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I'm waiting. I'm dying to hear this. Sorry. Okay, so
of course we needed judges. We have a big speech
and debate team at my kids' school. So okay, Xander,
I was kind of talking about the end of the year,
the end of the semester. Xander had a lot to do.
He had this crazy essay he had to do for
his ap seminar class. He had all this stuff. Meanwhile
he procrastinated writing a speech. Remember that I told you
that last year he was doing something called duos, So
he was working with another girl and they did not
The first thing he went to, he won, but it's
because there was only one other team, so between the
two of them he won. It was some weird thing.
It was like for people who had never done it before.
So he got a taste of winning, but then he
never won again the rest of the thing. Yeah, okay,
so he had to he was doing his own speech.
It's ten minutes long, and he wrote a speech. So
he had the idea already in the summer that he
was going to write about like in favor of being
a softer man like kind of about toxic masculinity and
for men anyway. The speech is called the Joy of
Authenticity and it's about men being able to like express themselves,
not having to be this stereotype only stereotype. Well, he
really put off writing the speech and then he finally
started writing it like literally two weeks before, oh my gosh,
and he was like, well, I have an intro. I
was like, bro, this speech has got to be. Of course,
I called him bro his toxic masculinity. Ruh, listen exactly,
get to the gym, do some reps, and then write
this fucking speech.
Speaker 2: So he.
Speaker 1: Had the intro down and he read me his intro
and I was like, that's really good, but that's like
three minutes. Like the gotta be speech. Oh my god,
it has to be one hundred memorized and memorized. Well.
So he then he comes to me. He's like, Mom,
I'm just like blocked, and I have all this other
work to do, and I and so other kids left
and right were dropping their event because they hadn't written
their speeches in time. But he's like, no, I want
to do it. I still want to do it. So
he ends up finishing writing the speech three days before
the event. He's got other stuff due, and I'm like,
you have to memorize a ten minute speech to me,
it would take me four years to memory time is
you know? But I'm trying not to be like, can't
be done, Like I don't want to say that, but
I do keep looking at him like are you kidding me?
Right now? But when he read me the speech when
it was done, and Lynette, it was so good, really funny.
I was genuinely laughing out loud.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: That's so he's so good. He's a little you, right,
he's turning into you, a little bit of you, like
less like angsty about it. He's just I don't know.
But he tells me that it was really really hard
to write that. He did struggle really hard. But I'm like,
it's funny. It's thematic. He uses the characters that characters
from inside out. Oh yeah, joy right, And he's talking
about bringing out like when the voices in your head
start telling you that like you're not enough or whatever,
and he's like, anyway, so he has like it's very
self deprecating and funny, but also has like very funny
lines like at one point is like, you know you're
wanting the validation of your peers can really make you
second guess yourself, Like, for instance, I almost didn't wear
this outfit and it was wearing like a little suit
with like a blue jacket. And he goes because one
of my friends told me, I look like I'm coming
back from a bot mitzvah. He goes, but I'm sorry,
but like there was a sale at h and M
or whatever. He goes on blue Cambridge jackets and it's
called being bougie on a budget look into it or something.
Oh my gosh, it's very funny. That's so clever in
the middle of like and like honest and you know. Anyway,
so I was like, well, the speech is really good,
but it is not memorized. And when I tell you
remember I came back from my first speech and debate
thing and I was like blown away by these kids.
I'm like, this is the These kids are so polished.
They're just telling you the speech like it's coming from
their head, like, not like it's they memorize something. So
I was very concerned about him because it really wasn't memorized.
He read it to me the night before he was
trying to do it, and he was making so many
he was getting stuck so many different times, and like
the kind of stuck where he'd be like like I
got to look at the paper, oh gos. So then
he had to finish writing a final paper for one
of his classes. So I was like, oh my god.
So the morning of this was Saturday. That morning he's
like reading it to me. He's reciting it to me
in the car, totally forgetting spots of it. So I
was like, so finally I just said to him, listen,
do it, give it your all, but know that these
other kids have had a long time to like prepare,
I said, and just like do it for practice. Like, yeah,
there's going to be more tournaments, I said, sorry, tournaments.
