Speaker 1: I made a decision pace sunny sund on ihad a
vision's night.
Speaker 2: So what's up everybody? Welcome to for crying out loud. Hi,
Hi Stephanie.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 3: You know we had kind of like a competition before,
like who's feeling less well today?
Speaker 1: And I feel like you win. I'm gonna give it
to you. Well.
Speaker 3: Being nauseous is the worst. Yeah, I'm not nauseous though currently.
Speaker 2: Okay, because you were nauseous, I've been like fighting this
cold that's gotten seems to have gotten worse in the
last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: Now you got to get rid of it because you're
going to the river, going to the river, the river
of the lake, the river. You're going to the river. Yeah,
next weekend, this weekend, this coming weekend, in a couple
of days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, leaving on Thursday morning. Oh yeah, exciting road trip. Yeah, girlfriend,
Don's gonna spend the night on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, kooky don, uh huh.
Speaker 2: And then getting picked up like early the crack of
Don's ass at like I don't know, six thirty seven
in the morning, Glenn's picking us up and we're gonna
road trip. Okay, so you're not taking a plane. Now
he couldn't get any pilots. Oh, which Don's happy about it,
So that's fine. I like a road trip, Glennis. Glenn's
a good drive, very good driver, but also like fucks
with Don a lot because she gets nervous, like, oh, don't.
Speaker 1: Get too close to the wall. Oh good, Oh don,
Don Look well I'm getting close to the wall. Oh
my god. Okay.
Speaker 3: I know that Don and I don't have a lot
in common, but I do feel like we could sit
in the back seat and hold hands and go, oh
my god. Yeah, I can't drive close to the wall.
That's my that's my that's like my kryptonite. Like I
have to be in a center lane.
Speaker 1: Yeah no.
Speaker 2: And then she'll go like, look out for that truck,
like it's a mile and a half. Don't for there's
a truck crossing, And Glenn will be like, oh good thing,
Don's here, tell me that there's a truck.
Speaker 1: Oh god, what would I have done? You know?
Speaker 2: And then he like swore like he he fucks with her,
and I find it very funny. And we have a
lot of videos from last year that I videotaped from
the back seat of him doing that and She's just like.
Speaker 1: Don't well, don't do that, you know. Oh I can't
see Don. I'm looking the other way.
Speaker 2: Keep your eyes on the road. And I was laughing
my ass off. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is funny. But also I feel
Don's pain. Yeah, it's funny, but not that funny. I
find it funny.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna go to a casino out there,
there's a casino and go on the boat. It's gonna
be like one hundred and thirteen degrees.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord. Yeah, it's like an Arizona on the
river Parker. I feel like it's one hundred and thirteen
degrees in here right now.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: I have the ac on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I've been getting like hot and cold, hot
and cold this morning me too.
Speaker 3: I was googling the symptoms of like a cold clammy
feeling like cold sweats.
Speaker 1: Yes, have you been getting that hot? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I wake up at the middle of the
night and I'm like sweating, but the Arazon, so I
like kick off the covers and I lay there and
then I get hot, and then I get sweat, and
then I get cold again and then I'm sweating. So
then I'm cold, but then I'm hot. I don't know
what to do with myself.
Speaker 3: I am the same way though. This is so crazy,
another parallel.
Speaker 1: Lives thing, right, it's so weird.
Speaker 3: So okay, let me go back in my week and
then I'm going to come back to casinos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for good reason. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, my really good friend's mom passed away and her
the funeral was last so we're recording on a Monday.
So it was last Tuesday, and her mom had been
sick for a long time, and towards the end, she
was like, remember I told you that when I went
for my birthday dinner she couldn't come because it was
and that night that in the middle of the night
of that night, her mom passed away. So then two
days later, because the Jews, they got to turn things
around right fast, right right, there is no sleep for
the weary.
Speaker 1: It's like, I even told her, well.
Speaker 3: Because I think I told you this because we were
recording on Monday, so I told her it would be
a little bit better for me if we didn't do
the funeral on Monday. And she's like, okay, I'll let
my mom know.
Speaker 2: I was like, thank you, that's right, Yeah, you were
leaving to go to the funeral last week.
Speaker 3: No, no, because we recorded on Monday. The funeral was
the next day, but it could have been earlier. She
told me later that she was like, honestly, I was
thinking because I was obviously kidding with right. It's always
fun to joke with people about their mom's impending death,
you know, they love that kind of humor.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, but she was live.
Speaker 3: I mean when she's her mom was still alive when
I said it, Okay, this is so dark, but her
mom was going to be passing away in the next
like twenty four to forty hours. So I was like, well,
when would the funeral be, and she goes it just
kind of depends, but it has to be super fast.
So I was like, well, if she dies on Saturday,
which she did in the middle of the night though
almost Sunday morning, it could be Monday. And that's when
I was like, oof, that wouldn't be great for me.
I got a lot going on on Monday. So then
she was like, okay, yeah, sure, I'll keep that in mind.
