Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Have pas Sonny sue on.
Speaker 1: I hadasion nights, so Nat everybody, what's up? It's another
f fabulous episode for FCLL. It is super fabulous. I'm
so excited to be here. Let me let's start. Let's
start with our fun party people. Uh Dick frolicking and
Kelly Ladi Da and Katie's rolling on e as always, God,
she's a druggie and Nikki call your girls and Elizabeth
Williamson you got so many kids. Congrats, Rita Bassiette, you
have a name that sounds like Bassinette. Polly, we love
your pancakes, Valerie, Bubba Fenwick, Katerina, check your Mueller. I
have to check mine, be honest. Gabby and Missy come on, guys,
they're at SNL Over the Weekend. Oh yeah they didn't
get in though? Is Sean Voshpeg Rebecca no winners so cute?
Kelly Bryant is not your aunt? Alicia c Leslie, Well
stop it? Aaron, you're dirty, Sanchez, Jennifer get up, Sandra
saudeasy being green Athena. We still love your dancing. And
Stephanie or a sticker rinker? Did you watch the SNL
I didn't watch it? Did you watch it? I watched
most of it.
Speaker 3: Well, I watched it was three hours long and a half,
wasn't it na And then there was a concert I
think on Friday night, and then there was something on Sunday,
and I made a whole weekend out of it. But
I watched, Yeah, I watched, like the I skimmed through.
You know, I used to love sen Now when I
was a kid. And when I see like clips of uh,
Jimmy Fallon doing a soul man like from over the weekend,
it gave.
Speaker 1: Me, you know, nostalgia, and I was like, I gotta
check this out.
Speaker 3: But then like then they bring in these new were
people that I have no idea who they are or
you know, doing these these skits that I have no
clue what's going. But then there was like, you know,
there was some good guests. I mean the audience looked
like every single face in the audience was an A lister.
I mean, Robert de Niro, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Baldwin, Yeah, Chaer,
Alec Baldwin, Blake and Ryan were in the audience.
Speaker 1: I mean, just so many David.
Speaker 3: Letterman just chilling out in the audience. Jack Nicholson like, crazy,
did you see it, Galen, I've.
Speaker 2: Just seen clips of it online. H Like I saw
the Bill Murray did a whole like weekend update like
ranking them. I saw Will Ferrell singing the Kendrick Lamar song. Yeah, yeah,
so I've just seen little clips of it.
Speaker 3: And then Adam Sandler I think did a He did
a I didn't see it yet, but did a musical
number was supposed to be really touching, like you know,
kind of going through the whole fifty years and then
also highlighting you know, some of the cast that passed away,
Phil Hartman and you know Farley and all that. So yeah,
I mean I think it. I'm gonna finish watching it
look pretty good.
Speaker 1: I will watch it. I there was some like you know,
kind of like you know, you know snl is.
Speaker 3: It's like their skits were kind of Steve Martin did
the opening, which he did pretty good, but yeah, but
the musical acts like Eddie Vedder played and Miley Cyrus
did nothing compares to you you know, like it just
was like a nice like homage from things. Paul Simon
opened with Sabrina Carpenter opened the show homeward bound.
Speaker 1: It was just it was kind of had that perfect
like nostalgic feel, you know, and like seeing all the
old faces from the past.
Speaker 3: My god, everybody's old now, it's just crazy. Even Steve
Martin is old.
Speaker 1: Oh he's so old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're I mean, they're all you know. Bill Murray
I think was on. I didn't see it yet, but
I'm sure the Weekend Update thing was probably a long
segment if they had to go through all the anchors,
you know, like Ackroyd and what's her name, Jane Kirk Curtain. Yeah,
so yeah, I'm just curious if you guys watched it.
Speaker 1: I watched, well, I should say I attempted to watch
the Saturday Saturday Night the movie. Oh, the Saturday Night
Live movie. It's called really, it's called Saturday Night It's
about it's a biopic, not a biopic. It's a biopic
about the kind of a bio. It's not even maybe
it's not a it's opposed to depict the first night
that the premiere of the show, right, and all the
stuff that was going on that night. But the energy
of the movie it's just got this weird like it's
everything I don't like in a movie. Yeah, and I
was trying to like it because is it new. I'll
tell fairly new came out like a couple of months ago.
Speaker 3: So they're like playing the main people that were in
the first.
Speaker 1: He's like, somebody's playing Chevy Chase. It's literally the first
night the first show. So they got a guy playing
Garrett Morris and they've got somebody playing yeah, Chevy Chase
and Billy Crystal. The somebody does a really good Billy
Crystal impression. It was it started out. We were kind
of really excited to watch it. Here's what happened, What happened,
what happened. So we wanted originally because Sadie and Xander
like Saturday Night Live and they have you know, as
I've said, we've watched the Colin Jost and Michael Cha
specials where they make each other do the jokes. Yeah,
so we've watched, but we've we used to watch it
a lot, but there's so many it's so hit or miss.
