Speaker 1: I made a decision.
Speaker 2: Pace Sunny Sun on ahead a vision, Its night.
Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?
Speaker 3: Welcome to for crying out loud, I'm your host, Lynnette Paradise. Yay, okay, okay, girl, Okay.
I missed that last name. I loved having that last name.
I'm getting it back. And I've been saying this for
a long time.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to get your name back, is it.
Speaker 3: It's not really that hard, but then all the other
things you gotta do that you know comes with it.
Go to the DMV passport, you know. But yeah, it's
you know, it's processed. So you didn't watch the Oscars
last night, well two nights ago, by now, I.
Speaker 2: Mean I watched. I turned it on right when Paul
Thomas Anderson was winning Best Director for one battle after another,
and then I was like, I've seen enough. I forgot
about the beginning. How was it?
Speaker 3: The beginning was kind of did you see the movie
what's it called?
Speaker 1: Warning? Wait?
Speaker 3: Weapons Weapon Now? With the kids running out of town
and the lady. It was a horror movie and the
lady had red hair. Anyway, so Conan O'Brien pretended to
be the lady and he like did a thing on that.
I mean, it was in his opening. It was okay,
I didn't think it was.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't know, because here's the thing. I last minute
decided I'm going to go to Florida this week because
my family's going to be there for spring break or whatever,
and Wendy really wants me to come. And you know,
my kids are still in school and I don't have
a dog anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, by the way, thank you to so
many people that donated. We raised at this point it's
about sixteen hundred dollars for that fun. Yeah, so thank
you guys. And you'll be getting a little note from
me each person that donated, so thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, so I was on the phone with you.
Speaker 2: We just shout it out again though Freddy's friend Frankie's friends.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, And if you go to my Instagram, it's the
first post up there.
Speaker 2: So and I haven't donated yet, but I haven't booked that.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the link is for the donation is in the bio.
Because I couldn't post the link in my in my post.
Instagram wouldn't take it right.
Speaker 2: It wasn't you did post one on Facebook?
Speaker 3: That one is on a yeah on our I also
posted on our for crying out Loud Paige as well. Yeah,
with the link that's clickable, but the link that's clickable
on Instagram is in my bio so Frankie's friends and yeah.
And I was just reading some of the stories of
some of the surgeries that some dogs that they've saved,
and it's just such a great organization. So last night
I was on the phone with United Airlines for an
hour on hold.
Speaker 1: So I'm just sitting.
Speaker 3: There and I'm like, uh, I'm on looking on my phone,
and I saw the Conan O'Brien opening, but I couldn't
hear it because I'm listening to the hold music right.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to hear.
Speaker 3: So maybe it was a great maybe it was a
great monologue, but after I watched it, I could barely
hear it, so I was like, I guess it's all right.
Speaker 1: And then that's the only thing I've saw.
Speaker 3: And the other thing I saw was the clip of
the memoriam for Rob brian Or that Billy Crystal did,
which was really good, and they had all the celebrities
from all it like from most of his movies. Up there,
you know, like Demi Moore and you know, cast from
what's it called? Oh Meg, Ryan was up there, like
all different actors were up there. It was really touching,
really sweet. But that's all I watched. I didn't see
any I don't even know some of these movies.
Speaker 1: Did you see.
Speaker 3: The Leonardo DiCaprio movie.
Speaker 1: No, I thought you said you were gonna see it.
Speaker 2: No? Oh you mean one battle after another? Yeah, yes,
I did see it.
Speaker 1: You did?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it good?
Speaker 2: I he did not like it very much? Yeah, okay,
I mean there were some good parts. I just thought
it was very overwrought and like I didn't even understand
what was happening a lot of Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't love it.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, Well I didn't see any of the
movies either, And uh, that's it. I just it's so
weird because I used to I love the Oscars, so
watch it all the time when I was working, you know,
at ABC or you know, we we used to get
together and watch it. It was a big deal. But now
it's like, am I getting old? Because I don't know
any of these movies anymore. It's just like all these
little independent movies. Frankenstein like, no, thank you. It's like,
you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. And also there's so many award shows
and then the movies are all the same for all
the award shows, So what's the point. There's like the
Saga Awards, which is now called like the Actor Award.
There's the Critics Choice, there's the Golden Globes, there's.
Speaker 1: The Right I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so many and they all sort of there's
you know, all blend together. Yeah yeah, and they all
are the same people winning all the right same movies
are winning, right right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'm leaving early in the morning and I'm coming
back on Monday. Thank you for letting us record on
Tuesday next week. So and yeah, I mean it's just
been kind of quiet, like there's not much going on
at my house because the kids are back at school,
and now I'm starting to look for houses to buy,
and I'm also putting up my condo for sale. If
anybody wants to buy a condo in Studio City, let
me know. I mean, I feel like it shouldn't be
that hard to sell. Plus you fix it up a lot, right, Yeah,
I'm going to be meeting with the realtor this well,
not this week, next week now, but yeah, now I'm
going to start looking for houses. Not everything is so
fricking expensive. It's ridiculous out there, but you know, and
it's kind of scary to be buying something on your
own or whatever. But I've done it before with the condo,
so it's just now it's going to be a house.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: So it's just you know, it's a little scary, but
I'm I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: I have that to look forward to.
