Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Face sunny sun on I hadasionn Hey everybody, it's for
crying out loud. It sure is what's happening. I feel happening.
I feel like doctor Bruce with all my papers and
I whoa, Oh do you guys want to hear about
what's happening?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I'm dying. No, I'm kidding. You went to
a super spreader event.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you opened up to me while we were.
Speaker 2: Not wearing masks in the lobby and the lobby and
you're like you better stand not just six feet twelve feet.
Speaker 1: So you didn't mean it, didn't mean to, It just
sort of happened. So all right.
Speaker 2: I think I talked about my girlfriend don before on
Patreon maybe one time or something.
Speaker 1: I mentioned her. She the one with a head injury.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she fell in Vegas and yes, she had to
get stitches in her head. She was in the hospital
for like two, like ten days, right, yeah, yeah, and
she has like all these side effects ever since.
Speaker 4: Like she used to be able to drive no problem o.
I mean she was she was Glenn's first girlfriend right
when I met Glenn, and I didn't know Glenn had
a girlfriend. And I remember like being at Glenn's house swimming,
and then I remember seeing like red cowboy boots sticking
out of the bushes. Did I tell you this? She
was spying on us and she was going to kick
my ass and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, so
we've been friend since I was fifteen, she was sixteen. Okay, Yeah,
she was a spitfire back then. And yeah, so she
hasn't gone out in a long time. She had a
bad falling out.
Speaker 2: With her and her husband and these other another couple.
Speaker 4: That I also grew up with. They were really close.
They would travel all the time.
Speaker 2: But you know what's interesting is as they got older,
they had kids, right, so now their kids are are
this around the same age, and they would go to Vegas.
They would go on vacations all the time. The two
families and the two kids grew up together. So the
other couple, they have two boys, and then she's got
one daughter.
Speaker 4: Don's got a daughter. Now they're all around the same age. Okay,
it's interesting because I mean this really isn't they Her
daughter ended up dating one of the boys. Their daughter
right now is twenty one, twenty two, so she's dating
one of the boys' best friend. Okay, hence, which just
caused a domino effect and just made people on both
sides upset about things. And I guess and they had
a huge falling out, huge like I think that one
of the boys was jealous about it, even though that
she's like a sister.
Speaker 1: Don's daughter is like a sister, had he always maybe
carried a torch, I think.
Speaker 4: So everybody, I mean everybody thinks that yeah, so or
he's too overprotective or something, and it just it caused
a lot of friction. And so now they don't talk.
And that was like her. I mean, they got tattoos
on their wrist, matching tattoos. They went to an all
Catholic girls school and studio city together, and now they
don't e macculate heart No Carvallis, Oh, I haven't heard
of it. It's not one of the big ones. It
was Carvalice. I wonder if anybody out there knows what
I'm talking. We have a lot of people that we
are from the valley, yeah, like the valley and stuff.
So yeah, so she my girlfriend, Don really hasn't had
a lot of friends.
Speaker 1: And so Suzanne and I try and keep up with
her and we keep in touch.
Speaker 2: But the patreon we did not to like uh out
the Patreon. But it had to do with the fact
that other friends were kind of concerned about.
Speaker 1: Her right right, and her you know, brain injury. Right, Yeah,
but she's been acted a little bit weird before that.
She's always been a little kookie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's so hard to tell what's the difference
between her and her brain injury.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: It's funny though, because everybody she makes fun of her
brain injury. But but she and her husband are really close.
They get you know, the daughters out of the house
and they've been married twenty three years. And I know
Susanna and I have talked about it, like we should
have don over more off and we think she's lonely.
Speaker 1: You know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: So I was talking to her the other day and
I was like, don you know you, why don't you
just come down?
Speaker 2: Because she lives kind of far. I said, why don't
you just come down, spend spend the night with me.
I have a guest room, hang out with me, you know,
for twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Just come down.
Speaker 4: She loved it, like, oh my god, she was so excited.
You're talking about your Malibu house, yes, in Membo. Yeah,
so you had another like girls yes, another girl's weekend.
So yeah, so she she was so.
Speaker 1: Excited and I said, you know, well, just it's gotta
be like a special treat.
Speaker 4: It was, Yeah, it really was. And she and Suzanne.
Suzanne was like she couldn't come, but she's like, Lynette,
just know you're doing a good thing. I love Don
And she's like no, but I really Suzanne is a
worry wart, and she's like, I do worry about her
because she is by herself a lot, her husband works
a lot. And so anyway, so she came down and coincidentally,
Mike Gerstein is in town, okay, and Glenn sent me
a text, and so Glen sent me our other friend Scott,
who's really we're close with, and Mike Gerstein and and
said that there's a band, one of his friends's bands
playing at this like outdoor bar area in Ventura County.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: It just sort of close to Malibu, sort of. Yeah,
like I wasised it. It was only like thirty five
forty minutes Okay. So I said to Don, Don, and
if you've had a couple of cocktails, you could do
that even faster.
Speaker 2: Totally get there faster. It's a shame because I really
could get there faster. I didn't take uber.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so I said, like Don, her and Glenn were,
you know, boyfriend and girlfriend. They still are, They still talk,
you know, right, They actually had a huge falling out
over politics.
