don't they have the Amazon
wish lists? And yeah, we tell you that. Yeah, I
have her set that up.
Speaker 2: My friend. I love doing stuff like that. That's what
I like, in addition to like making a nice Christmas
for my kids. My friend, you know the teacher that
was freaking bomb for Xander, the one that when he
got outed in school, that she churned around and then
went back into her house and then showed up with
an equality T shirt. She's just like, I mean, such
a cool teacher and just such a good teacher in
Lbie Hatter and both the twins Hatter and now she's
teaching at this underprivileged school, like this is underprivileged the
right way to say. You know, this struggle in school district.
A lot of these kids don't have much of anything.
And so she's she did this last year and she
did it this year. She made an Amazon I told
her to make an Amazon wish list. She's provided games
for all the kids in her class. So she's got
middle school, so she teaches several classes, so there's like,
let's say a hundred kids right between. Provide them all games,
like to get them off their phones. And then she
got so much interest and people donating so many games
that she had enough for the kids to get to
shop for their siblings.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: So and then she held a little wrap party, so
the kids got their gift, they picked the game they wanted,
and then they shopped for their siblings. And then they
got to all wrap presents so they had something to
like give to their siblings. That really makes you feel good. Yeah,
I know, to go on there and buy a bunch
of games for kids. That that's like what they're getting.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that that's nice, like that makes it does
make you feel good. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's take
a quick break.
Speaker 2: And we're back. Let's talk about some shit we're watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I didn't know you were watching. What is
it called Love Wins Love, Love Has Won, Love has One? Yes,
Yes on Match on Max. Yes, yeah, and now. So
it's three episodes, but only two has come out. The
third one is not well, it's out now. Yeah, it's
out today. But yeah, it's out today. Oh by the
time you're listening, Yes, it's out today, not for us,
not for us tonight. I cannot wait. I watched the
first It got way crazier and crazier as the episode.
Speaker 2: The first episode, I think I told you I we
talked about it briefly and I had kind of fallen asleep,
I think by towards the end of it, and I
was like, well, it's fine, and then John was like, no,
you got to keep going because it gets much crazier.
And I was like, oh. In Cecily from my bord
a f podcast was telling me, She's like, no, it
gets it gets beyond crazy. So I was like, okay,
second episode, I was like, what they pack a lot?
Speaker 1: I mean, like yeah. So I was coming home from
Chicago and my friend Jennifer sent me a text and
she said, I didn't know that was the name of
the documentary you were talking and she said, have you
seen Love as One on HBO Max? And I said no,
but I'm going to now because I'm about to get
on a flight. I can download it really quick while
I'm at the airport onto my phone so i can
watch it. Well, I didn't get to watch it on
the flight because I fell asleep, but when I got home,
uh yeah, I was like the for the first episode,
You're like, okay, like where's this They're just a bunch
of people that just want to party. It seems like
like this chick just she did ecstasy once and now
like she just wants to hang Like just basically, he'd have.
Speaker 2: Sex with a lot of God I have sex with
a lot and tell them that they're the chosen One basically,
like they're the god Father God. Right, and then like
there's one father God who's like eighty by the way,
with like a disgusting like beard, and she's yeah, and
you're like and he's like, okay, cool, my father God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he wants to like marry me because and wants
to call me God. Okay.
Speaker 2: But then she brings in another guy, like a younger
guy who seems very off kind of right. He comes
in and she's like, all right, ready to have sex.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's like and he wasn't really attracted to her,
but then learned to love her.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He was like, I mean, not trying to be rude,
but like I wasn't like, didn't find her that attractive.
Speaker 4: Oh he was addicted to he had opioid addiction. Yes, yes, yes,
So she was just collecting all these like lost toys,
you know, misfit toys and bringing them all together and
they're all like oh.
Speaker 2: And then fit in here.
Speaker 1: And she's saying that she's been reincarnated a million times,
to the point where she's got a galactic board of
all the people that are her advisors, which are like
Robin Willball and Robin Williams and like Michael Jackson, everybody
that's past, yes, anybody, Jim Belus, John Belushi, Like, like,
what the fuck? Those are her galactic beings that are
advising her.