Speaker 3: So, and you have a realtor you like, yes, yeah,
we worked with him on the old house. I really
like him a lot. He's young, he's kind of nerdy.
He's a go getter. He's very like, he always happy,
you know, kind of a salesman guy, but not in
a creepy way, like really just a young go getter,
a hustler.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's really sweet. So and then I had
to tell Dawn that her daughter's gonna have to go
month to month.
Speaker 1: With the condo, and she was.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, that's all, you know, that's fine, And then
she asked me how much I'm going to sell it?
For and I was like, why you want to buy it?
And she was like maybe, I don't think she's going
to buy it, but so yeah, I'm looking forward to
that and my trip tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And then that money should all be yours, right Oh
yeah yeah, because you've bought it before you ever got married.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I paid for the mortgage and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's mine the condo okay, yeah, yeah, so that'll
be a nice chunk. Oh but then what am I
talking about? Then you got to put it into another house.
Speaker 3: Right exactly? Not like it's not like I get to
keep it. I mean, I'm keeping it, but yeah, it's
going to go, but a lot of.
Speaker 2: It would if you're going to make a ton of
profit because it's paid off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bought it in ninety nine. That condo, it's
paid off. Is it paid off or almost paid off?
Like maybe sixty grand one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you'll make a bunch of money and then
you'll take some of that money and put it into
it into a down payment.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, So because I feel like I'm not a financial bro.
Oh you're not, but I feel like I have heard
you don't want to put a ton of money down
on a house, like you don't want to. It's not
a good idea to like buy how in cash?
Speaker 1: Right, right, That's what I'm I mean.
Speaker 3: Some people are saying, you know, don't put too much
down and keep it in your you know, savings and
your whatever savings accounts, or put more money down so
you have such a low payment.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I have to start really looking and seeing how much
I'm going to qualify for and all that. I'm getting
a qualifying letter for the loan within the next couple
of days, so I'll have that, because that's the first
thing you need when you start looking at houses. You're
going to put in offers. So, yeah, how long have
you owned your house?
Speaker 2: We bought our house in two thousand and four. This
because I was pregnant, So basically we got married in
two thousand and four February of two thousand and four.
A month later, I found out I was pregnant with
LB and we were in escrow when I found out
I was pregnant. Wow, because we found the house we
weren't I wasn't even sure we were going to have kids.
So we bought a three bedroom, two bath, kind of
smallish house. Yeah, I want to say the house had
like like fourteen hundred square feet when we bought, because
we were like, well, it's two of us, what do
you need. It's kind of an open space, it's got
a living room. It's sort of attack like it's just
one long room, so you make one part of it
the dining room and the rest of it is sort
of the living room. And it's got on one side
two bedrooms and on the other side of the house
one bedroom and one tiny bathroom. And we were like,
that's fine. Yeah, And I've told you this story because
the realtor we had, who was super nice, she was like, well,
if you have a baby, you should probably have your bedroom.
The bedroom we wanted was on one side of the house, right,
and then we thought the other side of the house
would have like an office.
Speaker 1: Right and a guest room.
Speaker 2: And she was like, well, you should probably be in
have your bedroom in the other side of the house
in case you have a baby. Then you can put
the nursery right across the hall. And I was like,
so we did not plan it that way, but then
in our minds we were like, you know what she's
talking about, And then literally found out while in escrow.
I was like, oh my god, I'm pregnant because remember
that was like first try for us. We were just
like we were married now, right, so like time's a
ticken because I got married at thirty six, yeah, and
I had her at thirty seven, So.
Speaker 3: Me too, well I had I got pregnant at thirty six, yeah,
and I had alb at thirty seven yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, by the time we moved into the house,
we had to have our we changed around then when
I got pregnant with twins, we had to take out
a loan. I'm trying to think if we refinanced her,
if we just took out a heelock and we made
so we had a lnai in the back of the house.
It was such unusable space because it was so hot
out there.
Speaker 3: It was not so many houses in the valley had
those linais all glass, yeah and on the edge, and
all it turned in to be is a hot box.
Speaker 1: And these houses in the valley yes, yeah, But we were.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, well, this is kind of genius because we
can make this into like office, playroom area and it's
already permitted. So we got the contractor and then the
contractor was like, well, it's permitted as alnai, not as
living space, right of course. And I'm like, what's the difference.