As we're discussing, but sometimes you're just like, oh God,
that episode was so bad, and then we spend our
time John and I go like, oh my god. But
the old in the old days, it was like this,
and there was this, and oh, let me tell you
about this sketch. Oh, let me tell you about Happy
fun Ball. But the commercials were so much funnier and
you know, okay, So the point is we were like,
let's as a family watch Saturday night the movie. But
like you know, it's really hard to tie these kids
down to like every time we're like, hey, guys, want
to watch a movie tonight, they're like maybe, and then
something else comes up. So finally the other night and
I will tell you about this too, but John had
the flu for all week and he was I made
him sleep in the other room. I made him isolate
because I was like, oh, hell no, I'm not getting
the flu. So this was the first night I invited
him that he could come back in the bedroom and
he was like, I just want to watch TV with you.
And there was we were trying to look for something
to watch and we saw that movie and he was like, oh,
I really want to watch it, but you know, I
feel bad because we said we'd watch it with Xander
and I was like, Foxander, he's never gonna like and
oh and Sadie came in and she's like, yeah, I
saw it and She's like, I didn't love it. So
I was like, so, see, Xander can watch it on
his own, let's watch it. So anyway, there was all
this build up. We start watching it and it's the
pacing of it. It has this lout like this jazz music.
Do you know movies that are like almost everything felt
like it was a dream. Yes. So it had this
book book music behind it, and everything was like and
now we're over here, and now we're in this person's
dressing room and now we're talking to this person and
it's all and then it keeps time stamping, like ten pm,
you know, and then it's like ten thirty pm and
like reading. And finally John and I looked at each
other and he was like, I just don't understand what
this movie is. Like this the pacing, it just feels
so all surreal. And I was like, I know, it's
not that enjoyable and he was like, it's really not.
And I was like, well, you know what, it's your
first night back in the bedroom. I was like, if
we're not liking it, like we're not at a movie theater,
walk away, yeah, and he was like okay, And so
we made the decision we were like halfway through the
movie and I was really not picking up. It's not
I didn't we didn't like it.
Speaker 3: That's the worst when you're watching, when you go to
a movie and you're just if you're not into it,
or if you're not invested in it, then what why bother?
Speaker 1: You just call it a day.
Speaker 3: There's so many movies that I walked out of in
my lifetime because my ex didn't want to just hang
out anymore.
Speaker 1: Like it was just like do I you know, if
you don't care about the characters, you're out. You know.
I wish that movie had been about the first season,
you know. I just don't think there was enough there
there to do the first to do the premiere episode.
I feel like if you did the first season, that's iconic, right,
Like we all know who those people are. Did John
Belushi's story, the Chevy Chase story, Like you see the
first season and you can depict what goes on. Even
if it was a documentary, I think that would be
freaking cool. Interviews with like a real deep dive kind
of style. Yeah, that's what I thought I was getting.
Maybe was like mm hmm, but yeah, oh that's a
that's a shame. Or what if they made a series
they called it Saturday Night and it was like an
eight episode thing, right the first season, that would be
cool and it was. It could be with actors. It
could be what they're doing with the Chevy, somebody playing Chevy.
Speaker 3: Chase, like that would have been better. Yeah, that would
have been better. Well that's a shame.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do have nostalgia for the show, but
I feel like you where I'm like, I haven't watched
it so long that consistently. Yeah, that's why I had to.
Speaker 3: Like, there was some skit where what's her name from Bride'smaid?
I love her, Christen Wig, Yeah, I didn't, And and
Kim Kardashian was in it anyway, it was Lawrence welk uh,
I think it was Lawrence Welks skit it was anyway,
and the it was Scarlett Johanson, Kim Kardashian and one
of the SNL skit girls came out and they were
singing and stuff, and then uh, like Kristen Wig came
out like dressed as this weird, freaky looking character. I
have no idea, and it could be a reoccurring skit
that they must have done.
Speaker 1: But if I've never seen it, like the Something Sisters. Yeah, yeah,
I think I remember that scary but like she has.
Speaker 3: No she has no hands and her hairline like she's
got a receding hairline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what the hell is that? I don't know see
like that?
Speaker 3: And that was one of the first skits of the night.
I think it was the like one of the Yeah,
I think it was the first skit.
Speaker 1: So then also you're expecting all of these A list
stars that are not going to be die hard SNL
fans that watch every week, and then you want them
to be like busting over themselves laughing, right, but they're
probably going to also be like, the hell's right because
I'm watching you.
Speaker 3: So that's why the magic of fast forwarding was great,
like you know, just because right, I mean for fucking
over three hours or however long. It was like I'm
not going to sit there and watch all the skits,
you know, because they were they were still kind of weak.
Speaker 1: But it was good.
Speaker 3: I mean, so far, so good from what I've seen.