Its fine anyway. So I just said, you know, don't
be so hard, don't be hard on yourself. Because he's
a perfectionist. I was worried about him getting really upset,
you know, and I was like, just just do it
for the fun of it. Yeah. Yeah, So he was like,
good learn, I'm going to Yeah. He was also in
another event called Duo Improv, where so he was entered
into two different things. This time yeah, this time. So
he has a friend and they were going to do
this duo improv. So there's nothing you can You can't
prepare for that one because they give you a topic
and then you have to come up. You have two
minutes to come up with a scene, right, and then yeah,
deliver it for president. But he has impromis. Yeah, so
he was looking forward to that. Yes, like if all
else fails, all have fun doing the improv. Yeah. Okay, So,
by the way, how many kids do you think actually
really memorize? I mean they probably do them, Linnette. I
judge three separate events every single kid. But do you
think they might have like screwed up but you don't
know it, like maybe they just kept It's possible. Yeah,
I wouldn't know, right, But but they do such a
good job. They do a really good job. Most of
these kids are very smooth, you know. And anyway, also,
you have ten minutes. This is how it works. If
you go over ten minutes, you have a thirty second
grace period. If you go over your thirty second grace period,
you get a time violation. So what that means is
that the judge can rank you number one, but due
to your time violation, you can't be in first place,
so it automatically knocks you down. Okay, so it's important
to come in on time. Yeah. So Xander's piece, he said,
was coming in on time, but he was like, yeah,
it's coming in at like ten minutes and fifteen seconds.
And I was like, well, that's too long. You don't
want to be timing it in your grace period. And
he's like, yeah, but it's too late. I don't have
time to cut because I'm already like I got to
memorize what's here. Yeah, So I'm like, okay, yeah, so
doing it for the experience, for the experience, right, Yeah,
it's good for him. Yeah, okay, so I have like
many funny things to tell you. Okay, so we get there.
You have to get there at eight am, Krackadan. You know,
get your judging instructions. One of the instructions is you
don't cut anybody off, like even if they go over time.
Like last year, I had somebody who their speech was
fourteen minutes. Oh my god. It also wasn't good and
it was fourteen minutes. But you don't say like, okay,
you're out of time. Yeah, like you just that's it. Okay, okay,
So anyway, at our judging instructions, I'm hanging out. I'm
with my friend who's my co chair of the fundraising
committee at my school, so I'm with her. I'm with
my friend Tamra that I shouted out her jewelry business,
and I'm with my I'm with a good friend of
mine who's from a different school. But kids our kids.
I told you about our last time. Her name is Julie,
and her daughter and Sadie used to be good friends
at their old at their elementary school. So her kids
at a different school, and like, but I've seen her
at every she always judges. So we had we have
so much fun. That's great. I had other friends there
and so fun I was with Also, I forgot about her.
So Julie Casum her high school friend is this girl
named Courtney, and Courtney's daughter now goes to my kids school.
So yeah, so I've known Courtney for years too, and
Julie has told many many a funny story by her
friend Courtney and her crazy life. So she was with
us too, so it was like a little that's so cool.
A mom's yeah, we're just having so much fun. So
I had so I find out that Xander's first round
total time violation. Not only did he have a time violation,
but he got cut off. So the judge didn't understand
the instructions. It was probably a new judge, and they
were like apparently they were like, uh, mister Taylor, you
need to sit down. Oh wow, you went your overtime
over his grace period. So then Xander was really upset
and kind of thrown off, and the coach told me
she was like, okay, so this thing happened. The judge
was totally wrong. They should they never should cut anyone off,
and Xander didn't get to finish. He only had a
couple of lines left which wrapped up the speech and
he didn't get to say them. So you know, it
is what it is, right, And I was like, okay,
she goes, but I told I told him it shouldn't
affect your ranking. Your ranking is what it is, but
it will he'll get a time violation. Yeah, okay. So
there's three rounds and then in this competition there's they
it's called breaking. So if they break, that means they
made it through the three rounds and they're gonna go
to finals. Okay, okay, but only only the top people
that got the best scores are going to break right,
So everybody else kind of watches, and then the other kids, no,
nobody watches. So here's how it goes. There's one judge
in every room. So there's all these different events going on,
and they have a ton of judges and you go
into like a classroom and it's just you and the kids.
Oh then and the kids that are in that event.
So Xander's event is called original Oratory. So I was
I judged something called Okay. So one judge and they
rank all the kids. Then they do a second round
with a different judge, and that judge ranks all the
kids and they and then they do a third round,
and then whoever in every event, whoever's got the highest
ranking between the three judges, the highest average, goes on. Okay, okay.
So I saw Xander in between He's like, Mom, you
know I I I was having trouble with the memorization
and I was pausing too long and it made me
go over time and I got a time violation and
the guy cut me off, and I was like, I
know whatever, Yeah, you'll learn and you live, You'll learn,
learn yeah, second second round, another time violation because his
piece is too fucking long. So he does it the
same one again. Yeah, he has to do his same speech.
