Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Of face Sunny Sun on I hadsion.
Speaker 1: Nat. What's up everybody?
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, excuse me. We just did a great
episode with Dylan Patrick and Ruby. Yes, about TV.
Speaker 1: Fantastic.
Speaker 2: We covered all the crappy TV.
Speaker 1: Everything we called it covered a lot, even old shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We talked about old reality shows. Yeah, yeah, it was great.
We talked about Jersey, we talked about oc Housewives, we
talked about uh Bachelorette.
Speaker 2: You know what it reminded kay.
Speaker 1: Love is blind?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, all of those shows. It reminded me of
because it's just been so long, of like the shows
that my kids watched when they were little, because we
touched on it. We were talking about Coco Melon and
how weird my kids are too old. Yeah, min basically
we missed Coco Melon. But Kaylin, do your kids your
kids watch Coco Melon?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean they love Coco Melon. Blake not
so much because it was you know, Ila loved it
a lot, and Blake definitely likes it. She likes it now.
But now that I's older and she doesn't like it,
then I don't have to turn it on for them anymore.
Blake would just settle with the kind of older kid shows.
Speaker 2: Huh, yeah, they were. Yeah, they both love that.
Speaker 1: I recommend Curious George for kids. I do. Sunny and
Italia watched Curious George and they you learn a lot,
you learn, you know, And and they loved watching this
monkey and the guy with the yellow hat and you know,
crossing the street and when the light turns right. It
was and it was very like that. The the the
music was nice, like clinic classical music, not like in
your face, like like woah wah, whebzi.
Speaker 2: You know, right right right.
Speaker 1: They're just like there was an other show that was
weird that they watched. But anyway, there's a lot of
weird show, remember, Kyu. That's what I was thinking, Kayu.
It was a little torp.
Speaker 2: It was such a puss. Yeah, yeah, it was so boring,
so boring, so boring. Do you remember Franklin, Yes, it's Franklin, Yeah,
coming over to turtle, Yeah, the turtle, Turtle. My kids
used to love.
Speaker 1: Frank Yeah, we did too. We loved Franklin the Turtle. Yeah.
Speaker 2: My kids loved like the Fresh Beeat band and there
was what was the other band? There? There was another
band and they were all like colorful or yeah, yeah,
I can't remember them, No, we just it sounds like that.
Speaker 1: I think they were on Nickelodeon. My kids loved like
Phineas and Ferm. Did you ever watch Phineas and Ferm?
Oh my god, that was a funny show. I thought
it was fun. Gaba Gabba wow wow Yo Gabba Gaba
same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we went to go see the Freshbeat Band I remember. Yeah,
I mean, all of this stuff happened. It's so weird
to think that we've been podcasting together for so long
that my kids were actively into because when we started together,
my twins were two. I remember I went through all
those phases all.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember taking them to Disney on ice and
you know, like just taking them to all those like
just things like Disney stuff. And but yeah, those TV
shows Little Einstein's was good.
Speaker 2: We used Einstein's. Yeah, I remember taking was it LB
to see Diego live Diego? Yes, maybe it was Dora,
Maybe it was Dora and Diego. I don't know, but
we saw one of those shows live from some theater
and oh my god, Alby was so excited.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids loved that stuff. But I always wanted
to watch TV with them and like what I was watching.
So I liked like once they got into like Phineas
and ferb was funny. It was, it was, it was,
It was a funny. It was very smart.
Speaker 2: We watched a lot of Sesame Street, yeah, we did too,
And we watched a lot of They made a lot
of specials like with Elmo, like almost specials. There's one
with John Stewart.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Buddy, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Buddy, John Stewart. There was one with him. It
was some like like almost like a charity kind of thing.
I can't remember what it was, but it was with
a Night of a thousand, I don't know, yeah, something,
And I remember that they watched it over and over
and over. I could like recount a lot of the
bits the show like this, and they watched those videos
like I mean, we had all these DVDs.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know we did. So I remember we would
watch Sesame Street and there was a kid, he was
a black boy in a wheelchair and he would come
on and he would saying I have a chair, and
he would be my chair is so cool. I get
everywhere in my chair.
Speaker 2: Sonny every single time bursted into tears and cried every
time that video came on.
Speaker 1: Really, we even have it on tape, yes, and our movies.
I put it on him and we'd be watching Stephanie
and he'd be sitting there watching it and he'd be
like smiling, and then all of a sudden, I have
a chair and he'd be like like he felt bad
or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Natalie's like, what why are you crying? Tough enough kid, Yeah, yeah,
those are the days. Oh, it's so sad.
Speaker 2: Now they're off to college, I know, sascating college college.
So you were telling me, like what some of their
classes which, So she's got to take the basics.
