Speaker 1: I made a decision I'll pace Sunny sund on.
Speaker 2: I had a visions night.
Speaker 1: Heyybody, what's up.
Speaker 2: It's for crying out loud and uh it's a fuckers,
it's up.
Speaker 1: Fuckers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a rainy day in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It's rain.
Speaker 2: I missed it that the storm came in the day
I left to go see Sunny and Oregon, which I'll
tell you about, and uh, it was just it's just
starting to come in and Sunny was telling me it
was raining like all week leading up and we're going
to the football game. I flew in on Friday morning
and the football game was Friday evening and Sunny was like,
it could be raining at the game. So I'm like,
I got my raincoat and everything. I get to Oregon.
Beautiful weather, sun out, no no rain the whole time
I'm there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was beautiful. Wow, that's incredible. Yes, it's so
ironic that La is getting all the rain right, you know,
it never rains in southern California. Never rains in southern California.
Name the artist.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, I just was. Wendy was just saying this
thatad song when she was here.
Speaker 1: Who is it? I think it's JD. Souther. I would
have never guessed it. I think now I have to
look it up, but go on. Yes, but it's it's
ironic that Oregon where it always right, not raining California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it was. I had a great
time with studying.
Speaker 1: It was don't don't, don't just skip through it. Yeah
from the beginning. Okay, so you go there.
Speaker 2: So I got two shows to fill I know, no,
I uh, I got some I.
Speaker 1: Got some story. So well, first of all, let me
back up.
Speaker 2: So before I went on Friday, I went down to
Santa Barbara on was it Thursday?
Speaker 1: Yes, when I texted you at one point and then
I was like, oh wait are you and Santa Barbara right? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, so Wednesday, Yes, So Wednesday we had we had
errands to run, which is why I went down there.
We had, yeah, we were going to go to the bank,
and so I was like, okay, I'm gonna get there
at one o'clock and we're gonna go do our errands.
So I get up in the morning. It's like a
two and a half hour drive down there. So I'm
getting ready. I get a call. So my friend Jen Jennifer,
she has a dog walking business.
Speaker 1: And she's usually in my area a lot.
Speaker 2: She calls me eight thirty in the morning and her
car is broken down on the side of the road,
has to be towed, and she's got five dogs in
our car with her.
Speaker 1: So and she's like twenty minutes away.
Speaker 2: Now, I charged my car the night before, so it
was all charged up. I went to say to Barbara
once recently I went there and a full charge and
back didn't even have to charge it when I was there,
So I was hoping that's what I was going to
do this time. So had it all charged up. Jen
calls me, She's about fifteen twenty minutes away from my house.
So what am I going to say? Call an uber
with your five dogs?
Speaker 1: Good luck? Good luck with that. My name's Paul.
Speaker 2: Now, so anyway, I'm like, okay, I'll come get you,
bring you guys and all of you guys back to
my house. Pill the dogs can run around the backyard.
I'll get ready, you take my car, drop off all
the dogs, and then you can uber home and I'll
leave as soon as you get back after dropping off
the dogs.
Speaker 1: So that happens.
Speaker 2: So she drops off all the dogs, she comes back
and I noticed my battery is now like at it's
like ten percent less, it's like at eighty percent or whatever,
still a good charge. I drive to Santa Barbara, and
it all depends on how fast you're going and whatever,
but basically I'm now noticing my batteries going down down.
I'm gonna have to charge it when I get there.
But I get there and I have enough battery. So
we go do our errands and then Natalia is, like
her roommate who I love, is working and she gets
off at six and there's a restaurant next door. Let's
go to visit her. She works in Monacito. Let's go
to Minsito, which is about a twenty five thirty minute
drive from where Natali is. But it's on the way
back to La back to my house.
Speaker 1: Oh it is, and then her roommate would give her
a ride back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then yeah, we took two cars and then
I'll just leave from there.
Speaker 1: Oh I see. So we go, we eat dinner.
Speaker 2: We're done at like nine o'clock and there's charging places
around there.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we.
Speaker 2: Finished dinner, they get the girls leave. I go to
the charging place that's right there. Turns out it's not
a charging place. It's a frickin hotel. And that's the thing.
It's like, you know, the thing with the Tesla is
that it had it right on my dashboard, Like where's
the closest charging station with this car? I have to
go on the app blah blah blah. So I go
on the app, but it's like it tells you like
these ev charging stations, but they don't tell you it's
a hotel. So then I have the same thing on
my phone yet right out right, but you got so
I go with misleading. It is miss like sometimes have
you noticed like certain places that you know, for a factor,
charging places just suddenly like don't show up and you're like.
Speaker 1: They don't they don't come up there on the on
the app. Yeah, because there's one that's at the Ralphs
near my house. Always like okay, and it will tell
you how many are in use, right, right, So I'll
go to that one and every once in a while
just it just doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: Right and what I know it does? Yeah, yeah, okay,
so go on. So you get to the hotel and
I'm like, my car okay. It's also there's a lot
of construction in Monacito, and my WiFi wasn't working very good.
So I'm like, I pull up to them and I said,
can I charge my car? And they're like, no, you
have to be a guest. So then I'm like, oh fuck.
So then I'm sitting with them and I'm looking up. Okay,
I have enough to get back on the freeway towards LA.
There's one place off the freeway. So then I.
Speaker 1: Tried to what's your charge at at this point? See,
it's hard to tell.
Speaker 2: I know that I was talking to the guy and
he looked at my charge and it said how many
miles I have to go? And then how much battery
I had left?