So I'll tell my mom to keep that in mind. Anyway,
then her mom did die, and I was like, oh no,
I hope she doesn't try to turn this run in
one day, but also for her sake. I mean, she'd
already been like not sleeping in like three days. She'd
been up all night with her mom. But luckily she
did have it one day later, and she had to
plan it and write a eulogy and like her anyway, yeah,
oh my god, can I come. Okay, this is so petty,
but you're going to.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean.
Speaker 3: This is like my really one of my very closest friends,
my friend Laura, she's like a sister to me, and
all of her friends, we all really showed up for her.
And you know, we put together the shiva, which was
going to be the night of the funeral. We really
tried to take everything off her plate. And most of
her friends showed up for her. So there's this one
woman I will not mention her name, who I'm not
really friends with, and Lara is not really close friends
with either, but she showed up to the funeral, which
was like out in Silmar, So it was a drive.
It was a commitment to go to this funeral. It
was I mean, it wasn't like an hour away it was,
but it was like thirty minutes away. Okay, I got
first of all, too. I digress for one second. So
Lara's request for me was her mom was living in
this assisted living and she had two best friends there.
And Lara's request for me was, would there be any
way you could pick up these two old people and
bring them to the funeral?
Speaker 1: They both have walkers.
Speaker 3: And I was like, of course, yeah, no problem, and
this place is like right down the street from my house.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it was like, no big deal.
Speaker 3: But and you've never met them, never met them before,
and Lara was freaking out, just like are you sure
she's very If you think I'm neurotic, she's like way
more neurotic than I am, you know, because I'm only
a Jew by like culture. She's like, fully, she's very neurotic.
And she's like, okay, but like is your trunk big enough?
Like what car are you going to take? And I
was like, girl, it's fine, Like I have a big
enough trunk for a walker and they collapse, I don't know.
We need to have someone on backup for you. And
I was like sorry, okay, So I go to pick
up these old people. I found out later that she
was expressing doubt about the fact that I'd be able
to do it. I could handle the job. And she
made her other friend google the trunk size of my
car to be sure that the walkers would fit. Spoiler alert.
The walkers fit just fine. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: They had like the little tennis balls on the bottom.
Speaker 3: Yes, cute, yes, well, one of them is the kind
that you sit folden, you sit on it, and the
other one is Duffa is the old school with tennis
balls on the bottom. Right, I think they both have
tennis balls on the bottom. But anyway, I go pick
up these old people. They're the freaking cutest thing ever.
I'll just shout him out. They're never going to listen
to this. One of them's hard of hearing. He's not
going to listen to a podcast. Perry he was in
his nineties. And then Sandy, she was only in her eighties.
She's still is pretty spry, right, But they both have walkers,
So I get their walkers in the car. And first
of all, these old people are so crazy grateful.
Speaker 1: It's too much, you know, when they're just like, oh
my gosh, thank you, thank.
Speaker 3: You, and I'm like, it's really it, Honestly, wasn't a
big deal. It's down the street from my house.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's so nice of you. Eventually I was.
Speaker 3: Like, you're not allowed to thank me anymore, genuinely not
worth thanking me.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: I bring them to the service and they were so great.
Speaker 1: Did I mention how grateful they were there? So happy?
Are they like that?
Speaker 2: They're like they're really cute old people like so super cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, super cute. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Perry is very hard of hearing, and Sandy had
to keep like talking to him.
Speaker 1: Right, Perry, she wants to know, like.
Speaker 3: You know, as if I couldn't just she could have
just said, you got to talk real loud.
Speaker 1: For him, right.
Speaker 3: Cutest thing is on the way home. I was trying
to ask questions, but I'm in the front seat. He's
in the back seat. You can just see he's checked
out because he can't hear. So he's just like whatever,
I'm just a passenger. But we're on the way home,
and I said, she told me that he used to
be in a jazz trio when he was much younger,
and I was like, oh, like, what kind of music
did you do? And he was like, oh, like ella
Fitzgerald and you know meame some other jazz musicians, and
I was like, do you know Nina Simone? Maybe I
didn't say it loud enough, but he was like, I
don't know. And then she's like, I don't know if
I've heard of that. I was like, you guys, come on.
So I'm like, Siri, play Nina Simone. I want a
little sugar in my bowl. So you know that song a.
Speaker 1: Lot of little sugar in ma bowle? Anyway doesn't Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that song comes on I either heard of
neither of them are really recognizing it. And then I'm like, oh,
hold on, So I played Nina Simone feeling Good and
and good dud him?
Speaker 1: Did him? You know that song birds Flying High?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: How do you?
Speaker 3: Anyway, I put that song on. I blast it. It's
so loud, like uncomfortably loud for me. Perry's like oh
and then he starts going.
Speaker 1: But him, but it was so cute. Cute is that?
Speaker 3: And I said to Sandy should I I should turn
it down right like for us? And she was like, well, no,
because he's not gonna be able to hear it. So
we got to listen for thee I go we're like
teenagers right now blasting music.