Speaker 1: She's taking all the basic classes. She wants to get
all the boring stuff out of the way, Like she's
going to do journal she wants to. Yes, she's gonna
do journalism. And I think Natalia is gonna be I
think that she's gonna get interested in, you know, maybe
different types of journalists stuff like like I think maybe
she might want to do true crime, or she might
want to do she's saying now she wants to do
entertainment and fashion and stuff like that. But I think
that's just I think once she gets in there and
she starts going to classes and her mind is opening
up to other aspects of journalism. I'm hoping that, yeah,
that she's I mean, she can do whatever she wants,
but I have a feeling she's gonna it might shift
a little bit from entertainment to something more. Well, this
is her first year, so like you said, she's gonna
have to take all these basic classes now. Anyway. Yeah,
and it's nice because her roommates are already been there
for one year and so they know all the classes
to take to get out of the way, and like
the teachers that are good and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, something that I definitely men people do your
kids also is rape my Professor is like the greatest thing.
Have you heard of that? No, So it's a website.
A lot of the kids use it. If you go
on rape my Professor, you put in the school and
the teacher's name, and then you can see people review
the teachers.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And so it's a really good way to find out,
Like I mean, when Elbe's sociology teach, Elbe did it
with all of her instructors. Her counselor at Pierce when
she was going there was like, go on rape my Professor.
And figure out who you want for the classes.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 2: So she found ones that the kids were like, oh
my god, this was like my favorite teacher, so wow,
that's great. Every single one of her teachers was highly
She did not take any teacher where people were like
this teacher was like an asshole and didn't allow anything
to be late, or it was like a harsh grader
or whatever.
Speaker 1: Right, right, Yeah, that's a good idea. One of her
classes is film. She's taking fo oh that's cool. Yeah,
but it's hybrid, so she's she's gonna be going a
couple of days, but then she's also going to be
doing stuff. There's a couple of classes that are like
hybrid where she doesn't have to go and she can
do it online.
Speaker 2: I think that's fine. Yeah, I'll be took almost all
of her classes were online. Yeah, and literally the only
class so she took sociology first semester, so fall semester
of last year, that was her only in person class.
It met twice a week, so Tuesday and Thursday, nine
thirty two, like eleven ten. Yeah, she had class, that's it.
The rest was online.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 2: And then in the winter all online and then the
spring semester again, sociology twice a week. That's all she
did the entire year, and she liked it. She liked
it that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I think it's it's good.
She's fine with it. Like she's fine with it.
Speaker 2: I mean, she'll have other classes person she'll.
Speaker 1: Stay with me because I think she likes to go out.
She likes to go and do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I know she's mixed.
Speaker 2: I mean a week from tomorrow, I'm taking her and
she'll be gone, but she won't be far now, which
is nice, and it's nice for you to have ilbe
close by. It's gonna be so nice. I mean I've
been doing this stuff, Like we went and got her
sheets and mattress topper and all this stuff, and it
was like it was like fun. I Mean, the thing is,
I don't see a lot of LB now because she's very,
very independent. So it's nice that I know where she is.
Kind of not that I'm constantly checking out, but it's
like oh, like she'll pop in and say hi, and
then but I'm like, oh, are you out tonight, and
she's always like, yeah, I got plans with this friend.
Like yesterday, she she slept in, didn't leave her room
until like I don't know, the afternoon, and I think
I was out. And then she went to work and
she had a closing shift, and then she said after
work she was going to a movie like with her
work friends. And then I could see on Life through
sixty that she came. She came home at like two
in the morning. So yeah, then she's sleeping. I leave,
come here. I'm sure I might see her like, so
I have to make sort of an appointment to see her. Anyway.
It's like, oh, do you want to go to like
do you want to go have lunch? Yeah? I mean
she sometimes be like, oh where are you going? You're
going to get some if there's something in it for her,
she's all there for me. I guess.
Speaker 1: I'm like.
Speaker 2: She'll be like, are you going out somewhere? And I'll
be like, uh why, and she'll be like I'm hungry.
Then I'll grab onto that. I'm like, oh, okay, let's
go to lunch. Yes, and she'll be like really, okay, great,
and then we get I spend an hour with her
right soak up the vibes, the energy. She usually doesn't
have any good gossip for me, But you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, I do. I've been doing the same thing
with Natalia. It's been nice, you know, going to do
errands and running errands with her. It's funny because like
we never used to do She never wanted to come
with me before, but now like she's like, can we
go to Target? Can we? You know? Of course, I
want to go to the the organize it. What there's
a store in Pasadena. I can't think of the name
of it, container store. I think it's the Container Store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one at the Groves, so there's probably one.
Speaker 1: Of these, Yeah, the container Store. And they have like,
you know for her drawers, like you know, you can
you can take her jeans pretty much and like fold
them and put them like in these little slots in
a box so that they're not just like hang like
cause jeans can be bulky. I don't know, I just
want to I'm trying to prepare myself for the day
for moving date, Like do you know what moving date's
going to be like? Because I'm just trying to like
hope we have everything and then that she has enough
room to put her stuff away. If she doesn't, I
can take it home in my car.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing. It's like you're just driving there
and then you can just yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't know because I thought I would be
the first and have this experience and then help you.
But I'm having it at the same time as you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to be there with my Ikia bags. Yeah yeah,
ours is LB does not move in until like I
want to say, September twenty first, so I've got a ways.
I'm like more like sunny schedule.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, so Sadie and Xander went back to school today.