Speaker 1: But that's that's mislead. It is miss leading. It'll say
you have one hundred miles right then you'll literally drive
two miles and it'll say now you have eighty yeah
exactly whoa Towards the end, it's almost like with gas car,
where later it starts dropping quicker for no reason.
Speaker 2: Right right, So yeah, yeah, So okay, so guys like you,
you're not going to make it. You'll have like maybe
one percent by the time you get home, probably or
something like that. So I'm like, okay, I, and I
knew I did. I didn't even want to risk it.
So I'm like, I have to find a charging So
I find another place that's like maybe five miles off
the freeway on my way. So then I go to
find the So then I put it in my ways
to get back on the freeway, and it's taking me there.
There was construction and the freeway on ramp was closed.
So then it's like it says, get on here onto
the freeway. I'm like, no, bitch, it's closed. So where's
the other where? Now where do I go? So now
I'm driving around these dark streets and hones seed. I
can't there's no there's my WiFi and my phone is
body the ways it keeps giving, putting me.
Speaker 1: In a circle.
Speaker 2: With all this construction anyway, I start to really start
to panic.
Speaker 1: I get on the freeway and I start to drive,
and I.
Speaker 2: Call Mike Girsty and I'm like, Mike, I'm dropping a pin.
This is where I am. Can you help me find
a charging station on my way? So he's like, okay,
get off the freeway, pull over, like you just stop
for a second. Let's let me look it up. He
finds it, He's like, Okay, there's this place, there's this
He goes, no, go to this place, No scratch that,
go to this place because this is closer to the freeway. Anyway,
I get back on the freeway. It's like ten thirty
now at night. I get back on the freeway and
I drive. I get off and like Ventura, I find
the place. I get there and there's four stalls and
three of them are out of use, and the one
is the car in use. It's just the nobody's at
that car, like they parked their car and they went shopping.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, motherfuck.
Speaker 2: So then I was about to call Mike, and then
this guy, the guy got into his car and he leaves.
So then I get my car plugged in and then
I'm like okay. So that was my whole day Thursday.
I would have had enough, but because of the situation
in the morning with the dogs and Jen taking my car,
I had to have like that. Anyway, But I had
a great time with Thetalia. It was really fund we
had it was walked and like took what we walked
to some of our errands.
Speaker 1: It was really nice. I had a great time with her.
Did you get her banking done. I got her banking done. Yes, yes,
so all of the air. I was just curious though,
what happened with Jen? Did she get she dropped? Did
she get her car? Her car?
Speaker 2: They fixed her back brakes went out, They fixed her brakes. Yeah,
so she had to get car toad. She had her
car towed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. So did she watch Phil for you? No,
she couldn't have. What'd you do with Phil? So Phil?
Speaker 2: Phil just he was fine because he was hanging out
with those dogsout throughout the day and he was okay,
like he just hung out at home.
Speaker 1: It was it was okay.
Speaker 2: So he was fine because I was having Olga come
on the weekend to watch Phil for when I went
to Sonny, right, so okay, So that was that day.
Then Friday I left. I left in the morning. So
Sonny was like, we've been talking about this game. He
was like, we should go to the game together. That
would be fun. My friend Melissa was going to come
with me, but she couldn't. It was, you know, like
people have seen in the news, Cleto, Jimmy's band leader
passed away, so she had a funeral to go to
and stuff. So so anyway, I was going regardless if
she was going. But so I get in and Sonny had.
So the game was Friday night. But then on Saturday
there was college football stuff he was going to be doing,
and there was a UFC fight, so he was going
to be busy. So it was a quick trip, right,
So I got a hotel room or did you? Yeah?
I got a hotel. Yeah, no, his place is too
tiny for me to stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so I got a hotel. And did he
stay with you in the hotel? No?
Speaker 2: Do you just now my hotel was like five minutes
from his place, so you just got to see him just.
Speaker 1: Friday, just Friday, Yeah, Friday, and then Friday night and yeah,
left from your hotel. Yes, I left from my hotel
Saturday morning. You're a good mom. That was fun.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was so much fun. I'm so glad
I went. He loved it. You know, we walked over
to the stadium. It's like a half hour walk from
his place. But it's fun because you're walking with all
the crowd, you know, and it's like and he's telling
me all about the football play. This guy's a freshman,
and this guy's been all their careers in football and
Who's Who.
Speaker 1: And it was so much fun.
Speaker 2: And you know, in the stadium, they they do they
always sing I Left my Heart in Oregon they sing
that song and then at halftime they do or after
halftime or between whatever, I don't know, they sing shout,
you know. And so I posted that on my Instagram
and we just.
Speaker 1: Saw the picture you posted with Sonny and you look gorgeous.
You look like you were like nineteen.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, thank you. I was like, I felt
my hair is a mess. Like I was just like,
oh my god, traveling so pretty. It's really pretty. Thank you,
thank you. Well he's a little pale, so next to me.
Everybody was saying, how burgeous you looked, Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 1: Thirst Trap. Did you see the video I posted with it.
I didn't see. Oh there's a video with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the foot they're all saying, they're all dancing
on the field to shout.
Speaker 1: And it was just it was so much fun. And then.