It's permitted, Yeah, it is a permit. He's like, no,
you have to because you don't know what the foundation is,
blah blah blah. So of course, what we thought might
cost us like ten grand to just insulate the walls
or whatever, was like sixty thousand, which then turned into
probably like eighty thousand all told, because you know, while
they're right like, well, it might as well update the
We had track lighting in our living room, but nothing
major fixes. So then we have the twins. So now
we're in a house that's like six it was sixteen
hundred and ninety eight square feet, but the twins are
sharing a bedroom, right, And at a certain point I
was like, we either need to move or we got
to build a second floor. We got to do something,
because you were all with me during this, and John's like,
what it's fine, kids in New York like share a bedroom, right.
I was like, we're not black girl twins. Now they're
living in a peptobysmal pink bedroom. Xander is not happy
and like not through high school right right in New York. Yeah. Yeah,
so that's when we converted the garage. Okay, so but
we've never moved. So wait, how did you do the
baby thing? If?
Speaker 1: When the baby when?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 3: Where was lb if? You guys were across?
Speaker 2: So we moved when we knew we were pregnant with twins.
We did move to the other side of the house,
and then we put the twins across and elbit so
all the kids were on one side. Yeah, but they
had to share a room. But the extra room it's
hard to explain. We couldn't make that a bedroom at
the time because it was like, uh, it was like
an open structure kind of thing. It was like a
big wide doorway. It couldn't We would have had to
build a wall, right, which trump wasn't even like an office.
We would have had to It would have been a
whole different, weird thing to take that a bedroom. Also,
there was no bathroom. Well I can't, I can't explain it.
We were like, that will be our office. So then
our office was became our bedroom, right, Okay, so then
everything was occupied, no room at the end. So two
kids in one bedroom, room, I'll be in another bedroom,
us in another bedroom. A office just part of their
playroom right right, big kind of open space that we
had built ins for where we worked, and then they
had all their toys and books and stuff in there.
It was so when it came time to like, they
need to have their own room, it was really tough.
It was like, there's nothing to do besides convert our
garage because everyone we talked to about building a second
story was.
Speaker 1: Like, no, not do that. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And now I was looking at I want to get
a house with a pool, but like I'm finding looking
online at some of the houses, there's really nice houses
that don't have pools that are in my price range.
And then I was like, well, maybe I could put
in a pool.
Speaker 1: Glenn.
Speaker 3: You know, Glenn's been great talking to because he's really
good at hed. He knows his construction, he has guys
and stuff. And he told me that he could have
his company put in a pool for pretty cheap. But
then I talked to my finance guy and he was like,
don't do that. Pools cost way more than you think
they're going to cost.
Speaker 2: Also, why do you need a pool.
Speaker 3: I like to have a pool because I want my
new doggie to have a pool.
Speaker 1: I like having a pool.
Speaker 2: I was just like your kids are grown.
Speaker 3: I know, I've always had a pool growing up, I
had a pool. It's the first time I haven't had
a pool and I miss it. You do, Yeah, I
love sitting out by the pool.
Speaker 2: Well, then just look at houses that have a pool.
There's no shortage of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably will, so I don't know, we'll see.
And it's funny because when you were talking about the bedroom.
When my twins were born, we were living in this
like Mediterranean Spanish house and those closet you know, the
house was built in like the twenties, so the closets
are super tiny. So we had a closet in our
master bedroom and Adam had all his clothes in there.
And then before the kids were born, I had the
guest room and that was kind of like my office
slash closet. Used that closet in there, got ready in
there or whatever. Then the kids get born and then
I they went moved and they slept. That was their
nursery in that room, so I had to share a cubby.
So Adam built in some shelves and drawers onto the wall.
So I had to share a closet with the twins
until they were like until we moved out of that house,
probably when they were like seven or eight. I shared
a closet with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this was in the Hollywood house, the one by the.
Speaker 1: Whe you came to. Yeah, yeah, like Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that Yeah, it was very the you know,
I mean Adam didn't he updated it, but he didn't.
He kept the bones the same, you know, wanted to
keep the integrity of the house, so they kept the
closets little. But then he built in stuff, which was nice.
But then I'm still like, I'm sharing drawers with my
kids and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like crazy back then.
Speaker 2: But my little plastic dinosaurs right right.
Speaker 3: Exactly right, My drawer was like next to sunny socks.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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thinking back. I wanted to say about the Oscars. Regarding
the Oscars, and I wanted to know if I think
you would be too young. Our age difference is just
enough that this won't be relatable to you. But I
remember the first Academy Awards that I was excited about
was because I'd seen the movie Kramer Versus Kramer.
Speaker 3: I remember that. I remember Kramer Versus Creamy.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that movie won Best Movie. And I
was like, I saw that movie, really super excited about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I watched the Oscars back in the seventies
with my dad. Every year we sit and watch the
Oscars together.
Speaker 2: But years ago, and I want to say, pre covid, Yeah,
movies were kind of a bigger deal, right. They weren't
all coming out like straight to video or straight to stream.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I like pre covid, you went to the movies. Yes, yeah,
excited about new releases, right right, maybe pre kids. I
mean I know, I don't get I don't know. And
now yes, say look up when Kramer Versus Kramer? Yes,
I remember seeing Was it Chinatown? I think? And now
that was a long time ago. No, it was in Chinatown.
