Speaker 1: I made a decision. Sunny sun yet on ahead a vision.
It's nice.
Speaker 2: What's happening party? People, welcome to our show?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Who Stephanie, Happy birthday? Oh is my birthday coming up? Yeah? Not?
Oh is it next?
Speaker 2: Your birthday's coming up? Today's Friday?
Speaker 1: Uh not? Yeah? So do we have another show before them? Though?
I think we know we don't. You're right, you're right.
My birthday is in a few days. When you're listening
to this, all right, happy birthday? Oh love it? I
do not love it. I'm getting really, really old and
I'm not happy. Oh.
Speaker 2: Look right, though you don't know, like we don't look
or feel our age, which is nice.
Speaker 1: No, we don't.
Speaker 2: I mean sometimes we might feel it, but we don't
look at we don't act it.
Speaker 1: I know. The only thing about getting older for me,
even though in some ways I feel young, But it's
the it's the anxiety and the kind of homebodyness that
I feel like crept in when my hormone levels started dropping.
But you know what I mean, it's like I like
to feel safe. I know you relate to this. I
don't like a lot of adventure.
Speaker 2: No, anyway, I don't think anyway our age does either
at this point after raising kids.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking, you feel like we've.
Speaker 2: Had adventure like that, we've had this.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of stuff. But should my life
be over?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, no, it's not over because now
it's a second chapter because now your kids are off
their adults, they're doing their own thing.
Speaker 1: You know. You know what it is though, and I
know you relate to this. I like doing stuff, but
I like doing stuff I've already done.
Speaker 2: And I know I like it right me too, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't like like I was thinking about, Okay, it's summer,
you know, hey, I should like enrich my kids exhibit
a little bit. And I was like, you know what
we've never done is go to Balboa Island. Yeah, and
I remember that a couple of years ago. I was
telling Robin Robin that I wanted to go there, and
she used to live in Orange County years ago, and
she was like, oh, yeah, it's like really cute and
it's really fun and you take the you can take
you can drive onto the ferry. And then I was like,
oh you lost me, like drive onto the f I
was like, that's like I'm going to be there's going
to be signs like how do I do it? Do
I buy a ticket ahead of time? And my brain
immediately just goes, no, I'm out.
Speaker 2: You don't have to drive on the ferry.
Speaker 1: You don't have you done this?
Speaker 2: No, you can just take the ferry as a pedestrian.
Speaker 1: Oh, so you just park? Where do you park?
Speaker 2: You park close to the island.
Speaker 1: I'm just naming this episode.
Speaker 2: But where are you? Where do you.
Speaker 1: There's is it Stephanie's anvariety parking? Yes, yeah, I'm sure
there's signs of where to park, and there's signs of
where to catch the faery and yeah, we did it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Back in the nineties, we have a
video of all of us, like Dawn and Glenn, Susanah, everybody.
We were singing there's a karaoke place on Balboa Island,
and we took the We got on the ferry, we
went over there. We hung out all day day, drank
all day, then went to the karaoke place where they videotaped,
gave us a videotape which we somebody still has and
we've watched it throughout the years of us doing Sweet
Child of Mine, and we're.
Speaker 1: All just like sweet Jem and May. Everybody's saying like
like everybody's taking a verse. You know, it's so great,
so that I have memories of that from Babo Island.
But think about it. You haven't gone back, but I
haven't been back since that was like ninety two, so
you were like in your twenties maybe right, and you're
like that seems fun and you're not worried about like
but where do I park? Right, You're just like, I
don't know. We'll figure it out when we get there.
I've lost the we'll figure it out when we get there.
Things right, right even, and I talk myself out of
stuff like like you know what I mean, it'll something
will seem like a good idea, like let's go drive
to Law Law whatever casino and see this band and
then you know, seeguci Aio speedwagon at the whatever RIGHTECHNGA casino.
Then you're like it's like one hundred and twenty dollars
a ticket and then we stay there and then like.
Speaker 2: You have to drive home after that.
Speaker 1: I have a two hour drive, Like but do we stay?
But are those guys gonna want to drink? But like yeah,
just by the time you thought it through you're tired, right, Like,
do I really want to go that bad?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Exactly. My friends and I, like my big mom jew
mom friends group literally talked ourselves out of going to
see air Supply by the time. By the time we
decided not to go, I was like, did I even
like air Supply that much in the first place? Like,
I mean, I can only think of maybe three big songs,
right we're alone with my head on the phone. Yes, listen,
they have some good songs, but they're old too now.
Speaker 2: Right, You're like, how good are a going to be?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: So you guys talked yourself out of it.
Speaker 1: Everybody was at first like, yeah, let's go, let's do that.
We were going to do it for somebody's birthday. I
think it was for Cecily's birthday. Everybody said they were in.