Speaker 2: This is what kills me. Though, so you get these people,
these like crazy cult people that take a little bit
from like QAnon and a little bit from this, and
a little bit of conspiracy theory and a little bit
of like uh the silver uh yes, silver, they formed
themselves a little like religion. And then everybody's like, yeah, cool, cool,
twenty sound makes sense.
Speaker 1: I'll do.
Speaker 2: Robin Williams is your spiritual advisor? Gotcha? Okay, how do
I get.
Speaker 3: In on this?
Speaker 2: Like one person that's like, are you out of your
fucking mind? What are you talking about? Like, and she
just keeps stepping it up. It's like right, and then
end of episode two. By the time you're at episode two,
she's just like fucking hammered all the time, the berating
people like you.
Speaker 1: Just like I wanted a ground Chase sandwich.
Speaker 2: And nobody's like.
Speaker 1: That doesn't feel godlike behavior, Like I thought you were
full of light and love.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: But that's her. That's when other people are are Whenever
she gets angry, that's because she's getting possessed by somebody
else that's a dark soul.
Speaker 2: But they've they she's not even saying that, she's not
even excusing her own behavior. She's not like sorry, guys,
I got a little possessed last night.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: They're just like, oh, she's Oh, how about.
Speaker 1: This genius move she does. Why didn't we think of
this telling our kids, Like when she wants to take
a nap, She's going to do an unconscious conference. I
know she's going to She's going to have a conference
for her unconsciousness. Yeah, so, how genius is that? I
got to go to a meeting. I'm going to sleep.
It looks like I'm passed out drunk in the middle
of the day, but I'm really at a meeting. Yes,
I'm just gazing at the inside of my eyelids.
Speaker 2: A lot of important information is coming to me. Yeah,
it's like I've got a half a box of pizza
next to me.
Speaker 1: Ignore the drools coming out of my mouth and.
Speaker 2: Some spilled red wine all over the place. I'm very
busy taking meetings with Robin Williams. People, I know, like,
how genius is that?
Speaker 1: Right? Right? But like screaming at people and kicking stuff
over and going shut.
Speaker 2: And they're like, oh my god, she is so spiritual.
Speaker 1: Right, she's turning blue because she drank so.
Speaker 2: Much of that oidal silver. Yeah, and everybody's like, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
that's she's Oh she's mother. God gets angry with us sometimes,
but we have to just behave even better. And then
bringing up in people, how do new people take a
look at this? Oh oh my god? And then the guy,
the guy, the guy that looks like Charles Manson that
came in and is like fox some ship up. He's
like high on meth, and they're all just like, oh, well,
he's real angry and like abusive, but like I guess
forgot God. And he's wearing a fucking how harressed bracelet
and they're all like, yep, that's our guy.
Speaker 1: It's a criminally he's got criminal activity on his record,
but you know.
Speaker 2: He's real mean to us.
Speaker 3: And uh.
Speaker 2: But like I don't know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: If God is God, God has God, who are we
to judge? So he's got a wrap sheet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a mile long, right, it's just like yeah,
fuck all you like, I'm gonna fuck some shit up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's playing like Metallica and stuff. They're trying to listen,
they're trying to like meditate, and he's like hi on meth,
playing like heavy metal, yes, and they're just like, ah,
can you turn it down. Yeah, Kaitlin, you got to
see this documentary. It's insane.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen this? Do you know what we're even
talking about?
Speaker 1: It's on Max.
Speaker 2: It's great, it's immediate.
Speaker 1: You got a really serious three episodes. Yeah, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2: Why didn't see? Here's the problem. A lot of these
shows or podcasts, by the way, we'll do this too,
stretch it out into like fifteen episodes, right, and this
thing needs to be fifteen episodes. I'd will happily watch
fifteen episodes of the Slow It Down.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I said the same thing when they were showing her
writing and stuff. I was pausing it, rewhinding by because
I want to read what it says. Yes, slow down,
let me absorb everything. Right.
Speaker 2: At least she's like at least a four episodes three,
So I'm already sad that it's going to be over
after one more.
Speaker 1: Me too, I know. Then back to watching squid games.
Speaker 2: I know, Like I was gonna say, the voice has
figured out a way to make like three hour recap
shows of what you just watched like two days ago.
I just watched this on Monday, and now you're going
to recap it on Tuesday, like and they have no shame.
That's NBC. They're like, yeah, you like it, love it.