Just the star power, that's all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird. It makes you feel, it makes you
feel some kind of way when you see people like
Bill Murray or Steve Martin. Yeah, they're so old, I know.
And you're like, oh my god, well what I told
you when we saw I told you Bill Murray was
on that Super Bowl commercial. I don't remember seeing, but
he looks so but yeah, yeah, it's crazy though, it
is crazy. Is this the time where I should bring
back the story about working with Steve Martin? Yeah? Remember
when I wrote for him for a day? I kind
of Do you remember this story, Kaitlin, it's been a
long time.
Speaker 2: I don't. So.
Speaker 1: I have my friend who I met who wrote on
Oh I met her working on whose line? Is it? Anyway?
She's a she's like a Tonight Show writer. She wrote
on The Tonight Show for a long time. Somehow, Steve
Martin was looking for people to do some stuff when
he was on tour with Edie Brokel. He wanted some jokes,
some banter that he would do with the crowd, and
he brought in a group of writers and this girl Beth,
who's a friend of mine, who's really funny. She's also
just a really prolific writer. She's just the kind of
person who if you say, like, hey, I have to
go do this awards thing, which is true, I have
to go do this Awards for the Jazz for a
Jazz thing in the Philharmonics. I'm like, I need some jokes.
Like two hours later, she's like, here's two pages of
jokes and they're all funny. Yeah, and I'm like wow, wow.
So she brought me in. She was like, listen, Steve
Martin's going to bring a group of us in. And
I pitched you and he said yes to come in
to write for the day. You get paid one thousand dollars.
So it's just one day of writing one day. You're
gonna be there for like a few hours. He's going
to like serve us lunch. She's like, I've done it before,
so I think I did it twice. But what I
remember of it is how fucking serious he is. He
is not a funny person to be around. He is
very dead serious. He takes himself very serious. He's very smart,
and he's very cultured. So you know how he's really
into art. Oh yeah, and he's a writer. Yeah, let
me stand it before I yes, but he Okay, So
what I know about Steve Martin is that whole character
that he was doing was kind of making fun of,
like this is what people like about comics, he was
not like that at all. And it wasn't even a
sense of humor. It was meant to be kind of derisive,
like except that people loved it right right. They love
I'm a wild and crazy guy, like they started. They
loved that persona jeuz. So that became like how he
got famous. But he apparently does not like that, and
that is not his like actual sensibility. And if you've
read his memoir, which very much reads not like a
fun memoir but like an autobiography you would check out
of the library if you were doing a book report
on Steve Martin in the sixth grade, it is real boring,
It is real dry. It is really like and then
I did this, and then I went to this school
and then I you know, there's no jokes. You're not
gonna laugh. But I was so excited, you know, I
was like, it's fucking Steve Martin. Oh my god. I
got really excited, and I wrote jokes and then we
went into his like movie room about something. What did
he need the jokes for? Were they he wanted the
jokes for? He was on the Bluegrass tour with eating cats,
but like where he was playing the band back and
forth with her kind of banja between songs, like jokes
for the audience like I got yeah, like jokes that
had to do with maybe even a song they were
doing or bluegrass or whatever. Just jokes that because people
expect him to be funny, so he needed he doesn't
want to sit around and write and act. And I'm
sure he came up with some jokes himself. He's very
smart and funny, but he just wanted a room full
of writers to come up with jokes for him. So
we get there. He brings all the writers into for well,
he serves us this like beautiful lunch while his like
chef or whatever, there's a person there serves us this
like amazing these like I mean, really nice lunch. I'm
already like impressed, you know, I'm already like I'm being
paid for this like serving us lunch. Then we go
into his movie room, his theater, and we watch the tour.
I think we watched a lot of the tour, and
then we were we went into a room. Now understand
I had pre written some jokes, right, I wasn't thinking
that I was just going to be on the spot,
Like Okay, now that I've seen I'd already watched old
stuff and I anyway, so then it was just like, okay,
pitch jokes. You know, it was really scary because it sounds. Yeah.
I was intimidated. So every time you go to say
a joke to him, like you're like, oh, I've got something,
and then you say it, he does not crack a smile.