But then when it push came to cheven we were like, okay,
we got to make the plan. This person dropped out
that the Amerson dropped out. I was like, do we
want to go just the four of us?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Right? And then we're like, yeah, who's going to stay
in what room?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: There's going to be a drive?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that. You know you have to have
somebody at the helm that's going to plan everything. That's
I think is the key.
Speaker 1: Because so we went to the river last summer at
Glenn's house at.
Speaker 2: Like you know, and it was basically near HAVISU. What's
it called. Yeah, anyway, it's the river in Arizona. Fun
because he has a house there, and so yeah, we
did that. So now he's like, let's go again. I
want to plan a trip again. So we get everybody
on the group text and we're all down and we're
so we're going in a couple of weeks actually fun. Yeah,
like Thursday to Sunday.
Speaker 1: See that's somebody's house, right, Like that's there's I don't
have to worry about.
Speaker 2: And like, well, last time he drove, But now he's
getting us a plane to take us, which yeah, remember
he had us to a plane to get us home
because he works in that in that industry, that's his job,
has his own business that he built in air parts,
airplane parts industry. So he's done this before. He takes
planes all the time with his family and stuff. So
I'm like, all right, it's better than driving. We get
there in like forty five minutes dawn of course, is
having a nervous breakdown, and he's like, huh why because
she's that's the way she is, like I'm scared and
don't you know, just scared to get on a small plane.
But she did it last time.
Speaker 1: So that's what I mean.
Speaker 2: You have to have like something somebody that's like, you know,
take charge, Like right, we'll do every And he loves
to cook and he loves to entertain, and it's like, yeah.
Speaker 1: I love to be invited to shit, don't get me wrong, right,
But then it's also I just sweat the small stuff too.
It's like, okay, but then who's gonna watch Bob? And
I would have to like it would have to be
me going somewhere and John staying home with the dog, right,
because that's all too much. Yea, we can't really do
a family like We're not going to go to Balboa
as a family. It would have to be John's going
to stay home. I go with like Sadie and Xanders. Yeah, yeah,
yeah you should. You should do something like that. Remember,
I feel like it was towards the end of COVID
that I started trying to do stuff. I remember I
went to this I use this company London or something,
and I rented We rented one of those boats. Those
oh yeah, you know those boats that just kind of
go around the bay.
Speaker 2: I did that too. We both did that because I remember,
because Natalia's scarred for life. We took they took us
around the bay and we were Jodie was with us.
It was sunny Italian me and the captain of the
boat was driving anyway. They were pulling Natalia from behind,
and then she lost she let go of whatever she
was on her little surfboard, and then the boat turned
around and I was like, oh bye. We were like
by an Italian and she was like start, what are
you doing where where? Like She's like, you freaked me
out by going like bye because she didn't realize the
boat how to go like anyway.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we did that too. I'm talking about a
duffy boat. Oh, a duffy boat where you rent it yourself.
They give you the boat and then you go you
drive it, okay, you kind of go out there and
they and I mean that was a few years ago.
I was a little less anxious because you just kind
of go like they give you the quickest like here's
a map, go here, and just be back in an hour. Okay.
You're like, okay, you're driving the boat. You drive the boat, Okay,
but it's not very hard at all. Would you want
to do that now with the kids? I mean, it
wasn't that fun, you know what I mean? I could
see doing it. I'd rather do one of those like
will watching things that I see listed all the time.
I think that would be fun when I'll drive the boat.
Speaker 2: That's fun. Yeah, let somebody else drive the boat. Or
what about Catalina?
Speaker 1: I have thought about that. Ziplining. Yeah, it's so fun. Yeah,
that could be really fun. You do that, like what overnight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get like it's pretty cheap out there too,
but you have to take the ferry that takes like
an hour.
Speaker 1: I've gotten to Catalina before in my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you just get a hotel room for the night,
and then you got to book the you got to
book the faerry times and then it takes you there.
Then you got to book the the zipline. So you
either do it that day that you get there. If
you get there early, you go to the ziplining place.
Ziplining's like a couple hours. It's really really fun, really
fun I suggest I want to do that again.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's something I could even do with John and
we just get a dog sitter for late the night.
Speaker 2: That would be nice. That would be really nice. The
kids wouldn't watch the dog for the night. No, I'm saying,
we'll take with the kids. We go with the kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be I mean, John and I don't
need to go to Catalina. That would be a nice vacation. Yeah,
that would be Yeah. But I was thinking that. I
was just thinking that, and I think it's an getting
older thing. I'm just really it's not just the parking.
It's like making any decision has become harder for me.