I just I remember watching all. I mean, I don't
know when my first oscars were, but I mean I
remember Wendy and I would get like excited and watch
it on the phone on over the phone together, you know,
watch it together.
Speaker 1: It was just a big deal. When was it?
Speaker 2: Well, Kramer Versus Kramer came out in seventy nine and
I was born in sixty six. Okay, so I was thirteen,
so that makes sense. I don't know. Some reason in
my mind I was like I was only nine. Yeah,
I was thirteen. Ye. So but I do remember being like, okay,
I get it.
Speaker 1: Now. It's sad, isn't it. It's a movie. Yeah, it's
really sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of sad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a divorce. Then there's that other sad movie. I well,
the big chill is.
Speaker 1: That is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That was a good movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I feel like the Oscars were huge
when you remember like Titanic and stuff, like, there's not
another big blockbuster anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, you're right, they're all straight to video, which is
crazy now. It's like that.
Speaker 3: I thought that the One Battle after Another was an
HBO movie. I didn't know it was a big deal
in the theater or was in the theater. I just
thought it was made for HBO because I saw the
previews of it on HBO, So I you know, everything
is all on immediately goes to straight to video, straight
to stream.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they almost have nothing that comes out only
in the theaters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it's crazy. Ever since COVID, Why and why
why doesn't it go back?
Speaker 2: Well, I think, and I'm just going to totally talk
out of my ass. I think it's the same thing
as like Doctor's Offices and that I think they realized, oh,
we're going to save a lot of money. I feel
like things are a lower budget then they don't have to.
I think it costs a lot more money to do
a big theatrical release. Yeah right, where you can just
get people to pay for it on streaming.
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 3: I mean movie theaters are closing now, and which is
sad Ipick and Pasadenas. All the eyepicks are closing. Those
are great where you you know, could recline, but also
you can order and they bring food right to your seat.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: All these big movie theaters are just like they're not
making any business anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh and I like going to see a movie. But also,
well so COVID shut down theaters for a couple of years,
so that kind of killed the business. So I think
they had to figure out, what's another way that we're
gonna still put out movies. But I do think that
the movie, the whole business itself is shrunk down. Yeah right, Yeah,
but when you go see a movie now, don't you
find it a little bit more irritating than you did?
Because now that we're I feel like we're a little spoiled.
Oh yeah, everybody's got a gigantic TV. Yeah right, so right, well,
what do I need the headache?
Speaker 1: What do we need to go and park and in line?
Speaker 2: Yes, find somewhere to get my ticket stamped? Really overpriced concessions.
Speaker 3: Yes, and then also people talking behind you and opening
up their wrappers and they, you know, like, what do
you need all that noise for?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I feel like I have such a lower tolerance
for anybody acting any kind of way. Yeah in public, right,
because I'm like, I could be home right now, right.
I know people bring in their baby that's like, you know,
to a play that's crying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, You're like really right, I know.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: It's so weird how COVID's changed so many things I do,
Like the you know, telehealth stuff. Now I'm down with
that because well, you have to go to the urgent
care because you had, you know, your phone to get
my anurine to my.
Speaker 2: Foot X ray, so I had to go in person.
And then for the UTI I needed them to check.
Speaker 3: My p yeah right. But like when I had to flu,
I didn't have to go anywhere. Yeah, I just did
a telehealth and they're like, all right, she put the
she she asked me to put the phone up to
my my mouth and say, ah, I've never done that before.
I was like, really, you can see. And then she's
like can you cough? And then and then she's like
all right, and then she's prescribed mia antibiotics.
Speaker 2: Which is such a timesaver.
Speaker 3: It is wants to go sit at a fucking urgent
care when you're sick like that?
Speaker 1: Yes, I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not only that, but like, who wants to put
up with the other people that are sick? Like you
don't want to go there and wait? But also what
if you just have a broken foot and you don't
feel like being exposed to the hauntavirus? Is the urgent care?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: You know? Yeah? Now, now you're in there and people
are hacking up along and you're like, how did I
get hurt? I probably a broken foot? I know. Now,
I gotta wear a mouk. You're not wearing a mouk, right,
I gotta wear I gotta do the work for both
of us.
Speaker 1: Right, how is your foot? Is it getting that hurt?
Speaker 2: It's still hurt.
Speaker 1: Didn't you have a thing though that you were like
a wander? I don't know. Didn't you have something?
Speaker 2: So? I had this thing called a bone stimulator guy.
But okay, so last time I broke my foot, I
was taking it super seriously. Well, it also hurt. The
last one hurt a lot more than this one does.