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Did he have any earbuds, ear hearing aids? I don't
think so. I think he's beyond that. Yeah, I'm not
play him like Metallica's greatest hits. I should have. I
should have, except for we would have been the ones hurting.
Speaker 3: From that, right, So okay, cute, So we go, we
go to that, and then the next day, then we
come back to Laura's house. So she was doing a
service at the assisted living the next day, and so
I went back on my own really yeah, just for that,
and I got to see her again, and then I
got to see Perry again.
Speaker 1: And then I made a new friend named Susan, and
I got phone numbers. Nobody's called me.
Speaker 3: I gave out my phone number to like three different people,
and then I was of course, you know me. My
eyes are bigger than my stomach. I was like, who's
up for poker? Like do you guys play poker around here?
And they're like, oh yeah. And then I started bonding
with some women that play poker nice and then they're like,
we think we could get you into our game.
Speaker 1: I was like, I am in.
Speaker 3: I got a I got a plastic cupful of change
sitting on my counter, like, let's go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I invited to be for poker. That would
be so fun.
Speaker 2: I remember when Natalie was younger when we were doing
that that charity event, that charity anyway, and we would
go once a month to the to the old folks
home in our neighborhood and we would do bingo and
it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: I want to do bingo so bad it was.
Speaker 2: I had the best time doing that. I was like,
when are we going to go again? Oh, Italia can't
make it. I'll go the other moms. That's fine. Like
I would loved it. I can't remember if I talked
about it. I loved it. It was so much fun.
And then and then you get to know the same
people like pal you know, or Susan or you know
what I mean. Then they become your friends and they
so much appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Oh and I immediately got involved in the drama because
you know there's drama. Oh well, you know, the the
activities director got fired, and you know, I apparently half
the people were really upset about that because they loved her.
But then there were some other people that might have
been the instigators behind it.
Speaker 1: They didn't like her, right, but.
Speaker 3: Then the people they had to kind of keep it quiet,
like who was the one that was like riding out
the activity?
Speaker 1: And I heard she.
Speaker 3: Was really lovely and super fun and did exercise classes
with them. And then I was like, well, what do
you guys, who's organizing your activities? And they're like, no one,
we have to kind of do it ourselves. So they
still have bingo, but they don't have it regularly, and
I was like, oh no, I think you know me,
I was like, how.
Speaker 1: Much does that pay to be the interresser to day?
It's just because like a full time job though, right
it is, but you got to go every day.
Speaker 3: Come up with all that activities and you need some
kind of experience or whatever you do not experience I
could totally do I mean I could do that. You
could do that or like so it would be a
great job for like metalias, you know, yeah, but you
have to be like that's your ken't going to college,
like that's your job, and then you have to be
organizing it so that it's like every day they have
to put out the schedule of the activities. But I'm like, listen,
maybe I'd be better than nothing right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, until they get somebody in there.
Speaker 3: It's just funny, so fun I was like, oh my god,
please tell me more. I'm like leaning in, please tell
me more about this activities director. So wait, so you
liked her? Okay, what did they not like about her?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right? Who ran it? Who out? Yeah it's the best.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so how can Anyway, it was that night that
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Speaker 3: Other story is that Elbe that would be my eldest child.
For people that can't answer the question, some people try
to join the Facebook group and they don't know that
I have day kids. Even they listen to this show.
If you don't even do they just forget about Albie?
Speaker 1: No, how do they not know that who your kids
are and they don't listen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Elbie went to Vegas and it was very
She had a great time, even though it was so
freakin' hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet talk about one hundred and thirteen. She
said it was like horrible. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They went to like daytime parties, Darty's. Yeah, they went
to some darties. So Elbie's friend, it was Elbe's friend's
birthday and the dad, I think they have a lot
of money. They spoiled her rotten so they sent it
was the four girls. And so I found out that
they get there. They were staying at the MGM. They
get their room and they're walking to their room and
they keep walking and keep walking and keep walking, and
they had one of those suites.
Speaker 1: Oh. They get to be end of the hall.
Speaker 3: And they're like wait what and the double doors and
they open it up and it's a humongous suite with
a pool table and two bedrooms and.
Speaker 1: Like that's awesome. And they were screaming. And then the.
Speaker 3: Dad had hidden like a little East d egg hunt,
but with alcohol, little bottles of like smirnof ice right
around around the room, like there was one in the
shower and there was two bathroom and there were Yeah,
that's cute, isn't that adorable?
Speaker 2: Is that the first time she's been there since she
was she's twenty one, right.
Speaker 3: No, because she went with her school, she only few
months ago with her school, right, But this was the
first time, just like a girl's girls kent Vegas. So
the last night she's there, well, she's there two nights.
But the second night she's there, they played craps and
the dad gave her. The dad put out one thousand dollars,
five hundred for him and five hundred for his daughter,
and Albie was just standing there watching and then he
was like, no, you got to get into puts one
hundred dollars down for her.
Speaker 1: Hu.
Speaker 3: So she played and she won like six hundred and
fifty dollars or something. See, But now she thinks that
that's what Vegas is, and I'm like, girl, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: It's when you first played craps for the first time
and it goes well, and it goes well, and that's
the best.