As I was saying on the last show, but it's
just it's it's funny. I'm just gonna calm myself out
on something that I did. So Xander, so, you know,
it's really hard with kids these days with all the
pressure to take aps, and you know, my thing is
like I have two very different kids. So Xander can
handle a lot and it and doesn't like swim like okay,
so last year he did AP World History. This year
he's doing a push and then so he has that
AP class and then there's not a ton offered at
my kid's school, so if you want it anyway, So
he wanted to take ap lang, which so I wrote
an email to this So I was like, okay, I
thought that they don't offer. He said that you have
to take a prerequisite to do AP lang, and I
was like, well, that's kind of ridiculous. Why can't you
take it? Like LB took ap lang sophomore year, then
junior year she took ap lit. Then senior year she
was doing a dual enrollment A she was doing English
one oh one at Pierce. So I was like, well,
that's stupid. I got myself riled up. Yeah, so I
was just like, well that's stupid, Like if you want
to be taking ap you should be able to. So
I'm like, I'm going to email the principle. It's not
really the principle, it's like the vice principal, you know.
So I, you know, get my keyboard out. I'm like, okay, hey,
so Xander really wants to take ap lang and like
he did really well in English last year and I
don't see why. He told me that he has to
take a prerequisite to be able to take it, and
I think that doesn't really make sense to me, and
like can you make an exception or whatever? So then
they write back, we don't offer AP lang as the problem.
We do offer AP Seminar, which is a different class,
but she said it does have a lot of crossover
with AP lang, and so if he takes AP Seminar,
he can also take the AP lang test. We'll offer
the test, but not the class.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: She's like, but you also have to take eleventh grade
Honors English at the same time, even though they're kind
of similar. So she goes last year year we offered,
so AP Seminar is an elective. So I'm like, well, oh,
so she goes. The only way we would make an
exception and let him take it instead of eleventh grade
English is if he cannot fit it into his schedule.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So I write back and I'm like, oh, well, yeah,
he can't fit it into his schedule because he's in
the Music lab program, which is an elective, and he
does speech and debate, which at our school is not
a club, it's an actual class. Yeah, yeah, I said,
So there's just no way if he wants to do
AP seminar, he can't do it with it. He just
doesn't have enough. He has to take Algebra two. He's
taking Spanish because in order to qualify for UCS, you
have to have three years of a language not too okay.
So in my mind now I'm all like again like
hyped up about this. I'm like, well, they have to
let him, like yeah, So I write her back and
I go, yes, he would really like to take AP
seminar instead of English, can you please? So she writes back,
I'll see what I can do. So I'm like, hey, suit,
she can do, you know, Okay? So he gets his
schedule and he gets the schedule that he wants. Okay. Meanwhile,
Sadie at the so at the end of her sophomore year,
she put in for what classes she wanted and she
they both want to have some APS under their belt,
so she puts down that she so she's going to
have to take chemistry. Basically, we had to have a
five ZHO four meeting for Sadie with her new ADHD diagnosis.
They just wanted to put in place some things for
her and I don't want her to get super overwhelmed.
It's a lot. Junior year is a lot. Algebra two,
she struggles with math, Chemistry that's tough. A push which
is the history the AP history class ap US history.
That's what it is. This is already a lot for her.
Speaker 1: That is a lot.
Speaker 2: So they had put her in Introduction to Psychology. She
said she wanted AP psychology, but they put her in
so anyway, she gets her schedule and it's not what
she wants.
Speaker 1: What's her electives?
Speaker 2: Okay, So her elective was music and she had asked
to be in AP studio Art.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, that's nice.
Speaker 2: So she gets her schedule and she's in uh not AP.
She doesn't get any art elective. She gets Introduction to Psychology,
which is not what she wanted. She wanted that so
that she could have an AP class, and she got
the English class chemistry and Spanish and whatever. It looked
like a hard schedule and not what she wanted.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well now I've already fought for Xander. Now I gotta
get out him. So hey, sorry, I know you guys
are crazy busy working with everyone, and now I seem
like a full on Karen because it's like, hey, it's
just me. I'm doing everything at the same time.
Speaker 1: I have a twin. So I just thought you should know, right, right, do.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Yeah, my first instinct with
Sadie is to be like, oh my god, girl, just
deal with your schedule. But then my thing is like
she knows I went about for Xander m okay, but
she's a different. But I'm like, girl, she's like, well,
I want to do AP seminar, And in my mind
I'm like, no, you don't. You're not adding we're not
adding another AP to your schedule. Yeah, so I write,
but I have to try. So I write and I'm like, hey,
so Sadie really is into art and she really wanted
to do AP studio art, like, and she already took
introduction to art, she took the prerequisite. Oh so like
that's there.
Speaker 1: You good?
Speaker 2: Can you move her into that? And also like she
had wanted AP psychology but you gave her introduction to
psychology and there's no real reason for that because it's
not that she's so interested in it, she just wanted
an AP okay. So then I don't hear anything back,
and I'm.
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Speaker 2: So then I have the meeting for do you want
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Speaker 2: Also nothing nothing also what so okay, okay, so you
got to go to bat. So I go to bat
and then I hear nothing or nothing. But now so
now I have we have a meeting. Did you have
this meeting with the counselor? Yes, okay, so we have.