So I went to an orthopedist, remember he was kind
of cute in the valley. And then what happens is
you get sucked into the vortex of medical care. So like,
once you go to the orthopedist, that opens up a
whole can of orthopedist worms where they're like, come back
in two weeks. Yeah, and then every time you go
back they're like, Okay, he's like, in three weeks, you're
gonna you can take off the boot. Let's say it
had been three weeks by the time I got around
to go into an orthopedist last time. Yeah, in three weeks,
it'll have been six weeks. You take off the boots.
So then I take off the boot. I go to
walk and I'm like, oh my god, it's still super painful.
Then I call They're like, got to come back in.
We'll see you tomorrow. So then you go back in
mind you every visit is super expensive because every visit
they X ray. You have to X ray and you
get like you know, and then he goes yep, still broken.
So then that happened like two more times before he's like, hmm,
this is not healing very well. Here's what you're gonna do.
You're gonna go get a CT scan. I go get
a CT scan, which is really expensive, and then the
CT scan showed that it was still broken. It's like yeah,
I know it's still broken. It hurts. Then he was like, okay,
I'm gonna recommend you use this thing called a bone stimulator. Well,
so then he tried to get insurance to cover it,
but they were like, we won't cover it. But even
if we do cover it, the cope is two thousand dollars. Wow,
or you can buy it for cash. You can just
we'll just send it to you and it will cost
five hundred dollars. Oh my god, what the two thousand
and five hutter?
Speaker 1: But still five hundred cheese?
Speaker 2: So I paid five hundred dollars and I get the
thing and it works really quick, so I'm better in
like three weeks. Okay, then I hold on to it.
Now I'm trying to remember. So this happened in with
our new bedroom. So we have limited space. We don't
have a garage anymore. So you just don't want to
feel like a horder. Everything that I keep that's bigger
than like a bread box is a thing that is
taking up value of space. So I keep this thing
for like a good solid like year and a half,
and then I'm like, you know what, let me put
this on the buy nothing group. Oh no, somebody else
enjoy some bone healing, some magical bone healing. Oh, some
person got it. I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I should look at you should look it up and
ask him it yeah, or at least go back on
there and see if somebody else is selling one.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've looked and looked and looked, and
you know, I can't find one. I had one. I
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and I reached out and she was like, yeah, I
still have it. I was like, could you? Would you
ship it to me? And then she wrote me back
and she was like, actually, it's out of it's not
of you. You can't use it. Each of these things
only has a certain amount of uses.
Speaker 3: Really, yes, so you spend five hundred dollars for the
thing to have, what like.
Speaker 2: It's enough use for you to heal your own bone.
But but I didn't need to use it that many times.
I got. I was some people have to use it.
I don't know how many times it hasn't it, But
let's say it has fifty uses and you do it.
I did it every day for three weeks, so it
had a bunch more uses.
Speaker 1: Okay, but now maybe the.
Speaker 2: Girl said hers was done. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh that sucks.
Speaker 2: He's so bummed.
Speaker 1: Oh it's the worst.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to just buy another one because,
first of all, then I have to you can't do
it without a prescription. You can't just call this company.
They'll charge you the thousands of dollars. So I have
to go back to the orthopedist, tell them it's not healing.
But it's only been like three and a half weeks,
and it says it takes between four to six weeks
to heal, and possibly between four and eight weeks.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, So I.
Speaker 2: Feel like I should give it a little longer six
weeks before I start deciding it's not healing.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that sounds.
Speaker 2: It feels a lot better.
Speaker 3: I mean, these things take a long time. I still
have a lump on my head. It's still it's gotten it.
It has shrank, but it's like still there. I could
still feel it, and I could still feel like a
scam or something. I don't know what the heck, but yeah,
it takes a long time for this stuff to heal.
Speaker 2: You know, what is going on with the kids? When?
So when exactly is their spring break?
Speaker 3: So Natalia's coming home this weekend, which I won't be there,
but just coming home this weekend, and then Sonny's coming
home sometime I think next week, I want to say.
And then I think they only I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think they just just move it up to them,
or you just like book yourself a ticket and come home, and.
Speaker 3: Well Natalia drives back and forth Sonny, No, I have
to book his ticket.
Speaker 2: But then you just book his ticket and then he'll
just like arrive and grab an uber and come home.
Speaker 3: Or I'll pick him up, but I'll probably be back
when Sonny gets back. But Natalia is just going to
come home and drive okay, yeah for the weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, because I feel like Sonny's spring break must
be when Elbe's is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when is it that? Yeah? I feel like they're
on the same schedule.
Speaker 2: So right now while we're recording, is Elbe's finals week,
and then next week she's off. Okay, but she's going
to be done by Wednesday night, so she'll come home Thursday,
and then she'll be home Thursday and then all the
following week.
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me what day's done with all all his classes, so
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Speaker 3: This is how Sunny is, by the way, Okay, he
when he goes back to school, he gets back. I
text him, doesn't answer me. Sometimes he'll answer me, or
he'll give me a one word whatever. I mean, he
doesn't when he's home too, but it's like, so I
just I just now get a text from him. I
sent him a text last night while I was online
with Unit on hold with United, and I asked him,
I said, hey, did you see the movie Sinners or Frankenstein?