Speaker 3: It's the most magical feeling she was like, Mom, I
totally get it. It was exhilarating. I think it was
the best I've ever felt.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, but I know that feeling. Yeah, it's
so fun.
Speaker 2: I mean, remember we went last like a year ago
with our friend what did I call him, Let's call
him Mark because that's his name.
Speaker 1: That we all. That just drove us all nuts.
Speaker 2: And I remember we were I was playing craps and
he was like just standing there next to me, and
he's like, okay, so if you don't want a seven,
you don't want you do want to seven and you
don't want don't know counter you're stop saying seven, get
lost beat it. He just kept he was like following
everybody around, and nobody wanted to be standing next to him.
It drove us nuts. But yeah, that was like the worst.
Usually I do pretty well at craps. It's hard. It's
kind of like confusing at first, but once you get
the hang of it, it's fucking fun and you can
I mean, and it's expensive now in Vegas it's.
Speaker 1: Only twenty five dollars. It was twenty five dollars. Yeah,
that's endiculous.
Speaker 3: And then Albie's other two of the other two friends
came over later. They'd been playing blockjack, and they up
the table to fifty dollars, but they grandfathered her and
her friend in so they could still play for twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's night. But everybody ended up winning. Yeah.
Speaker 2: See it's see it's a double edged sword because you know,
yeah it's twenty five dollars. But then when you win,
you get paid a good amount, you know, right, So
you got to learn like I learned in downtown Vegas,
like at the you know, and off the Vegas Strip
at the like old school casinos where it's like five
bucks or ten bucks.
Speaker 1: They still do five dollars. I don't know because I
haven't done it recently, but that.
Speaker 3: Ten dollars would be a treat though I at this point,
right that would feel relaxing.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like I could comfortably play crops for
twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: You just have to like, go, okay, I'm going to
spend three hundred bucks and then see where it goes,
and then you go a little bit at a time,
a little bit at a time.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: But I used to like when you could play for
five dollars, and I was trying to tell LB about this.
I was like, when you could play for five dollars
and you got on a good roll, then you just
start putting your money on everything. You're just like, okay,
I want all the hard ways, and you throw out
a stack of fives and you go and I was like,
I want And then you just yell every time heart sick.
Speaker 1: You know, if the number six, you're like the heart,
let's go heart sick. Yes, and you're screaming and you're drunk.
Speaker 3: If you're me, yes, it's the best, and you get
a crowd around you.
Speaker 1: Like it's so fun, right it is. It's odd.
Speaker 3: I was like, but the flip side is you could
have all your money out there.
Speaker 1: You're like, let a ride, let it ride, and then
all of.
Speaker 3: A sudden and set it out and everything and you're like,
wait what I know. That's it sucks. And then you're done, right,
I know, And you got to go try to get
some free drinks. But they don't even really give free
drinks when you're playing spots or anything.
Speaker 1: You have to like really flag them down. Don's got
it down good.
Speaker 2: I mean she sits there and plays the video poker
and she just they they know, like they you know,
but it is kind of hard, Like if you're sitting
by yourself playing video games, you gotta like flag them
the tables.
Speaker 1: They usually come around and they give you free drinks. Yeah,
as far as I remember, I'm.
Speaker 3: So concerned with free drinks right now. I haven't had
a drink in seventeen years. And I'm like, okay, but
wait right, can you.
Speaker 1: Get free drinks? You could get your seven up.
Speaker 2: I mean, like give them a tip, you know, you
give them a five dollars chip or something when they
come when they come and bring you drinks. But speaking
of being deaf and not being able to hear, So
my friends did a birthday dinner last week. And you're
gonna love this story because you're gonna relate to this.
So we just started doing this and this is like
the third time. I missed last time because I had
to go look at a house. Anyway, we get together
for like each other's birth like it's the summer birthday,
it's the winter birthdays whatever. So we got together at
Katsuya last week for the summer birthdays.
Speaker 1: It was me and this other girl, Cindy. Shit, when's
your birthday? My birthday is not for another month. Oh
okay at least okay, the end of August. Oh okay. Yeah,
But so it was her, her and I.
Speaker 2: It was our our birthdays. And then there was you know,
Gina Kimmel Melissa which Katsuya. Did you go to og
one by Studio City? Oh okay, okay, yeah, because that's
when would picture it. Yeah, that's where we used to
go all the time. So it was a good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well kinda has gone downhill, I have to say,
is it for the Wooden Encino is still really good?
Speaker 2: I'm sure that one is the last couple of times
I've been to this one in Studio City. There's a
lot of like flies buzzing arount like but not flies
but like little gnats.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And it kind of like it's.
Speaker 2: Just it's not as good as I remember it to
being because I haven't had katsu in a long time.