Speaker 2: Oh that oh yeah, Oh that's what the patreon was
kind of about.
Speaker 1: Too, right.
Speaker 4: She was like, she's she hates Trump and Glenn has
always been conservative and he, you know, like they would argue.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't get no.
Speaker 4: They would constantly send me try and get me, like
they would send me a text. I would get this,
Like all of a sudden, Glenn would send me a
text and said, Don fucking thinks I'm Don called me
a racist asshole.
Speaker 1: I don't care. You guys argue this, what is this
nineteen eighty seven?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you two are fucking arguing all over
all over again, Like, leave me out of it. They
had a huge falling out after not falling out, but
they they bet a thousand dollars on the election. He
took Trump, she took Biden, and he's pissed and he
took it out like he was yelling at her I
don't know.
Speaker 1: They got in a huge fight.
Speaker 2: So when she came over on Saturday, I said, I
just got a text from Glenn and she's like, yeah,
I didn't get a text from Glenn. I said, well
I told him. I said that's crazy because Don's coming over.
Maybe we will come, I don't know. And he was like, yeah,
I don't know. He said some shit about Don and
I go, yeah, I probably doesn't want to pay her
money exactly.
Speaker 1: Exactly, And.
Speaker 2: Are there any ATMs out there right Inventura? Yes, I
know for you to stop at before we get there.
She was like, pay up, motherfucker. So she was like, yeah,
Glenn didn't send me a tex. I go, it's fine, Glenn,
You're with me. He doesn't you know, Glenn, He's not
going to be mad. And uh so she was really excited.
Speaker 4: She goes, Lynette, I have not had like nobody like
everybody else, like nobody's really done anything this year in
twenty twenty, and she was like, I have not been
out of the house all year, like since the beginning.
You know, she really has been trying to you know,
heal and stuff from her injury.
Speaker 1: So she's like, I would love to see everybody.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, and I would too because I haven't
seen Mike Gersteine a long time.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, but let's check this place out. What
is it? Where is the band's playing? So it was
an indoor outdoor.
Speaker 4: The band was indoors, but they open it up so
you can sit outdoor, and you know, it's one of
those kinds of places.
Speaker 1: So you could be indoors. Yeah, there was people.
Speaker 2: I thought, that's not a cloud yet or maybe Inventuridis maybe,
or maybe they're considered indoor out I don't know, but yeah,
they had tables indoors.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: But Glenn got there early to reserve a table. And Glenn,
even though he's a Trump he was a Trump supporter.
He he always like he believes in the masks and
the COVID.
Speaker 1: He's not that.
Speaker 2: He's not that crazy. So he doesn't think that people
that wear masks or pussies.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't. Wow, who the fuck would think that? Yeah,
he doesn't go that far. Okay.
Speaker 4: You know he's got a wife and he's got three kids,
and I love that he's got three he's got three
daughters and a boy, which I love because he was
such a dick when he was a teenager to girls,
especially to Dawn sou But now he's the sweetest guy anyway.
Speaker 2: So and Mike is a liberal, and so is Scott
the other ones. So I you know, I know that
there's going to be arguing and stuff. I was like,
I'm excited. All right, let's go.
Speaker 1: I said, let's do it. Let's go.
Speaker 2: So we'll wear our masks, will sit outside, and we'll
take an uber. So we went and it was so
much fun to see everybody.
Speaker 4: I mean it when you haven't seen these guys like
your friends that you that you grew up with, and
everybody knows like these jokes and the stories and this,
and then yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2: Was anybody like Lynette, I've heard your podcast. I know
you talk about our group, Glenn and Glenda. Glenn listens
every now and then because he's full of himself. And
I've told him one time that I talked about him.
So now he's like, oh really, and he's like, I
like your like, sent me a text once.
Speaker 1: I like your podcast.
Speaker 4: You guys sound so cute or something, and I'm like, yeah, okay,
don't listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's me.
Speaker 2: To everybody, they're like what do you do for a living?
Or I have a podcast? Please don't listen to it? Wait?
Speaker 1: Where should I?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: How do I do it? You don't, I know, don't listen. Yeah,
it's really hard.
Speaker 2: It's too complicated, right, It's either that or you have
the friends that don't give a fuck, like you got
a podcasts. Actually, all my friends, yes, all the rest
of them are like Mike is like, yeah, so what
you got a podcast?
Speaker 1: Big deal? I go I talk about you sometimes like yeah,
all right, good.
Speaker 2: Oh my friends that I've been friends with for for
fifteen years since I had LB, or I'll get this
like I'll say, oh, I was blah blah blah, I
was recording my podcast.
Speaker 1: And they're like, I've got to listen to now sometime. No,
but I know they're not going to though.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, it's already been ten years. I've been
doing the podcast ten years and you haven't thus far.
So I'm not that concerned. You're not going to all
of a sudden be.
Speaker 1: Like, listen, I finally listened to your podcast. It's not
gonna that's not gonna happen, except for with John.
