Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Oh pace sunny sun man on I hadasione night, So nat.
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to what it's uh for crying out loud,
for fucking crying out loud? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Hi.
Speaker 3: How you doing stuff good? This is our second episode
of the morning. That's right, but but we saved some
stuff yeah to talk about with you guys. I feel
like we just had to warm up because it was
freezing in here. It was so cold. Not that you
guys care, but like you try to do work and
like be your best self when you're literally you're cheat chattering.
Oh my god. And I didn't want to interrupt the show,
but you and I both were like, I like, we're
in straight jackets with our holding ourselves, trying to get.
Speaker 1: Warm, get a ball. Stephanie's like inner chair, bald up
in a chair with their knees up. It was so cold,
but it's going to get warmer in here quickly, and
then we'll be complaining because we'll be like.
Speaker 3: Oh hot in here. Turn the heat, dude about five
minutes port Kaylin.
Speaker 1: I like the cold. Every dude likes it cold. I
know every guy likes it cold.
Speaker 3: I heard some commercial there's a commercial, like on a
podcast for some some mattress that keeps you up, Oh god,
and the guy's like, you know, sometimes some people, one
part of the couple likes it cold and one likes
it hot. I bet you can guess who's who. So
that's like a I saw.
Speaker 1: I saw a commercial where the guy goes, I like it,
I like it warm, and she's like and I like
it cool, and I'm like, what the fuck are you kidding?
There is a commercial for a mattress where they literally
the two of them said that, I'm like, are you crazy?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: You guys are liars. Liars.
Speaker 4: And when it's cold, I get to wear this is
my Quinn sweater that my in law's got me for Christmas.
Speaker 3: Is it sweater material or sweatshirt material?
Speaker 4: This the difference? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Well, sweatshirts are like jersey material, like cotton, and sweaters
are like shirt. Okay, thick? What a dude, do you not?
Is a different?
Speaker 1: Because he's so hot he can't you know, yeah, he's
losing his faculty. He doesn't a different.
Speaker 3: It's starting to warm up. It's starting to warm up
in here.
Speaker 1: See you can feel like because it's hitting you directly.
I still feel cold.
Speaker 3: It'll hit you because you're closer to it than I am.
But you're just okay. Welcome to hot Airtop, Welcome back.
Let's say hi to our people. We got Stephanie's just
a rinker and Natina Kinshurd. We love you, Sandra, it's
not easy being green, Jennifer, stand up. Aaron is a
dirty Sanchez, Sarah Stefano, She's our Paisano. Leslie with the
coughing already, Alicia Escalante.
Speaker 1: From the city of Belle Monte. Kelly Brant, she will
gass it up and take you wherever you gots to go.
Rebecca Libre is so cute, the best, Sean so hot,
that ass Missy and Gabby up to no goods. Still
out there at the football game.
Speaker 3: Katterina go to the dentist today just to just to peak. Sure, Yeah,
you don't know what's happening in your mouth. Valerie, Bubba
Fenway kits out of the park. Polli, we love your pancakes,
Rita Rock and all, Elizabeth Williamson's kids in her Bassiet
and Nikki call your girl. And Katie is still rolling
on me. That's a lot of eat careful, Kelly, Ladie
not and Dick is frolicking, still frolicking.
Speaker 1: Yep, good for you, Dick.
Speaker 3: Whoop. Okay, I have kind of a funny story. Yeah,
the other day I was at Smart and Final in
my neighborhood so thrown a party. Well I was, so
there was a one of the things that my kids
are involved in at school had a big event during
the day, and you know, I just cannot say no
to like helping out with these things.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: And I know that I say that I'm not that
I'm a no getter, and I do feel like, in
my heart of hearts, I identify as a no getter.
But I guess objectively I'm a go getter. But you
know when you're forced into being a go getter and
you're like, but you guys, I'm a no getter, Like
I don't know what I'm doing. So I have this
friend and I also want to talk about her later.
I have this friend named Tamra. She's the one who
I advertised her jewelry making. She has a jewelry making business,
and I'm so jealous because when I'm hanging out with her,
her phone goes off with the Chichen, and I'm like, bitch,
how successful are you? She's because it's set so that
she gets notified when there's a sale right at sea store.
How does that?
Speaker 1: How did these jewelry making people even start? You know,
I you watch you know, you see some of these
shows and these these housewives are you know they make jewelry,
but like, really, how does it? How does that actually
start from beginning to end? And then where do you say,
do you even get an audience to sell it to
if nobody knows who you are?
Speaker 3: I think that she had a bit of a little
bit of a social media following because she was an
she's an actress, and she was on the show She's
was on some shows, like many years ago, she was
on the show Popular, which is a which was a
big Ryan Murphy show. I guess I never saw it,
did you guys see that show?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Popular?
Speaker 1: Well, so she didn't think of as that song I'm
like a little populer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So she had a little fan base. And then
I think just over the years, you know, then she
had a kid, and our kids are friends, and she
uh kind of stopped acting and then I think that's
sort of you know, she was always I think artistic
and like like made jewelry. So then she focused on
that and I guess built the business. And I'm not
really sure how. I have to ask her sometimes, yeah,
like how did that get built up? Because she does
a lot of jewelry, Like it's a pretty successful business
and her stuff is like really cool. She made me
this necklace for Xander with a guitar pick on it
that is has an X on it for Xander, which
he looks what she wears all the time. It's really cool.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: So she and she does a lot of stuff for
like anniversaries.
Speaker 1: So she can do like custom stuff.
Speaker 3: Yes, does a lot of custom stuff.