He would just stare at you and go huh. And
if he asked a question about it, you felt a
little bit okay, like he'd be like and then wait
and then you say what And then sometimes he jot
stuff down. I thought I had I I'm gonna say
this about myself. I'm not bad at getting into the
voice of somebody else. Like remember when I told you
I worked for Hollywood Squares and I wrote for Ellen
DeGeneres as a total cunt and didn't accept any jokes
from the lowly Hollywood Squares writers. Because she had her
two writers, Karen kill Garriff and Karen Anderson, brand of
her two Funny Women, Very Funny Women. Karen kil Garriff
is the co host of My Favorite Murder, and then
Karen Anderson was a really funny writer, but she went
everywhere with these two girls, and she didn't want so
I had to submit. I submitted jokes though, because I
can write in her voice, and then they would they
would deliver them to her, only they would curate only
stuff they thought she'd like, and they didn't tell her
that they were from the Hollywood Square. They were just like,
here's some jokes, right, So she did some of my
jokes not knowing they were mine. And then Ellen DeGeneres
was rude to me when I met her and gave
me like a dead fish handshake because Karen Kilgarreff was
my friend at the time and Karen Anderson, so they
brought me and they're like, oh, do you want to
meet La, And she couldn't have been more like dismissive
and not cared. Okay, so Steve anyway, I thought I
wrote some kind of funny jokes for Steve Martin, but
I was getting very intimidated because he was He did
not crack a smile at all. He did not laugh,
and it wasn't just me. He didn't laugh at anybody's jokes.
And there was stuff that I thought was genuinely funny,
and then the writers all started overcompensating because he wasn't
giving us anything. So the writers started laughing at each
other's jokes too hard. It was awkward. Yeah you know,
oh you know who was one of the people there
that day, Jeff Czario. Oh really who you might know? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
doing something at the Corolla studios. Yeah, Jeff Cesario was
being really funny. Jeff Cesario and I have talked since then.
We were like, that was so surreal because he was
also like holy writing for my idol.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure every writer in that room, right, So
he had some funny jokes. How many writers are in
the room.
Speaker 1: There were like five of us. It was David David Feldman,
to know who he is. It was David Feldman, Jeff Cesario,
Me Beth, and another guy who I'm forgetting right now.
There were like five. Wasn't a ton of small group, Yes,
a small group. It wasn't like there were like twenty writers, right, No,
there was a little group of us. We're all sitting
in his living room eating sandwiches and like pitching him jokes.
So one of the jokes that I pitched him was okay,
it was you know, I was I would do it
in like comedy clubs. I tried this in comedy clubs
and it never worked for me. So if you don't laugh,
don't worry about it. Nobody ever laughed when I said it,
but I would say, I was just in the bathroom
and they have this sign that says like employees must
wash their hands, Like, man, lucky, I don't work here.
That was a joke, right, So pitched that joke to
really nothing from the room. Later I found out that
he was doing that joke and it was killing. And
then I got to see a video of him really yes,
and then he added something about like, oh my god,
I hope there's no police here. Like he added some
funny tag to it too, which also got a big
l but like, you would not have known that any
he did another He did a couple of my jokes
on the tour, but you would not have known that
he thought anything was funny because he was.
Speaker 3: So he never told the writers like what jokes he
was just you just took your jokes and then went
off to do with it.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, And then I've I was obsessed with it. Afterwards,
I was like, oh my god, I want to know
did he use any of my jokes? And Beth's like, yes,
like he did. Because Beth was like a joke machine.
She had so many jokes. I was like, oh my god,
he probably loves her, you know. But she's like, no,
he didn't use that many of mine either, So yeah,
you never know. That's my Steve Martin's story. Wow. But
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, so was your weekend? Well, everybody in the
world has the flu right now. Oh yeah, And I remember,
I don't know when it was, like maybe eight months
ago or something, some people had COVID and I was saying, like,
COVID is kind of like a cold now, and then
everybody got real mad, big mad at me, and like
I get that, but and I know that some people
get really really sick from COVID. But my experience over
the last few years with COVID is that when my
kids have gotten COVID or when I had COVID, when
it was it was it felt more like a cold,
but the flu man that kicks your ass. Yeah, And
I cannot get the flu because a couple of times
in my life I've had the flu is the sickest
I've ever been. I almost got fired from a job
because I was out for so long because I was
sick for weeks and anytime I get a cough, as
everybody knows because they can't help but comment constantly on
our socials about how much my coughing irritates that I
don't want to get a cough R. So John started
coughing and it was a telltale like fluish, like a
dry cough, and I was like, dude, you're sick, and
he was like, no, I'm not. I feel fine, like
it just have like a little dry cough. And I'm like, yeah,
it's not out of nowhere, like you have a cough
because you're sick, and he was like, I really don't
think I'm sick. And then by that night I was
like during the day he's like oh, I might be sick.
And I was like, yeah, you're gonna go sleep in
the other room because I do not want the flu.
Next day he was really not feeling well, so I
ended up the next day taking him to urgent care.
Sure enough, influenza a wo So he had to isolate
the whole time. And I'm going to say this in
John's for John, he's not like you hear about these
men that are such babies when they're sick, and he's
really not. He's the kind of guy that plays it down. Yeah,
so he's like, no, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine,
And I'm like, you're shivering on the couch like you're
really sick. It's okay, Like just be sick, just let
me take care of you, you know.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: But I was being, I guess, pretty extra because I
was always wearing a mask. You hate him. Yeah, I
was so serious though I do not want to get
I cannot.
Speaker 3: My friend, my girlfriend too cast her. I know, the
same thing happened to her. Her boyfriend he had the flu.