So then we get we have a meeting with the counselor,
who is super freakin' nice by the way, I love her.
And now it's Sadie's five oh four meeting.
Speaker 1: Is it on doom or in person? We did it?
Speaker 2: Well, I forgot about the meeting. She said do you
want to do it virtually or do you want to
come in? And I was like, uh, I want to
call an audible on that, like we'll figure it out.
Like the day before, well the day of I realized
I was recording a podcast with Cecily or like The Bachelor,
the day that the meeting was supposed to be, and
I was like, oh no, She's like, are you coming
in or are we doing this over zoom? And I
was like, I got the while I was recording, and
I was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh no, that's the worst feeling.
Speaker 2: Uh hey, is there any way we could push this
back thirty minutes and it would have to be on zoom?
And then she was like, yeah, no problem, there you go,
so gave me okay, so it was on zoom. John
had plans he'd forgotten about the meeting, so I was like,
that's fine, you go. So Sadie and I have the
meeting and basically I was like, this schedule, here's what
we were hoping. So she tells us that she's like,
I don't think Sadie wants to do AP seminar. I
think she should do the English. She's already gonna have chemistry.
If she wants to not do chemistry, she could feasibly
do it in her senior year. But then she has
to pass right so if for some reason she's really
struggling with chemistry and she doesn't pass this year, she
can retake it. So I should read. My chemistry was
such a nightmare for my kids.
Speaker 1: It was I don't know if it was the teacher
or what, because they did have a tough teacher too.
Did they pass They yes, they passed, but they it
was a struggle the whole way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they hated it too. Natalia had her
one of her older sisters, one of her friend's older
sisters help her, and I think and then Italia helped
Sonny and they passed by the skin in their teeth.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just remember chemistry being very tough for my kids.
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of worried about that because she does
have a push.
Speaker 1: They didn't have a.
Speaker 2: Great teacher there. I don't think the teacher's great okay
for them either, So she's got This is a kid
who had a very push schedule last year and now
she had she had like a free period, she had
two or three elective, she was student council, she had
introduction to art, and she had music lab. The only
academic classes she had last year were math, English, and Spanish.
Yeah that's it. Yeah, So this year she has AP history,
she has Algebra two, she she has Spanish, she has
English Honors English and she was now going to be
taking and she has chemistry and she had this introduction
to psychology.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I want to cry for her.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, she really wanted the art. A
teacher is like, so the counselor says, well, she needs
to take painting and drawing. So I was like, oh, okay,
well can we put her in painting and drawing? And
she's like, yeah, we can. But here's the thing. Spanish
counts as an academic elective, so we can remove psychology
from the mix. I was like, okay, that's good.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: She's like, I think she should stay with eleventh grade English.
I don't think she should try to do another AP
on top of it. And I think she should try chemistry.
See if she can pass it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, And she's like, if should go sideways in the
next two weeks, she can drop it, you know, if
it's just too much to handle. So anyway, we got
all that kind of worked out with the counselor in
a nice way. Then like a week later, the vice
principal writes me back, oh, with this whole thing about
how well I don't think we can Like now, she's
a response basically, we already got it like situated, taken
care of. But she's like, she can't take AP studio
art without doing the prerequisite first. And also she can't do.
She all the reasons why she can't do uh huh stuff.
So luckily I got to just write her back, no worries.
We already met with the counselor. It's all. She's all set,
thank you though, right, thank you?
Speaker 1: Oh god, you listen, you're so close to that finish line.
It's just, you know, those last two years of high school, well,
you know, the junior year is like, yeah, it's pretty tough,
and then senior year is you know, kind of a breeze.
But that junior years just.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, they got to get all their credits that
they need and what are they gonna need for UC's
or if they're gonna go apply for colleges, what classes?
Speaker 1: Like it's it's it's so stressful.
Speaker 2: Natalia had her concussion. That was junior year, right, yeah,
that was when things were like hard in school.
Speaker 1: So she had her concussion in tenth grade. Yeah, oh
she did, yeah, eighth Wait hold on, I thought it.
Speaker 2: Was junior year. And then then she dropped out of
volleyball because she was doing volleyball at the time, which
would have been eleventh grade, which.
Speaker 1: No, she quit volleyball. Wait a minute, now, I'm so
good okay, hold on her concussion anyway, Yes, she did
have her concussion. I think it doesn't I feel like
it wasn't a junior year.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was feeling because once she went back,
the coach was like not really putting her in. Wasn't
that the case?
Speaker 1: So she had her concussion I think in tenth grade.
Then in eleventh grade she went back and she was starting, Yeah,
that's what happened. It was tenth grade she had the concussion,
and then in junior so she went to junior year
and then she was feeling good and she was like okay,
like she was getting the okay from the doctor to
go back to volleyball. So then she went back to
volleyball and the coach was a cunt and she was like,
I don't want to do it. And her other friends
were quitting too. They're like, I don't want to do it,
and we and I go, but I tell you you
don't want to play like senior year and she's like, nope,
I don't want to do it. And she was done.