Speaker 1: That's really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so she uses different metals that are for different
like antiverts, you know, for like this year that I
don't know the right but anyway, anyway, AnyWho, she and
I were throwing this somehow got roped into doing this
event for the kids' school where they were going to
be like seventy kids plus like let's say, forty adults,
and we had to feed all the adults breakfast and lunch,
and then the kids we had to feed them lunch.
And she and I are are similar in the way
that she was like, what the fuck, Like I don't
know how to feed people. Yeah, She's like, what are
we gonna do? And then I was like, all right,
this is what we're going to do. And then I
we're going to get like Jersey mics for the adults,
and then we're going to do like we're going to
keep it easy for ourselves. We're going to do so
we would get these big ideas, like we're going to
order the pizza from Costco, and then then I went
into Costco and they're like, we just do like cheese
and pepperoni, which we ended up doing, and they're like,
you there's what you do you call this person the
day before and I was like, okay, it's getty too cold.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question because tomorrow I'm going
to be volunteering at that place again for the fire victims.
But when you're doing like if they if they let's
say she asks me to go on a lunch run
or something like that, how do you like, I wouldn't
think of sandwiches because what then I would Okay, sandwich
sounds great, but then what kind of sandwiches do you get?
Because there's the person that doesn't eat meat just wants
a veggie sandwich. But they're question most people don't want
a veggie sandwich because it sucks. So then what do
you get? Do you get the turkey? Do you get
the han?
Speaker 3: We did so we did no chi. I'm just kidding.
I know it's spelled whatever. You know how it's spelled, yeah, miki. Anyway, see, guys,
I learn. Basically, we another friend of ours did the
org got us a sports team discount at Jersey Mike.
So what they do is they did it like we
just did a bunch of sandwiches, and we said, okay,
this many more extra turkey and provolone because that seems
to be what a lot that seems to be basic. Yeah,
And then we did ham and provolone, not quite as many.
Then we did one with a bunch of meats. I
don't know what the whatever, it's extra some other meats.
And then we did veggie.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh we have a lot of veggie left over. Okay, yeah,
see there's a lot of veggies get left over.
Speaker 3: We didn't order as many veggies, but yeah, we but
they a lot of the sandwiches went okay.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we just did a little sounds good. Yeah,
it's a good thing.
Speaker 3: So we did that. But then we didn't do the
meals because it was very it was way more expensive
if you do like it, it comes to chips and
a drink. So we just had parents. We did a
sign up genius and we asked parents to send in
like big, multi multi box assortments of chips. A bunch
of people did that. We had parents bring in like
cases of soda, and then we did some cookies. We
asked the parents to do that, and then we asked
for like donations of money so that we could pay
for like the sandwiches. And it was like kind of fine,
except that I said I would bring So we did
also donuts for the warning, for the for the parents,
and I was my job was to bring coffee, So
I unfortunately waited because I was like, oh, I'll just
order it the night before some travelers and then just
swing by and pick it up in the morning. Yeah,
And I was going to do McDonald's because McDonald's was
the cheapest for coffee travelers. They were like sixteen bucks,
whereas everyone else is like twenty two twenty five, right,
So I'm like okay, So I but I it becomes
like so much more complicated. Life has become complicated. So
I go to McDonald's website and I'm like, I'm just
gonna like put it in an order for that day
at that location. Not so fast. Not so fast. They're like,
first of all, you're gonna slow your role and you're
gonna download the McDonald's app. And I'm like, why why
do I have to download an app for this? Like
why why can't I just go to Why doesn't the
store itself have it? So they're like, I don't know,
we just don't worry about it. Get the app.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, fuck, I hate that.
Speaker 3: So I download the app.
Speaker 1: One more fucking app on the phone.
Speaker 3: Go on the app and they're like, what are you
talking about? Ordering like coffee from where? What coffee? And
I'm like what, it's like ridiculously hard to find your store.
They're just like, just put it in the order. We'll
figure out the closest store to you. I'm like, no,
you won't because I don't want the closest and also
I don't want delivery. They're like, we'll deliver it to you. No,
I don't want you to bring me coffee right now.
I want coffee for tomorrow. There's literally no way to
do it. So I call the store where I want
the coffee. Like they're like, oh yeah, yeah, okay, here's
what you're gonna do. You're gonna call us this at
night the night before. You're gonna call and you're gonna
ask for Janet, and then you're gonna put in the
order through Janet, and then Janet's gonna have the coffee
ready for you the next day. So I'm like, all right,
I'm gonna trust you on this. She's like, I got.
Speaker 1: You better get that Janet by the phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm like okay. So then I go do
some stuff or whatever. On Friday, I come back, it's like,
you know, nine o'clock at night. I was like, so,
do I can do it like late night? Yeah, we're
open till like three in the morning. Whatever. Yeah, just
call us that night call. I called McDonald's. I'm like, hey,
can I speak to Janet. You're like She's like she's
not here. It's not even like Hi, welcome McDonald's. Meg.
Can I help you? Like no, it's just like hello.
I literally the person goes hello, and I was like,
this is McDonald's right, McDonald's exactly. That's what they're probably like,
why is this phone ringing? What is this phone even
attached to? Somebody answers it Hello. I'm like, Hi, is
Janet there? No, she's not here. Okay, well, I'm.
Speaker 1: Surprised they even knew who Janet was.
Speaker 3: I said, well, is she coming back? No? Swear to God,
so I said, okay, Well, I was told that I
wanted to order some coffee travelers to pick up tomorrow morning,
early in the morning, at like seven thirty in the morning.
And I was told to ask for Janet. And I
swear to God, this is what the person says.