Speaker 2: And he always listens to the one time that I
say something that upsets him single call him a dad
bought or oh yeah, to laugh about his single foot,
and that's the one he chooses to listen to. And
then I have to be confronted with him holding he
holds his phone up where he's recorded the one area,
and then I'm like, oh my god, how come you
don't listen to the rest of the episodes where I
say other not so bad things about it. It's still
bad kidding John, I'm sure you're listening to this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know nobody else gives a shit.
Speaker 2: I go on like a John sabbatical for you know,
six months after the last bad thing, and then I
finally go it's like the groundhog coming out to just
see what the I'm like, oh, he hasn't listened in
a really long time. I could complain about the complaining
things and then boom the hammer come yes totally, but anyway,
go on, okay, yeah, so you're here, we go, we
get there, we get there.
Speaker 4: We uh, you know, see everybody, they're all sitting outside.
They got a table and we're we're just it was
so we're so happy to see each other.
Speaker 1: Everybody was hugging.
Speaker 4: You know, and then we sit down and uh, and
then I don't know, Like we were just talking and
having a good time, and the band wasn't coming on
till like another hour from the time we got there, right,
so you know, at least we could talk and not
scream at each other. Once the band starts playing gets
loud with we didn't even notice. All of a sudden,
I look around, the fucking place is packed. Oh, the doors,
the outdoors, everywhere, it was packed with people. And I'm
going like, and luckily we were. We were in a
good spot. Otherwise I would say, and there is nothing
else going on in that city, Like there's everything is
around us is shut down. It's not like we can go, hey,
let's go sit over there. There was nothing else.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's weird because I almost went to go
see something in Ventura. It was a oh it was
the the y Yachte Crew band was playing, but they
were at a drive in. But it was going to
be a whole cashaw really was yeah. I was like,
you buy a ticket. It's this big outdoor place Ventura.
It's like the Ventura Fairgrounds. OK, and then you have
to but it was like you pull up your car
and then it's like for you buy a ticket for
this way in sections and it's a drive in, and
I was like, and then they're like, you can't you
if you get outside of your car.
Speaker 1: You can be outside of your car, but.
Speaker 2: Only if you're right next to your car, like you
could put a chair next right next to your car,
but you're within a little So they're very they're very strict,
and it seemed like just not that fun right to
be in what's the Yeah, I know, sit in a
car and listen to Yachtley Crew. Yeah, I mean, well,
you know me, I'd probably like that anyway, but it
seemed like a hassle to drive all the way to
Ventura to be in my car at a drive in,
And I was like, that just seems hard.
Speaker 1: So I didn't.
Speaker 2: But I'm surprised that there's places there that have live
music and don't enter into outdoor.
Speaker 4: They're indoor outdoor at least this place. They didn't seem
like they gave a fuck, like they I was watching them, like, okay,
so now the place is getting packed. People for the
most part had masks on, and then I've start to
look around. Then you start seeing the masks come off.
Then you start seeing people getting up and walking over
to the bar.
Speaker 2: Now there's people at the bar and they're talking and
screaming at each other and they have their masks off.
Oh no, you know what I mean, Like this is
not good. I don't even trust the drink. You know,
I don't want to get anything to drink because I
don't want people spitting into my drink, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go.
Speaker 4: The waitress is nowhere to be found, and she's got
her mask on, but still like I don't I don't
want her to walk it from So I had like
one beer because it was in a bottle, and then
like somebody else got a bunch of beers for us
and took the chance and went to the bar.
Speaker 2: And then that was it. Like we had two beers.
I would not have hugged them goodbye, m M. But
I did, thank you for your honesty.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 4: But you know, for the most part, we were outside,
and we stayed outside. And I don't say that for
the most part, I didn't even go inside to pee.
I didn't go out. I didn't I didn't go in.
I stayed outside. But don stayed outside the guys would
go and get the beers and stuff like that, but
I didn't, and Don had to really pee and she
like basically held her breath and went in. But you know,
and then I had to spray the anti bacterial spray
of spraying everybody down, So you know, I believe that
I was pretty careful.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The next morning I thought about it, and I was
I felt like I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Say I felt safe, but I felt like I was good.
And then like at the end of the night, Mike,
who's an insane driver and drives like a maniac, tells
us that he's driving for Lyft back home where he lives.
He drove out from Arizona. Mike's not exactly the go getter, right,
He's a no getter. He's a brick layer.
Speaker 1: He's a brick a layer. Now I don't even know
what he does.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's I don't know, but he's he's driving
for Uber and Lyft.
Speaker 1: And he was like, I'll take you guys home, and.
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, You're going to wear your mask
the whole time, right, He's like, of course, I said okay,
And I said, but I'm serious.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like, you know, Mike, I go, Mike, I.
Speaker 2: You know, like Donn and I were just like, let's
all three wear our masks, okay, And he's like, yeah,
it's fine. So he fucking drove us like he was
fucking with us the whole time he was driving. He
was driving through the canyons like scaring us, and like,
I mean, Mike, that's what I'm like, Mike and Glenn always.
Speaker 1: Driving through a canyon.
Speaker 2: So to get that straight shot down the.
Speaker 1: No we were in we were more like inland. You know.
Speaker 4: We had to get off the freeway and drive I
don't know, north oh or whatever away from the ocean
with the back to the north. Yeah okay, so uh yeah,
So we were about twenty minutes off the freeway, so he
had to get on the freeway.