He does. He's doing the same speech. He'll do it
all year. Oh so he does his speech again. He
gets another time violation because it went over time. So
then he said, he told me later his third round
went well because he got better. He got and it
went over ten minutes, but it was in the grace period.
It was like ten minutes and five second No, because
he forgot a chunk of it, so oh my god,
so he didn't even do a piece of part of it.
So he's like, so it came in faster, so okay.
So then so meanwhile and then he said the improv
was just funny, but it was a good time. So
then so I judged this thing called it's called extemporaneous okay,
so what this is? This was like the worst. Okay,
my first thing I judged. I don't remember it might
have been this, but anyway, So here's how it works.
Super freakin nerdy brainiac kids get given a topic. They
have thirty minutes to prepare a five minutes a seven
minute speech. Okay, Okay, the topics are insane. They're like in,
these are high school kids right now, and the topics
are like, yeah, explain why the if Russia will be
spending more Cold war post Cold War Russia NATO defense spending,
Like are you kidding? Like completely in the okay, explain
why China and Brazil's trade will benefit or be badly
negatively affected or benefit from peace between the two. I'm like,
oh my god, these kids. Wow. Okay, So they come
in and then they hand you a piece of paper
and it has their question on it, right, and then
they talk for seven minutes on something that I know
nothing about. That's god, And all you can do is
sit there and go, okay, mind blown And imagine this.
They stand like right in front of your death Like
you're sitting at a desk and they stand like right
in front of you and just talk at you for
seven minutes about something that you do not give a
fuck about, that you know nothing about. And then they're
giving you like statistics and like according to an article,
and it's all memorized, so like oh my god, I
mean it's all based on like they can use note
cards to write down all their facts. When they're researching,
but then they cannot read anything, so they have to
remember that they looked up some study on you know,
according to Forbes Magazines February issue blah blah blah blah blah.
Oh they don't, but they don't ever get these questions
ahead of time. I get it ahead, they get them,
and then they get thirty minutes. Oh okay, yeah, they
get thirty minutes to prepare. So that shit like not
for the debate that just their coach is telling now
and you're going to get anything. They get it randomly. Oh.
Not like you can say like, hey, can you give
me something on trade relations, I'm good on that note.
It's all political and it's all like international politics. Oh
my god. Yeah, that's insane. One kid got though this
was domestic politics, but he got like, explain what all
of Trump's cabinet member nomination picks. Explain how that is
going to inform how he plans to what he plans
to do during his term. Right, oh my god. Then
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So yeah, third round. Xander says he did fine. Okay,
but he also so then we it's after lunch we
find out and I'm having like the best time. By
the way, Like who cares about Xander? Because I'm like, yeah,
having fun judging.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember the other thing that I judged. Anyway,
It's just amazing how much these kids know and they
can just be confident and get up there and just
spit out facts and stuff. It's insane. Oh I know
what I did. Okay, So there was the first thing
I judged was called declaration, which is they they memorize
somebody else's speech, so they do a ten minute speech
that somebody else wrote, which and then they have to
deliver it like it's their speech, you know. So I
had one of them, and the topics. Sometimes they can
be really heavy, like one of the girls was talking
about Afghanistan and women, how women are treated in Afghanistan,
and it was from the point of view of a
woman whose mother was beaten in a market for not
wearing a burka. Like it's like, yeah, it can be intense.
So but those every single one of those entries for
the declaration, super smooth ten minutes, you know, didn't seem
to have forgotten anything. Like really, these kids are just incredible.
It's so fun. I really recommend going to do this
because he will be so impressed by like your future. Yeah,
I mean really it's great. It's inspiring watching these kids.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: So then we find out it's like the afternoon, and
then we find out like that there's going to be
finals and who's going to go to the finals. It's only,
like I said, the top kids. So I'm like thinking, okay, like,
is it possible that Xandra will go to the finals
for improv because he's good at improv? You know. Then
I find out that he quote unquote broke, meaning he's
going to the finals for both categories. Oh my gosh.
So I was like, what, how is that possible? Like
he's he was probably messing Oh, he was messing up
left and right.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Right. So his coach was like, yeah, I mean, I
don't know what was his improv does he do? You know,
like what he had to do? He said that he
and his partner got that they were on the Titanic.