Speaker 2: And the game was over at like nine thirty, and
then we walked. By the time we got back to Sunnies,
it was like ten o'clock. And then I went upstairs
and folded his laundry and cleaned his bathroom. Oh yeah,
it was nice. And then yeah, and then I got
up the next morning and uh, and I left and
and then I got home and then Natalia was texting
me while I was there, and she's like, I'm with
a bunch of my friends and we all want to
come down to spend the night at my at my
house on Saturday. It's a friend's birthday and we're gonna
go have birth They're gonna go to a birthday dinner.
So then I come home to like five of our
friends hanging out at my house Saturday, and I was
dead tired. I just wanted to like chill. And it's like,
oh great, come on over, you know, and they're like
it was it was really nice though. I like some
friends I haven't met before, a couple guys, a couple girls,
and we hung out Saturday night and then they went
out to dinner, you know, they always do like pregame
hangout kind of thing. Then they then they went to
dinner late, and then I went to bed. And then
Sunday morning, I woke up and they're all like flopped
out in my on my couch, and uh, Phil gets
out of my room and he starts licking their face
in the morning and they love Phil and uh, and
then we hung out yesterday was rainy day, and then
they watched Natalia just watched pulp Fiction. She saw it
when she was younger, but she didn't remember, and she
was like she wanted to show them, like, you guys
got to watch pulp fiction.
Speaker 1: They they've never seen it. They were like, is it
like Greece because of John Travolta. Oh my god. I'm like, no, dude,
It's just like Greece Grease with aroin and rape and
I know.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, you guys gotta watch you guys gotta
watch it. So I'm like in my room they're watching it,
and I hear the scene where Samuel Jackson is like
in the beginning with the big Kahuna burger and the
guy comes out shooting. They start, and I come out
of my room going like, right, like, eh, what.
Speaker 1: A scene that was.
Speaker 2: I walk out there's six of them sound asleep on
the couch.
Speaker 1: No, they're all just asleep even to time.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the fuck? You guys missed the Like okay,
and they're still at my house. They yeah, yeah, they're
going back this afternoon. Yeah, because it was raining and stuff,
so they hung out. We had Sunday night hang out
last night, and it was nice.
Speaker 1: It was It was a.
Speaker 2: Big jam packed weekend with the kids for sure, and uh.
Speaker 1: It is so nice. It really is.
Speaker 2: When you to have adult kids, and especially when you
don't get to see them very often anymore. To hang
out with them is just so, you know, getting all
the gossip and stuff, like drama going on and at
their place, at Natali's place, doing this roommate and that
roommate and you know, like and it just was so
much fun, you know, and hanging out with Sonny and
see his friends and stuff at the game.
Speaker 1: It was just great. It was just such a great weekend.
It was really nice, especially when you've like mourned being
an empty nester, but then you see the kids more
than you expected to. Yes, yeah, right, I know.
Speaker 2: I mean I always like when she comes home, but
like that day, I mean, it was just a whirlwind
of a weekend and it's like, yeah, me and my
friends are coming down all right. But yeah, it was great.
We had a good time. It was It was a
nice weekend. It was great with the rain and stuff.
Speaker 1: And Sonny's doing well, like he has friends and yeah, yeah,
be and integrated.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, he's got a bunch of like places that
he hangs out now watching football and stuff. Yeah, he's
enjoying it. They're both enjoying their their time at their school. Yeah,
so good. And then they're coming home in like a week. Well,
Natalianly has that Thanksgiving weekend off. That's it really, Yeah,
she has to She has school up until the Wednesday
before Thanksgiving and then she's coming home that night and
then she has to be back the monday after.
Speaker 1: Wow. But Sunny gets a week okay, but also she'll
get a long break during Christmas and they have Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then she said that they have a really long break,
like three weeks or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so my kids, my seniors have three weeks.
They've always had three weeks. Oh, afy get one week spring,
three weeks over winter break.
Speaker 2: That's nice. Yeah, that's great. They're in the home stretch
your seniors, I know, I know. Yeah, And did't Xander
have his play? And how would that add that go?
Speaker 1: First, I'll tell you though, that LB turned twenty one.
That's right, Yeah, that's right, so crazy, Yeah, twenty one
year old, it's still wild. I know, I was trying
to make it like as special as possible, you know,
but she is grown and she has all these roommates
that want to celebrate with her too. But a few
days before her birthday, so it must have been over
that weekend, Ilbi was like, I'm just feeling kind of
off and I just want to come home, right, And
I was like, come on home. Yeah, So that was
she doesn't have class on Friday. I think she came
home Thursday night, and then she stayed home Thursday night,
Friday night, Saturday night, maybe Sunday night because the day
before her birthday was Veterans Day, oh right, so she
did school from home. So she was home for a
while for like a long time. But she also works
like more towards our house in her school right in Calbasas,
so she was also she worked a few shifts and
then she just like hung out, like and I think
she went out with friends a couple of times. Yeah,
it was so nice just to have her then. So
maybe she didn't even go back to school. No, Wednesday
she had she had classes. So she went back to
school like maybe Tuesday night. She had class Wednesday, then
she came home then we went for dinner, so we
all went up for Sushi's nice. I let her eat
like so much. It was really funny because she's just like,
it's my birthday, bitches, I'm having another orn right, like okay,
keep up coming. Yeah. It was really cute too, because like, oh,
you know, it was funny because she wasn't going to
drink because she was going to have to drive home
that night because she had class in the morning. But
then she decided that she wasn't driving home that night,
so then she she was like, I'm going to have
a drink or whatever. But then she was like, I'm
just gonna have lemonade. Oh that's nice. I know. Well,
I think she wasn't that excited. She doesn't like beer,
and the idea of sake wasn't like that great to her.