I don't know what it is, but I was kind
of berating myself today because I was like trying to
decide if I should buy contact lenses. So because for
a long time now i've had progressive if I wear
glasses all the time, and I'm kind of like I
used to be kind of cuter in photographs when I
wasn't always wearing glasses. And I was like, I know what,
I can wear contacts because remember I had that surgery,
so now I could wear contacts, But I don't see
that well out of the bifocal contacts. I don't know,
it's hard to explain. So I was like, do I
want to invest in these contacts? And I was I
had them in the cart and I was like comparing
one eight hundred contacts to contacts direct and it was
taking me. I'm not kidding you. It's like forty minutes
of me. And then I was like, I don't know,
it's like almost two hundred dollars. Do I want them
that bad? And then I was like, girl, Lynette is
buying a bucking house right now, Lynette is buying a house,
doing all the paperwork for a brand new home, and
you're like, you can't pull the trigger on some contact lenses?
When is wrong with me? You're doing big girl? Like
they I know I feel the same way.
Speaker 2: It's very it's not easy, and it's not easy, especially
by yourself. Like you know, there's like.
Speaker 1: You mean, like me having to buy contacts by myself,
right right? Yes, no support, no support, right, Like I
know it is.
Speaker 2: It's a big decision and it's like you know, and
then you think, oh, what what furniture do I have
for that room? And like I'm gonna have to get
some new furniture, and then they're like, do you want
to keep these curtains? Do you want to If you
want to keep them, you got to let me know.
I'm like, I don't know. I mean, they're okay for now, maybe,
but like.
Speaker 1: Do they want to charge you for them? Or that's
the thing leave them there, or that will be that
that's what he's gonna, that's what he's got. He's like,
give me a list of things that you think you
might want to keep, and I'm like, I don't know.
Then there's like a trash compactor in the kitchen that
I've never ever had in my life, and I don't
sounds cool. It doesn't.
Speaker 2: But like I hear people have trash compactors and they
never use it. I don't know, I've never had one.
Speaker 1: You know, those one of those things that didn't quite
catch on, like the metric system where everybody had like
there was a period of time where you didn't everyone
had one. But then you don't really hear of it.
Speaker 2: You don't hear about it anymore. Yeah, that's another I'm
thinking about taking that out and putting it because you
know what, I like. I like the trash in the kitchen.
Where you can pull it out and then like it's
in the cabinet. Yeah, because when you have a dog,
it's the best thing. Yes, I don't want to have
a trash can. Yeah, so I'm thinking of getting rid
of that trash compactor, making a sliding trash can thing.
Speaker 1: You know. You make a good point. And we're trying
to plan for when we get our kitchen redone at
some point when we have money. And that's one hundred
percent need that, yeah, right, yeah, it doesn't have that
right now.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have that. And the houses I've had with
Phil have had that and it's it's like a good
feature to have and they don't have that. So that's yeah.
So I'm going to go be going out there again
soon with my friend and Glenn, who knows a lot
of contractors, and we're going to make a plan of
things like that that needs to be done at the house,
Like I definitely want to put in another bathroom and
you know, just minor things like that.
Speaker 1: So but you'll be living there when you do it.
It's not like any big consuction.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right right right, It's not like I have
to do it before I move in. But it's some
things that I want to get done pretty quickly mine
as well.
Speaker 1: You know, And if you were when you do something
like that, would you hire a contractor or would you
just like go, I don't know, have home depot, have
some people from home deep.
Speaker 2: No, I'm going to hire a contractor because Glenn just
did it him. He just did himself his whole house,
made his like gutted it and fixed it up. And
so he's got all these people that he knows that
are really good and blah blah blah, and you know,
could do it. So he's like, let me come out
there and we'll get a game plan, we'll make a
list of it.
Speaker 1: So he would be your contractor, not him.
Speaker 2: But then he's going to like contact his guy that
can do the trash compactor, do the kitchen cabinets or whatever,
and then I can put him in touch with me.
But I can't.
Speaker 1: Isn't that like doing it yourself? I mean, yes, the
difference is right, if you hire a contractor, then they
use all their people, right, or you can kind of
not use a contractor, but like you just go to
all that, you just hire the individual people and they
come in and do it.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know no idea either. Well I'm thinking
also like maybe eventually like expanding the closet to upstairs,
but that's like something maybe you just call California Closets
and have them do it, or you know, even the bathroom.
Maybe I see all these ads like expand your shout,
make your shower.
Speaker 1: Shower right one day show Now my phone heard me yes,
all one day show. Same same with me. Yeah, al
our bow Al is going to like show us all
this stuff. So yeah, I mean things like I don't know,
I don't know. Glen's very savvy with that stuff. So
start there.
Speaker 2: I really can't do anything until I can get into
that house, right, which will be in thirty one days.
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Speaker 2: HIC So.
Speaker 1: I wanted to share with you. I got this. I
got a really cool email. Yeah, it's going to be
forgive me, it's going to be a little braggy, but
it was like pretty exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I got this email from Ben Greenberg. Hi, Hello,
Stephanie Wilder Taylor. I hope you're having a great week.