Speaker 2: Then he had to take the canyon, had to take
like Malibu Canyon home.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but we've driven that canyon together a million
ka billion.
Speaker 2: Times and he'd had some drinks. No, he doesn't drink.
He's clean and sober.
Speaker 1: Oh what a me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know I should of gone, I know, you
and Mike get out and oh Kaylin Kayla party pooper.
Speaker 1: I like that because it's a good idea.
Speaker 2: I'm already starting my holidays shopping, yeah, are you Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like to get on it early.
Speaker 2: That's smart. Every year I say I'm going to do that,
you know, well every year I I do.
Speaker 1: I do start early.
Speaker 2: But then as it gets to be, like, you know,
a week before, I'm like.
Speaker 1: I do anything, sayd the enough? I got lb too
many things? And I hate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you have three kids, it's so hard
because they do they are aware, they can't help themselves.
Speaker 1: They're aware of who got what, and you know, you know,
I always this.
Speaker 2: So this was a pain in the butt. I told
you that Elb So Elby just had her birthday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to know.
Speaker 2: How was the birthdays? Okay, it was really great. So
I had planned. So I feel like last week I
told you that Elbie's friends mom had COVID, so we
were having our little COVID scare. So I took so
everybody in our little friend group. So she hadn't seen
this friend for a week, so it was pretty sure
that the girl got the girl's mom got COVID during
that school week. Not that she's in school, but you
know what I'm saying, And Elbie hadn't seen her that
whole week. She'd seen her the weekend before, so we
were pretty sure our kids were fine and hadn't been
exposed to it. But obviously, just in case, with Elbie's
birthday coming up, we all got tested.
Speaker 1: Everybody was negative.
Speaker 2: Did the cheek swab again this time really no weight.
Speaker 1: It was really easy. Yeah, I just signed up online.
And I know some people are going to be like, oh,
the cheek swabs not as not as what do you
call it? Reliable? Really? But here's the thing, this is
how you have to think of it.
Speaker 2: Everybody in Elbe's little circle and their parents and siblings
got tested, and we all tested NEGA, So it would
have to be unreliable in such a way that everybody tested.
Speaker 1: Negative, right right exactly, So.
Speaker 2: I mean I could understand if one person in the
group tested positive, then we might all be like, Okay,
well maybe our results aren't sure. But everyone tested negative,
so we knew that her mom got exposed after the
kids had seen her. And then the girl Elbie's friend
ended up testing positive. She did and was sick. She
was not that sick, basically said it was like a cold,
like a bad cold, but you know, fifteen years old. Yeah,
and did have symptoms lat so it made me hyper
aware of So I had planned for LB a dinner
at an outdoor place and with it was going to
be seven kids total. Okay, So anyway we did that.
I went with my friend, one of the Elbe's friends,
the mom that I always hang out with, and so
we It's so funny because you know, even though Elbie's
turned sixteen, I mean there's still like there's still a
little girl.
Speaker 1: Girl in a lot of ways, you know. And my
friend was saying, this is funny. I hope she doesn't
listen to this. Well, it doesn't really matter. I'm not
nothing bad, but this is just like.
Speaker 2: You know mo chat, right, would you guys like to
hear the mom chat anyway, So it's just a difference
of like everybody thinks that they're like Okay, I was
saying that we I had the reservation for seven and
then I had forgotten that I wanted to be at
the restaurant because we were gonna do cake. I didn't
want to just drop them off and like what give
her my credit card? I mean I could have, look,
I could have I could have just let them go
and given them my credit card and then just come
and picked them up afterwards.
Speaker 1: But Albie, I know my daughter, and I knew that
that would make her little anxious. I knew that she
likes to know that there's somebody yes like that too.
Speaker 2: I knew that she would not want me sitting at
her table like she's not five, but at the same
time like wanting to know that I'm in the vicinity
so that.
Speaker 1: She could text me, which spoiler alert she did for
no big deal.
Speaker 2: But you know, they want to know that you're around.
Absolutely so. But her friend, her friend, it's my friend,
Cecily was like, we can't we Oh, so I call
the restaurant. I'm sorry, I'm not telling this story in
a very broadcast professional manner, but here it is. I
call the restaurant on the day of and I'm like, hey,
I have a reservation for my daughter and her friends
for seven. I was like, but I totally forgot that
I want to be there too with my friend. You
have another table for two. And the woman was like,
oh my god, And what did she call me? She
kept calling me like dear. I was like, you are
twenty years old. Oh. She was like, hi, you know
it's Stacy or whatever, and how can I help you?
Speaker 1: And then I said, oh, well, you know, can I
have this table? And she was like, oh, I'm sorry, dear?
What are you my gramm?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh, dear. She's like, yeah, sorry, dear, No, we don't
do reservations for tables for two. And I said. She's like,
it's first come, first serve. And I said, okay, but
why you.
Speaker 2: Can't just earmark a table for me knowing that I'm
going to be there because I have a reservation of
the seven So you can't designate fucking rope off a
table for me?
Speaker 1: Sorry, dear?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I was like, well can you is there someone you
can just check with. I wasn't trying to be a Karen,
but I was like, it's just double check because it
doesn't make sense. Yeah, right, yeah, that you can't put it,
especially when you're all right, hold on. She comes back,
I'm sorry, dear, Yeah, we won't be able to do that.