And I had said, I was like, we can go
somewhere else where you can get a cocktail for your
twenty first birthday, and she was like that's fine, yeah,
which made me happy. That's nice. But she's been doing
i think, quite a bit of drinking. The next night,
so we did that. We gave her her presence. I
bought the twins gift cards. I know we're not supposed
to say the twins. Sorry, I because Xander's been really busy.
So I bought, like, well, I let each of the
kids buy like a couple hundred dollars in gift cards,
well like one hundred and fifty, like three fifty dollars
gift cards of places that she loves. Oh that's nice,
that's sweet. So they gave her that, and then we
gave her her headphones. And then like she like her headphones,
Oh my god, loves them, loves them. Was so excited.
She's just a very grateful kid. Yeah, doesn't take a
lot to like be really happy. Nice. Yeah. And then
she went back to school the next day, and then
she went out with her roommates that night, and I
think they that's when insanely took her out. They took
her out, no more fake id and she I'm sure
she got drunk, but I will say the next day
I texted her and I was like, here's hoping you're
not like throwing up all day to day and it's
like you're able to function, and she was like, mom,
I feel fresh as a daisy. Oh nice, fine, that's great.
It's so much fun. That's so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was her birthday and then the twins.
Speaker 1: Now I have the twins' birthday coming up. Oh my god,
I don't like it's kind of a lot. Okay, let
me ask you this a little bit off topic, but
it is regarding the birthday. So Sadie wants a tattoo
for her eighteenth birthday. Right now, I don't have a
lot of experience with tattoos because I have one tattoo
that I got when I was doing parental discretion, right, so.
Speaker 2: I didn't have anything to do with buying it, you know.
And what is your tattoo and where it is? It's
a bird on my ankle.
Speaker 1: Right, It's cute. It's okay. It's not like if I
had to do it again, I think I would have
been more picky. Yeah, and made him. But they picked
the tattoo artist writing to film, and this is what
he came up with, and I was like, whatever, cool,
I don't care, you know what I mean. And listen,
it's been like I got the tattoo when I was
like forty two forty three days, so it's been a while. Right.
My point is, I don't know how much they're supposed
to call all I can do is ask al online? Yeah,
our boyfriend? Yeah, our boyfriend. Well, I guess that would
just be AI anyway, and okay, I'm not podcasting, well
right now, that's okay. So Sadie wants a tattoo. I
told her she could have a tattoo for her eighteenth
and I would take her. She's really into it, you know,
she's very artistic, yes, and she kind of knows what
she wants. Now. I got a couple of names of
referrals from people who I know have a lot of tattoos,
and she was looking through their Instagram feeds and she
was like, then she found a tattoo artist in West
Hollywood that she like. She was like, Mom, this is
the style. This is exactly the style I want. This
is like so me and I wish I could have her.
I'll try to get it so I can send you
guys everybody the Instagram and for the guy I can't
remember it now, but anyway, I was like, okay, well,
why don't you ask him? She was like, I don't
know what you say to tattoo artist. So I was like,
I don't know. I would ask him, like what the
deal is, like, if you want a tattoo that's in
his style, like what he charges? You know? Yeah? What
she has to do? Does she send him like an
idea or does he you know? How does it? Does
it work right? And she was like can you can
you send the text for me? It's like yes, but
from your phone. I'm not going to be like hi
from my account. I'll do it from your account and
you and she's like, okay, that's fine. Yeah. So I
was basically like, hey, I'm getting a tattoo for my
eighteenth birthday. I love your style of tattoos. Don't know
how this works whatever. The guy writes back, Yeah, just
tell me like placement, how big you want it, where
the placement is, and what's your budget? And I'm like,
what's your budget? That's like a car dealers, like what's
your No, you tell me what you charge? Yes, yeah,
what if you Yeah exactly. So anyway, I said to her,
just ask him, just say like maybe a four inch
tattoo or whatever she wants like a and you want
it kind of on your side right or she wants
it like right above her waistband, but like on her side,
And so she writes that, So he tells her seven
hundred and fifty dollars and I was like, zam, wow,
it's really high. But here's the thing. So I'm like,
she was like, well, what were you thinking it was
going to be. I was like, I don't know, I
thought four hundred was like a lot. Yeah. Yeah, it
seemed to expect me too. I don't know how much
tattoos go. Well, that's the thing. So then I look
it up and it says it really varies. It's like
it depends like this size, like a two inch to
four inch tattoo can run you like up to five
hundred dollars. So I was like, well, and then it
depends on how complex it is and how much detail.
So I was like, I don't know if that's way
too much. But of course I was like I don't
want to be spending seven hundred fift dollars on a tattoo, right,
But then you know, she was like, well, you know,
I would help pay for it, because like, I just
really really liked this style and I haven't seen anything
and it is forever, that's the thing. So then I
started thinking like, well, maybe do I offer to pay
like five hundred of it and make her pay? Right?
The rest fifty. I'm like, it is forever, which is
also just like shit, it's forever. Do you want like
you know you want this like this moment, but you know,
but then I had. We were talking about it and
she was like, mom, you know, I've never regretted, like
you know, I've made some kind of drastic appearance decisions, right,
and I've never gone back on it, right, Like when
she was at young, when she was really young, she
decided she wanted to chop off all her hair. Do
you remember this because she was only like six and
she had long hair. I remember, I want to cut
it really short. And I was like really, are you sure? Yeah,
because that's a big change. And I always think of
like especially young girls, Yeah, love their hair and they
want to do you know. She was like, yep, I
want it all off. And I was like, okay, like
to your shoulder. She's like, no, I want like a
short haircut. Wow. And I was like, I mean, I
just I'm worried that you're going to regret it, like
right after you do it, and she's like I'm not.