My name is Ben Greenberg, and I serve as vice
president and editor in chief at Random House. I recently
spend some time reading about your work, particularly Drunkish, and
I was genuinely impressed by the honesty, wit, and emotional
clarity woven throughout the memoir WHOA. What especially stood out
to me was the way you balance humor with vulnerability
while exploring the deeply personal realities surrounding alcohol, self awareness, motherhood, identity,
and recovery. The voice feels sharp, authentic, and highly relatable
without ever losing its emotional weight, which is not an
easy balance to achieve. WHOW I would be very interested
in learning more about your current and forthcoming projects, as
well as whether you're currently represented by a literary agent.
I am not. If you do have representation, I would
of course be pleased to continue any discussion through your
agent directly. If not, I would be happy to outline
how the process typically work. Should there be mutual interest
in continuing the conversation further subject to reviewing additional material.
There may be an opportunity for broader discussions regarding potential
alignment with Random Houses memoir, narrative nonfiction, and culturally resonant
contemporary publishing program. If this is of interest to you,
I would be delighted to hear back from you, wishing
you continued success with your writing, and I look forward
to the possibility of connecting further. Warm regards, Ben Greenberg. Wow,
I got this email and I was like, John, Oh, John,
I got a cool email. And John comes in and
I read in the email and he goes, that's awesome.
He goes, you know, just be sure it's not a scam.
And I was like scam? What what? Like?
Speaker 2: Now, like, how.
Speaker 1: Would that be a scam? It's like, it's to me,
it's all about my beautiful writing, right, Why would that
be a scam? And he goes, well, just I don't know,
check the email address. Make sure it's like a genuine,
a valid email address. So I look at the email
address and it's from Ben Greenberg dot editor with two
rs at Aol dot com. And I was like, what
the fuck? So I look up, I look up I
ask chat GPT to look up what is the email
address for Ben Greenberg at random house? And is there
benzens okay.
Speaker 2: That we just put his email address out there.
Speaker 1: Uh, well that's not his email address. Oh okay, is
the spoiler alert? That is not Ben Greenberg's email address?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: So I look up what Ben Greenberg's email addresses and
it says it's whatever at random house, whatever, And it
says right there, if you get something from another email
address that is not Ben Greenberg. And then I look
up scams and it's like, oh yeah, this is a
very very common scam. Oh my god, very common scam,
and a lot of it has to do with this
Ben Greenberg person.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Stephanie and I just go a whiplash.
Speaker 1: The way the way I was like went from like
all proud of myself and my writing to like, oh
my god, I basically almost fell for this. Oh because
I go, I'm gonna write back. I go all right back,
I go probably tomorrow, because this was like like at night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then I was like, wait a minute, it was a
Sunday night. This is like a few weeks ago, And
I'm like, why is an editor at a big top
five company the vice president of random house. Why is
he emailing me at ten o'clock at night on a
Sunday night? And then I was like, you know what,
why ask why? Right exactly? Maybe he was curled up. Yeah,
he came across my book and he was like, oh
my god, yeah, I'm blown away right now. I must
contact this. I must contact her immediately, if not sooner,
she is that talented. Let me, I don't care, it's
Sunday night, Fuck my family. I need to email Stephanie
Wilder Toler right now. Let me get her email address.
It's not waiting till Monday morning. So this cannot wait.
This cannot wait twelve hours, Absolutely not. Then I find
out it is one of the most common and then
of course I read it over with fresh eyes, right
and I'm like, subject, there might be an opportunity discussing
their publishing program. I'm like, publishing program. Then I find
out that the way the scam works is they get
you in there and they do it a lot to publisher,
to writers that don't have an actual publishing deal, which
is even worse because those people are like, holy shit,
this person came across and they usually come across like
articles or a self published book, right, and then they go, hey, like,
you have this self published book, like I'd be interested
in like publishing you like Random Housewrights to publish. You
imagine that you're like, oh my god, my ship has
come in. I've self published all of the belief I
had in myself. I knew it. I knew I should
have invested ten thousand dollars in self publishing my book.
I knew somebody would see it and give me, like
a deal at a top five house. Oh my god,
it's happened. And then imagine you write back to that
person and you ignore the fact that it's an AOL. No,
it's an AOL email and it's AOL. The guy from
the vice president of Random House is like, I still
use AOL. Don't worry because we're just people folk AOL
hot mail. My god, Oh that sucks so bad. It's fun.
It's just funny, I don't. I mean, he's what a like,
what a kind of business? What kind of scam is that?
Speaker 2: So what happens and they get the people involved and
they get they pay them.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, then it costs money. Then they say, okay,
we're doing this program. So I've come across now on
Facebook pages ever since this happened. It's one of those
weird things where it happens to you and then you
start noticing it. Like in I'm in like a Facebook
group for memoir writers and somebody was like, Hey, I
just got an email from this person at random house
and like and all these people and they're like, it
seems like a scam. And then all these people are like,
oh God, that's a scam. And then all these people
were like, oh, I got the same one, and they
were super flowery and flattering about my writing and they
told me this and that, and I was like, oh,
me too.