Speaker 1: But it was fun, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean we were there and it was like, uh,
Jimmy's cousin, Mickey, Jimmy's cousin, and like, you know, the
kind of the old school group of girls, and and
I was thinking, like no gifts, you know, because the
first one we went I went to we didn't do gifts,
and I guess they did it at the last one
that I wasn't at. So I I'm just thinking, you know,
we're eating dinner, and it was like, you know, okay, no, no, everything,
like we're having a good time and eating our subpar sushi.
And then and then uh and then at the end,
everybody brings out a gift for me and I'm like what,
and then the other birthday girl.
Speaker 1: Gets me a gift. Oh no, and I'm sitting there
like an idiot.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a second, and I felt like such
a jackass.
Speaker 1: I was like I didn't and.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, you
know whatever. But like they put like thought in some
of these gifts, like I got this whole The other
birthday girl got me like a tope bag, a makeup
bag with my initial on it, and like this like
like glass thing from.
Speaker 1: My counter in my bathroom.
Speaker 2: And then you know, and then another one got me
like a candle that was like, it's a joke between
the two of us. She named the ca It was
called It's November Bitch candle because it's a joke between
the two of us, and and it's like, I mean,
like really they put thought into you know what I mean. Yeah,
And I was just like, I feel.
Speaker 1: Like this is the ABC Girls. No, this is like
Jimmy's cousins and Gina Kimmel.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because we have we never really see Gina
very much. So like we started it for Gina's birthday
and Gina is like, no gifts, so okay, but then.
Speaker 1: It's very confusing. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: My group, it's like goes back and forth. I told
you that they're that my one, my friend Cecily is like,
no gifts. I don't like gifts. But then everybody else
gets gifts. And I told you that we got to
a point where we're like, well, if we have to
get gifts for everybody else, then fine, get.
Speaker 1: Me a gift. Bit right, let's go. Let's go and
some thoughtful Yeah, yes, I know.
Speaker 2: And like one of them is working at the l
Portel Theater and she got us like tickets to this
big like this big show that's coming in in the
end of in.
Speaker 1: September, you know, like you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It just was really like and I was just like,
but The thing that I was going to say is
we're sitting in this restaurant and they're they have the
music and I don't remember this either at katsu but
their music was really loud. And then there's you know
in Katsuya, all the tables are next to each other.
Speaker 1: Isn't that where you saw what's his face? Yes, Mauricio
and I had my panic attack. It was at that cat.
People were going who is it? Who did you see?
And I was like to sucking ze.
Speaker 3: Stop and they were like what why are you acting
like that? And I was like he was right behind me, right,
you know, he knew when they were all going what why?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Mom? Who did you see? God? How
embarrassing was it? That? No? The one in Yeah, that's
where they live. Yeah, so they it was.
Speaker 2: Dave Grohl was at this one a couple of times,
like a couple way back, like a couple of years ago. Anyway,
the music was loud, and then everybody around you was talking.
So everybody else is at their tables are talking really loud.
And then Gina is one of these quiet talkers, and
so is the other birthday girl. She's like very quiet,
and she's like talking to me, and she's like listening,
and I'm like.
Speaker 1: What, I can't hear you.
Speaker 2: Speak up, speak of the volume, take of the volume up.
I can't hear I can't hear any Gina is all
the way to the other end of the table. I'm like, Gina,
I can't hear you, and she's like I was saying,
and it's like, I'm like.
Speaker 1: I need hearing aids.
Speaker 2: It's getting bad, like and I just I feel like, wow,
how come everybody else can hear each other?
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I don't feel like they can. Though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm the same way I told you when I
went for that other birthday at that place that was
blasting music, and I felt the same way. I felt
like I was being assaulted violated by this music, and
I couldn't believe that no one else wanted to just leave.
I wanted to put like napkins in my ears.
Speaker 1: Let's tell I know. I was thinking about you.
Speaker 2: I know it is horrible, and it's just like, okay,
can we like finish up and go sit outside so
I can hear, like catch up with everybody because I
can't hear anything at this dinner.
Speaker 1: But like you know, you had just.
Speaker 2: End up talking to the person across from you pretty much,
so you got.
Speaker 3: To pray you're sitting either next to or across from
somebody that's worth talking to, right.
Speaker 2: Which I love them all, so it didn't matter Melissa
sat across from me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but Gina, but why the quiet.
Speaker 2: Talker at the other end of the table, Like, I'm like,
I just tell me this later when we leave, when
we go out and get our cars, you know, right,
because I can't hear anything.
Speaker 3: When I went to that one dinner I told you,
we went and like sat on a wall outside and
have like another thirty minutes of conversation because we hadn't
been able to hear. But at that point I was tired,
and I'm like, I not want to go home.
Speaker 1: Because I'm tired. I was sitting on a cement wall
right on the street. Right.
Speaker 3: We could have gone to coffee or I don't know,
gotten men cheese or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we all went to one of the girls that
lived very close to Katsu, went to her house afterward,
put our feet in the pool and hung out for
a little bit, okay, which was nice, so then we
could hear each other. Yeah, but like everybody's getting old.
One of them is like just had cataract surgeries, sunglasses
inside the restaurant, like look like Stevie Wonder and I
can't hear each.