We went we got our haircut really short, and she
was like hey, and she was fine with it. Totally fine,
and she still remembers that. She's like, mom, remember when
I wanted to cut all my hair off? Yeah? And
then she also was the first one to like color
her hair. I remember that permanent like pink colored. Was
then she was the one who wanted a nose piercing
right earlier. But I'm like, okay, still all those things
are not permanent.
Speaker 2: Right, that's true. Yeah, getting the haircut short glad of
girls like for me. I remember just there was a
time I think I was It was like in my
late twenties early thirties, and I was like, I really
want my hair cut short and have it like flip
right right above my shoulder and have it like flip
up you know that kind of like cute. But I
don't have the hair for that. But I was like,
I think I could man it. I think I know
how to straighten it. I'm pretty good at and I
was like, I'm gonna do it. I did it, and
I regredit it like two days after I did it,
because I can't. It was I just looked like a
mushroom led like I could not keep my hair straight
as it's supposed to be. So in theory, it all
like sounds good, and then you do it, and then
you're like what the now you got to live with it.
Speaker 1: I mean eventually it grows back. But well, let's not
forget my story that I've told a lot of times
because we've been podcasting for a long time of when
I decided I wanted that chin length Bob yet with
things like Natalie Portman and the professional right, she was twelve, right,
But I thought I was going to really be able
to pull that off, and I went to and to
be fantastic. Sam's Oh I remember, do you remember who
was my hairdresser? Oh, the Armenian comedian. That's right, the
Armenian comedian. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Big here in Los Angeles. He was on k Rock
Radio too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had mind who he was he was. Remember
he told me, I'm the Armenian comedian.
Speaker 2: Yemer, this wacky guy that cut hair in the valley
at Fantastics.
Speaker 1: At Fanta I called himself the Armenian Comedians. Yeah, this
was I want to say this was in Santa Monica
because I wasn't. It was like right before I met
John too. Anyway. I didn't have like a hair straightener
or anything. I just like had a blow dryer, right,
biggest disaster in my life. Cried all the time. I
feel like you could with your hair rad note, well,
my hair right now is fully straightened with the straightening.
Oh I have su I have hair more like yours,
like wavy curly, wavy curly that if you don't do
something about it, it will right kind of kind of puffy. Yeah,
so I look like a mushroom head like you. Yeah.
And the bangs forget about it. Oh, the banks everywhere.
Oh my god, the bangs. I did that too.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm gonna everybody had banks and remember
the Rachel haircut too, and it's like and then yeah,
I got bangs, and it's like the banks would just
go every which way, but but the right way.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. It just kind of did its own.
Speaker 2: Thing, like and then I just realized in my thirties,
like I can't fuck with my hair. I just got
to keep the same. I just have to know what
I can do with it. Wendy taught me at an
early age, I mean this was in the eighties, how
to straighten your hair because she has hair like me too,
so she got this. Like back in the day they
had these hot tool blow dryers that had the comb.
It was not even a brush, it was a comb.
And so like she taught me how to use hot comb.
It was like a hot comb. Yes, yeah, and even
then it's like what like it kind of straight, but
it was still frizzy. All it did was frizz it.
It didn't really make it straight. It just frizzed it out.
And then my hair also expands in the in the
like wet weather, it gets not only curly, but it expands.
It gets like you know, like like.
Speaker 1: Like a jew fro or something.
Speaker 2: So I just I but then I started, you know,
and then as tools got better, I started learning how
to use regular blow dryers and hair blow dry So
now use the Revlin thing like we talked about a
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, so no, I mean I had terrible
look with hair. I remember when I was young. I
guess my hair was more you know what happened. I'll
chase this back. I did have pretty straight hair when
I was really young. Right then I got a perm
when you're and it never it changed the texture of
my hair permanently. Really remember those like Tony Homper. Yeah, yeah,
I got a permanent was really the worst decision of
my life. It was a super super curly o super
curly like poodle. Oh no, I never quite was the
same after that.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but what but puberty too, when you go
through puberty. Yeah, I got my hair. I got a
perm the opposite I was. You know, when I went
to the Valley Alternative Magnet school that I went to.
I went to my friends that lived in downtown LA
to my black friend's mom, like she she like ironed
my hair. She put all this these chemicals to make
my hair straight. I remember that smell to this day,
Like that smell stuck with me for months, that chemical smell.
Speaker 1: Like a Brazilian before they had Brazilian.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but it was like she had all these
weird tools and all this like smelly permanent solution and
stuff to straighten the hair, and it just fried. My
My hair was just a mess. I just had the
worst hair when I was growing up, and everybody in
my school had that beautiful like fairy facet, you know flip,
Like everybody had like nice straight or wavy hair. I
was just this fucking Italian kid with this fucked up hair.
It was just a nightmare.