Speaker 2: Even when you were reading it, I was thinking, this
doesn't sound like chatgybt. It sounds like you really like
read the books, right.
Speaker 1: It was yeah, so I know, which just makes it
like that much further to fall when you're like, wait
what And I mean the cherry to me is that
I was mad at John briefly, right, like, you know,
you don't believe in me, how Darius so unsupportive? Fuck
you You're jealous? And it's like, oh aol, because John
is so tavvy about this stuff, he did not want
to be like that sounds like a scam, right. He
was just like, yeah, just check the email and make
sure it's like the right actual person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, smart, I get. I mean like I get emails
a lot sometimes, like you owe this amount of money
and then I'm like what, like for PayPal or stuff
like that. I'm like what And then you look at that.
You have to look at the email address where it
comes from, and I'm like, oh, like this is a
total scam.
Speaker 1: It'll be like PayPal at RX four nine twenty right, yes,
front lawn right, And You're like wait, what that can't
be a real email address. Yeah, PayPal's in there somewhere
right exactly. Remember do you remember when you had that
thing with the that scammed you on the phone and
you called them back. Do you remember that story? I
can't remember the details, but oh yes, yeah. It was
the It was the power company saying they were going
to shut off our power.
Speaker 2: Is that what it was?
Speaker 1: Yes, and that we owed us a bunch of money
and then yes, And then I called them back and
then they were like okay, hold on, remember and they yes,
And I was like I don't understand, Like I don't
where our bill is, Like it's hardly it was Oh,
then I said, because then I told John, is our
power bill late? They're going to shut off our power?
And he's like, no, they're not. And I was like,
yes they are. I just freaking got off the phone
with them, right. We had to send them the money
and he was like no, and I was like, I
could do it on the phone. Yes, And it's a
total scam. It was a total scam. But you like
caught them, you called them back or something and yes, yes,
And then I tried to say that I was. I
tried to. I can't remember exactly, like you kind of
played a lot to play along. Yes, yeah, I had
to play along. And then I was like, so where
do I send the money? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: You know what just happened to Glenn recently in his business.
He got at his office, he got this email that
said something like we have control of all of your
hard drives and all of your business and we're shutting
it down unless you pay us like one point one
million dollars or something like in bitcoin or something like that.
Oh my god, And they did. They shut He couldn't
access any of his stuff for days. Yeah, And he
was like, and I'm like, you're not going to pay it, right,
And he's like no. So he got like these professionals
on it, and they figured it out and they got
rid of whatever ransomware that was on his shit. But
he lost business for like almost a week. He didn't
have access to anything. Wow, his whole business was shut down.
Not fucking nuts, that's crazy. Yeah, so many scams going
on out there. It's really bad. Yeah, especially with AI
and stuff.
Speaker 1: And they're so tricky Like this one was easy to
figure out because they used AOL. But imagine and if
you're ripe for that, if you're vulnerable, which I was,
I'm not represented by an agent. I was like, oh
my god, things are turning around. Am I writing career? Yeah?
But imagine people that don't aren't even as savvy as
I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But do you think even if John, let's say,
if John wasn't there, do you think when you went
to go reply, do you think you would have figured
it out?
Speaker 1: Yes? I would have figured it out. Yeah, But the
power when I was caught, I mean I did talk
to them at first, and then however that worked out,
I could see people getting I'm very careful about I
would never like send people money without I'm even paranoid about.
Like sometimes I get stuff from like lab Corp. Yeah,
those and they'll text you you owe money, and I'm
always like, bitch, if you want my money, you can
send me a paper bills, look at it. You know
where I'm sending exactly exactly, or go online right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's.
Speaker 1: Easy to scam. The one that gets you the most.
I don't know if if you have an account for Oh,
I got toll roads, yes, m I always get texts
from them going I was getting us money and you
can just send it right here, and I'm like, no,
I don't.
Speaker 2: Yes, And Olga fell for one of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, John almost fell for it. He was going to
pay it. I was like, nah, we don't owe that.
We I have our toll roads built and it's been
clear we don't have any outstanding balance, right.
Speaker 2: And then I found out a lot of people were
getting those texts. It stopped. It was going around for
a while. People lose so much money to those I know.
And I tell you about my friend Craig who got
a phone call from his mother in law that she
was her house got broken into and she was like hurt,
and that he had to. He was like, had to
go get her or help her and his wife. It
was his wife's mother. His wife was out of town. No,
the mother called the wife and said, the people broke
into my house and I need you to come here
right away, and they want money whatever. And she freaked
out and she called Craig, her husband, who was in town,
and she's like, you got to go to my mom's house,
you know. And he was like, oh my god. And
so he gets in the car and he gets and
they called nine one one and the cops ru on
their way and he gets there and this is the
cops were getting there. They were like, this isn't a scam.