They were on a lifeboat on the Titanic, so that
seemed funny. Yeah. He told me another one that I
can't really remember. I can't really remember what topics he got,
but he says it was fun right, So he made
it to the great to the finals become easy for
him to do. But I don't know, I guess. So
then there's a final round. So I was judging something
called info, which is a ten minute speech that somebody
is teaching you about something, and they can have graphics,
they can bring boards, poster boards, so that was really fun.
And then for the finals, there's three judges in the room,
so I got to go in there with my friend
Julie and then like another guy, and then we compared
notes afterwards, and that was really fun, like so cool.
I always picture the finals everybody's able to watch, you know,
that's what you picture. Is not like that. So the
finals are just three judges because there was only one
round of it, so then they can pick they can
average I guess right who you know? Whatever? Yeah, okay,
So anyway, we didn't confer about who we were going
to pick for number what. We all made our rankings
and then we talked about it afterwards, and you know,
it was just funny. We were so fun. Yeah. How
great is that that you get to deal with your
friends and that's amazing. Yeah. So then I asked Xander,
like how did it go? Because he had his final
run and he was like, oh my god, I fucked up,
Like I messed up so bad. He's like, I messed
up my end. He's like, but it's okay. He's like,
I totally had fun. Yeah, and like all have a
better memorize for the next one, you know whatever. Okay,
So whatever, it was fun and they learned towards ceremony.
Then they bring up all the finalists, all the kids
that made it to the finals. They bring them up
and then they rank them basically, so it's like it's
like a beauty pageant, right, they're all standing there, and
then they go in seventh place and then they yell
the heist. They say the high school, so it's like
in seventh place from a Grande high school. Okay, so
you already know. Okay, so first thing that goes up
is the hit for him is the improv. So there's
like seven finalists, right, so then this is just like
maybe information you don't really need, but for places seven
through four, you're not allowed to applaud. Takes too long,
so you just give a clap. So everybody, it kind
of sucks because all the finalists are up there. So yes,
it's nice that you are a finalist, and it's the
call you out. It's an honor, but you also see
who's last of the finalists, right, so it's like in
seventh if there's only seven in seventh place. And at
this it's an awards ceremony, so the whole competition is there,
all the judges, so it's like a full like auditorium
and it's the kids are really sweet and they're very
like supportive of each other and yeah. So anyway there,
so Xander's group goes up and it's like in seventh
place from blah blah blah school, not Xander. So I'm
like okay, okay. So then they're like in sixth place
from this school and it's not Xander's school, and I
was like, oh, holy shit, Like yeah he did. He's
not last anyway, So he was like fourth place. Wow. Yeah,
so we got like a class so that was like
pretty huge because there are a lot of people and
turned into it. Yeah, so that was exciting. So we
got a medal. Oh key, places three through first, third
through first get a trophy. It's pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So then for his oh oh for his ten
minute speech, I've just felt bad because I was like,
he messed up on like three out of this five
four rounds right right right. So they go up there
the finalists, and I'm like, okay, I was saying, So
I'm with all my girlfriends right now, I'm just like,
just just please don't let him be last of the finalists,
even though if he was, he was like, it's crazy
that he even made it to the finals considering how
much he messed up. So it's seventh place. So in
seventh place from blah blah blah high school. I was like,
oh shit, he's not seventh, Oh my gosh. And I
was honestly like, anything beyond this is gravy. He made
it to the finals. I did not think that was
going to happen. Then he's not even the last one
of the finals. I'm like, fourth place is damn me
fucked up? Yeah, So then he gets then they go
sixth place, not him. So now me and my friends
keep looking at it because they're all the other kids
are in competing with so we're all they're like, oh
my god, he's at least fifth place, you know. So
then in fifth place not him, was like, okay, this
is crazy. So then it's like fourth place, but this
kid didn't memorize it last night the night before they're
like fourth place from Arroyo Grande High School, and I
was like, oh my god, he's at least third place.
He's getting a trophy with my speech third place, not him,
no way, he got second place. Oh my god, the
whole freaking category. Oh my god, that's instant. I was screaming.
I was like, it was so fun. I got, I
get the chill. I know, he got a full on trophy.
It's amazing. And he barely prepared. No what he'll think
about when he prepares next time. He was really shocked.