Speaker 1: I always had terrible hair too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my hair would like curl, curl like a
poodle when I was really young.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I was like middle school and I had
moved to Washington State, even though like it was weird
because I lived in Spokane, people didn't have like a
lot of money, but somehow everybody had more money than
we did somehow, so everybody had the right jeans. Everybody
had and there was I want to say they were
called like bareback or bear brus kind of jeans that
I can't remember the name, but my mom wouldn't buy
them for me. Every girl had these jeans, and every
girl had a stacked perl. So they all looked kind
of the same, and I looked so different because we
weren't gonna she wasn't gonna get me that kind of
perm right, which in retrospect probably did me a favor. Yes,
So I just had this really random like So I
remember I would try to achieve the look a little
bit of the look of the stock PM by crimping
my hair, remember crimped crimping. Yes, So the way I
crimped was I just made like pretty tight braids, oh yeah,
and slept in them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you take it out and it would
like look like like you crimped it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which was not a good I know.
Speaker 2: I mean, and my friends would crimp their hair too,
and I'm like, I don't need to crimp my hair.
My hair is naturally crimped. Yes, it was just oh,
it was the worst. Remember those And I remember my
I wanted jeans. I just wanted regular jeans, like like
a shremendoufurs and stuff like that. Yeah, and my mom
would make me wear my brother's jeans.
Speaker 1: They hand me and my.
Speaker 2: Mom we didn't have a dryer at some point, so
she would wash the clothes and she would hang the
jeans on the fence in the baking sun. And these
were thick, like thick Levi, really thick denim and that,
but it wasn't Levi. And she would hang them on
the fence outside in the San Fernando Valley in the
summer and then give them to me to wear. It's
like putting a cardboard box on. It was the worst
feeling to wear those jeans. And in the summer I
hated it. I hated those jeans. What like fade them too,
oh yeah, oh yeah, like the inside would be like
the dark, but then the outside would be like faded
and not faded jeans in the right way, Like they
weren't supposed to be faded. It was supposed to be
dark denim, and they were just faded in all different
fucked up.
Speaker 1: It was just awful. It was just I was a mess.
Speaker 2: It was not a good I could not get I
didn't I didn't really figure out how to like style
myself and get my hair done until I was like
in high school, because you know, I couldn't control my hair.
Speaker 1: Uh, it just was.
Speaker 2: I was just and then my brother's jeans and I
was always wearing like my mom would take me to
Zodi's remembers.
Speaker 1: Do you remember Zode? We would go to Zodies store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and buy like the shitty clothes, the knockoffs and stuff.
Speaker 1: Ugh, just a mess. What was the one that we
used to go to Fedco? Do you remember? I don't remember.
It was like a department store too, and yeah, you
could get some real shitty clothes. Spears and Rollbuck. It's
kind of like a JC penny like Sears Ullworths. Oh
my god. I mean I dressed only from Sears catalog
when I was a kid. Just the goofiest looking clothes. Yeah,
my mom just did not care about fashion or you know.
My mom was a super kind of hippie, right, and
like I said, like I've said before, did not shave
her armpits, didn't shave anywhere. It was like kind of
naked around the house. And she had like so much
pubic hair like everywhere, you know. And I do remember,
I mean I've told you this before too, but I
remember going camping and we went to this place and
it was like we're all going to get in the
pool or a hot springs or something, and my mom's
wearing a bathing suit and there's just hair all the
way down her. Oh my god. Think were feeling so
embarrassed and just like why like what you know? Yes, yeah,
I know I was well old enough to just feel
self conscious about my family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my friend's moms were like that. My mom, you know,
my mom, she was always like, you know, in tank
tops and short shorts and the like white pumps from
penny Less. She call them, she'd call the store. It
was Payless. Yes, I bought these are shoes at the
penny Less. They own The costamia eight dollars. She wear
those white pumps and so she walked around. It was
so embarrassing. Shaved, and she did shave, but she had
she had kind of frizzy hair too, but she had
that like she dyed her hair red, but then she
never kept up with it, so it'd be like half
gray and then you know, then red, and then she'd
do it again and then it was bright red. And
then she'd be like, whoa, I just stood in my
hair and she'd lay in the sun again. I'm gonna
get a tan and the linnette that you need to
fix of your hair. You need to put some makeup on,
and like, don't go out and looking like a like
a homeless up person, Like you need to fix it yourself.
Put do some awake up on And where's your lip
a stick? That's what she'd say. Put some ellipstick on.
That's all you would really need, like I. And then
it was she hated when I had my hair in
a ponytail. And I've told this before, but Natalia, when
Natalia was little, before she could even talk, she would
sit in the car seat behind me and she'd pull
my hair out of the ponytail and she'd fluff my hair.
She'd always want me to look pretty She even said
it today. She's like, we're on our way. We're gonna
be there in thirty minutes. Can you look nice?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? Oh my god, my kids are so used
to me looking scraggly, like wearing clothes three days running.
I'm like a new mom in the way that, like
I will wake up and literally not look in the
mirror sometimes unless I have a reason to, Like, I
will just be in my glasses my hair's a mess
or whatever. I mean, because I'll shower sometimes and then
not do my hair, like I'll wet it and then
just let it dry. And then I wake up, I'm
still in sweats and a T shirt. And then I
go out like that and I haven't even had a
look in the mirror. Yeah, It's like I was when
I was a brand new mom and I was so tired.
What's my excuse now?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: What is this? I've lost interest?
Speaker 2: Well that's the That's the thing too, is sometimes when
I wash my hair, I don't want to blow dry it,
so I just like let it air dry or whatever,
and I put some stuff in it and just call
it a day. So I know when she's like she's like,
don't have your hair like a mess, you know, like
get the straightening iron.
Speaker 1: Out, well, like if you're going somewhere. I know, I know.