And the mom was totally fine. She was like, it
wasn't her, it was her voice. Yeah, it's insane, isn't
that crazy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, those people fall for those with their kids going
I've been kidnapped or whatever. Some money right, And his
wife totally fultuse it sounded like her and everything.
Speaker 2: It was just you know, freaked out. She was freaked out.
I mean, imagine how you felt like in those a
couple hours or whatever until you find it. Yeah, the
cops were just like, yeah, she's fine and they people
do this like it's ai.
Speaker 1: It's really easy to do. Because John did something just
to make me laugh. He pretended did he a voicemail
from one of my friends? And he did. He made
the voice right and just it was like just ridiculous, right,
and I fell for it for like five seconds. I
was like, wait what and then I realized, yeah, why
that's not on my voicemail. Why would they send the
voicemail to him? And he had like a recording of it,
but it sounded exactly like my friend.
Speaker 2: So it's crazy. It's really crazy. There's apps now like
you can take pictures and make your picture talk. You know,
have you seen those? There's like Glenn sends them to
me all the time, like of our friends talking like
saying stupid stuff and it's just the picture but then
they're talking.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just so weird.
Speaker 1: So the other night I took we finally had Albie
home and the twins home, so we all went out
for graduation dinner. Oh nice, yep, had they finally celebrated it.
They were really sweet too. I I just transferred some
cash to each of them. I was like, happy graduation.
We didn't know to get you what present you would want,
So we just gave you some cash and they're all
very happy. Yeah, and then we go to the restaurant.
Now do you remember me telling you this story that
this sushi restaurant by our house, that the last time
we'd gone there as a family. Maybe not the last time,
but it was for John's birthday. And then we got
there and then we were sitting there and then Mauricio
walked in. Do you remember the story? Yes? Yes, And
I had the worst anxiety because I was trying to
tell every I was like, he walked right next to me,
and then he sat behind me, and all the kids
saw that something had happened, that I'd seen somebody, and
they were like who is it? And I was like,
what does he eat? And they were like what is what?
And I was like, they were like, who's right there?
And I'm like, please stop, please stop, please stop, and
like and I were covering Cecily Nobler and I were
covering on Rose Pricks real househoves of Beverly Hills at
the time, and I was like, I can't, like, this
is so embarrassing. He's literally like over my shoulder behind me.
So then I'm and then John just keeps going what
is going on? And I was I started to have
like a panic attack with bad anxiety. I'm like sweating.
I can't I can't get it out of my head.
And then I'm mad at everybody. And then John was
mad that I was mad. Yeah, so I was like,
please stop, please stop, and then he goes, oh is it?
And I think he might have even said because he
was like Mauricio and I was like, oh my god,
you heard that. Oh I want to die. Then I
had taken a picture like over my shoulders so I
could send it to Cecily, send her the picture. Okay,
So we go there and John texts me a picture
and it's he has taken a picture of me and like,
whoever I'm sitting next to? I think I was sitting
next to Sadie. And then he put Mauricio like right
behind me. In two seconds, using AI, he just made
the picture look like it was me and Sadie posed
with over our shoulder.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, can you can post that picture? That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yah, it was so funny.
Speaker 2: I love see things like that are funny, you know,
right right? So you guys had a good dinner.
Speaker 1: We had a really nice dinner. It was really nice.
It's like, I feel like I deprived my kids of
five people going out for sushi. I know, it was
hundreds of dollars. Our bill was three hundred dollars. What well, yeah,
five people including tip. Well, like sushi's expensive. Yeah yeah,
but you're like, okay, this is their graduation dinner. You know.
This is why we don't go out as a family
for sashi because my kids will be like, well, we
don't go out that much, so I'm gonna order so
when you think you're full, and when everybody's full, I
want to put my whole fucking family on a GLP one.
I kept their appetite right, They'll just be like, I
have room for one more. And then they're like, I'll
take another spicy salmon hand roll and why not an
order of equa And I'm like Jesus Christ, I know.
Speaker 2: And sometimes like they order ahead of time to get oh, well,
you're gonna get this, this and that, and then it
all comes in. It's huge portions and it's like, who
the hell ordered all this? I know, are you gonna
eat that? You better eat that.
Speaker 1: I'm like hazing them.
Speaker 2: By the end, of you finish your stupid like salmon.
Speaker 1: Pulling, Adam better drink the rest.
Speaker 2: Of that exactly, exactly, Yeah, I mean it's just like
it's so much and it's like you guys got better
eating all that stuff. I know, it was really sweet
the other day. And like Italian Sonny, they're they're good
with each other, like they're they're not as close as
I want them to be, but I find come to
find out that they do. You know, they talk like
they're not telling me all the time. And so Natalia,
I guess, was coming home from her like she went
away like sleep over at her friend's house. She's on
her way home and she's like she texts Sonny. So
Sonny comes to my room and he's like, can I
borrow your car? And I'm like sure, and he goes, uh,
Natalia wants in and out and I go and he goes,
I don't want anything, but do you want anything? I go, oh,
He's like I know, and he's like I don't. He's like,
I know that you don't want anything, but do you
want him? Like yeah, actually I will get fuck that.