Speaker 1: How did I get hurt?
Speaker 3: She's like, can you She goes, I don't know. She goes,
can you call back?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I said, is there a supervisor I can speak to?
And she goes, I don't know. She goes, can you
call back in like thirty minutes when I'm gone, Well,
it's already like ten thirty at this point, I'm like,
I'm trying to go to bed, you know, I thought
I was, so I was like, yeah, okay, So now
I'm like, you know what, fuck all this, I'm gonna
just I'm going to just put in the order at
Starbucks and pay the extra money for the convenience of it.
So I try to go to I try to order
at Starbucks. They're like, no, can do because the Starbucks
is closed. And I get a message that oh they
let me place the order, but before I could pay,
They're like, yeah, you can't do this online. You have
to you have to call back or you have to
do it again when the store is open, okay, So
I'm like vague. Well, ah, so then I try Western Bagel.
I mean is I'm like, hey, hey, there's a Western
Bagel by my house, which is actually even more expensive
than Starbucks. But at this point, I'm like, whatever, it's
not my money. So I try Western Bagel. Nope. Oh,
so they're like you have to call back. What you
have to try again when the store is open. Well,
they open at five am. So I go to sleep.
Then I set my alarm for like six am, and
I'm like, I hope that I'm giving them like an
hour leeway, you know. So, but I wake up because
I'm anxious about this whole thing now, because I've made
I've made ordering coffee my whole personality at this point,
talking to John about it. I'm calling friends. I'm like, oh,
did you know how hard it is to order coffee
for the morning. They're like, AT's on your phone? They're like,
I gotta go. Yeah, So I wait. My eyes pop
open though, at like five after five in the morning,
and I'm like, okay, I gotta go back to sleep
because you know, then you start going like I'm gonna
have to get up at six anyway. So then I'm like,
you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna just do the
put in the coffee order.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, now I'm awake and like adrenaline is rushing because
I'm like, how do I do this? I figure out
how to order the coffee from Western Bagel, which, by
the way, is not through Western Bagel. You have to
go through so one of those like it's not door Dash,
but it's like you know, you get like a list
of options and one of them says the restaurant prefers
oh so or something. So I'm like, I've never heard
of this. But luckily I don't have to download an
app for it. So I'm like, okay, oh, so I'm
trusting you. So I order my coffees. They're gonna be
ready at like seven fifteen, and I'm like, try to
go back to sleep. No, can't do no, So I
like do the New York Times, you know, some games
on my phone. Stay awake, wake Xen. Okay, So at
like whatever, I'm up for like an hour and forty
five minutes, I wake Xander up, I go get the coffee,
and you know, I go do this thing. So a lot, yes,
a lot of work went into it. And then there's
like then I got to order. Then I decide we're
going to order pizza to be delivered. Then we're on
the like Little Caesar's website and like so then it
was like a whole thing.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so you had to get breakfast and lunch.
Speaker 3: So my friend went and got donuts. She went in
and got donuts. I brought in the coffee. Then we
had ordered. We had pre ordered the sandwiches, right, so
someone had to go get those at eleven thirty, and
then we ordered pizza. The pizza got delivered. Then we
had all these drenk There was a lot of running around.
So the pizza was for the dinner stuff. So that
was for the kids lunch, for the kids lunch. So
kids had ordered lunchik. So we had to order a
bunch of pizza.
Speaker 1: Got it.
Speaker 3: We over ordered, so then we had a bunch of
pizza left. So we the kids ate pizza. Then we
sold slices of pizza.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go. Yeah, your money back.
Speaker 3: And the adults got chips and so did the kids
got chips with their lunch. We had different stations. Yeah,
and it was just like the two of us kind
of doing this whole thing.
Speaker 1: So what happened at at at Smart?
Speaker 3: Okay, should we take let's take a quick break. So
we were gonna need some cookies for the kids' lunches.
So I was I went, that was my job. So
I went to Smart and Final to get cookies and
I bought a big box. At whatever I'm in, I'm
checking out in line, and there's these two in front
of me in line. There's two pretty clearly gay, older
gay men that seem like a couple and they're and
they have run into a friend of theirs, a woman
who seems like a Jewish valley mom, you know, wearing
some funky glasses and like, and they haven't seen each
other in a while. They're like, oh my god, hey,
get to see you then they're having a conversation that
sounds like it's about social justice. Like she's starting to
say like, oh, yeah, you know, I was writing postcards.
I was doing a lot of postcard writing, and they're
very animated and anyway, as so I pay for my stuff.
They've now moved their convers like right out of the
front doors of Smart and Final. So as I'm walking past,
i hear her saying, you know, like I'm a little
burnt out from the postcard writing, but there's some things
we can do. And the guys are like, yeah, something
like social justice blah blah blah. And I'm holding this
like box of cookies in my hand and I'm walking
by them, and I'm like, god, I want to be
part of their conversation, you know, like honestly like libtards unite,
you know, And I'm like, god, I really want to be,
Like I'm I'm like fired up just here. I'm like, oh,
we need community in times like these, like yummy, right yeah.
So like but I'm walking away and I'm like what
if I just walk back and I was like, hey,
can I be in your conversation? And then I'm like
oh God, like that would be the most awkward, Like
they're just going to be like, what the f fuck.
Speaker 1: So they would have liked it or not, you know,
you would have just went. Even if you would have
just went, I spoiler.
Speaker 3: Alert, I did it. I like start getting further and
further away from them, farther and farther away from them.
I'm almost at my car, and I'm like, you know what,
fucking yolo, Like, if anyone's gonna do this, it's gonna
be me. There's because meanwhile, okay, so I'm seeing them.