He kept telling me. He's like, mom, I was watching
these speeches. The everybody else was. There was no He's like,
there was maybe one other one that was that. I
was like, maybe I'm gonna beat that person. He goes,
but that's it. The rest of them were like super memorized,
really animated, like really smooth, really well done about it
important topics. And I was like, I'm gonna tell you
what it is. You're funny, he is, and we don't
know if you messed up, like a lot of times,
we don't know. I was thinking about that. He's like,
because I was watching people's speeches and I was like
I'm just watching the presentation and I don't know. That's
what I was saying earlier. You don't really care about
the percentages and the how would I know? And I said, well,
you have jokes, and I said in as parents, like
that's what we're we're like, And I told him that
one of the ones I judged last year. I was like,
the girl did not have the most important speech, like
it was, I said, but she made me laugh out loud,
and I was like, sorry, that's my number one. Yeah,
she made me laugh, like genuinely laugh and her delivery
was fun. And her speech was about the pressure to
succeed and how we should like have less pressure on
our kids to succeed, that it's like detrimental to their
mental health to always feel like they have to like
outdo their peers and this this thing of how hard
it is to get into college and how like you
have to get straight a's and even straight a's isn't enough.
And I was like, it's a good topic, but it
was her delivery that was like making jokes and like
kind of teasing the parents. Yea, and like you're probably
but that's what the parents, that's it. Yeah, that's what
people like. They like. Sander had funny jokes where he'd
be like, okay, I know what you're thinking. He's like, oh,
don't hashtag not all men to right now. He's like, yeah,
I get it, like not all men are don't get
seek help for their mental health. He goes like me,
he goes, Yeah, I'm in therapy. He goes, I go
to therapy once a week. Sometimes I'll even schedule an
extra appointment for a MIDWEK update and he goes. But
guess who. Guess who got me to go to therapy?
Speaker 2: My mom?
Speaker 1: It was a woman who told me, hey, maybe punching
drywall isn't the answer to your problems, like seek some help.
And so it was like fun, great, Oh my gosh, yeah,
it's amazing. Isn't that the best feeling when your kid
just like gets up there and rocks it. It's the best.
That must have felt so good. It felt so good
because guess what last year I had an amazing time
and he won nothing. So like this just was like cheering.
I already like doing this and now I get to
see my kids like yeah, you know, I mean get
the second place. Yeah, it's so fun. That's oh that's awesome.
That's such a great feeling, I know. And the other fun,
fun feeling was that all of my friend, my immediate
friends that I was with, all of their kids, like
because sometimes like my friend, my friend's daughter got second.
My other friend's son and his partner for their they
were doing a thing, got got third. Like everybody, all
your friends. Yeah, yeah, oh that's so awesome. What a
great day.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I love having a thing that they get to like
be prideful. When's your next one? I think there's one
like in mid January. Oh, I think there's one January eighteenth,
but not when that we have to go to. I
might not even be judging it. And then the next
one's early February. Oh that's so fun. Yeah. And I
just think he's going to get better and better because
obviously I think it's his thing. I think this speech writing,
the fact that he really wanted to do it and
he thought about his was subject back in the summertime,
you know, like he was focused on what he wanted
to work on. You know, that just shows you that's
his passion and he's going to be good at it.
I think, I mean, I think, give me what he
got two time violations, so like, and he still came
in second, so they must have like overlooked a lot, yeah,
I think. And I told him, I go, I think
that it's you were entertaining and they like that. So,
you know, I don't know like what that means for
going to state or going to nationals. Like, I don't know,
because those kids are those topics are just like damn yeah,
like and these kids are very like there's a certain
way of delivering it. But I told him, I go,
just do you. Yeah, it's working. It's working. Yeah, and
if he has it memorized nicely and he edits a
little bit, so it's not coming in long night. Yeah,
that's awesome. Yeah, he's just gonna get better and better
as what you know, and it just it's so nice
when you when you see your kid has a passion
and they connect to it. You know, it's just great,
really fun. Yeah yeah, and just like a fun day.
That's so cool. Yeah, that's awesome. So you had a party.
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you at a party? I did. I have my girlfriends
from ABC and once a year we try and get
together for like around the holidays, and everybody like we'll
go to like one of their houses, or we'll go
to a restaurant or whatever. And this year, you know,
Suzanne was like, you know your house, it's you're moved
into this new house. I decorated it for for the holidays,
for Christmas. I still need to get a tree, though.
You decorated it like by yourself. Yeah. I got the
old you know, I out of the garage. I got
the Christmas you know, you know the little decorations you
put around the house and stuff. Put a tablecloth, a
festive tablecloth, that kind of thing, you know, for when
the kids come home. Did you do lights outside of
your house? I did? You did it? Yeah? I did
because Natalia has always wanted lights and we never got them.