Speaker 2: So she did play all of junior year, though.
Speaker 1: She played a little bit junior year and then she quit,
and then she quit her club too. She was just
fanit though. Done with the volleyball, right, I was like,
that's kind of sucks, you know. I don't know. I
was enjoying going her games and stuff. I loved watching
her high school games. That was fun. That was that
there was the one time where the coach wasn't putting
her in and all of like Natalia's friends were chanting
like put in number six, mmmmm, put in numbers like
the whole I have it on video was great.
Speaker 2: And did she I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I think she did eventually, yeah, but yeah, she she
just had a bad taste in her mouth after that
and she was just done, and like the coach was
kind of like, remember she was kind of inappropriate, like
texting them like, you guys know I love you, like
at ten o'clock at night. Yeah, it's drunk, Yeah, exactly.
Natalie's like, and then she was talking about how she
would like cut school when she was a teenager and
she was a pain in the ass when she was
a teen and then she was like, oh my god,
I mooned the other but the other teen's bus, like
I stuck my ass out the window, and Natalia was like, mom,
she's telling us she goes, do you know what moon means?
And I go yeah, and she goes, I didn't know
what it meant. And she's like, I was mooning the
other teen. She's like she got a glimpse of her
and was like like, she's not my coach anymore. She says,
it's like weirdo. Yeah, like probably drunk. So she was done.
She was turned off. That was that. Yeah, yeah, so
you know, moving on to other things.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it is sad when they quit something that
we feel like they're good at. I mean, I was sad.
I was so sad when I'll be quit basketball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know those I know, you know it was
it was fun. It was fun going to those games.
I was bummed when Sunny quit basketball. I loved going
to his games.
Speaker 2: In fact, I quit really suddenly. He did.
Speaker 1: He quit during COVID. He quit because during COVID they
were trying to do these practices. He was on a
team and they were doing the coach was trying to
get everybody to show up on Zoom to do like
you know, their their dribbles and their drills and stuff.
And eventually, like at first everybody was showing up and
then eventually It's like, I go, who was on zoom?
Today's like me and like Scott like iturn like everybody
was dropping out of the zoom and nobody was doing basketball.
And then that was that. Son, he was just like, yeah,
I'm kind of done with basketball.
Speaker 2: But I remember when he refused to go to the tryout.
Speaker 1: Remember for school for school, and you.
Speaker 2: Were trying to talk him into going, and he was just.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't want to go. Yeah. I think that
he got intimidated because at first, when he was in
second grade and third grade and four, him and his
friends were all the same size, and then they go
into junior. I mean it was in middle school when
all of his friends like kind of like had a
growth spurt. And now like his best friend is like
six foot tall, and Son, he's still liked this little
boy like he didn't he didn't have his his uh
growth spurt yet, you know, his hormones weren't kicking in.
So I think he was just like I'm out, like
I'd rather just go to their games and support them.
That's what he did. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because I mean Xander's only like five
to five, and you know, I I think he did
have sort of visions of because he was really good
at basketball middle school. He was the point guard on
his team. But you know, they all really really sucked
in middle school. Well, there were they made two teams,
and he was the JV team. He was the best
kid on that team, and he probably would have been
I think they needed somebody decent on the JV team.
I mean Xander's just not. He just also wasn't like
aggressive or there were a lot of ball hogs on
the middle school varsity varsity team.
Speaker 1: Varsity varsity.
Speaker 2: I mean those kids were like not passing the ball
at all. You know, it's middle school boys. Know they're
not really team players until they get to high school
they have proper coaching. So for Xander, it was like
I thought it was going to be. I watched the
tryouts and I thought for sure he would be on varsity.
He did really well, but then they put him on
JV and he was bummed. But I was like, you're
gonna get so much more playing time and you're gonna
be and they put shitty kids on that team, so
they needed him. He was the top scorer of every game.
But anyway, my point is for high school, when he
was thinking about high school as like, oh, I would
play basketball in my mind, I'm like, no, you're not, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, like and I know it's sad like
in our area, these boys that Sonny grew up with
their parents, like their dads played basketball, and you know,
they're like, you know, going to all the games on
the weekends, and all the they're sitting there at dutch practice,
the dads are sitting there, like all the parents are
dropping their kids off and coming back to pick them up. Nope,
there's like two or three of the dads that are
all friends and hanging out. They're bros. And their kids
are like you know, and they're like, you know, cheering
on their kids, like you can do better and blah
blah blah. So like these kids now, they grew up
playing basketball. They were on the varsity team in our
high school. Some of them got tall, some of them
not so much and didn't have a you know, still
kind of short, but they were playing basketball and they
were they were fantastic compared to the other kids. And
now it's like they're going off to college and they're
not really playing. Like only one of them he got
accepted to like a big university. I can't think of
the name, but he turned it down because he wasn't
going to be able to play basketball at that earthquake.
Oh my god, earthquake. Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, well let's keep that in. Wow.
Speaker 1: We just have a fucking earth quake.
Speaker 2: Still going a little bit.