They've walked to to like where the cart return is
and they're still talking, and I'm like, I could still
do this, but it's gonna be really obvious. Like I'm
gonna have to literally now cross the parking lot with
this box of cookies that's still in my hand, the
only thing that I bought it smart and final. I'm
gonna have to cross like and by the way, it's
like Keebler like mini eminem cookies. It's just like a
sealot for them one right, So I'm like, I'm doing it.
I was like, if anything, it's gonna be a freaking
story for my podcast. So I walk, I approach the
woman and one of the men are like deep in
conversation and the other guy is like a like a
step away from them, but like listening. So I'm like, okay,
he's my target. I'm gonna like so I'm like, excuse me,
and he looks at me like yeah, and I'm like, okay,
I know this is weird, but can I be Can
I get in on your conversation? I said, do you
guys have any action items? And he goes what? And
then I said, I feel like you guys are doing
some good work over here, and I want to be
part of it. And I did it. I said it
kind of like that, and he starts laughing and he's like,
you guys, He's like, this girl wants to be in
our conversation. She's like she wants to know if we
have any action items. Well, like, the woman turns around
like what, Like she looks super annoyed for a minute,
like what are you doing? What are you talking about?
But the other guy is like starts laughing and he
was like, oh my god, I love you. He's like
come here, and he's like she wants to help. And
then the woman like totally softened. She's like what oh,
and I said, listen, I'm I'm a mom from the valley,
and I'm like upset about what's going on in our
country right now, and like I want whatever. It sounds
like you guys have some ideas and I want to
hear them. And she starts laughing and she's like, have
you heard of indivisible San Fernando Valley Indivisible? And I
was like, no, I haven't tell me about it. So
they start talking and then these guys are like, you know,
we're a same sex couple. We've been together like forty years,
and like we've been doing like social justice work for
like since the beginning, and we know that we're not
our marriage isn't on the line, but we know that
like future gay men and you know LGBT community. And
I was like, I'm all about like seeing how I
can help anyway. So the woman starts telling us some
stuff and she gets my email address and then she
has to go. But I stood talking to these guys
who I have like weird stuff in common with, like
they know some of my neighbors, for like an hour. No,
we all stood and talked and I have like new
best friends. No way, my friends Curtis and Steve and
they just kept being like, oh my god, we are
in love with you. That was so bold, like and
it was just really funny and it totally paid off.
And then I know, I know it was so funny.
I have like the best time just random strangers.
Speaker 1: So like, did they did they they live? Do they
live near you or do they They're like, yes.
Speaker 3: They live in and they live in in my part
of town and they have like a business and they
were worried about they have some like workers that work
for them that are maybe could possibly get deported, and
so they're just they're like working on ways to protect
people and the families of the people that work with them,
and yeah, but we just have like a.
Speaker 1: Really freaking awesome It was the best story ever.
Speaker 3: I know, I love that. But the moment that I
was walking back over there felt like second grid, like
that feeling. I felt like I was jumping off a
high dive. And then you know when you when you're
like the early part when I was thinking about it
was like you're kind of climbing up the ladder. But
then when I was like, okay, I'm doing it was
like when you're on the platform and you're like, well,
I can't go backwards now because I'm already halfway there,
already see me coming right, so like now I got
to do it. I had that like feeling in my
stomach like I'm about to jump, and then it was
like when the words were coming out of my mouth like.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, and don't you hate when they look at
you like as if like like the w when I
could picture the way she looked at you, like like listen,
I'm not an enemy because at first they're like, well,
you know, you know I'm with you people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like do not be afraid. I'm here to help.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But she was definitely like I put her on edge
at first, like what like not a Jehovah's witness, I'm
not going to try to Like.
Speaker 1: It was funny, that's the best story ever, Like yeah,
that's one thing happened recently, but it's nothing like that.
I was like I was at the tire store for
an Italian's car and she was outside, and as I
was leaving, these two ladies were talking and one said, oh,
my parents are from Italy and the other one was like, oh,
I'm full blooded Italian. I started walking out and then
I just turned around and I went full blood Italian
me too. Oh, yes, that was it. Did they laugh
where they like, yeah, they laughed, They were like cool, yeah,
but I was like, that's all. But it's interesting making
friends like that in a parking lot, you know, yeah
at this.
Speaker 3: Age speaking of full blood at Italian. Was were we
talking about the uh the Sopranos documentary last week? Did
we discuss that?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Did you watch it? Did you guys watch it? Wait,
there's a Sopranos, Yes, with David Chase. Did you watch it?
Wasn't it so good?
Speaker 1: It was really good. It was really interesting to see
all the the audition tapes, you know, all the different
people auditioning for us, all the different roles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and some of them were pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were.
Speaker 3: They were, which is probably why they showed them right right.
Speaker 1: And then you see like some character actors auditioning for
like Tony Soprano, where they're not even they didn't even
make it onto the Sopranos, But you're like, oh, I
know that dude. I've seen him. He's you know, you've
seen him in other movies and stuff.
Speaker 3: Like that, writing stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, it was good and Adrian the actress
plays Adriana. She her auditioning reel was really interesting too. Yeah,
it was really good. Yeah, I don't I remember watching.
I don't I watched it when it first came out. Yeah,
did you see it?
Speaker 4: Kaylin No, I'm never even a huge fan of this
Cranos Actually.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, Okay. When James Gandelfini, uh, I kind of disagree.
I didn't think he was so amazing in his audition,
and I was like, why are they because they it
was one of those weird things almost like they were
auditioning like the lead for Annie and having to tour
the country. They like saw everybody, many rounds of people,
and they're like we just can't find the guy. And
then when they when they see James Gandelfini, they're.