I'm gonna get a grilled cheese, no meat. Just give
me the grilled cheese or whatever, and he's like, okay,
So yeah he went and got Natalia in and out
for her, and I'm like, that.
Speaker 1: Is really so.
Speaker 2: I tell you, I don't think she would ever do
that for him. She does other things though, like she
does keep in touch with him, Like she's the one
that's more like reaching out to him and like keeps
keeps in touch. So but it was really sweet. And
then I had in and out and I was thinking
about you, and I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Like their fries suck? They really do.
Speaker 2: Why do these kids love?
Speaker 1: And it's just it's like and then I ate like
two three bites and I'm like, huh.
Speaker 2: Why why did I get this? Just empty calories? You know?
Speaker 1: The line is always five miles long. It doesn't matter
how Like there's so many in and outs you know
where we live. Yeah, I mean you can go. There's
like an INtime anytime day or night, huge line park
day night.
Speaker 2: There's like a lot, yeah, winding around. Yeah, Sunny Parkson
goes inside. He's like, I don't like sitting in the line,
but then he sits inside for like a half an hour.
It takes forever ever inside. Yeah, it's always crowded.
Speaker 1: They prioritize the freaking line. Yeah, they prioritize the take
drive the drive through. Yeah, because it blocks up traffic outside.
Honest to god. I mean, I'm not like a McDonald's girl,
but McDonald's is better than in and out. And I
don't understand there's never a line at McDonald's. No.
Speaker 2: I love McDonald's. Their fries are great, like a filet
of fish, you know, and I get it. On the
file of fish. I asked them to add, uh, lettuce
and tomato. It makes a big difference. It's really good.
They don't usually doesn't excuse me, it doesn't usually come
that way anyway. Yeah, McDonald's is much better.
Speaker 1: So Xander the other night when we went we went
to the grocery store to get his stuffers camping trip. Yeah,
he's not home yet, by the way, right still camping. Tuesday,
I was telling everybody about Xander going camping, and I
was life three sixtying him. So let's see, let's catch up.
Let's see where he is. Oh, he's back on the
one out he's driving now. Oh good, let's glad about that. Yeah, okay,
I guess they got everything straightened out. At that credit union.
Speaker 2: Stop over at the credit union.
Speaker 1: Fuck, oh my god. Two hours come to find out
like she's put like she's made an account in all
the kid's names. Right suddenly there's like weird, like, no,
just put your money in here. It's fine, I'm just
gonna have withdraw ability. Just put me down as a
co signer on your account.
Speaker 2: Give me our graduation money. Oh my god, that's so crazy.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. But anyway, we were grocery shopping
and Xander was so cute because he was like, oh,
we went to Trader We went to the grocery store.
Then we went to Trader Joe's, which I know is
the grocery store, but you know what I mean. And
Xander was like, oh, we here, we have to get this.
Sadie loves Minship ice cream. Oh. And then there were
like four other things that he was like, oh no,
we have to get this for Sadie. Ah. That sweet.
And then there was something else that he goes that
I was talking about making for dinner, and he goes, well,
I won't be here, but Sadie really likes that's what
we get that Forsadie. That's so cute. I know, I
love that. And then and this was maybe yesterday or
the day before we came home from somewhere, and he goes,
I'm going to just go in Sadie's room because where
we have to watch a show, because they're watching Love Island.
Speaker 2: Oh the Love Island. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then I just heard so many like so much
hooting and hollering.
Speaker 2: That they say they watch it together. That's so cute.
I know, it's really cute.
Speaker 1: They like crow up in bed together.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, stunny in Italian. Never in a million years, really, well,
Sonny's not watching Love Island. First of all. Italian's watching
it every night, every night in the living room. And
then sometimes she has her friends over and it's really
loud and they're all laughing and blah blah blah. I'm like,
all right, have fun, and Sonny's like, you know, doing
his thing. They I mean, they're good to each other,
they just don't They're totally different. They're just so different.
Speaker 1: Well at least they are not like calling each other
losers and right, you know, yeah, yeah, scream having screaming fights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they never really did. I mean, Sonny's not a
big fighter.
Speaker 1: Well they did that one. They they had a little
period where you were concerned.
Speaker 2: They did when they were like I think it was
jew you're high. Yeah, they were butting heads a lot,
they were fighting a lot, friends coming over like yeah,
but now no, they're like adults get along.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy how long we've been doing this podcast,
I know, and how our kids were little kids when
we started kids. Yeah, with all the problems of having
little somebody on our thing was like what do you
call it? If you were in the corner office before?