She banned him to the other room. Then she her
and I volunteered at that the place to the warehouse
where we were packing things for the fire victims, and
the lady that was running it was saying that there's
there's COVID going on at the other shelter where we're
working at. There's COVID has been going around, but nobody
over here is test it. Blah blah blah blah blah. Okay,
So it kind of went in one ear and out
the other like.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 3: Then so Suzanne's boyfriend gets the flu. He gets he's
got the flu. Then she starts getting like this, like
tingling or sort throat. So she goes to the dots,
she goes to urgent care. They she's thinking, oh, what
if I get the flu whatever, They take her test
and they're like, no, you don't have the flu, you
have COVID. So she got the flu and then she
got COVID and it was the worst. She had COVID,
Like Dwight, that was our I don't know, second or
third time maybe, and it was the worst it's ever been.
Oh she said she was damn like she couldn't even
look at her phone for like two days.
Speaker 1: It was bad. Yeah, I don't want you to think
that I am saying COVID isn't bad. I'm saying that
my experience going around has not been was not nearly
as bad as when I had the flu. I've had
the flu three different times in my life, and it
was really bad. Yeah, where I thought like, just like
one time, I thought I was not gonna make it.
I mean, I was so sick from the flu and
the headaches I used to get from, like the sinus headaches,
but COVID. I the one time I got COVID. The
early time, I hardly had any symptoms. Yeah, John was
kind of sick with it, and then I just didn't
really feel it that much at all. But I was
also vaccinated. I do get my flu vaccines too. Yeah,
hopefully they don't outlaw those because they are helpful. And
maybe that also, I have had a flu shot this year,
so and John doesn't ever get a flu shot. He
just doesn't. Yeah, well maybe there you go. But on
the other hand, he did rebound after we got him
he got Tama flu, but then he was getting it
was making him really crazy to be isolated. He just
started feeling he was like I just feel really like useless,
and like I don't even feel sick anymore, and I'm
having to be back here. And I was like, yeah,
because for the greater good of not getting the rest
of the house site. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, the flu that's
going around is pretty bad. Weren't your kid sick?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my whole household was sick. We never like tested
for COVID or anything, but yeah, we were all. I
didn't really get it too bad. Amy didn't really get
it too bad. It was mostly Blake. Eila doesn't when
she gets sick. She doesn't normally like get that sick,
you know what I mean. And even she was out
for like a whole day, and Amy's mom was.
Speaker 1: Out for like a week.
Speaker 2: And also the neurovirus is going around too. Yeah, that
one is really bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially with little kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the neurovirus. Yeah, we were doing like water cooler
the other day and Gary had her really bad. But
I don't think we had that. I don't know what
we had, but it hit Blake and Amy's mom pretty bad.
Speaker 1: But I I was weird.
Speaker 2: I kind of got a little bit sick, like a cough.
I developed cough early in the week and I got better.
And then like one night I was watching I was
watching Nose Faratu and which is not like the greatest
movie to be watching when you're like getting sick, because
I was like starting to get cold. I was like
starting to get the shivers, and I was like, I
thought I got over this. So I had to like
stop the movie, which is very kind of like dark
and creepy and scary, and I just slept it off
and I was good the next day.
Speaker 1: What your girls do for Valentine's Day? Anything? Or did
you just did?
Speaker 2: They just did school stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to work all day, so we didn't
really do much. And then they had a birthday party
to go to on Saturday, so I was working all
day Friday, and then took him to this little like
amusement park on Saturday.
Speaker 1: And you guys didn't do anything. You were in two
separate rooms. Yeah, it's I mean, we don't. I'm not
a Valdesday person. Yeah, I just don't care. Yeah, I
don't know. I'm not in like you know me. Yeah,
I'm just not a person who's like likes any kind
of forced. I don't want to have to go buy
a card and I don't need John. I know how
much he loves me. And so basically I was like, hey,
happy Valentine's day. It was like happy Valentine's Day. I
love you.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: That was our whole exchange. That's cute. I sent Natalia flowers.
Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 3: Surpriser, she's still dating the guy that lives up. No, oh, no,
she's single. But she's been working really hard. She's been
uh and she's not been feeling good. She's gotten the
sickness that won't go away. Yeah, I know, I might
go visit her this week. Maybe I'll take her to
urgent care because she's just been like sick and just
run down. But like going to the library and studying,
and so it was Valentine's dance, like I send her
some Flowers's so sweet. I remember my dad giving me
like a clear umbrella with like polka dotted red hearts
all over it for Valentine.
Speaker 1: And I love that umbrella.