You just saw this yesterday.
Speaker 1: Well now you're going to watch an sore size video.
I I mean yeah, now, but Max is like right,
and you know, a lot of twin flame shit going
on in this what's with everybody in their twin flame
and their masculine and uh divine masculine and divine femininity.
It's a lot of the same kind of crossover. I know,
you would think somebody would be like, Hey, that's my ship.
You're stealing from my cult. You know that I trademarked
that ship. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, can you do me a favor and look up?
Because there's this podcast and I feel like we've talked
about this called The Opportunist. Yeah, yes, And the first
six episodes of this podcast are about basically a cult
that's very similar and it's this woman named Sherry. I
want to say, Sherry Singer.
Speaker 3: What information are you looking the Opportunists?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first the first six episodes are about Sherry.
I think it's look up Sherry the Opportunist, and it's
going to tell you her last name because I want
to give that This is a. This is a popular podcast.
There's a lot of episodes, right, Oh, but this is
like episode one, the first episode. The first thing, the
first story they covered over six episodes, was about this cult. Yeah,
but this woman was like she talks like she a smoker,
and she had like a radio show and she started
telling people that she was collecting. It was another like
ridiculous where you're like, how did people start listening to this? Yeah,
makes sense, But there was colloidal silver silver and these.
It was this thing that's supposed to ward off evil
spirits that she that you could make yourself, but she
could also sell it to you. And she was like, yeah,
like I'm talking to the spirits and I'm talking to
the and all these We're gonna save ourselves from these.
Speaker 3: Like and these by the way, Sherry Shriner, Yeah, there's
the first episode February twenty twenty one. There's eight episodes
total on that story. Oh no, and then an epilogue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you will. You would love this if you
haven't listened to it. But it's all this same exact,
same stuff, and so much of it overlaps with like
the Love Has One. They're all borrowing from.
Speaker 1: Each right, right, They are borrowing, and they're sites are
always so kooky and so like cheesy yea with like
unicorns and like, you know, just like like the website
from this cult that I was always one you love
is one Like it just looks so amateurish, doesn't It's like.
Speaker 2: They're making those like rainbow loom bracelets and they're like,
you can buy a rainbow loom bracelet. Yeah, these are
this is our merch.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh and but yeah, and then she starts merch and
I was always like, how is she who's doing her merch?
Or she creating her pumpkin spice on her own? And
then like is she paying for the jars or she?
Like you think about it, like how does she have
her own fab fit fun box?
Speaker 2: You know, like the free labor because all these people
she's not paying any of that's true. They're all just
like making ship for her, yeah, I know, and probably
doing the packaging and using their own money. I'm sure
to mail it out to people, right. How about the
when the weird thing I kind of want to love
has one sweatshirt?
Speaker 1: I know, when they set there house on fire because
of the saging. The burning of the sage, yes, yes,
like they had a nice home and everything. They couldn't
have it for longer than two weeks because then they
burnt it down and she didn't.
Speaker 2: They feel that bad. The woman that did it is like,
my bad. They're like having to like row boat across.
Speaker 1: There goes the fire by fire.
Speaker 2: It's like that meme of the girl that you know
set the fire, and it's like she's side eyeing and
she the little girl is like kind of smiling and
the house is burning behind her. It's kind of like that.
She's like I was burning some stage. Yeaps, everything's burning
the ground.
Speaker 1: Man, are they high all the time? Too?
Speaker 2: Fucked up? Out of their minds? Stoned? Oh this is
the best you guys. This this reminds me. It's of
the craziness of when we did that. What was that
documentary that the girl again stop stealing my daughter. Yeah,
you've got abducted, condund it in plain site. Yeah, abducted
in plain site. Oh god, you guys are gonna love this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are gonna love it.
Speaker 2: All right, it's crazy like abducted in plane sight.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thanks everybody, and thank you Caylin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we love you, guys.
Speaker 1: We love you guys.
Speaker 2: We're starting in December. Five dollars a month on our
Patreon will get you all the bonus content like normal
and Tuesdays will be ad free.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, and we're gonna do our zoom.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna do our zooms once a month. That's right.
I hang at the ten dollars level or above. All right,
we'll see you guys there. Have a fabulous Uh you're
a pant now, don't f it up. Mandy the