Speaker 1: You can hear the cracks in this like.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh cool, We're good. Everybody's good.
Speaker 1: Everybody be cool. Okay, listen, this house is on a slab.
We're in a safe spot. Yeah, we are. Hopefully everybody's good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know where that came from, whatever the epicenter
was of that, though, it's going to have some damage.
Speaker 3: I know that jo It was very sudden. Normally kind
of comes on a little bit.
Speaker 1: No, I know that was a big one. Yeah, Like
it jolted your heart beating a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my heart's beating. Yeah, because you never know if
it's going to get real bad.
Speaker 1: I know, you don't know if it's like the precursor
to the Okay, did you guys feel an earthquake? Did
you guys feel the earthquake that I guess had that
you guys had, we had.
Speaker 3: I was on last week that I felt down in
Long beach.
Speaker 2: You did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was on an airplane, so I didn't feel it.
I wonder if this has anything to do with that one.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't know who sing about?
Speaker 1: Oh oh so the still Yeah, so one of the
one of the boys is now going to a very
small college so that he can play basketball.
Speaker 2: So I think that is such an crazy thing that happens.
I know. I have a friend whose son was the
quarterback of the big high school, the big local high school,
the one that Albie went to, quarterback of the high
school team. Amazing football player. But like, these kids aren't
getting recruited now. You have to be so special to
be so he he So originally they were like waiting
to see what schools were gonna No, nothing, no, So
he ended up going to he's going to Boulder. But
he's not going to play football obviously, right, Like that's
coach Prime.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's coach Prime. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's not like he's not he's not. They're
not bringing him into play football and he's not even
going to be You have to be really good to
eat what is it a walk on? Yeah, you're going
to try to like play once you're there. No, he's not.
You have to be so so good. If you think
about every school in the world has a kid that's hell.
The kids that are really the start of basketball.
Speaker 1: Players, they can all be and I think a lot
of you have to be on a d Division I team,
you know, basketball football, right, like your school has to
be good, right right? That too, So yeah, I don't
know our volleyball team though. Those girls a bunch of
them are playing volleyball. They're actually they left to go
to college, like I think at the end of July.
So they went early because they have to start practicing
because their season is going to start. Wow, and they're
playing volleyball at their schools. Okay, but then what I know,
you know.
Speaker 2: Are they going to be professional volleyball players? Then?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and then you live your glory days.
Speaker 2: Also, okay, I'm going to be sour grapes for a minute.
If you play a sport in college. And now we're
going to turn off a bunch of listeners who are like,
my kid plays sports. But I'm just saying since I'm
mad because none of my kids wanted to stick with
any sports. You get to college, you spend all your time,
you're a volleyball player at college, so get you can't
party right, and then college ends and then what and
you're like, I'm a really good volleyball player. I played
in college.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean then you go on the Bachelor and
then you talk about how a big volleyball player and
end college and you're on a Division one team and
you have bragging you can brag about it, rogging rights.
You're ragging rights. And I think they I think these
kids that play these sports like the camaraderie a lot.
I think they like Italian missus that like that team,
you know, spirit and looking out for each other and
you know, hanging out every day at practice. You know,
there's some people.
Speaker 2: I think a better way to do it is to
just take a picture of your kid like on the
rowing machine, like at the gym, and then submit it
to his school and get into the good school right
on the rowing team, but not actually have to be
on the rowing team. That is, now that my kids
are going to college, I need to watch.
Speaker 1: That story again. Oh yeah, because that's crazy because back
when it came out, I was like, what's what the
you know, yeah, the you know, the photoshopping of the
kid's face on the rowing machine. I was like, it's ridiculous.
But now that I'm going through like my kids going
up to college and getting accepted to God like now,
and this guy is so bad. He's running a racket
where he's accepting all this money from all these parents
to get his kids into all these schools. I gotta
watch it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can kind of see where they'd be like, well,
my kid really wants to go to like this school.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I could see having been like well if I could
just but mine would have to be like a lot
less money. Mine would be like would you take twenty
five dollars to get all the into UCSB.
Speaker 1: It's not the top, it's a cla but but yeah.
Speaker 2: You know she really really wants to go.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll do the photoshop. You don't have to do it.
I'll go to Walmart and do the photoshop, get it
printed out.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll handle all that part of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now keiwan, Yes, Blake's birthday?
Speaker 1: How shitty was today's birthday?
Speaker 3: Birthday four years old today?
Speaker 1: Yeah, finally she's getting there. I feel like she's been
so little for so long. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 2: So what did you guys do to celebrate her birthday?
Speaker 3: She didn't really want to, Like, we did Lego Land
for Isla's and then we were like, what do you
want it for your birthday? She's like, oh, the zoo
or Lego Land, Like we just went to Lego Land.
So I was like, well, let's go to the water
park that I've never been to a water park before.
So we were just trying to decide between Great Wolf
Lodge and Soak City, which is the k Notsbury Farm
one and the Knotsberry Farm one was cheaper and we
lived like right down the street from it. So yesterday
we went to Soak City and uh yeah, down the street.
Speaker 2: From Kottsbury Farm, that's Anaheim. Though I thought you were
in Long Beach.