Speaker 3: And you never think, like for a parent to do
anything for your kids for like when they're little. Maybe,
but like I don't know. Yeah, so she was like, mom,
that was such a nice surprise. But yes, she's single.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I I thought about like doing stuff for the kids
for Valentine's Day, like when they were younger, but I
just never did because it always did something at school, right,
and it was just like another extra thing that I
you know, because when they're in elementary school, yeah you
gotta do oh my god, all the Valentine college we
have talked about, but like, yes, that you they the
school wants them, like when they're in the first grade
to write everybody's name. Come on, they're not writing twenty
five names to each person with their own. That is
like the homework. Yeah, beat all homework, right, so you
end up doing it. Of course, get that freaking roster
out or like download the roster. Here's the class roster. Okay,
make sure you don't miss anybody here, ross check. Will
you beat my Valentine? Yes, yeah, I remember. Yes. It
was pain in the ass.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they that when they were that age that
they had their like time in the classroom, like that
was there and then I'm gonna come home with all
these like random candy shit stuck together with cards, little
those little plastic cards stuck together, making a mess in
the back of your car.
Speaker 1: And then they always would say like don't do candy.
That was always like a big thing, like do not
do candy. And then we'd all do candy. Everybody whoever's
rule following, well, you do the conversation hearts, but half
these people would do like some chocolate. It's like freaking Halloween, right,
you know, and you're like, didn't they say? And then
they come home with that little brown paper bag full
of their Valentine full of the ones, And then you
take them out and see the parents that made their
kids because it's the worst penmanship ever. You know, you
can barely read your kid's name on there. But then
it's like a bag full of candy and you're like, oh,
on the household that didn't bring candy because I was
trying to rule follow And this one's got the mini
fun dip and this one's got the heart shape lollipop
and you're like, oh yeah, on the house.
Speaker 3: And then there was the you gotta get the teacher
or something and to bring something for the teacher. Yes,
everyone who's gonna get who's going to pitch in for
her having her coffee and her bagels, who's gonna get
her flowers?
Speaker 1: And like, ah, oh my god, Caitlin, are you doing?
Speaker 3: He probably doesn't know he's not the default bear. No,
you don't know anything about that, is Amy though, yeah
she does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they were doing all their stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 1: See this is fucked up. Oh they were doing all
their stuff. You know, that's m shit. Like this is
what this is why we say default parent because like, yeah,
we have to. If we don't do it, ain't nobody
gonna do it. It's they're not going to get their
own coffee. It's not only that. Have you ever heard
in your whole entire life of like a room dad, No,
the room mom. Have you ever room dad? Does that
even sound familiar to anybody? No, there is no room dad.
There's room mom, and that's it. And if there's single
dads that are that are that step it up and
are like great dads, that's awesome. But I've never heard
of one of them being like, I'll be room dad.
It's not a thing. It was not the same ring. No,
so the room mom. So that's one step up from
what we're doing. We're default parenting. We're like, okay, where
do I venmo the money? The room mom? You know,
I think I did that one time for my kids
in preschool, and I was like, never again. Oh my
kids were like why are you here?
Speaker 3: I remember I had a volunteer at the school and
I was I was the resay the recess uh you know,
uh monitor at recess time.
Speaker 1: And they were like, are you fucking kidding me? Why?
Speaker 3: And this is my one sanctuary out of the day
where we can come outside and be with our friends
and not be stuck in a classroom.
Speaker 1: And there's our mom. Both of them they were like
hit the bricks. Time for you to bounce, Like, oh
my god, Julie, our friend, Julie, I think I've told
you this recently. Did that. She was really really into
like being a part of things, like with her kids,
and she had a job being the being the recess person,
and she had the same even her even she was
like her kids were like, mom, no, right. She was like, yeah,
my kids did not want me there. That was a job.
She took it as like a part time job. Oh
she did that's right. Yeah. And then her kids were like, no,
thanks mom, And she was like, oh, I guess I
can't do this job.
Speaker 2: There was even like a little sign up sheet, cause
I take the girls to school most days and there's
a little sign up sheet at Blake's school that's saying like, oh,
we're having a Valentine's Day party. We need like this
and this and this and this, and you write your
name down. And I was like, I'm just going to
wait a week and see how many people fill out
that name because I don't. All I'd have to do
is buy something and bring it. And I was like,
you know, let's see how well this fills up before
I have to write my name in there.
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Serve quality care from someone who cares. I was going
to say that when as a person who does do
a lot of stuff from my kids' school, and anytime
I send out a sign up genius, you really separate
like the wheat from the chaff, Like the people that
don't ever sign up for anything, but you really see
the parents that are like as soon as they get
that email from their kids' school, they see somethings needed
of them, they head on over to that sign up genius.
You'll get a few of them within the first thirty
minutes of when you play it up, and then you'll
get some of them within like twenty four hours of
the actual event. Right, that's Kaitlin, Right, that's wait until
you've gotten like four reminders like hey, we still need volunteers,
and then people are like okay, and I'll bring a
box of chips. Right, you know, right? Right? Did your
are your girls? They're too young for Girl Scouts? Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what age you put them
in there, but they don't do it yet. I mean
I think they are too young for it.