What are you now? And I'm like, I feel like
we're in the penthouse, right, but we have to we
still have problem.
Speaker 2: We're like the CEO of the company that shows up
once in a while, yeah there's an issue, but basically
like that, you know, you know, just letting the company
run on its own.
Speaker 1: But then sometimes there's a problem, and they're like, we
got to call the CEO, right, So then we come
in and you're like, you guys could never run this
place without.
Speaker 2: Me exactly, like who's picking up my prescriptions?
Speaker 1: The CEO's got to go and do that.
Speaker 2: And then then it's like, okay, the company's got to
run on its own for a while, yes, And then
something comes up and the CEOs come back. Yeah, where
that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: There's still a lot of things that to manage, where
like like, my kids are never going to make a
dentist appointment for themselves, oh my god. And so they
haven't been to the dentist in a really long time.
I'm going to say I'm being a bad mom. I
have not sent my kids to the dentist because I
was like, I mean, the same thing. I have to
send them to a different dentist because the one that
we used, who who saw them until they were eighteen,
because we had Obamacare, so all kids get free dental
care till they're eighteen. Right now, I got to pay
for it. So I don't want to pay the price
of the place we were going because they're super expensive, right,
so now you got to I just go to my
kind of shitty dentist that's in you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so funny. I mane a dentist deployment for
Natalia for Wednesday tomorrow. Wait, yeah Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I mean I got to do it for Lbie and I.
Speaker 2: Got to do one for Sunny too. Yeah, because I
thought the same thing. Just reason, I'm like, WHI the
last time you guys went to the dentist. You need
to go to the dentist. You're home for the summer.
Speaker 1: I've got to find them, or help them find or
find let's be honest, I have to find them doctors.
I have to do that too. The pediatrician. That's not
just not gonna fly.
Speaker 2: No, we got to find a new doctor too for them.
Speaker 1: I got to find a different one for Xander probably
than for like Sadie and Lbie. They need a regular GP.
But I don't. I don't know that doctor knock around. No.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say doctor, I went to doctor Nagarun.
I have my check up, all my blood tests. Have
not heard from him, Like, I have to call call
them right, call them. God, I guess everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Wednesday he's gonna call you. Yes, he stayed
by your phone after five, after five, and it becomes
a thing like you're waiting to hear from Sunny at
the camp site, like you're getting a satellite call for
but it doesn't come and it never happens. It's never that.
Speaker 2: I know. They've done that to me a million times.
Speaker 1: You got to wait a little bit. Then you've got
to call I'm going to call them today and then
you have to to say, hey, I really want my
results right, and then he'll call you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Yeah, doctor knock around's not the doctor for
the kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got to do the same. So, like, who
do who do we get?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna maybe. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, now we're moving, so I don't know where do
we get a doctor out there?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you gotta wait. Yeah, so I don't know.
Although it doesn't really matter. They need to see the doctor.
They are not going to need to go for another year,
so it doesn't necessarily need to be inside Clarita.
Speaker 2: It just yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. They'll they'll use telehealth. They just
have to have somebody to check in with and probably
do blood work once year. Mine's gonna need the meningitis
shot to go to go to school. Oh okay, they
need the one.
Speaker 2: Voctus Oh yeah yeah, yeah, three they need it.
Speaker 1: And then they three weeks later they have to get
it again before they can go way to school.
Speaker 2: Yeah I remember that. Yeah, my kids did that.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, you guys, let's say hi to our friends.
Dick is frolicking and make you call your girl, and
Elizabeth Williamson's got what did we even do the names
on Tuesday's show. I don't think we did. Alza Williams,
he's got a lot of kids. Let's say her name twice.
Williamson's got a lot of kids. Rita's rocking them in
her bassiete. Polly, we love your pancakes. Valerie kits it
out of the park, Katerina check the moler speaking of Yeah,
she's got a dentist, Yeah, sure she does, and an
endo dentist and you know what it's called, you know, yeah,
and the Donnis, I don't know whatever. Gabby and Missy.
Speaker 2: Orthodonic h Yeah, Gabby and Missy you know, you know
what they're up to.
Speaker 1: Shan Rebecca new so cute. Kelly Brandt, she's your aunt.
Alicia Escablante, City of Belle Monte, Leslie the Aaron's a
dirty Sanchez Deandra not easy being green, but.
Speaker 2: It looks good on you.
Speaker 1: Chris to gets trapped. Katie's rolling on the e. I
want to say hi to our friend Tara Diamond too.
She's going through a slightly tough time, So Tara Diamond,
cool love you. Tara, love you. She's one of the moderators. Yes,
in our Facebook group.
Speaker 2: And yeah, we love you, Tara.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 2: We're thinking about Adam's got a car. Adam is helping
me get a car, right now, get a car for Sonny.
Speaker 1: You know the deal, go to Adam. All right. We
love you guys, thank you for being here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't fuck it up.
Speaker 1: It's good.