Because those are two movies that seem up his alley
And he doesn't answer me. I now just get it
at text back. I didn't see it, but I bet
on Oh, I bet On Shallome and they gave it
to Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: That's his answer. Okay, mister gambler.
Speaker 3: Interesting, he's all about the basketball right now, the March madness.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, all about it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When he was home a couple of weeks, he had
it was leading into March madness. He had two TVs
in my living room. He has this old TV from
the old house that has been in the garage. He
got it out, he dusted it off, set it up
on a chair, and then like watch UFC fights with
the basketball games going like kid's nuts.
Speaker 2: It's all e spanatic.
Speaker 1: He is a.
Speaker 3: Sports fanatic, and I could care less.
Speaker 2: You know what's kind of cute, though, is that you
got to kind of be proud of him. He was
so into basketball and playing basketball, but then his basketball
career kind of fizzled out. Yeah, never forget the whole
story you're telling me about the I almost called it
an audition.
Speaker 1: For all, but the tryout, yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then he wasn't going to go. And then Adam
was getting annoyed. You were like, okay, if you don't
want to go, you don't want to go, right, But
how he just kind of decided he just got his
his confidence lowered.
Speaker 3: Yes, because his friends that he was playing basketball with
since you know, elementary school, when we got into junior
high in high school, they shot up their height was,
you know, double their size, and Sonny was a slow
you know, he didn't grow very tall until later. And yeah,
he just was like, I'm out, but but the I
want to do the analytics for the team.
Speaker 1: I know, remember that.
Speaker 3: And so then the coach was like, oh, yeah, he
was an assistant coach doing the analytics of you know,
I don't know, keeping track of all the stats and
then like looking up the other teams they were going
to be playing and what their stats were and presenting
it to the coach.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he was like an assistant coach for a while.
Speaker 3: Love that, and then I think he started getting back
into it, and then COVID hit and then they stopped.
They stopped practice. He was going to do one more
year of the when we would go to Vegas thing traveling,
but yeah, then he stopped, which was kind of good
for me because that's when Natali was getting, you know,
ramping up her volleyball and doing all the tournaments for volleyball.
So I would have had to go to Vegas for
him and then go back to Vegas for her for volleyball.
Speaker 1: It would have been yeah, hole big.
Speaker 2: Remember when that was kind of our life.
Speaker 1: I now it's so long ago.
Speaker 3: Like I talked to some of my friends at her
parents and they're like, yeah, I gotta go to that
game on Saturday. I'm like, just enjoy. I know I
was there. I complained too. It's easier to say just enjoy,
but you know it's just it's, uh, you just gotta
like soak it all in because it's it's over pretty quick.
Speaker 1: And then you like, I missed those days.
Speaker 2: I know, I know.
Speaker 3: I went out to uh to dinner with Pat Patrick
and his wife Shuri and Dylan and Kaylin was there.
Oh yeah, and our friend Jen. So we we haven't seen,
all of a sudden seen each other in a long time.
Speaker 1: And we went.
Speaker 3: Friday, okay, Friday, and these guys like, can you go
at five on a Friday? Like dude, okay, you know,
like early birds special. But we went to like Laurel Tavern,
which is here in Studio City, packed packed, it's an
outdoor it's mostly outdoors, families, kids, dogs, like, it's all families.
And it's funny because Patrick like knows so many people
there and parents and they're like, hey, you know parents
from their schools and stuff. So it was nice getting
caught up. But I'm just sitting there and they're talking.
I got stuck behind a conversation I got stuck in
a conversation with uh pat oh no, Patrick's wife Shari
talking to Dylan about his baby and how she's waking
up too early, and she's like, what time do you
put him put her to bed? And he's like six o'clock.
Now I'm now I'm like talking. They're talking about sleep
training and I'm like, oh my god, those were the
days that I don't miss, right, yeah, yeah, that's sleep
training and you know, she's telling him she was right.
She's like, you're putting her to bed too early six o'clock,
Like start putting her bed at like seven, seven.
Speaker 1: Thirty, you know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and then yeah, and then I got to
catch up with Kaylin. The girls are doing good. What
was it lake Isla broke her her leg? Oh no, yeah,
but she's okay. It's in a cast. Yeah, yeah, no,
playing soccer.
Speaker 1: I can't he didn't.
Speaker 3: I can't remember how he told me was pretty a
nothing burger. I don't know, like she fell off a
bike or something. I don't know, but uh, uh yeah,
and then uh yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Dylan.
Speaker 3: It's cute to see Dylan as a dad, and he's like,
I love my baby. I can't wait to get home
to see her, and uh, we're gonna have another he
wants to have another one.
Speaker 1: And then Patrick's like Lynnette, Lynnette.