Speaker 1: Other, like and what is what these quiet talkers that
it's really annoying it It kind of sometimes makes me
want to avoid sitting next to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, I like it, I just can't.
I can't hear, like speak up.
Speaker 1: We've been podcasting for a long time, so we understand,
like project your voice, right, if you're gonna tell a story,
you can't tell it like you're in a freaking library,
right like. Yeah, and then I went to the to
the store and I saw the what No, we can't
hear any of that or nor are you going to
hold our interests? Right right? Yeah, right, there's volume. There's
the the talk with your hands a little bit, like
make some gestures we have, you know, show that you're
in and what you're saying right, well, right exactly, nobody changing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it was a it was a fun
it was a fun night. And then and then Natalia
so I'm okay, she oh, it was the night of
this dinner. That's why I was going to bring her up.
So supposed to be at the dinner at six o'clock.
Natalia calls me at five o'clock getting out of the shower. Mom,
I just ran out of gas. I'm on the side
of the freeway. Oh no, right at the exit where
we get off by our house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, runs out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm like, I have an electric car, so
I don't have a gas can. That go to the
gas station, get the gas can. Wait, you had just
gotten out of the shower. I just got out of
the shower getting ready to go to this dinner. Right,
Thank god I took a shower, because then I got
doused with gasoline.
Speaker 1: So I had to go to this dinner. She just
called Triple A because it expired. Oh no, yeah, you know,
you can just re up it right then.
Speaker 2: You know. The thing, though, is we could have called
Triple A, but she was so close to the exit
to our house. All I had to do was get
in the car, go to the gas station, get a
gas tank, get a gas can, fill it up, bring
it to her, and goodbye. So like, by the time
triple A, you know what I mean. So I get
so I get to the gas station. The guy I've
never done. So the guy like, I put the gas
in the gas tank and I'm like, how does the
thing because it's not pouring out, And he's like, you
got to push really hard on this red thing, and
he does it for me.
Speaker 1: He pushes it and you.
Speaker 2: Got to hold it down on the gas cannon, on
the gas can, yes, to get the the gas to
come out. I'm like, okay, get in the car, get
to the tells on the side of the freeway.
Speaker 1: Room be room like fucking you know, I know.
Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, I get the thing and
I'm like, okay, push it down, pushing it down really hard.
It's not clicking, it's not doing anything, and no gas
is coming out. Oh no, pushing it down, pushing it down,
pushing it down.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: Well at first, at first, when I went to put
it into the gas into her gas tank, it was
still loose at the bottom of the can. So all
the gas came A lot of the gas came out
all over me.
Speaker 1: Own nothing out. I know.
Speaker 2: Luckily I wasn't wearing the clothes I was wearing to
go to the dinner, right, But so it came out
all over me. And now it's like, now she's got
like a half a tank, you know, because so much
gas came out. I was like, oh shit, So I
had to like tight and tight, tight it up and
then pushing it down. No gas is coming out. Nothing,
And mentality's like, let me try. She's doing it. Nothing, nothing, nothing.
Now we're standing on the side of the freeway ten minutes.
I got to get ready and go to this dinner
for you, yes, for me, where everybody's gonna shower me
with gifts and I'm going to show up like empty
handed for the other birthday girl.
Speaker 1: Oh, but smelling like gas.
Speaker 2: Smelling like gas, right, and so, and it's spilled in
my car, of course, so my car smells like gas,
but it's spilled on the mat. So I took the
mat out and like washed it down. Okay, anyway, nothing's
coming up. Finally, after like fifteen minutes, she like holds
it down. She's like, oh, I think I got it,
and she's like squeezing it. Her hand is shaking, like
our hands weren't strong enough to push the thing down.
It's basically what was going on. And then got the
gas in the thing, and then she went on her
way and I went on my way, and then I
show up at the dinner and everybody's like, why do
you smell like gas?
Speaker 1: Wait, so you didn't go back home like I did.
Speaker 2: I ran back home, changed, didn't do my air, put
my hair in a ponytail, did a little makeup, and
then left. And then I show up and no offense
to my friends, but you know, like they're wearing like
a T shirt and jeans, and like, you know, I
was wearing like a nice blouse and I put mascara
on and nobody's got makeup on.
Speaker 1: Granted it's like one hundred and twelve degrees outside. I
think that day, I know, but like, at what age
do we just stop? Like?
Speaker 2: I know, that's what I was thinking. I was like,
why did I even bother with putting mask are on?
Speaker 1: This morning? I went for a walk.
Speaker 3: I had to walk Bob, and I was just like,
you know what, I'm just not putting on a bray
not doing it. I went for a walk, but all
the way in the park with lots of people around,
and I have pretty big boobs, you know, I got
double these over here, and I was just like, I'm
not doing it. I don't care, And yeah, they're moving around.
Listen the boobs are not.
Speaker 1: Like fresh either, So there's a lot of yeah, movement,
a lot of movement. They're pretty hanging, pretty low, you
know what I mean. It's not great. And I had
to bend down a time my shoe at one point,
and I was like, oh God, are the boob's going
to fall out of the front of my T shirt?