Speaker 1: Like, that's that's him.
Speaker 3: I was like, he was fine. Yeah, I think it
was like amazing, and then he was like super difficult
at the beginning member because he was like being very
method and like, I don't know, I'm just not feeling
it today, right.
Speaker 1: You can show up for work and yeah yeah yeah
I had to take a me day. Yeah I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah he didn't or at one point he walked out
because he was like, I'm just not doing well today,
Like I'm not. It's like I'm not acting that well today, Right,
But how.
Speaker 1: Do you like picture? Like you just if you don't
know James Gandalfini, what like how would you put I
would picture maybe somebody for the role of Tony Soprano
that's got a little like, you know, a little charm
good looks to them or whatever. Right, James Dannel, I mean,
he was a great actor, but he doesn't he didn't
have that like you know, he's overweight and balding and
stuff like. I don't know. I would have pictured somebody
else playing that part of Tony Soprano if I just
read the script, I would picture Tony Soprano looking more
like like an older version of Christopher, you know, something
like that same somebody with their head like a lot
of hair. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, then I was thinking like maybe that the whole
point was that he's supposed to be look a little
bit like Teddy bearish but also be pretty evil, right, right,
was kind of the point was like he they wanted
him to look a little bit more like an average
like kind of like a dad as he is a
dad and then because he's getting therapy, right, like that's
the whole Even in the pilot, it's like he has
a panic attack. So maybe I don't know if that
was on purpose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was interesting. I met So I went out
to dinner the other night with my girlfriend and she
invited a guy to meet us after dinner that she's
kind of like, I don't know, kind of dating or
they're just friends whatever, So she just invited. She knew
I was going to eat dinner and like go home probably,
so she invited this guy. So we went next door
and and he is from Italy, full blooded Italian, full accent,
and he knew what casino. He didn't know kasha, but
casine like when you make everything as a big casino,
you knew that term was. He knew a lot and
then he knew for some reason I can I was
trying to remember the Lord's prayer that my mom taught
me an Italian, it's called La padre noste. Yeah, and
he knew the whole thing from us. At the beginning
that I was like, because I can't go and ask
my parents because they're gone, you know, And I googled
it and it was kind of the same, but like,
I don't know if it was the same one my
mom did, but he was doing it. It all came
back to me when I was hearing him do it,
which was really weird, but it was really cool. It
is so cool they ever get to meet like real
Italians like that, you know, especially and the way he
grew up. He was telling me, this is kind of
the same things that my mom would do and stuff
like that. It was just interesting. Yeah, it was. It
was It was cool. Makes me want to learn Italian? Yeah,
speak Italian?
Speaker 3: Thing to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, learn how to speak Italian. Yeah, Sonny wants to
learn too, really, yeah, yeah, it'd be fun to do together.
Speaker 3: I'm still stuck. I'm back on Kailan. Not having been
a fan of the Sopranos. It seems like something you
would love.
Speaker 4: I know, right, I don't know. I I remember I
tried to watch it like a couple of times and
just never got into it. That happens with a lot
of shows, though, And then I just and I was like, Okay,
now I'm gonna I have to watch this show. And
that was right when I had my blood clot and
I didn't and I didn't realize it was a blood clot.
So I was like kind of sick all the time
and it wasn't feeling good. And I just remember watching
it and not really I don't know, it just it
didn't hit me. There's another there's another show that I
watch which is about like Italian gangsters, but it's like
real Italian.
Speaker 1: It's like the Ones.
Speaker 4: It's all in Italian, takes place in Italy. It's Omar Gomoramora. Yeah,
and so I was obsessed with that show. These are
real Italian gangsters. Yeah, that's a really good show. And
so I was really obsessed with that one. So then
when I watched The Sopranos, I was like, ah, these
guys aren't Aren't that gangster? Not like the real Italians?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, my friend Jen just watched The Sopranos
for the first time. The first season I think is tough.
It's very dated. It's I think it's kind of hard
to get like because you hear, oh, this is the
best series of all time and whatever. But then like
the first season, I think it's kind of like bumpy.
But then after that, it especially towards the end of
the first season, going into the second season with the
whole pussy you know storyline, that's what it really takes off.
And I think second season is where it kicks in.
Speaker 3: But it's hard or only like six seasons, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: John has watched it. He's on his like third rewatch
of it. He loves it. I know he was really
excited to watch the documentary which too, Yeah, which I
did find really fascinating and it made me want to
do a rewatch. There are certain shows that everybody says
are amazing, like The Wire. I want to love that.
I want to get into that show. I feel like
it might be too late because it's probably pretty dated,
but I've watched the first few episodes. We several times
we tried, and it just never like caught. And John
tells me that we watched at one point like a
lot of the first season. But that also happened to
me with mad not mad Men. Loved Mad Men from
the beginning, but.
Speaker 1: Breaking bad, breaking bad.
Speaker 3: And that is because similar to your blood clot story.
I think that is because we had just had either
the twins or LB, and we were probably the twins
and I just couldn't, like, I couldn't stay awake or
focus on anything or relax, So it was really hard
to get into. So we would make it to like
episode six, seven, eight, and then drop off. And then
when we finally went back and we were like we
are gonna watch it, I was like, oh my god,
this is so good. How did I ever not like
it before? But I've tried the wires several times and
there was no problem going on in my life that
should prevent me. But I was bored. Did you guys
ever see it?
Speaker 1: I love it?
Speaker 3: You love it?