I said, well, what do you think is going to
be like the wait? Oh, I have no way of knowing.
But when you come, you see if there's a table available.
Speaker 1: So I call my friend.
Speaker 2: Oh, and she says, but the table that your kid's
gonna be at is a long table, so you and
your friend could probably sit at the end of the
table and it won't even like interfere with.
Speaker 1: The So I called Eslie.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, so, you know, me, being a no getter,
I had forgotten to try to make a reservation, but
it wouldn't have mattered anyway, because they don't.
Speaker 1: Take reservations for two right.
Speaker 2: So I said, they said we could possibly sit at
the end of where the kids and she's like, no,
absolutely not, like these kids they're too old, like they're
not gonna want to sitting at the table. So I
was like, yeah, I agree, I agree, But I'm just saying,
like we should just go there, suss it out, and
if if it seems like we can do that, then
we can. Otherwise she's like, no, no, no, we should
go to another restaurant, like in the neighborhood. I was like, okay,
but it is a Friday night, like it might be hard.
I go, we'll just play it by ear, we'll see
what happens. Right. So we get there, we tell them
the situation and they're like, oh, oh, there's an hour
wait of course for tables okay. Then, so my friend
is just adamant about we can't sit with these kids.
They're so independent. She was like, my daughter would kill me,
which I kind of understand. But here's the thing that
I said to my friend. I was like, they're not
that independent because first of all, her daughter call like
we'll go do something, and her daughter will be blowing
up her phone the whole time, which.
Speaker 1: I pointed out to her.
Speaker 2: I was like, you think these kids are so independent
because they say that. I was like, but Ava, Ava's
her daughter. I go, Ava calls you all the time,
like we'll sit down and your phone is ringing and
it's Ava with like a question or whatever. I was like,
so it's not like that unusual that I want to
be in the restaurant, right.
Speaker 1: She was trying to get me to leave the.
Speaker 2: Restaurant really somewhere else, and I was and then she's like,
I haven't seen you. You seem like nervous about this,
and I was like, no, I'm not nervous, but I'm like,
I don't want to leave. I want to eat in
the restaurant. I understand that totally. Like it's her birthday.
I want to make sure I don't want to go
somewhere else. Be in the middle of eating something and
be getting text from Lbie going are you coming or
we're going to We're ready for cake or whatever, which,
sure enough is kind of what happened because she had okay,
so so she starts texting me. Towards the end, they
were they ate their food. It was great, It was
really fun. They had fun. They ordered whatever they wanted,
which was kind of cute to like not pre order food.
I was like, just be reasonable, don't start ordering a
bunch of sushi. Yes, in this place, it was called HQ.
It was a gastropub. Oh have you ever been there? Oh?
Speaker 1: I have a friend that goes there all the time.
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. It's a really cute place. I
know that area. Wow, yeah, okay, really cute.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit like it's reminiscent of like the
hard Rock Cafe. There's like guitars on the wall, and
it's got a fun, like kind of trendy atmosphere, even.
Speaker 1: Though it's in Woodland Hills, California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, and it was all outdoor seating
and they're sitting at this little like a wooden bench
and it was like they're playing music and it was fun.
But then I get a text from Alb. She's like,
are we are we leaving soon? And I said, oh, well,
are you guys wrapping up? She goes, yeah, we're done eating,
and I'm like, okay, well they eat.
Speaker 4: Fast, you know, you know what I mean, Like kids
usually are like Sonny and Italia, they're.
Speaker 1: Done, like they're ready for dessert.
Speaker 4: They eat like five six bites and then they're yeah,
kids these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But then Alb starts saying, Mom, I'm just this person
wants to know like what time their dad should come
get them. And this person wants to know like and
I said, well, well we're going to do cake and
then she's like she keeps sending me.
Speaker 1: Text back and forth.
Speaker 2: So finally I just go over to her table and
I did you guys go you so we were there?
Oh so they ended up finding a table for us. Okay,
they sat them and then they're like, you know what,
we found you a table, which but it wasn't that
busy deer. You're not busy deer. There's nobody really, there's
not every table is filled up, deer. Somehow, it wasn't
a Deeri wasn't there, but somebody else was just like,
oh yeah right, oh we found you a spot.
Speaker 1: We were like, okay, great, so we ate our food,
they ate their food.
Speaker 2: But I started getting texts like you know, So then
I go over and then Albie says. I was like, well,
we're going to do cake. So she says, well, I'm
like what, I don't Can we just go home? Take
Can we take the girls minus one back to our house?
Speaker 1: You wanted to?
Speaker 2: And I said why? And she's like, Mom, you know
I have social anxiety. I don't want people singing me
Happy Birthday at the table.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't want like that focus.
Speaker 2: Really And you know what though, see here's the thing,
like I know my kid, my other friend, and I
think I was telling you this on the podcast last week.
My friend who sets who set the bar really high
and like.
Speaker 4: Made it well totally, yeah, got made her brunch and
shit and.
Speaker 1: All that sushi for lunch. Yes.