So this house I got, I got. I put them up. Yeah,
I mean we have Christmas lights too, you do. I
love it. I know, it's nice. It's really Yeah, it's
just this like they hang like they're they're the really
white like icicle like ones that. Yeah, they're kind of
they're pretty. Yeah, it's nice. It's nice, but I still
got to get a Christmas tree. I know, I'm just
I don't have a creed tree either.
Speaker 2: Yet.
Speaker 1: We've been so busy, I know, I think we're going
to go today. I think so I have to, Yeah,
because Natali is gonna come home. I want to get
it going. Yeah. So yeah, And then so I had
the party and we Suzanne and I, you know, she her,
she came over and she brought like this cocktail thing
that she saw on Instagram and she wanted to give
like she brought the cute glasses to make them in
and everything. So what did you do for food? Holiday cocktail?
So for food we went her and I went to
the grocery store and we got you know, I made
a charmuteri board. You know, we how many of you
were there going to be? There's only six of us,
Oh yeah, not very many, just us girls. And we
made I made a sharp shark couterie board. But then
we had pizzas coming at like eight from Pit Fire Pizza,
which is really good, okay, and some salads. So that
came and that was it and we had Yeah, it
was nice, and I got the solo stove from my backyard.
You know, I'm going to return it. I don't want it.
Oh really yeah, it's a pain in the ass. Everybody's like, oh,
solo stove is easy. Didn't we do ads? Yeah, we
did a few years ago. Yeah, I mean it's not
for me. It's I see why people would like it.
But you actually have to got you have to get
the wood, you have to put the wood in. And
everybody says it's so easy, but I'm not. I'm not
doing that, not building a fire in my backyard. Like what, Yeah,
I don't know what I I my sister and like
everybody was telling me it's so easy. It's you know,
it's smokeless, this and that, And I was like, okay,
I got to return it. Oh yeah, it's supposed to
be smokeless. Now, aren't you supposed to feel like can
you cook on it? Or is it just for warmth?
It's just really for warmth. It's like and you and
the thing is it around it and you sit around
the fire. Yeah, and you could do marshmallows and stuff.
And I think that people like it because they can.
It's easy. You can just take it to the beach,
if you're going to you know, you could travel with it.
I'm not where am I going with my solo stove?
I mean, what the fuck? I don't need that. You're
going to be out in the parking lot of target
solo stove? I know, like it was a little chili outside.
I want to warm up by the fire before I
do some shopping, right, like you have the little uh
you know, uh ding ding ding the bell like raising money,
you know, donations, Yes, yes, yeah, no, I don't know
I'm going to return.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: What I want is one that those those outdoor ones
that you can just turn the gas on and the
fire comes on. That's it, that's all. Yeah. Shouldn't they
all be like that? I know, well, I don't know
what I was thinking, like a heat lamp. You're talking
gas exact, except for with a flame with flame, you
just turn it on like a gas like a thing.
That would be like fireplaces, like a gas fireplace, a
white gas on, you turn and you light it like that.
They do, they do. I'm just the dumb ass that
got the solo stove. Oh, because probably that's not portable
because it has to be connected to a gas line,
I guess. But it's a certain place in your backyard
and then you just turn it on. I get like
a gas grill. I don't know if they connected they
have to connect to well. I guess you could connect
it to a gas tank. Yeah. I think it just
needs a gas tank. That's it, right, you know, like
he sea lamps. Yeah, I don't know. I don't go
hanging out at home depot and ship. I don't know
andy like that. I don't know. Yeah, that sounds like
something you could get that just has a little prop. Yeah,
I'm gonna do a vault prooank so you could just
get really high like well, then go to sleep and
like Michael Jacks, wake up and the fire is done. Yeah.
Propofol Yeah, everyone's heard of that, right, propofol day, pro
paane day. Yes, a pro painting thank you, Yeah, thank you. Yeah.
I think that's what I'm gonna do. Okay, I'm going
to return it. But anyway, the house looks really nice.
I just got to get a tree. The girls had
a good time, you know, we hung out and uh
chit chatted like it's so nice to see them, like
I haven't seen them in so long, huh, you know,
and everybody's a mom so everybody's gone by like ten
thirty eleven, right, you know. But yeah, it was nice.
We had a good time and played you know, Christmas
music and stuff and sat outside in the freezing cold
because I didn't turn on the solo stove. It has
been really cold in LA, it has. Yeah, dude, what's
the dude with the what's the deal with the drones?
Do we know? Oh? What's going on?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Do you know anything, Galen?
Speaker 3: I mean I know about the drones?
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody, of course you do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the big news right now.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Well, is it really a mystery? Do we think?
Speaker 3: Well, coming out and saying what it is, which is
the weird thing?