Speaker 1: I never watched it because but I remember when it
first came out, people were like, it's kind of boring
the first season. Oh So after I heard that, I
was like, Okay, I'm out. But then I think it
got good.
Speaker 3: Is the first season boring?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it for a long time.
Speaker 4: I remember It's weird with shows like that, like you
can watch it, you can try it a couple of times,
and you really need to like get into it for
it to be a thing. That's kind of how I
was with Slow Horses, that show I told you about
on Apple. It's like the first season's like it's kind
of slow, but then the second season starts and it's
so good.
Speaker 1: But like it's weird.
Speaker 4: How sometimes you just need to like keep watching.
Speaker 1: It and then you get into it. I wanted to
ask you, Kaylin, how is Silo Season two?
Speaker 4: Uh? It's pretty good so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm like three episodes into the second season, okay, and
you know it picks off just it picks up right
where it left off. So yeah, it's uh yeah, there's that.
And then I was very glad. Someone on the Facebook
group was like, oh, I watched that show from that
sci fi horror show that I talked about. I was like, oh,
there's somebody out there that watched that.
Speaker 1: I was obsessed with that show.
Speaker 4: And then it just ended, so I had to go
back to Silo, which is like it's fine, it's not great,
but it's you know, I'm waiting for the severance episodes
to build up so then I could watch the season
two of that as well.
Speaker 1: You know what show I just discovered because I like,
like we're sitting in the I like documentaries at night.
You know, it's on Max and it's called What Really Had?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Uh is it called What Really Happened? I think that's
what it's called. There's a black guy that hosts it,
and it's it's basically all the stories you've heard, but
there's all these different stories, like you know, so there
was one episode of the what happened with the montacor
the Tiger and and Roy and what's his face? Yeah,
Sigfried and Roy of what really happened. And it's so
crazy to think because you know, I think they stopped
doing the Sigfreen and Roy show after that incident happened.
But when they show footage of this show, it's crazy
to me that they had these fucking tigers on stage,
not just one at a time, like a bunch of
them Bengal tigers, white tigers, lions on stage and these
guys are in their sixties. They're holding onto these tigers.
All the tiger needs to do is want to take
off and jump into the audience. This guy didn't stand
a chain. It's like it's like me and Phil, Like
Phil wants to take off, He's gonna rip my arm.
I mean, it's crazy that they let these wild animals
on stage when the audience is just right there, you know,
not far away, and and there was no regulations or anything,
but they it was it was interesting to see the
story that because I remember when the story happened, but
it was like in one ear and out there it
was like in the news and then gone. But it
was interesting because this this tiger, Okay, you know, they
they had these little baby tigers from the beginning. They
they you know, they kept these live animals on their property,
these big cats and stuff, and so they kind of
grew up with being in the home with you know,
Sigafury and Roy. But this tiger, montekor they had since
it was a little cub and for some reason what
happened was he was doing this act and Roy was
walking with him on the stage and Monteacort they said
that he got just the tiger got distracted by somebody
in the audience or they it was unclear one of
somebody got either Roy or the tire got distracted. But uh,
the tiger like bit onto Roy's like got his arm
in his mouth, but it didn't scare Roy. So Roy
was like like hitting him with the microphone on top
of the microphone on top of his head to let go,
let go, and then he wouldn't let go, and because
now he started a panic, he slipped, he lost his
footing Roy and he fell and the tiger went right
to his neck, to his throat and like dragged him
off stage, and a lot of people thought it was
part of the act. And then they could but until
they could hear Roy like moaning, you know, before they
could cut his mics, they could hear him moaning. And
so they tried to spin it a couple ways, like
they said, one of them, they said, yeah, that they
the tiger got distracted. Number two, they tried to say
that they The bottom line was they tried to say
that Montagor was trying to save his life because he
had a stroke. But I think he had he had
a stroke because of the because of the bite is
what caused him to have a stroke. But they were
trying to say that the tiger was sensing that Roy
was having a stroke and trying to help him and
tried to help them and carry him off. But then
they talked to animal experts and they're like, that's not
how these animals worked. These cats ain't trying to help
the guy that thinks he's having a stroke.
Speaker 3: Right, They're not like service dogs.
Speaker 1: Right, They're not. So it was interesting. It was an
interesting story.
Speaker 3: There's a whole podcast series about it that I'd have
to find that I that I liked. That show seems
like something that's right up my alley. What what is
it on?
Speaker 1: I think it's well, it's on Max.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's called What Really Happened?
Speaker 1: What Really Happened? So they have that story they have
like the Versaci story, but the guy that's VERSACEI. They have,
you know, all these different stories, you know they do.
Then there's the Jody Areas excuse me, the Jody Areas
stories and stuff like that. But there's also some interesting that.
Speaker 3: Is like overdone though, yeah, we already know what really happens.
We've listened to podcast episodes right right right.
Speaker 1: But then there's other like news stories where you forgot
about it. I think there's the the Patty Her story,
and there's like yeah, there's like six seasons, so there's
a bunch a bunch of episodes. But it was really good.
I like the Big Cat stuff. Did you watch on
HBO Max the show about the chimpanzees about the ladies, like, oh,
himp crazy, chimp crazy?
Speaker 3: I did. I watched a few episodes of like forgot Oh, yeah,
that was crazy. You would think sometimes that like I, oh,
we need to take a quick break. Sorry, I was
just going to say that you would think I still
I still drink the way that.