Speaker 3: So I remember back in the day when we go
to bar Crawls and we would come home on a
Sunday on the airplane and you'd be like, oh my god,
I got to get home to the kids. I'm sleep
deprived and hungover, and now I got to go home
and take care of twins, and he was like, back then,
I was like.
Speaker 1: Oh, poor lone, that sounds awful.
Speaker 2: He's like, now I'm in the thick of it too,
Like you know, waking up early on a Sunday. He's like,
you're there, bitch, twenty four seven. They don't let up,
you know. Like his daughter, he said, is a lot
like Italian, and all she wants to do is like
push your buttons and like get a reaction.
Speaker 1: And then the boy he's like, is not like sunny.
Speaker 2: It's like he's so rambunctious and it's like the f
And his wife was telling me the first thing he
wants when he wakes up super early is his dad,
Like I want to sit with Daddy on the couch.
I want to sit And then he has to get
up and go sit on the couch. And then it's like, yeah,
the clock is just going slow. On a Sunday, what
it's only ten am? Feels like the old days. What
is this day gonna end? Oh my god? And we
would curse like Martin Luther King.
Speaker 1: Day, Oh fucking the three day holidays.
Speaker 2: A Monday that we're just supposed to be home. Not
hitting me right now, Like I know it's not a
holiday for me on like workday.
Speaker 1: I dreaded those three day holidays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just another add another day onto the weekend where
the time just goes so fucking slow. Yes, yes, anything
that was that was on a Monday. I mean it
was hard, but it is funny because and I was
just going to say that I really do miss I
miss the middle years. But then do I because now
I'm thinking of hard parts of the middle years, Like
I'm thinking middle like elementary school, where they sleep, they
will even sleep on the weekends, and they're much more
self you know, not self possessed, but they can do
stuff on their own. Right, But remember all the days
of like when my kids weren't when like they weren't
reading enough books and like yeah, and then I'd have
to I was just having a memory of having to
try to find the motivation box to remember I would
go to the dollar Store and get prizes. Oh yeah,
they would finish a book, they could get a prize,
but it was like really shitty stuff that.
Speaker 1: I would call Yeah, and the dollar store was the best.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the best because if you like, fly with
them and go to the dollar Store and get all
these little shitty little you know, things you could just
leave on the airplane and they just keep pulling one out.
Speaker 3: Okay, now let's work out a day. Here's a new
to way to play. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, those are
the days like.
Speaker 2: Those that was also challenge. There were challenges across the board.
I feel like my some of my favorite times though,
were like when they were old enough that they didn't
weren't babies, they were talking and walking and and but
and old enough where they would appreciate like a good
kid's book. Yeah, that was like kind of my favorite
was like bedtime stories, time stories. But then if I'm
really honest with myself, I would get so tired of
reading the same books and I'd be like, oh my god,
I cannot read don't read the two Fish, Whitefish, Bluefish again.
Speaker 1: I hate this book. I know, I know, I know,
I hate. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember back then, like I would have to lay
in bed with Sunny and sing Silent Night over and
over until fell asleep, and then Natalia would be like.
Speaker 1: Well, now you gotta come to my bed, and.
Speaker 2: Then you know, and then seeing twinkle twink a little
star and rub my back like okay, and they're like
and then they slowly get up because you think there's
a sleep and like, where are you going?
Speaker 3: Like nowhere, I'm not going anywhere. Go back to ecle,
go to sleep. Like I could not leave. There was
a whole period of time I couldn't leave their room
until they were both asleep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm gonna tell you what is my absolute
favorite age of parenting And I swear to God it's
right now. Yes, no, I am not even kidding. Senior
year of high school. Now. Has it been a little
bit rough with the college stuff, Yes, but I love
this age. I love seeing my kids in their element
but still there. They still live in my house, two
of them do. And also I'm not I'm counting this
with LB two because because she goes to CLA, she's
still here. I didn't go that long without seeing Yeah.
In fact, I'm closer to Lbie than ever. I feel
she appreciates me because now she appreciates some of the things,
like we were literally just visiting last night. We were
visiting with each other and revisiting period of so this
is really cute. She came home, she came to see
the kids the play, which I never even got to
talk to you about, which there's a whole Patreon about.
But anyway, she came home, then she went to work.
Then she came home last night and she was like,
before I go back to school. I said, well, we
just ordered tay food, Like have you eaten? And she
was like no, I'd love to hang and have dinner.
She hung and had dinner. Then she came in my
bedroom and she literally laid on the bed. This is
the way I always imagined parenting would go right, because
I'd be best mom ever and we'd be super close,
like best friends, you know, and she'd tell me everything.
I literally lived that last night because she wanted to
tell me about this guy that she's seeing and oh yeah,
And so she laid on my bed and like told
like I got to hear every detail of like meeting
and every conversation, and you know what, I loved every second. Yes,
I reveled in it. I was like, tell me more.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the best.
Speaker 2: It was so fun. And then Xander was doing his
own thing, but then he came home and then he
wanted to come in and visit, and I was like.