Speaker 2: That mom was like telling me about how she bought
all this stuff at party City and she decorated the
restaurant where her daughter was having her thing member And
I was like, ID not if I'm going to party City.
Speaker 1: Well guess who went to party city.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: But then when I was.
Speaker 2: In party City going Lara, I'm gonna kill you, I
was like, Okay, I'm not gonna go crazy because Elbie
won't like that. She will not like that. She doesn't
want people walking by their table going oh, somebody's turning sixteen.
Speaker 1: She would hate that.
Speaker 2: So I found one little thing that sits on the
table and has got like little like sparkly things.
Speaker 1: Coming off of it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like five bucks, and it like sits
on a little weighted thing and then it has a
and you.
Speaker 1: Could put a little birthday sign on top. Uh huh.
So I put on there.
Speaker 2: This card that says hundred percent that birthday bitch with
a picture of Lizzo.
Speaker 1: So I put that in there.
Speaker 2: So I put that on their table, and then I
had plates that just said sixteen on them for the
actual cake.
Speaker 1: Cute. But I did not put any banner up right
right right, she would have died.
Speaker 2: So and sure enough she was like, I don't want
to do cake here, I want to do it at home.
Speaker 1: So was the plan for all the girls to go
back to your house?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: That was not the plan.
Speaker 2: The plan was to have cake at the restaurant and
then sea sayonara, right, and I was going to drop
them off at home.
Speaker 4: Okay, And so she knew that there was going to
be cake, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 2: But then once she got there and she's there, she decided,
she was like, I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to do that. I'd rather do it at home. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I was like, okay, So I so one girl
left and then the so it was LB and and
these girls were all tested for COVID by the way,
because they were part of her that's her little group, right.
So I brought them back to our house and then
we cut cake and that.
Speaker 1: Was it, and it was fun. That's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then I have a little addendum to that story. Well,
so the next day, two days later, h Julie's daughter,
Bella had so she already had. Her birthday was in
mid October, but her grandma, Bet Julie's mom planned a
brunch or no, not a brunch, high tea at the
Peninsula Hotel. How cute her daughter and LB.
Speaker 1: It was LB.
Speaker 2: It was like five or six of them total. Oh
my god, Lynnette, have you ever had tea at the Peninsula. Now,
this thing is so fucking fancy, Caitlin, have you had
hi tea at the Peninsula?
Speaker 3: I have not. But there was a fan of this
show and Adam show, and he lives in England and
he came over here and he took me to like
the Magic Castle and it was really cool. And when
I went over there, he said if you ever had
tea before? And I said no, And so he took
me and my mom my brother too. What I think
you're talking about was like high Tea with the little sandwiches.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was very fancy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the girls came home. They took them.
Speaker 2: Her bellow's grandma, Julie's mom spoiled the shit out of them.
Speaker 1: It was so cute.
Speaker 2: They went in like one of those like a Mercedes,
like a limo van. Wow, talking about it's like a
party yes van with like with like little.
Speaker 1: Curved sofa in there. She made like on like the housewives. Yes, yes, exactly,
she made them.
Speaker 2: They all had a little apple cider in champagne flutes cheers.
Before they left. They got on the little party bus
and I brought the menu from the High Tea with me.
He did, Yes, it says so Albie she was like
high as a kite.
Speaker 1: She's like, Mom, this was the fanciest thing I've ever
been to.
Speaker 2: They all wore dresses and heels. Oh my god, yes,
and it was this outdoor. There was a harp player,
a harpist sitting with them playing them heart music. And
she said that she was like. They brought out like
a tower, right, like a three story little thing with
like stuff on it, and Elbe said her first reaction
was like, Oh, that's not going to be enough food
for all of us, these little sandwiches on one and
some little desserts on the top. And then Albie's like,
and then I realized we were all getting one. I
brought out one and put it in front of belly. Yeah.
So she thought they were going to oh and there
were these little menus. So Elbie thought they were going
to order from the little menus and she was like,
and then it turned out we.
Speaker 1: Got all of this stuff. Are you serious?
Speaker 2: This is what they were all getting afternoon tea. Then
they have it listed save sor how smoked salmon with
cream and cream cheese. These are I guess the sandwiches cucumber, herb,
cream cheese and dill, pastrami, horseradish, pickles, mustard, caviar, curry, chicken, almond, raisin, lobster,
role caviar, dill, crab salad, parsley shrvil.
Speaker 1: How do you pronounce that somebody's gonna make fun of me?
Speaker 2: But whatever, So that's just that's just the sandwiches, insane. Yes,
And then for the sweets, there's cinnamon apples, cranberry with cranberry, cherry, sorbet, scones,
and gluten free pumpkin loaf. How la is this chocolate
pot de creme with cilantro for some reason, pumpkin spice,
e Claire, Camembert, crostini with blueberry, honey, jale jeale tarragon,
mandarin layer cake, per simon macaron oh, and peninsula capcake.
Speaker 1: Wow, it was very fall.
Speaker 2: And then they have a whole key selection. Yeah, so
that was their special.
Speaker 1: Menu, pumpkins and the pair simon.
Speaker 2: I'm like, my fucking daughter is living her best life.
I'm not being invited to tell a fucking peninsula. No.