Speaker 1: I just like don't remember things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I watched several episodes of that and it's like, yeah,
I vaguely remember it, like I know it was good, huh,
And I don't know if I finished. I don't think
I must not have finished it, like couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1: And it happens to me too, you know. Usually what
happens is I fall asleep, and then it's like we've
talked about it, like it thinks that you know you've
already watched it, So then it goes away and then
doesn't come back and go, hey, you fell asleep. Do
you want to watch the ending of this?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Because then I wake up the next day and I
completely forgot I watched.
Speaker 3: Because like, you'll be on episode nine, then you fall asleep.
Then it goes to episode ten, right, But then by
the time you're into episode eleven, it's like are you
still watching? Yeah, and you don't answer, right, Hey, hey,
are you still watching? And you're like no because you
don't answer, So then they shut it off, right. But
when you shut it back on, turn it back on.
They're like, you're an episode eleven and you're like, I
don't I feel like I know any of them.
Speaker 1: Well that's the worst. Yeah, but it keeps going. Yeah, yes, yeah,
but yeah, Netflix will do that. But yeah, my kids
are back to school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, both of them.
Speaker 1: They're both back back there. And Natalia left last night
because she starts school today.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, so did she come back after the fight,
because she left when you guys evacuated at three in
the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then she came back and she was out
this weekend with one of her roommate's family. They were
out of town, and then she came back late last
night and then drove in the rain back to Santa
Barbara because she has class this morning. Oh yeah, but
it was fine. But her friends left her car at
my house and her tires were really low, and I
was worried about it, and she was like, no, they
look low, but once I start the car, it's the
suspension is what's making the tires look low, which was
true because once she started the car up, the car
came back up to life, I guess. But then she
did have like a low tire pressure in front of
so they were following each other. So her roommate had
her car until he had her car, and they were
going to follow each other back, but her one tire
was pretty low, and I was like, let me go
to the gas station with you and I'll help you.
And she's like, no, I know how to do it,
and then she did it, and then she was okay,
and then they got on the road and they got home. Yeah,
last night late, and Sonny Sunny left a week ago. Yeah,
And is he.
Speaker 3: All cool with the classes when he did he missed
because of this. It is his foot all better.
Speaker 1: What's happening is his foot's better and it's healed. His
ankle's heel okay. Is he still on the boot? No,
he doesn't need the boot anymore.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then he was able to take his government test
when he got back and he got a ninety on it. Wow,
I know, I know.
Speaker 3: Happy, So he was able to make up the final.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're saying, yes, awesome. Yeah, And he's been back
at school now and Italian starts today. It's just me
and Phil with this cough and I gotta get down
to the bottom.
Speaker 3: Of and then but then the kids will come back. Yeah,
you said Sonny's coming back for the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think he's talking to his dad
about coming home for the super Bowl. See, you know,
it's such a quick flight for Sonny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's really funny. Elbie's just been She's home
like a lot. I don't I thought I would miss
her so much more, but she spent so much time
at home, and then she was home obviously for winter break.
Then she went back to school for like two days.
Then she was home for a week because of the fires.
So I've seen so much of her that I just
don't like. Yeah, you know, took her back to school,
and then she wanted to come home because she'd forgotten things,
which is the benefit of going to school locally. She
was like, would you mind coming to get me? But oh,
it was I was at the school event, so I
was like, oh, I can't, So she asked John, and
John went and got her. She came home, did a
few things, brought it in her bed for like a
couple hours, and then at like I got home and
then I drove her, took her to Target, got her
a couple of things, and then drove her back to
school and then got to hear the update of how
her tour guide stuff is going. She's so excited.
Speaker 1: Does she like it?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, she's just she just loves this kid
loves life. Yeah, she does every I've told you this,
but everything that she does is like the best time ever,
you know. So I asked her how training went for
tour guides, and she was like, oh my god, it
was then absolute best best day of my life. I'm like,
what day isn't the best day of your life. She's like, no,
it was so fun. I love it so much. Yeah,
she's really really happy.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: She loves her classes, she loves all her teachers. She's
the best. It's not I think it's so much easier
when your kids are happy to be not have them, right,
you know what I mean, because like I'm not worried
about her.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, Like, yeah, I mean, it's got to
be tough for some kids that are like shy, don't
make friends easily, and yeah that don't let kind of
like our homebodies want to be home. They don't get
out much. I don't know yet, be harder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we'll see, Like what, it's really up
in the air. What Sadie, Like, what's going to be
the right fit for Sadie? You know what's going to
be the right fit for Xander? And they're in the
you know, junior year, they really start I don't want
to say pressuring them because it's not pressure, but they
start really like you need to start touring schools and
you need to be really thinking about you want. And
I don't know. I feel like even Elbie when she
was a junior, Hell, do they know what they want?
Speaker 1: I know it's tough. Eh, yeah, but you've already been
through it.
Speaker 3: I've been through it. So that's why I'm like, look.
Speaker 1: You know what to look out for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take them to see some schools, but it's
not going to be the same as like LB. It's
going to be more like, what's the type of school
you want? Apply to those schools. If we're looking at
you picking a school, then we'll go see it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: That's good, That's how I feel.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think you did a lot of college
tours until senior year.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, it didn't happen until senior year. I don't
think we did any. And I think Natalia went with
one friend, like with their parents, but that was it.
We waited until senior year.
Speaker 3: So she still is focused on wanting to go to
Santa bar University of trans or you see, Santa Barbara.
So she's not at all interested in the one in
Miami anymore.
Speaker 1: No, No, I knew that was gonna happen, which I'm
happy about keep her here. Yeah yeah, so yeah, that's
what she wants to do. So she's working on getting
all her credits to do that. And the nice thing
is that she's got her two roommates that are doing it,
that they did it. They're one year ahead of her,
and they're like they're getting you know, they're.