Speaker 3: I am, I'm in like northern Long Beach. Like it
it ends pretty soon after that. I'm very close to Anaheim.
Yeah wow, I mean it took us like fifteen twenty
minutes to get there. On the way back, we just
took side streets. We didn't even take the freeway.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's crazy. So how was it?
Speaker 3: It was fun, It was it was very hot.
Speaker 2: Is it like a classic water park though.
Speaker 3: It's it's a classic small water park. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So they have a kids area and then like a
older kids area. They got a wave pool, they got
a lazy river, so all that stuff we could do
with them. Then they got a couple a couple of
the big slides that of course we just avoided all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So they were a little hesitant at first to play
on like the little kids area, but then they started playing.
They had fun. But they really had a lot of
fun getting into like the wavepool and the lazy river.
That's the one that they liked the most.
Speaker 1: So did you have to get on the slides with them?
Speaker 3: I wish I could have, but I was a little big,
so they didn't even I was like.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. I don't know, like do the kids one.
Speaker 3: Lincodn't really like the slides. Island did, but you have
to wait in a long line to get on them.
So they were both just kind of whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your kids seem pretty easy going.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, pretty easy, but yeah, they had floaties on
and so they were able to just kind of float
down the river and play in the wavepool and that's
what they really liked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, were any downside.
Speaker 3: Well, the little kids area that's where we kind of
set up our stuff. There's a little grassy area that
we put our stuff down. They're playing in there for
a while and then like halfway through the day they
like shut it down, and all the life cards were like,
you know, standing around and saying like you can't come in,
you can't come in, And I was like, what's going
on in here? And they were like unscheduled maintenance, Ah good,
And I was like, there's nobody on any of the equipment,
like maintaining anything. And Amy just kind of looked over
at me. She's like, I bet one of the kids
shit in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I bet that that probably did happen.
They closed it down for the whole rest of the day,
so we could never we couldn't go back in there
for the rest of the day. Ugh.
Speaker 1: Wow, you gotta think that's gotta happen pretty often.
Speaker 3: Well, I was wondering. I was like, yeah, I wonder
what would happen if one of the kids in there.
And I'm at this point, I'm pretty sure that's probably
what happened, because they just closed it down and nobody
else was allowed in for hours.
Speaker 1: Are the kids really young, yes, especially in that area especially,
and they're wearing like wet diapers.
Speaker 3: Or I mean they should be. When you know, the
girls were had diapers on. We would always put the
kind of swim wet diapers on. Yeah, but yeah, there's
also a lot of kids that are not in diapers
that are you know, like three, four, five, six.
Speaker 1: You know, I wonder how often that thing happens where
the six.
Speaker 2: Year old should not be pooping in a pool.
Speaker 1: I agree, but like, think about all those kids. Look,
first of all, you get excited and then you want
to shit, right, So they pull up to the pool,
and they're probably like, and they don't want to tell
they don't want to take the time to go to
the bathroom because they're too excited to get in there.
Speaker 2: True, And you know, that's the mother nature.
Speaker 1: Calls, and I bet that's got to answer the call.
And then the poor schmos got to shut the pool
down and clean it. Yeah, it must happen a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you must have like just the impulse to poop
in the pool. And then right after you're like, I
probably shouldn't have done that, maybe, And then you try
to distance yourself from it, you know, I go, I
don't know nothing, not and do that, you know, And
then you realize they're making such a big deal out
of it, and then you're probably like.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, I had a friend that came over when
we were young, and I remember after we got out
of the pool. We were swimming all day and my dad,
my dad would come home from work and we had
no air conditioning, so he would, you know, put his
little swim trunks on and he would just sit on
the first step of the pool and just sit there
and have like a glass of beer or whatever and
just sit And I usually would get in the pool
with him. But my friend was there that day and
so we were doing our own thing and my dad goes, what,
let me talk to you for a second, come out here,
and I was like yeah, and he goes, you guys
are swimming. I go yeah, and he goes, what's that?
And I go, I don't. I don't know what is that.
I didn't know what he was trying to get at.
And then he's like, let's see it. He got the
straight the you know, the the thing and he pulls
it up and I was like, he goes and I
go well, and he goes, that's your Did your friend
do that? I go, well, I didn't do it, you know?
And uh, did you No? I didn't honestly no, And
uh it's.
Speaker 2: Been a long time lin it. You can fess out now,
get it off your chest.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be a funny story if it was me.
But yeah, No, it was my one friend that I
met at school and it was like the first time
she came over. Yeah, and my dad goes, don't say,
don't say anything to her. And I was like, okay,
I go, well, then why'd you call me out?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But he's like, yeah, no. He's like, but he's like,
just don't don't say anything, don't embarrass her. And I
was like, I'm not going to say anything. But yeah,
I'll never get that.
Speaker 2: How old were you, like eighth grade?
Speaker 1: I think I was in No, no, no, I was
in sixth grade.