Speaker 1: How did I get hurt? That's I have a great idea.
I know you and me were raised the same way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixteen nothing, No, nobody cared about me turning sixteen?
Speaker 1: Nobody cared. I remember that. I remember my mom.
Speaker 4: Did a barbecue, her classic burnt barbecue chicken because she
turned the flame all the way up high, and uh,
boss and Susanne around to help clean up afterwards. Like
that was it was Suzanne and I think Dean and
Wendy came and maybe a couple other friends.
Speaker 1: But that was it.
Speaker 2: That was my sixteenth I didn't have any like nothing,
I don't remember anything possibly special. How oh so what
else was I going to tell you? All these birthday
What about? How's the twins birthdays coming?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Birthday planning?
Speaker 2: So okay, So after I got the COVID test back,
so Sadie has.
Speaker 4: A friend, can I ask you a question? How do
I find I want to go get tested? How do
I find a place?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is around the country, but
I think I told there's a place. It's called Curative s.
You are ati VE. I just googled it. And then
they do free testing and they have all these drive
through I don't know if they're all drive through, but
that's the company that's doing them, and uh, and yeah
it's free. Just do you give them your insurance information anyway,
but they don't charge your insurance company, okay, or I
don't know, maybe they I don't know. But so you
can find and then you find the place closest to
you that it's doing it, and then you just you
just make an appointment.
Speaker 1: And they have tons of appointments.
Speaker 2: H Yeah, you can make one bad day, you can
go okay, I want to one in like an hour, wow,
and then you just get in line in your car
and then you get the little kit and then you
or you could go to any like an urgent care
and it's covered by your insurance, and then you can
go or you could go to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just google a COVID testing. Yeah, I'm going to.
I know it does. Everything seems hard.
Speaker 2: You're like, I know everything, like we will when people
go just call your doctor.
Speaker 1: That never works for me. That never works. I don't
know why. Especially our doctors, especially our doctor is busy.
It's busy, bussy guy being abused.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a Patreon reference. Yeah, so here's something that's
going on with me. I can't stop eating, Oh god,
I can't. I thought I would eventually get used to
the COVID thing and I would stop like eating constantly,
but no, it's still going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm still not exercise, so we're both in great shape.
Speaker 2: I was looking at my keychain the other day and
I'm like, what is this, oh, Ellie Fitness. Yeah, it's
on your key chain. It's part of your like you
see it all the time.
Speaker 1: Right, And I was like, do I still pay for this? Right?
I wonder if the US That's a good question that's
happened to me before.
Speaker 2: I was like, what, I'm still a member somewhere of
a gym.
Speaker 1: What.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine going back either, Like, I feel like
people have gotten used to getting their exercise another way.
It just seems unseemly to go exercise next to somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah it does.
Speaker 2: Oh, like I'll bet procy please.
Speaker 1: I know, excuse me.
Speaker 4: If I want to stop and go get something to
eat in the middle of my workout, I want to
be able to do that.
Speaker 1: I can't do that at the gym.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: If you want to, like put on your podcast and
listen to it on the speaker, can't do that at
the gym.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I remember one time I was on the phone. I
wasn't even thinking.
Speaker 4: I walk in and I was like, still talking and
I get right on.
Speaker 1: I zone in on my favorite was it?
Speaker 4: Maybe it was a bike and I zone in on
it and I got on it and I started pedaling,
and I was like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, so just call me when you
get the email. And the woman comes and she goes, honey,
I don't need to hear what your whole day is
all about. I was like, oh my god, I'm so
fucking sorry because I hate when people do that, and
I'm the jackass that was doing it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't miss the gym at all. And
I've been going since I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been going for years. Yeah I don't. I
can't picture myself there anymore. No walking in and like
finding parking.
Speaker 1: I know. But the alternative is I just don't exercitt.
Speaker 2: Right, It's not like I found a better way exactly, Like,
how else am I going to get there?
Speaker 1: Because my routine was to.
Speaker 4: Drop the kids off at school and then get in
the car and go straight to the gym. Don't go
at home, don't go straight to the gym. Otherwise I'd
never work out.
Speaker 2: So now how am I supposed to work out? When
I'm not taking the kids to school. What am I
supposed to do?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: I know, make time to do it? Fuck that.
Speaker 2: I feel really guilty about the fact that my life
in some ways is so.
Speaker 1: Much better with no school. I know, and I know
we talked about lot of boy.
Speaker 2: Getting comfty, being home and being in their own routine. Yeah,
And the thing is, every morning I would hit the
ground running. It was just like I felt every morning,
eyes open up and you're like, okay, and you know
I've I'm you know, even though our listeners yell at us,
you know, I'd still be making lunches.
Speaker 1: Right, you know I would totally.
Speaker 2: Because why why do I do this stuff? Because my
kids are too lazy to do it? And then I'm
too lazy to make to yell at them for me
too lazy, right, too lazy to yell at them for
being lazy.
Speaker 1: That's true, it is.
Speaker 2: And then John gets upset with me. He doesn't it
upset upset, but he gets like, don't do their chores
for them, and I'm like, but they're not gonna do it, right,
they are not gonna do it. I does, I'd nag
and nag and nag. They're not gonna be proactive, right,
And then John's answer to that is, well, okay, then
they should just take the trash out every day.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, but it's not full every day.