My kids are so used to it they would never ever,
Like they don't even say, like, Mom, are you still
wearing You were wearing that two days ago? Listen, if
I haven't been to the gym, no need to change,
or I have actually taken off whatever I'm wearing sweats
and a sweatshirt, which I'm wearing right now, Go to change,
go to the gym, come back, take a shower, put
back on the I'm like, well, they're not dirty. See
that's the thing I always said.
Speaker 2: There should be a purgatory like hamper where it's not
dirty yet, where you have to wash it right, but
you can still floor next time. Yah, it's tell the
chair in your bedroom right right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then I'll go back to that well like
a few more times. Yeah. I'm like, I guess I
could wash it right now if only my kids would
do that, because I swear to God, my kid's hampers
are like magical because I will do all the laundry
and then come back a day later and it's filled
full again. Like how right? That's a natalia tale.
Speaker 2: That's her Sonny, you'll wear the same things a few
days in a row probably, But Natalia, you know, she'll
try something on and then decide not to wear it
and put it in the hampers.
Speaker 1: Backs Sadi too, Sadi two. I'll be like, Sadie, I
just did all your laundry, how are these jeans like
in the hamper? And she'll be like, well, but I
wore them yesterday. I'm like, for a half hour, then
you change to go somewhere else. Yeah, right, how do
you think your jeans are dirty that you wore for
a half hour. And She'll be like, no, I know
I wore them once before that, like just something. And
I'm like, no, you did it, liar. So she gonna
get the tattoo. She's definitely getting a tattoo. Okay, it's
coming down to do I want to fork out. I'm
not made of money, Like it's a big excitven.
Speaker 2: Hundred dollars, it's a lot. That's a lot plus tip.
You gott to tip them.
Speaker 1: You gotta tip these outs. Oh really yeah? But then
it's okay. So my thinking is like, okay, if I
would have spent at the outside, like, let's just say,
I thought it was going to be four hundred, but
it's like a nice tattoo, and it's a little complex,
so I have to go five hundred. Do I squabble
over another two point fifty for something that's going to
be on her body forever? Or make her go somewhere
cheaper maybe or yeah, people are probably going to say, well,
why don't you check with a couple of other artists, right,
that's one I sent her. I don't know how much
they charge, but she's like not as into them, she's
not excited. This was the first one before she knew
the price that she was like, oh my god, this
is exactly I've looked at so many. Yeah, she spent
a whole evening scrolling through like Pinterest and looking at
all these like tattoos, and she was like, this is
the first one that's like exactly kind of what I
picture in my mind right right, Well, maybe she could
pitch it chip in yeah, yeah, and maybe money pay
it and then have her pay you back or something
too little Biola, I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.
Then I have got to give you something kind of
grand for.
Speaker 2: Eva was just gonna say that's what Then freaking Christmas
is coming.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Do you know what I tell her?
And I can't. I know that there I could be like, okay,
but this is also part of your Christmas gift too.
You know, by the time it's Christmas, I'm not going
to be like, well, nothing really under the tree. I
know that's the thing, and it's on your body.
Speaker 2: That's the thing that kids go, well, Christmas is it
can be my Christmas present. It's like, oh, okay, that
always works out. Yeah, your Christmas present in August. Just
remember so in December when you don't get anything that
was your Christmas breath like, that never works.
Speaker 1: Out, right. So I did have her go back to
the say to the guy, okay, but what if I
did something kind of more, a little simpler and smaller
than and he said still seven fifty.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, But he asked her her budget. Why doesn't
she can she say, my budget's five hundred.
Speaker 1: What can you do? I mean, I guess so, But
then do you want him going like, well, not going
to be going to be not what you want. I
don't know. I'm going to ask my other I have
a couple of friends, the one who recommended one of
the guys to me, who is good? Who seems good?
I'm going to ask her if she thinks that's reasonable, yeah,
in the ballpark, send her a picture of what Sadie wants. Yeah, yeah,
and then what are you getting Xander? See, I don't.
I have no idea. It's really kind of criminal that
their birthdays are so close to it. It is. I
feel so bad for the parents, like yours are so
spaced out. I mean Une to December, right, I know
it's Perf's got like a whole six months to like, yeah,
save up. I know.
Speaker 2: I thought about that when it meant where they were
born or I was like, okay, this is pretty good.
Speaker 1: I got like, yeah, I got six months in between. Yeah,
we're there here. I got LB November twelve, that twins
November twenty six, So I've literally got four weeks between
their birthday and you know that's crazy. Yeah, and they
still want a party with a fucking musician, I mean magician, Like,
did you find the magician? Not yet, because I reached
out to one and uh, he doesn't. He won't do
Thanksgiving weekend, And I was like, that's probably going to
be a problem for a lot of them. Plus I
just don't know if I want to be arranging that
the Saturday of after their birthday. So their birthday is
on so Thanksgiving Thursday. Their birthday is Wednesday. That's Saturday.
I'm going to uh Yachtlee Crue. Oh wow, yacht rock show?
You what? Really? Yeah? So my friend Cecily not podcast partner,
my mom. Friend Cecily uh got tickets for her birthday.
Her husband gave her four tickets to this a big show.
It's like downtown real, like the YouTube Theater. It's at
one of those bs and so it's yeah, it's me Laura,
my friend Sharon, and Cecily, and it's been planned. He
bought her the tickets like a long time ago. Wow,
that's gonna be so fun. I know, I'm very much
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Like, what are the bunch of bands that are just
it's just all yacht rock.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's the band Yachtlee Crue who does the
big show. They sing all like late seventies eighties songs, right,
and they dress up in like the yacht hat o saddy.