Speaker 1: Because my trying. I think they need to be like six. Yeah, yeah,
they got to start out. Yeah it's Brownies or Daisies
or something. First grade.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's a There was a So now there's
at the end of my street. Every single time I
leave my house, there's the Girl Scout cookie stand. And
uh I was like, oh, I you know, why don't
I stop and on my way you know, I went
and did my errands, came back stop, I bought like
six boxes of Girl Scout cookies. I'm not gonna eat
any of it. I'm like, I put the thin mints
in the freezer. I'll have those once in a while.
I know you're I can give them to you, Stephanie
if you want. I'm kidding, girl, you think I don't
know my freezer right now? I just bought some yeah, yeah,
so now and then I made friends with my new neighbors.
I've never met them before, and uh, but now I
see them all the time. Now I'm like, they're like, hey, Hi,
we want to buy any more. I'm like, no, I
bought six boxes.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: They actually saved me the other night when it was
pouring rain there. They sent me a text because we
exchange numbers, you and your girlfriend me and I knew
my new girl scout connection because it was a husband
and the wife out there. And they're out there Saturday
and Sunday and I'm out there walking fill like, and
I have to pass them.
Speaker 1: They're at the end of my street.
Speaker 3: If I want to leave my house, I have to
go right past them, and they're right in front of me,
so I have no choice.
Speaker 1: It's like a drug dealer outside of your like apartment
complex somewhere like, I got to pass them. I can't
stop doing cocaine. It's too easy to get. And they're
making eye contact with me, following me down. You know,
you're like, no, I still have a little cocaine left
from the other from yesterday.
Speaker 3: They're like, really, I have those vanilla tea biscuit ones
that you'd like. Those those biscuit ones. I didn't even
know which ones I bought, like the the cocone oils,
the Samas, the Samoa's.
Speaker 1: I bought the tag alongs, I bought peanut butter, and
I bought the thin mints, and then there was a
new one. They talked you into the Samors, which are
only going to be around for those special clock Yes,
I did. I got those two. Yeah, They're like, this
is your last opportunity last season running alone on them,
they told me. I was like, yeah, there's a reason
for that. Probably cookie that didn't work out as well
as the other ones.
Speaker 3: Yet they have so many I haven't seen Girl Scout
cookies in a long time. So many different rides. But yeah, anyway,
so now they're like they're out there every day in force,
Like you know, Scout.
Speaker 1: Sound terrible, but I am suspicious I find the whole
Girl Scout organization to be kind of sus and I know,
I hate that. I hate that we've come to a
point where I have to worry about everything. I say
that people are going to come for me, but you
guys are all gonna at me if we were still
if I was still on Twitter, you can't because I'm
not on Twit. But you'll, I don't know, you'll find
a way. You'll Instagram message me, You'll go on Facebook
and start a thread about it on the relitan page.
But I don't know where does the money go exactly.
That's a lot of fucking cookies. Yeah, where And they're
kind of pricey and they sell a lot of cookies,
and like, oh you only I know from having had
a kid in Girl Scouts that it is a small
percentage of the cookie sales that goes to your actual troop,
to getting to go on your trip to Disneyland or whatever.
I remember that. Yeah, it's like ten percent, right, It's
not like seventy percent. So I guess it goes back
to the cookie manufacturing. But I have a feeling that
there are some higher ups in the Girl Scout organization
get money. I don't really hear about the Girl Scouts.
Oh my gosh, the ACLU is being funded by the
Girl Scouts or the you don't even I don't hear
about like they're building there, the Girl Scout money is
going to help support habitat for human I don't know.
Good point. I could be wrong. I could be wrong.
But every time I hear like, oh, a small percentage
goes to your troop, I'm like, so these Girl Scouts
are out there every day busting ass, slinging the right cookies,
slinging cookies? Does it teach them a little bit about math?
And I guess does it teach them? Is there something
in it? But like, well, but when I go to
my Girl Scouts, someone's getting rich and it's not the kids. Yeah,
the kids were nowhere near the Girl Scout cookie stand.
It was the husband and wife sitting there, right, and
the two girls were like off on a swing in
the tree the other and you know they're they're not
doing shit. They don't even know what day it is, right,
But the husband and wife are out there slinging the cookies.
So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. Where is all that money?
There's a lot of money to be made in girl Scouts.
Speaker 1: Yes, where does it all go? I mean, think about it.
If you're doing like let's say, multi level marketing, it's
you know, and you're out there selling your like Lulu uh,
it's not Lulu Lemon, No Lularo leggings.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You ever think about the fact that Lularo is very
close to Lulu Lemon. Yeah? I did think about that.