Speaker 2: Oh that is pretty old though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mm hmmm, wow, sixth grade, sixth grade. I don't
know what. Yeah, I don't know what she was doing,
but maybe she had a little accident. But that's what
I mean. Like, you go to the pool, you get
excited and you don't want to get out and go
to the bathroom, right, But yeah, And I don't think
my dad drained the pool. He just put a lot
of chlorine in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure he didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and with that, you know, all that chlorine. But yeah,
pools are.
Speaker 2: Kind of gross if you think about it.
Speaker 1: Well, public pool, Yeah, I mean I get excuse me out.
Speaker 2: I know. I still love taking my kids to the
pool too. To Like we'd go to the Calabathroom club.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, that was like a dollar have
a good day.
Speaker 1: You get to go there.
Speaker 2: For like four hours and you get in fights with
people while you were sitting out on the stands watching them.
I don't I don't think so there was one.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it wasn't at the pool.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm maybe not because I don't remember having any
like arguments with anybody at Oh, I know what you're
talking I know exactly what you're talking about. That was
a different pool. That was the Van Eyes Public pool. Yes,
the woman it was like some weird gender thing. She
was telling me about how they have their teaching kindergarteners
that they can choose their own gender. Oh, I'll never
forget that.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, right now.
Speaker 2: And I was trying so hard because I've kind of
been chatting with her and we were having like a
totally normal conversation and Vanderds like jumping off the high dive.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then she's like and I was so trying not
to take the bait, but she was just like so
conspiracy theoried out and she was like yeah, yeah, yeah, oh,
because we were talking about the different schools and yeah.
Speaker 1: And like kindergarten.
Speaker 2: She was like, yeah, they're teaching these kids and I
was like, well, no they're not, and she's like, yeah,
no they are. They're telling them. They're literally telling them
like you can just change your gender and kindergarten they're
teaching them that. And I was like, well, my friend
I was talking about Robin. I was like, my friend
teaches kindergarten and like, so I know for a fact,
like we've we've had like many conversations about this. It's
not a thing like you know, they'll tell kids like, hey,
pink doesn't is not a girl color or a boy color,
like it's in everybody color and like toys are not
like just for a boy. Like, yeah, that's the extent
of it, right. She's like, no, I remember that. I
have a friend whose kid they told her you should
change your gender or whatever. And I was like I don't,
that's not happening. Yeah, and then yeah, we had a fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah I remember that. That's hilarious. Do you remember that, Galen?
Speaker 2: Were you here for that?
Speaker 1: I don't. It's that familiar must have been when Gary was here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a are we doing best.
Speaker 1: Of or should we not talk about that on the air?
Are we gonna?
Speaker 2: We're thinking about it? Yeah, like us like finding old episodes,
yeah and just putting them up Classic Classic, so you
guys don't have to go like ten years ago. Yeah,
fine stuff when our kids were just little, right, just
little littles, and now look now we're gonna be empty nesters.
I mean yeah, oh my god, Xander was being so
funny when we went to Target to get school supplies.
He's at this age well I don't know if it's
the age, but he's in this phase where he just
thinks it's really funny and ironic to get like little
kid stuff. So he got something something called wish I
don't I'm not sure what it is, but he got
he ordered himself a team Umi Zuomi backpack, speaking bringing
it all the way back to our the kids' TV shows. Yeah, yeah,
he just thinks it's so hilarious. But like I said,
his school is very quirky, right, so he's like, nobody's
gonna blink and either're gonna think it's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's cool.
Speaker 2: But he got like one of those little kid water
bottles they're like little kids get with some cartoon some
character on it, and then a little spiral notebook that
has some other character on it. I'm just like, oh
my god.
Speaker 1: And Sadie doesn't not.
Speaker 2: Oh god, no, no, no, Sadie just she's more like
and that was more like, yeah, give me a blue
backpack a folder, like, come on.
Speaker 1: I have a good day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly cut yeah, no, oh god, sorry to make
you jealous.
Speaker 1: That damn I'm jealous. So next week when I do
this show, I'll be leaving in the morning to drop
off Antalia.
Speaker 2: I'm just getting into like I took I took Sadie
and Xander and Xander's girlfriend to Target to get them
all and his girlfriend go to different schools. But it
was really cute and they were just being super funny
and like dancing around, and Sadie and I are like,
come on, guys, we got to focus. We gotta get
snacks for lunches.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, but yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: It was like a full on trip for all the
what do we need? Gotta get it? One last shirt
and one and some snacks and some veggie straws.
Speaker 1: And ring yeah back to school. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah right, well, thank you, Kaylan, Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Blake.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh and let's let's let's plug your dad's podcast.
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Speaker 1: Wait for Kaylen to get to the micro.
Speaker 2: Kaylin on the mic.
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love it.
Speaker 2: Great. Also, little newsflash for you guys. The earthquake was
a four point seven, but the epicenter was two miles
southwest of South Pasadena.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, my kids, they're fine.
Speaker 2: It was a four point sign.
Speaker 1: I know. I just text them. They felt it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they felt it. Yeah, of course because it was
right by them. Wow, I know, it was only that
was pretty sharp though. It was pretty It was a
jolty earthquake. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, well all right everybody, Okay, you're a parent now,
don't have it up.
Speaker 3: Madding