Speaker 3: They they've already applied.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like it. They're gonna be one of them
is getting I think she's transferred. Yeah there, she's gonna
be transferring pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Well they don't find out if they got in as
a transfer student, probably till April.
Speaker 1: No, not yet. But like what I mean is she's
got all, Like she's she's very close to having all
of her cries done, Like she just needs a classes
and that's it. So like so she now like can
tell tell Natalia which classes to take and right teachers
are good. Yeah, so that was nice to have that
because it's it's it's making it easier for her, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so but she's not trying to do it in
one year, right, she's doing it too. Yeah, that's what
like most people do. Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean
in some ways, well, it's good that Albie did it
in a year and she it paid off that she'd
done so many like ap classes in high school. But
on the other hand, it's hard because like she's missing
a whole year of college and she doesn't really even
count Pierce's College because she lived at home and was
just taking a lot of the classes online. So it's
like she gets just to cram all of her experience
into two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, into two years. Yes, but she did it all
in one year. That's pretty good though. I mean, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's great, and it saves us Hella money. Yeah, I
mean it's great for me. I just feel a little
bit bad because, you know what I mean, she's doing.
She's having a great time, but like then this year
is going to be over and then she and she
doesn't need to do it anything over the summer, like
she has enough credits. Then she'll have like one more year,
but maybe she'll go to grad school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe she'll do that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's as fun. You don't hear
about like partying in grad school. What sorority are you
in grad school? Right?
Speaker 1: And is she gonna stay in sororities like throughout the
whole time? I mean, it doesn't she So far, she
seems like she's like, I really like it. I'm like
as all account.
Speaker 3: But she'll decide I guess if she still wants to
do it next year. But she thinks she will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well as long as she's happy, that's that's it.
She's getting her experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Patreon that happened on Wednesday, we I want
to I want to talk about why so why we
did the Patreon that we did, which is that you're
going to talk about the true story, true story.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell the story.
Speaker 3: What really happened. They're going to do an HBO.
Speaker 1: We're going to yeah episode to come out here and
host it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're gonna talk about what really happened on
that Southwest the notorious Southwest flight, right? And why are
we talking about it?
Speaker 1: Because in our uh, in our old School episode from
last week, we mentioned it. I mentioned it by saying
that remember Natalie's little friend Cammi, Yeah, other little Buddha.
She said to Italia, did your mom get kicked off
of US Southwest Airlines?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: And so uh yeah, so that's and then I did
I mentioned that in this podcast episode, that old school episode,
but I never said because obviously I already told the story.
So I didn't go through the story. So people are like, yeah,
what was that story? So I'll tell the story.
Speaker 3: Great, So that that's Patreon, that's the real story because
there was a lot of misinformation. There's been a lot
of misinformation out on the interwebs. But you're gonna tell
the real story. Yeah, you told the real story. Go listen.
And then, by the way, on this the Thursday show
that just happened yesterday, that was the story. That was
when we originally told the story about the crazy the
mom who said her kids they were trying to sex
traffic or kids at ikea.
Speaker 1: Right in the old school episode.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we went through the whole story. I did
a bunch of quotes. That's awesome because when I listened
to it back before I edited the ads out it's
pretty funny. It's like based on an article that you
know that she was interviewed and she was telling her
the story about how she's very positive. People were trying
to sex traffic her kids, and it's like, come on
and do you remember because it went kind of viral
and then people were like, oh my god, heah so dangerous,
like this poor woman. But then if you dig a
little deeper, you're like, come on, really, maybe somebody was
just shopping at Ikea. It's hard to find your way
around that place, right, That's true. Ikia really is a nightmare.
Oh god, I hate it, not for sex trafficking, but
just for like finding a housewares traffic.
Speaker 1: That would be the last place and you would want
because don't you want to make a quick getaway. You
can't make a quick getaway inside ike How you how
are you supposed to find a way out?
Speaker 3: Oh my god. When I went there with LB to
get a few things for her apartment, we could not
get out the exit. We had to ask so many
people were like can you where do you pay? Can
you direct us? They're like okay, you're gonna want you.
They'll like show you on that map you want to
go this way, and then you're gonna go through clocks,
and then you're gonna go through artificial plants, not real plants,
but like the fake plants. And then you're gonna go
out that door that says like entry only, but you're
gonna ignore that, and you're gonna go through there, and
that's gonna be your shortcut. You're like, oh my god,
forty five minutes later, our feet hurts so bad. We
still can't find.
Speaker 1: Our way out, right, So how is somebody supposed to
sex traffic? Somebody ated it? Right by the time they
get to plants, they've already been.
Speaker 3: Caught, right, thank you.
Speaker 1: There's a million pictures. There's all this security security cameras everywhere, like.
Speaker 3: You're you know, the guy's gonna stop for meatballs, some
Swedish meatballs all the way out, like you know, things
of that distract you. You'll be like, I got to
get these kids out of here and into the sex
trafficking ring.
Speaker 1: But then they get where's your receipt gets highlight or
penned like swap you know, get.
Speaker 3: Right over your receipt, right, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Like Van's waiting, dude, chat Jack.
Speaker 3: So that episode is Thursday. God, it's just like a
freaking embarrassment of riches. But let's say hello to our
our last bit of Patreon business people. We've got The
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you know, dogma, without religion, with just like you know,
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That's called The Family Skeptical. Also, my friend has a
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And then we got Krista Stroup who is trying to
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of it. That's ny okay, everybody, Yeah, thank you, Kaylin.
You're a parrot.
Speaker 1: Now, don't nap it up. It's still hading. Letting go