That's why I never knew lemons. Got to be really
salty about the fact that like Lularo right kind of
is like also leggings, ye know what I mean, ugly, crappy,
shitty leggings, smelly leggings, the worst, the worst leggings stuff
like or they came like they used to because they
got wet and then they had some mold and the
people would open the boxes, right and then there would
amazing the leggings that had like the the cock and balls.
But it wasn't cokingmas like cherry like a little cherry plant,
you know, whatever it was. But it turned out to
look like it was because it was on the crotch right,
and there was Yes, that was so that documentary is amazing.
It was so good, highly recommend. Yeah. Yeah, but if
you're selling let's say multi level marketing and you get
a percentage, but you know how hard it is to
make money. Even if you sell a shit ton of lularow,
you're still making a small amount of money because guess
who's getting rich. The people at the top, the people
who own the company. They're they're like owning boats and
mansions and right, yes, yes, the poor person who's you know,
busting their butt constantly doing like Facebook Live exactly, Laro
and all start indoor and like that's not And also
they have to spend money to make money.
Speaker 3: They would have to spend like three hundred dollars in
products months at least or whatever in order to make
a buck back.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it was. Yeah. I remember when we both
like many years ago. I know, you did your rowdown
in fields for a while, and I really thought it
would be a great idea. This was kind of early
in the Stella and Dot days. Huh oh my god. Okay,
so remember when this was so many years ago, when
I was doing parental discretion and somebody was wearing this
necklace that I thought was so cute. It was like
a like kind of a beat. I can't even describe it.
But I was like, that necklace is so cute. Where
did you get it? And they said, oh, Stella and Dot.
So I look up Stella and Dot. I don't understand.
I didn't understand that it was multi level marketing at
the time. I was like, Oh, it's like this jewelry
company that you can only get like a lot from
a from a representative. I truly didn't understand that it
was multi level marketing and pressure sales, okay. So I
was like, oh, like that's so cool, Like I want
to order this necklace. So then I had a Oh.
The girl who told me about it was like, well,
I have a friend who sells it, so you can
get it through her. So I did. I bought this
necklace through her. And then I had this friend who'd
been out of work for a while who also thought
it was cute. And I was like, oh, so you
should sell Stella and Dot huh. And I could get
a bunch of people because there's stuff so cute. I
was so innocent, honestly, I'll get a bunch of friends
to come over you do a party. I'll do a
little party for you at my house. So I'm at
parental discretion. I invite all the writers and like some
of my neighbors. So little did I know, and they
didn't act like this. To be in their defense, nobody
ever said anything to me about this, but now I
feel bad. I invited them all over and then they
got pressured because I was like their boss. I was
the star of the show, so they all felt like
they had to buy something from my Stella and dot
party for my friend Kelly. Do you remember my friend
Kelly who I feel like it's been long enough that
she could maybe come on our show, Okay? Do you
remember my friend Kelly whose husband furry became a bit
of a furry and ran away and became very involved
in man Okay, and she came on the show and
did a whole episode and told her a whole story
which was freaking fascinating. And then he then the the
head of the Burning Man group, sent her a seasoned
to sist. I didn't know that. We ended up having
to take the episode down and people were really bummed. Oh,
I'm gonna say we should run an episode because she
think I think she named names of like the person
who her ex husband anyway, and she talked her ex
moment is married to somebody mm hm that was also
into it. Yes, and that what you call him furries. Well,
he wore a tail. I remember started wearing a tail.
It wasn't like a full on furry, but he would
he would wear a he would wear like chaps and
a tail places. And then remember he was like he
wanted to start wearing makeup everywhere, and she was like,
I mean, okay, I guess you know, if that's what
it makes you happy. But then he told her he
wanted to have her permission to go to like cuddle
parties and like kissing parties, and she was like, no,
that's right, Oh my god, yeah yeah, and then she
eventually he was just like, well, this is what the
lifestyle I want to lead, and she was like, okay,
not with me. I would like to have a follow
up on that, right, Well, that's what I'm thinking. It's
been so long. Maybe we could have her Yeah, I
could ask her to coin yeah, but anyway, oh oh, so,
just to wrap that up, so she came and did
the Stella and Dot party. She started selling it. It
did not last that long, but I made everybody without
meaning to buy, so she did real well at that party, yes,
and then had struggled ever since, ever since, right, yeah,
and then I realized, oh, then I wanted to sell it.
I was like, I should sell it and I should
just promote it on Facebook or like. And then the
Stele and Dot people were like, no, you have to
like buy I was like, I don't want to buy
the thing. I just want to do it. I just
want to show my show me wearing it and say like, hey,
if you want to buy this, I want to be
like an affiliate program. Yes, like give me a link
and if people buy it, like I get a percentage.
And they're like, no, that's not how it works. You
have to like have parties. And I was like, well,
I'm not going to do that. An I don't want
to buy like four hundred dollars worth of jewelry and
then try to sell it. And they're like, well, sorry,
so that happened, too bad. You can't do it your
own way. All right, Listen, we have a guest for
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