I know, I mean they're on the loose, and I
was honestly, I was like, I don't care. Yeah, I
just do not want to be uncomfortable. I put on
one to come here, but I was like, you never
know if you're gonna have to stop at seven eleven
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But I'm like, I'm at the park, like it's that's
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I just but I don't know when that lack of
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Speaker 3: So this was this was funny fun After so LB
gets back from Vegas, I pick her up at her
friend's house because her cars in the shop because of
course the night before she's leaving for Vegas and she
wasn't driving, so that's good. She's like, uh, check, engine
light came on and the oil light came on. Now
we just got our car service two months ago May
in May, so I'm like, what the fuck? Now? Remember
we did buy the Jetta used, so you know, stuff
is gonna come up. Stuff's going to happen. But it's
always freaking something with a car. It's not under warranty.
Speaker 1: So we bring it in the next day and needs
a new timing belt. I don't know, and the oil
was already dirty and she'd already driven like twenty seven
hundred miles where are these kids going all the time?
She just had a service though two months earlier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he said because the timing belt whatever was
wrong with it was causing blocking the oil from working. Right, Yeah,
I was only you for like I went to school
for it, Yes, but then did I I did it
for like ten years, and then I just kind of
you forget so fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for the modern.
Speaker 3: Cars, they're always changing things. So I don't know, you
haven't been updated. I got to reget re certified. Yeah sure, yeah, yeah,
So anyway, okay, so that's gonna cost me money, So
of course I'm thinking about that, like she's not gonna
pay for it, you know. But then she goes to Vegas.
So I look at her bank account, and I feel
like anybody who has when your kids first get a
bank account, oftentimes it's connected to your bank account. She's
not independent in the fact, like I can see it
when I look at my account, I can see her account, right,
And I don't like check up on her and see
what she's spending all the time. But if her account
drops below one hundred dollars, I get notified. Yeah yeah, hey,
one of your accounts drop below one hundred dollars, and
I'm like, oh, I wonder who's to be fair? Every
once in a while at Xander, Yeah, but you know,
I'm always like okay, lb Elbie who practically works a
full time job but cannot keep a dollar in her
bank account. So at one point she has like five
hundred dollars. She goes to Vegas. The next day she's
got like seventeen. But then she won a bunch of
money and she had anyway, it doesn't really matter. But
she comes home and she's all, miss I can't wait
to go back to Vegas and gamble.
Speaker 1: But Mom, I need.
Speaker 3: To learn how to play blackjack, because like my brothers
are playing blackjack. And I was like, oh, hell yeah,
I'll teach you how to play blackjack.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So she was so into it.
Speaker 3: It was really cute bonding experience because like, fine, now
you're speaking mama's language, you know, I'm like okay. So
she before she even showers, she's like, Okay, can you
teach me right now? I was like, hell yeah, I can't.
We're playing blackjack, and I'm like it's all coming back
to me because I haven't played in a while.
Speaker 2: You play a lot of black talk I never really
get into blackjack for some reason. It's also too like
the counting. I'm like very bad at Matt, so I
have to like under the table go seven, eight, nine, ten, don't.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the same.
Speaker 3: No, I'm really bad too, And I always just look
at it for a long time, like I'm waiting for
the other person to say it's there. I'm like eight
and six, no, fourteen, Okay. I don't have it all
memorized either, but I do. I do count it in
my head really fast. But I do know like you
always assume the dealer has twenty, So if the dealer
is showing a face card, you got to assume they
have twenty. So if you have sixteen, if you have sixteen.
Speaker 1: You got to hit it right, all those rules.
Speaker 3: I just start telling her everything, and she's taking it
in because she's very smart, right, it's like surprisingly getting it,
and I'm like, okay, aces, you just got dullt aces.
Speaker 1: Gotta split them, yeah, gotta split them. Yeah. That's the thing.
I never know when to split now when you.
Speaker 3: Have like, if you have a pair of eights, you're
going to want to split those against. You're not going
to split them against if you think the dealer has twenty, right,
But if the dealer is showing like a six, there's
a two, three, four, five, six or seven. You're gonna
split those eights, okay because you have sixteen, So you'd
either have to hit it. You're only going to hit
that if you're going against you get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm like, I know all I was.
Speaker 3: All the intricacies were coming back to me, even though
I haven't been to Vegas in forever. But I was like, oh, okay,
and here's what you're gonna split.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I'm like, okay, do you got it? Now?
Speaker 3: We're just we played so many hands. So then the
best part was she was like, okay, okay, I got that,
but now I need to learn I need to learn
how to play poker again.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Remember when she was young, she she I taught her
how to play poker when she was like eight. It
was she eight. Well, I remember people. We hadn't had
people that long, and people got sprayed by a skunk.
Speaker 1: I told you that story.
Speaker 3: And I was playing online poker and I was almost
the money yeah, and I was like, Elbie, get in here,
you got to put and she was like no, and
I was like, you have to play for me, and
I was just yelled at me what you have because
she knew the basics.