Speaker 1: I gotta believe. I mean you gotta think. Listen, are
they everywhere? Are they only in one? No?
Speaker 3: Now it's on the East Coast mostly.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Now they're in California. Yeah, they they're like being spotted
all over the place, now, all over the country. They
were spotted in California, there was some So do we
think it's UFOs? I hope so that would that'd be great,
that'd be awesome. Now listen, I think the government knows
what they are. They're just not telling us because obviously
if they're out there flying and they're over air, you know,
they're flying in airspace. First of all, they would ground
all the planes. I would have to think, right right,
they would go out some planes. You know, they wouldn't
trust our air travel. They must know something they just
not telling us. Yeah, But I mean when would it
be that they're not telling us. I don't know? And
are they saying like, hey, guys, we know what it is,
do not even worry, but we just can't tell you
right now. I think they're not saying it, or are
they saying they don't know?
Speaker 3: They're not saying anything.
Speaker 1: That's the that's this, that's the sketchy thing. Yeah, And
here's the thing I want to know. You know, everybody's
posting these videos of these drones. Are they just are they?
Are they? How many videos that we've seen are really
drones or are they just like helicopters you know, circling
or airplanes or whatever? You know, because I've seen videos
where the guys are like, you know, in Long Island,
they're like like, get the fuck out of here. That's
not a fucking drone, dumb ass, that's an airplane. He's like, no, dude, dude,
it was dude. It was going up and down and
moving around and like it was not that's not an airplane, bro, No,
that's a fucking airplane.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: Look zulmantly. You know, it's like, how many of these
videos are.
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of them are really close to one another,
and a planer and a helicopter aren't going to get
that close to each other, right, you know, unless maybe
there's like a news story and there's a couple of
helicopters covering it. But aside from that, you wouldn't have
aircraft like that that close to one another.
Speaker 1: And they say they're big too, like they're the size
of a mini cu where they're saying, but don't regular
people have access to drones at this point, not like
these ones.
Speaker 2: These ones are big ones with lights like you can
fly it's the regular little drone up in the air.
But these ones are like really high in the air
and they have lights in they're big.
Speaker 1: Right, interesting. I don't know, that is pretty crazy. Yeah,
But speaking of mysteries, I started watching the John Benet
Ramsey documentary last night, and uh, I've never really gotten
super into this story, So who did it? I know, Well,
did you finish it? Did you watch I haven't finished it,
but I like the brother for it. I like the
little brother for this. Really. Yeah. Now I have, of
course heard this theory before, but it is making sense.
I was what the brother. The little brother was ten,
and he seems real shady when he's like they're interviewing
him and he's kind of laying on the couch. He
kind of seems very nonchalant. Do you know what I'm
talking about? Yeah, Oh my god, that is so loud. Yeah,
is that too loud? Hear it?
Speaker 3: So I hear it, But it's that right, Okay.
Speaker 1: It's literally like right next to me. Okay. So the
brother is getting interviewed by the police right afterward, and
he's like laying on a couch kind of like with
his feet like waving in the air, and he's like, yeah,
it seems really weird. Yeah, this is my theory, but
not based on finishing the documentary. So I want to
know yours. Yeah, I'm thinking that the brother did it
because the the girl was getting way too much attention.
It gets all the attention. He's kind of last, so
there's all the the dad has other kids from other marriages,
other relationship. Then this the mom comes along and has him,
and then John Benay and then John Benay is like
the little princess who's getting so much attention? Do you
think he just got angry? And like, I don't understand.
I I can get that theory. But the other part
of too, it is that they what what what they
She was found penetrated with a stick. Well, kid could
have done I mean, if the kid was a little
like psychopath. I don't know. I think I think after
watching the whole documentary, I think that somebody broke in.
First of all, they didn't the cops, I don't think
checked to see if there was pedophiles in the area.
I don't think they looked into that. Second of all,
she's a beauty pageant girl. Some nutjob could have like
in the area, could have you know, wanted to wanted her. Yeah,
but here's the thing. Why the ransom note? Though the
note was very bizarre and seems to me to be
a rushed thing that, like one of the parents wrote, yeah,
the ransom note, because why would it. Why would a
pedophile who broke in and molested and then killed this
little girl go through the trouble of writing a long note.
Remember when the police were like, this is like the law,
this note. It just doesn't even make sense that you
would write like right, I mean, what even if a
crazy person obviously a crazy person who's like a psychopath,
But why would they write a note? I don't know.
And the note was directed to the dad right and
talked about his right you know, bonus or something, And
I don't know. It could have been somebody he worked with.