It's a it's a show. Like I went to see
them with Robin at in Burbank. No you know Agora Okay,
it's an Aga okay.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1: The freeway, yes, yeah, Oh my god, why can't I
remember it? Their thing is where music meets the soul.
If you go to their website, they have a bunch
of them.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, like Pat Benattar's played out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, so I've seen them out there before
and now they're that's so fun. They're at a bigger venue.
They're very how are you going to do a party? Well,
so I'm not going to do it that. I'm definitely
not going to do it that Saturday. I don't want
to do it the friday right after Thanksgiving people might
be out of town. So the kids were thinking maybe
they would do it the following weekend like early December. Okay,
but so then I got to get money to pay
a magician and pay for like a little party, right,
A lot, I know, I know feel for you.
Speaker 2: The fact that all three of your kids have birthdays
so close together in November, right before Christmas, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so I will tell you about I have
some other stories for you for Friday's episode, but let's
do shouts.
Speaker 2: How about want to shout Hip Johanne up and shout,
Stephanie Stinker Wrinker shout, Christmas Drew Show shout, Ben Green shout.
Jennifer and Aaron and Leslie make me want to shout
a little bit louder. Now shout a little bit soft
and now.
Speaker 1: Leslie White cough makes me want to cough. Alicia as
Galante and Kelly Britton, Rebecca Lubin and Ishan fog Pey
and Missy and Gabby, we want to shout the haels
up and shout. Katerina, Katerina and Valerie Buba Fenwick and
Polly Butterfield and Rita Bassiett and Elizabeth, Nikki Collier and
Dick Frolicker.
Speaker 2: You make me want to shout. Good hands, come on
a little bit loud and.
Speaker 1: Now oh, I wanted to tell you guys this now.
So my lady, okay, I'll give you an update on
my GLP jourky too. She's going great, so, my lady,
my GLP lady said she's been so many people from
the podcast have reached out to her. Really, I swear
to you. She decided she wants to reward everybody and
she's going to do a twenty five percent off. It
already only costs like one hundred and twenty five dollars
for ten milligrams, but she's going to offer twenty five
percent off between now when you're listening to this and
like December first, Wow, Wow, reach out to me. If
you already have her info, then you can tell her
you want your for crying out loud discount. But if
you haven't, you can reach out to me and I'll
give you herd that's great, iteel weird just giving her
phone number? Yeah, well whatever, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
could post it on our Facebook page. She's on in
our Facebook. Oh okay, name's Karen Ford all right. Anyway,
so that got a little add She's not even doing
a shout out. It's just like, right, she's not doing
a shout You make me want a shout out, Katie Coleman.
She is doing ELF on the shelf kits for Christmas.
You know what a pain in the fucking ass trying
to move the ELF I think of stuff. So this
is this kit comes with twenty four days of ELF
setups and props and customizable letters so you don't have
to think of something that's cute. A genius idea. Yeah,
you can find it on Etsy by searching Little Merry Moments. Nice.
Then another good gift idea, Courtneymore with I e Embroidery.
They do the hats and polos and personalized stuff. That's
a great gift. Yeah, so on she's on Facebook. I
e Embroidery. And then we've got our girl, Kaylie Pettis,
who is licensed marriage and family therapist. She's out of Seattle.
She can see you personally in Seattle or virtually across
all of Washington State. And she helps high achieving women
who feel really confident in every area except their love lives.
She's really good with that, so go to Emerald Bloom Therapy. Also,
my friend I will not say her name, but she
has a medium account medium dot com and it's at
Unbecoming Stories and a little bit later this month, she's
just gonna let loose with some craziness. She can't legally
do it just yet. Oh interested, there's some good stories
coming your way. Also, Family Skeptical podcast about raising kids
without religion, So if you're any non believer type, you're
welcome listen to their podcast. Will Meanfrida Palm Springs, Palm Desert.
Get your grub on yuh me go see them mentioned
fcol Get a latte or a mimosa that a gift
idea Basic Becky she'll do design a T shirt anyway
you want, or a mouse pad or a mug. Go
to just Basic Becky dot com. Maren is Sugar Skull,
a small bakery and gift shop on the island of Kawhi.
If you're vacationing, go get a cake. Yeah, would you?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Don't be dumb. Go to their Instagram page at
Sugar Skull eight eight and fall give them a follow
and to get there, why not use waves and wonder chable,
it's our friend Christine. She's Christine Concierge travel planner on Facebook.
Or go into our group and go where's the travel bitch?
And then ACL you fighting the good fight? Oh are
they ever? They're taking it. They're taking it to court
and especially for LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights. So please give
a little money if you can afford it to the ACL.
You and Heather Hoyt just through the rest of November,
so maybe she'll get one more shout out after this.
The Holder Wide Foundation in honor of the boys killed
in the Borderline shooting. To donate, go to holder wide
dot org and click the donate tab. So that's a
really really important Yeah, they do a lot of good things.
And also Adam Lerner, Adam's got a car. If you
need a car, he's a car broker. He'll take all
the pain out of shopping for cars. And you know what,
I have one more so I'm just going to do
it right now. Ferncandle another gonna get Yes. Yes, she
runs the business out of her home. She makes yummy
smelling candles like tobacco, sage, lavender, sandalwood. Also she's on
Instagram at Ferncandle nice. Wow. All right, thanks everybody. We'll
see you guys on Friday. All right bye. You're a
parent now, don't if it up. I take that angle.