Speaker 1: And then she was yelling to me, I have a
pair of twos.
Speaker 3: I'm in the bathroom washing people with skunk shampoo.
Speaker 1: John's mad. I've got I got a bathtub full of
like hydro whatever that hydro, the peroxide, the peroxide, the dawn, yeah,
soap and uh whatever. And it's so all these like
mom A two came up. I'm like, okay, you got trips,
go all in, like right, what you know? Right? She's
eight years old?
Speaker 3: A yes, she was probably like eight or maybe ten
at the oldest.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, that was really cute. And then to
add our poker two. So then so last night we
got out. I have one of those poker mats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that like you put on your dining room table
that makes it into like a poker table. We have
chips and we have all the cards and so I
got LB and then we got Xander n Xander comes in.
He goes and he puts on Marty Gras beads and sunglasses.
Speaker 1: They should have taken a picture of it. That's so funny.
Speaker 3: It's so hilarious. And then we started playing like tournament style.
I was not taking it easy on them. Wow, I
haven't laughed so hard. I was laughing so hard. I
get this like pain in the back of my head
because at one point, like Xander, he wasn't It ended
up that he wasn't bluffing, but we all thought he
was bluffing, so we kept calling the bet and then
he showed did he have whatever trip trip queens right?
Speaker 1: So then this other.
Speaker 3: Hand, I was totally bluffing, but I just started playing
like super aggressively and they were getting really mad. So
Xander met twenty five and I was like, raizy fifty
and I was like what And then they got.
Speaker 1: So mad at They're like, Mom, that is not nice.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's poker baby, and then I did,
and then Zana's grated and I'll be folded and I did.
Speaker 1: Not have anything. We were playing it where we would
just show and they were like, oh my god, Mom,
you fucked us over. It's so mean that poker baby.
I'm like, I'm trying to teach you. How are you
gonna learn? Great? That's so cute. We had so much fun.
It's great when you can gamble with your kids, Oh
my god, and what a fun skill for them to happen. Yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 3: I feel like Xander's going away to college. Yeah, like
you should have that skill. You should be able to
sit in poker games with your friends.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agaree.
Speaker 3: Same with Albi Elbe told me that in her whole
group of friends, only the guys play poker. She's like, really, no,
I think I'm one of the only girls that like
even knows how. But I was like, well, you need
to know enough so you could sit down in a
poker game with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, now you inspired me, But I got to
learn first. I'll teach you how to play poker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I kind of get the gist of
it because when I sit with Don, but like, I
don't know, I mean teaching them, you know, you.
Speaker 1: Got to really memorize what Paul's was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you don't know it like the back of
your hand, you can't like play against other people because
it's all strategy.
Speaker 1: It's all like what could they have? What could I get? Like?
Speaker 3: What what is my possibilities of my best hands?
Speaker 1: But what am I playing? What am I looking at? Right?
This person's betting. What what do they probably have? Yeah.
That's the thing that I've gotten.
Speaker 3: Really good at over the years is like I still
get really scared.
Speaker 1: I get easily intimidated out of a hand. Right.
Speaker 3: My problem is I always assume people have better cards
than I do. Yeah, I'm like, well, they wouldn't be
betting unless they had a good hand, which course not true, right,
but I always assume it. So then I go, oh,
my pair's not gonna I get scared and I don't
stay in hands I should. Yeah, but I do have
a sense of like, Okay, I think this person has
a straight I think you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you got the mind for that. You
got your brain for that. You love it? Yeah? Are you?
Do you play it all anymore online? No?
Speaker 3: Because they it's illegal. Oh that's the outlawed it. California
has no online gambling. Yeah, that sucks. It's such a bummer.
I think I told you this on the show before
because John was like, you know, I could get you.
Speaker 1: We could use the what do you call it?
Speaker 3: When the thing that you everybody has nowadays, we have
one too that can hot that hides where you are.
Speaker 1: Oh you VP en.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, we can use a VPN and get
a bank account that won't like whatever.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm not doing all that ten
dollars poker right right? Yeah, yeah, it's not my job.
That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Nor So every once in a while he's like, do
you miss poker because we could do.
Speaker 1: It, and I'm like, no, we're not doing that. Yeah,
but I do.
Speaker 3: And I haven't played with my comic friends in so long,
it's been like two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should join a game. I know. You should
do that.
Speaker 2: I know, or do a Don has one drive to
the you know, the nearest casino.
Speaker 1: Well, that's all stemmed from you saying that you're going
to be at a casino. That's right, because Elbe is
now all about it. She's like, I want to go
to the I want to go to the casino. You
may have twenty one at those casinos or twenty two,
I don't know.
Speaker 2: You can look it up and see like what which
casino has what kind of tables. I don't go because
they don't really have craps, you know, that's the one
thing they don't.
Speaker 1: But Don goes by yourself all the time. Yeah, but
that's Sad, I know, I know. Yeah.
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be getting that car for Sundays very soon. Yeah, all right,
thanks everybody. You're a parent now, don't f it up
that angle.