Speaker 1: It's the best. I agree.
Speaker 3: I've always liked more of the teenage years like with
my ears, nieces and nephews when they got to be teenagers.
You know, I was like Auntie Lnnette, you can come
tell me anything, blah blah. Like you know, Suzanne was
more of like the little baby stages. She loved babies,
like no, no, no, no, no, yeah, this isn't good.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: It's a great age. I mean now they're like young adults.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I bonded so much when Sonny was home over you know,
when Phil was dying and like it just got to
see how what I just saw a different side of
him and I've never seen him experience grief before like
that and how he handled it and you know, just
talking to the doctors with his arms folded and asked
like chest out standing up straight, asking questions, you know,
while I'm just sitting there in a heap of tears
with Phil and he's over there talking to the like
it just it was just you know, I'm like, Wow,
what a young an impressive young man he's turning into.
And then Italian I have never been closer than now.
Now she appreciates me. She wants me to come out
and like cook dinner for her roommates again, which I'm
going to do soon. And yeah, and she calls me
all the time now, all the time, like every day,
almost every day she calls me, except Friday, Saturdays, and
she calls me on Sundays. But yeah, she's you know,
and she'll you know, in between classes or on our
way home from school, she'll call it, like just just
to say hi, how you doing, tell me what's going on,
give me a little light gossip, and you know, it's
so nice. She's so much, she's so calm now, she's
not bitchy anymore. She appreciates me, you know. It's I
love it. It's a good age.
Speaker 2: It's really so everybody out there that just had kids,
just wait nineteen years.
Speaker 1: In nineteen years, you're going to enjoy it.
Speaker 2: There's been really good stuff along the way. I don't
want to dissuade anybody from we just Lynette and I
are just not baby people. Now. We don't love the babies.
We loved our babies. But it's also I do think
it's just you feel so much responsibility when they're little.
It's all up to you, Like they can't take part
in any decisions if you ask them, like are you
sick enough to go to the doctor.
Speaker 1: They're not going to tell you yet, right, you got
to make all the.
Speaker 2: Decisions, and then the doc might be like, oh Jesus,
they were not sick enough to bring him back, and
you're like, well, how the fuck did I They didn't
tape purtect right, the husband was worthless. He doesn't know.
It's all up to me. Yeah, free decision. If I
don't like this doctor, I've got to go over their
head and find another. Like everything plus doing our.
Speaker 1: Jobs right, like it was, it's a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot. I did enjoy like seven
eight nine, yes, fan, you know, but then I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't enjoy like the mean girl stuff at school
during that time, and you know, and like Sonny we
were talking about with basketball getting his you know, his
his uh what do you call it, like, you know,
watching him like not enjoy it anymore, and like looking
at his other friends going on to play and he's
not that great and blah blah. It was just like
I didn't like, I didn't love that. But yeah, seven
eight nine, when you could take them to the store
with you and crack jokes and see their little personalities.
But man senior year and beyond the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've really enjoyed the college year, not the college years,
the high school years with the twins a lot. But
I think that's also because they struggled so much, really
both of them, in elementary school and middle school, that
it was just nice to see them find their way
in the world friends and find happiness and things they're
really good at. And I'm just so appreciative of the
school that they're at, yes, yea, and how how many
activities they've participated in that I'm like Jesus, I was
never involved in anything. Look at you guys, go yeah right,
Speaking of I did just want to say so that
if people listen to Hatreon, you know what the hell
we're talking about. So SpongeBob basically officially opened. Well, it
was supposed to open on last Thursday, so you're listening
to this on Tuesday. It was supposed to open last
Thursday and be Thursday, Friday, two show Saturday, but for
reasons which I'll get into on a different episode, we
opened on Saturday and had one show and now we're
going to be doing shows this week. But it was
so fun because Xander plays Patrick. Oh that's keyo SpongeBob,
and he was so adorable that this kid just puts
his all into everything he does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so great, he's so busy. Man, this kid is
a go getter.
Speaker 2: He's just very daring too, like he knows that he
doesn't have the greatest singing voice. He has a very decent,
passable singing voice, you know. But I love the fact
that he's not like, yeah, I want to sing all
the songs like I get, but he's not like, oh
I suck at singing, I can't sing. He's just like,
I'm not the best singer. Like in our band, I'm
gonna let our lead singer be the lead singer because
he's a good lead singer. But he had to sing
songs in this musical and he just made it kind
of actory, like he made it like a musical. Yeah,
I didn't rely on him just having a really like
he's not Josh Groband right right, So anyway, but it
was so he was so so so good and singing
was good.
Speaker 1: He just it was really like he said, performer, he.
Speaker 2: Really is, and lovely. It was a fun time. And
Sadie plays guitar in the band of the show like
it's a musical and there's a live band. She's the guitarist, right,
So it was like I got to be proud of both.
Speaker 1: Both of them.
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