I don't know. I don't know. Did somebody worked with
that wanted the money? Why would they kill her? I
don't know. And they have to know she's about to
be found in like a minute, Like, I don't know.
I don't think the dad. I don't think the dad
killed her. I don't think the mom killed her. It's
hard for me to believe the brother killed her, unless
maybe he did, Kaylin, what happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have no idea. I don't even really know
about the story.
Speaker 1: You don't follow that case.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, what are the theories? Do you know any of
the theories? Well, you got to watch that documentary. They
go over a lot. But remember there was this guy
I heard the theory the documentary was biased because it
was because John right, right, which one could be happening.
But remember there was a guy that that kicks. He
confessed and he was put in jail and everything, and
then they found out it wasn't him. Remember that. No, Yeah,
they go through that in the documentary. I don't know.
The theories are the dad did it, you know, or
the mom did it. But then you watch on the
documentary and they're they're explaining like if she there was
no urine, and like they say that she wet the
bed or something or something that she got mad with
her But in the bed sheet looked like somebody pulled
her off her bed while she was asleep. This this
expert that goes over everything said, it looked like it
looked like she was asleep and somebody pulled her off
the bed the way the sheets were left.
Speaker 2: Not like you know.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I don't see her mom. I
don't know. I don't see the parents killing her. Maybe
i'm nai, but and the dad already lost a daughter,
Like what's he gonna do kill this other daughter? He did? Yeah,
his daughter died in a car crash. Oh gosh, Yeah,
he's one of his older daughters. Yo. I don't think
the dad did it. No, I think they covered for
the sun. I think the mom was like, Okay, I
already lost my daughter. I'm not going to lose my
son too. I'm not going to let him go to
jail for the rest of his life. I'll have like
no kids. So I think they did some like weird
cover up. Yeah, wow, well yeah, I think. All right,
I'm gonna watch it. Also, just a little thing for
you guys later daters. Oh, I know, I have to start.
I haven't seen that hinge the whole thing. Oh really,
let's talk about it after the holidays. Kaylin watched her
later das on Netflix. It's very fun. I can't wait. Yeah,
although I did hear that all of the people are actors. Oh,
don't tell me that.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean. And they're probably
really going on dates. But they're all people from like
that have like ages, you know, or with like you know,
they're trying to be like reality stars. It was still
good though, It's really good. I think you'll like it
all right, before we go again, always every episode. Adam
Lerner he's a car broker, Adam's got a Car dot com.
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you a car. He just got Robin a car. I
have to hear. I have to see if she actually
took the car. Also, Ferncandle our friend Kelsey. She has
a candle business the candles Smell Delish. She's on Instagram
at Ferncandle or go to Ferncandle dot com. Are Also
our friend Darcy is amplifying her brother Colin and sister
in law Anna's podcast for kids called The Get Up Show.
It incorporates yoga, music, jokes, learning, and lots of fun.
It's called The Get Up Show. Go find that. Our
friend Sergio is highlighting ASPCA helps the animals in the
aftermath of Hurricane Helene. But all of the hurricanes and
you know it's winter. ASPCA does amazing things for the animals. Also,
our friend Carrie Kibbler is highlighting Trevor Project for me.
This is needed so much right now. It helps all
lgbtq IA youth and they have a suicide prevention hotline
and please give to them for the holidays. Also, Christine
Black is waves and Wonder Travel. Her instagram is Travel
with Christine b Or you can find her on our
Facebook page. And Maren has Sugar Skull. It's a bakery
and gift shop on the island of Kawhi. You can
go to their website now Sugar Skull eight o eight
dot square dot site to get some delicious treats. They
make handmake trees there and gifty items, so check them out.
We love you guys. Oh, really quick before we go,
I gave our friend Anna, Oh yeah, Mila Crocodile's mom,
uh the money we all raised. It was thirty three
hundred dollars. Wow. And she was absolutely floored. She did
not count it in front of me, so she didn't
even know how much it was. But she was so
grateful and says to thank everybody so much, and like
we made their Christmas. Oh my gosh, guys, thank you
so much. Everybody did such a great job helping. Yeah,
very incredible community, and it just felt so good to
give it to her. And I, oh, I made sure
to say, like this is not from me, this is
from a lot of people who care about your family,
and like yeah, and she was she was tearing tearing
up and just like, please tell them how grateful I am. Yeah,
thank you for doing That's definitely the holidays, everybody, they
check out our patreon because it's kind of a crazy one. Yeah, okay,
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