Speaker 2: What I would like is for them to when they
go to throw something in the recycle, which is next
to the regular trash, instead.
Speaker 1: Of going like, oh, that's full, so I'll just put
it on top.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, and then they start building a freaking trash
tower instead of doing that when it when your next
move is to go on top of the re on top,
that should be a communication between the recycle and you
it's time to take it out.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: How does that not ever going to strike you as
like annoying for me that you're started to build on
top Because then I go and I'm like, okay, so
I guess I'm taking out the trash right, because guess
what they do. They sneak and do that like at night,
and then oh, they're in school in the morning doing
their school. Can't do it. Can't do it, absolutely, I know.
And John goes, why don't you wait for them to
do it? And I'm like, because in the meantime, I
still have to use the trash, right, I have that.
Speaker 4: How about that, like you know that whole thing too,
where I put them in charge of Like I'll tell Natalia,
you are in charge of the vacuuming fill's hairs everywhere.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: So and then so whenever she wants something, so okay,
so her friend wants to come over, Okay, but did
you do your chores?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm gonna do them. And what do you mean
you're gonna do them?
Speaker 4: What do you mean gonna No, get the vacuum out
before they come. You need to vacuum, right, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: They just they don't. They just don't.
Speaker 4: And so now I got to sit there and go
up and downstairs with a you know, it's like you
sit stepping into a cloud of hair just flying everywhere constantly,
and I can't take it.
Speaker 1: I can't take it. I have to vacuum. Yeah, that's
the I do too.
Speaker 4: Or how about when how about when I get in
trouble with Adam and Brittany and they're like, just let
them make their own lunches, let them let when they're hungry,
they'll eat.
Speaker 1: Then you don't have to order them stuff. They'll eat.
Speaker 2: Well, they don't though, right, And then what happens is
they get angry and then they get irritated and anything,
you know, anything I say is going to you know,
set them off.
Speaker 1: So I have no like, I just I just want
them to get it over. Just eat, you know what
I mean? Like, okay, so I'll make yourself something to eat.
What do you want?
Speaker 4: So I'll make it while they're in their class, so
it's ready when they come out. But it's like I
should be like, what are you guys eating tomorrow during school?
Speaker 1: What are you going to eat? I try every night
to tell them that every night, and.
Speaker 2: They're always like, yeah, that sounds good, and then the
day comes and.
Speaker 4: They're like, I'm not interested. I don't want that. I
don't want something else. Too bad, you know, but well
it's yeah, too bad?
Speaker 1: Is in a fan world?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Too bad? All these people? I know we've talked about
this a million times too. But the whole thing I
refused to be a short order cook, right, Well, then
your kids are not eat. If I was a kid
who had a.
Speaker 2: Parent who was like, I'm not a short order cook, right,
and so I didn't eat like I I mean I
didn't I certainly didn't starve, you know, but I'm just
saying it kind of sucked because I didn't I would
have to make go make myself like a hot dog.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: Ever, see, I think about that when I was a kid,
like I was always hungry, but there was never anything
to eat, you know, right, and no one no one
was cooking me shit, you know, or making me stuff.
My mom she was a horrible cook, by the way,
but she wouldn't you know, she wasn't making my lunches
and shit.
Speaker 1: I had to figure that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but my mom would make my lunches and they
were horrible tune of like stuff I didn't like.
Speaker 1: She like.
Speaker 2: She didn't even remember if I would tell her I
don't like I remember one of her favorite things to
make me and I I'm sure it was because I didn't.
Speaker 1: Like it cream cheese and jelly.
Speaker 2: Sandwiches, and I thought that was so disgusting, and I told.
Speaker 1: Her I don't like it. Like it was to the point.
Speaker 2: I was kind of a picky eater as a kid,
so I did not like a lot of stuff. I
had a limited palette. I was a lot like Elbie
when she was younger. And because I remember this was
like we're talking. I remember this was like second grade. Yeah,
I remember very well that almost every day my mom
packed me something disgusting for lunch, never taking into account
if I told her I'm not I'm not going to
eat it, right, so she would just pack it anyway.
It's like, well, okay, But then I was starving because
I had nothing to eat.
Speaker 1: Same with me. So I think I carry.
Speaker 2: That memory around and I want them to have food
they like they're not.
Speaker 1: Hungry, especially since these days the academics.
Speaker 2: Are so much more rigorous, like you know, know, I know,
and also like Natalia as Sunny, they're both burning calories constantly,
you know, And I just feel like especially and then
I got to look out for her because every day
she's got.
Speaker 4: Volleyball and so she's got to eat. Because there was
one time I took her, like a week or two ago,
and she wasn't hungry. And when I pick her up,
her faces she's sweating, her face is bright red. She
gets in the car and the first thing she announces
that she's starving. I said, well, what about when I
told you back home? Can we just go through a
drive few, we're gonna go home. You're gonna eat at home.
Speaker 2: But sometimes at home there's nothing, so you know, it's
just it's never ending.
Speaker 1: I know. Okay, thanks everybody, Thank KLN. You're a parent, now,
don't f it up.