Speaker 1: I made a decision.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks Sunny Summon.
Speaker 1: I had a vision.
Speaker 2: It's nice.
Speaker 1: Too, ch what's up?
Speaker 2: Everybody is for crying out loud, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It is, thank you for joining us. We love you.
Speaker 3: I came in here cold. I mean not physically, I don't.
I was like, I got a Patreon and that's it.
Speaker 2: Yes, well I am in here, like straight off of
the Vegas trip. We got home last night and I've
been gone since Friday, and I've had an ass full
of everybody. Yes, I suck it, I fucking I. I've
had it with people. I've had it with crowds. I've
had it with parents and coaches and teen girls.
Speaker 1: That's right now.
Speaker 3: Now, so the parents to under last.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, look, I guess you know, I don't
know if it's you know, you've been to these like conventions.
It's like being going to a convention. We're at you know,
you're up and at it every morning. You got shit
going on in the evenings, and you're just on the go.
In Vegas, you already you always have that adrenaline going,
you know, and it's like I don't know what they're
pumping into the hotel air, but it's like there's no time,
there's no time to lean, no time to clean.
Speaker 3: Take me through it. Okay, So you get there.
Speaker 2: So we leave on Friday and we're her first game
is at eight am. Now, when they say eight on
Saturday on Saturday, but they say eight am, they mean
seven am, ready to rock with everything on. So the
thing that I will say that I had going for
me is I.
Speaker 1: Take her for granted.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to say a lot of things that's
going to sound like a humble brag, but I'm really
just basically telling you like it is. But I will
say I take for granted that Natalia gets her ship
up and ready to go in the morning. You know,
like there's a lot of moms that are like, oh,
I gotta go wake up Ashley. She's like, you know, exhausted.
I gotta to get her up, push her to get up.
It's like, nope, Natalia calls she's she springs out of bed,
calls me to make sure I'm well because I get
two rooms, learn my lesson many couple tournaments ago. So yeah,
so she's up and at it. So it's on the go.
We have to leave, so we we have to get
their Friday night because games are first thing and Saturday morning,
so book the flight, flight gets to book, the flight
for like four, gets delayed to five, gets delayed to six.
Speaker 1: We don't get in until.
Speaker 2: About eight thirty nine on Friday night.
Speaker 3: Isn't it? How you freaking out? Like all my friends
are already here, they're all going to dinner.
Speaker 2: No, because everybody was pretty much driving or getting in
around the same time. And it was a holiday weekend,
so the traffic was bad getting everybody was getting there late.
Speaker 1: There was no going out everybody.
Speaker 3: Literally I thought of that when you live here, I
guess anywhere you have. I was like, these other parents
are driving, yes, Friday Russia, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: So anyway, so we get in and you know, Natalia's
just like, okay, we're here at the hotel. I'm gonna
go find my friends. They're eating at the food court.
Go check in, and I'm like okay. And so I
got to take her suitcase, which is fairly big.
Speaker 1: It's not a travel suitcase.
Speaker 2: Why she has to bring this big as suitcase plus
her two backpacks and my suitcase and my back I
don't know.
Speaker 3: Come to the room. All your stuff to the room.
Speaker 1: We pulled up.
Speaker 2: I mean we rolled up to the line. There's a
huge line, and I'm just rolling her shit through the line.
So we're in line. By the time I get to
the front, it's like it's getting late. And Natalia asked
me to make sure she has like she wants her
friend to spend the night, so she wants two beds whatever.
Speaker 1: So that takes forever. They find that.
Speaker 2: They get the two bedroom, and we're on the safe floor.
We're like a couple doors down from each other. She's
not on the same floor with her friends, but at
least her and I are on the same floor. And
and then you know, we everybody gets settled, everybody's there,
and then I don't know. I was like, all right,
I think, okay, she's in her room. I get everybody's
getting room service or whatever. They're getting food.
Speaker 1: They're on there. Everybody's on their own for food.
Speaker 2: I go hang out at the middle bar, go get
I'm not I'm gonna go get a beer and go
to bed. I sit in the middle bar and they're
playing the best music. Really, yes, one beer turned into
three beers. I was like, I was enjoying just sitting
there drinking.
Speaker 1: I was on the phone.
Speaker 3: Why not, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean they were playing.
Speaker 2: Like, uh two short you know, old school rap, like
old school I just like saw you know, criss Cross
will make a jump all that shit, and then everybody's
drunk dancing and it's fun to watch and uh huh.
And I was just like, okay, after, let's see what
song they play next. Oh, okay, I love this song.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean they were just you know,
and a little bit.
Speaker 3: I wish I was a ball.
Speaker 1: All the nineties looked good.
Speaker 3: I would call her. I wish I had a rabbit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that all of it.
Speaker 2: And it was it was like, okay, all right, you know,
I knew I had to get up at the crack
of dawn.
Speaker 3: No question. Yeah, is Natalia texting you during this?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, No, she's once, she's settled by, Yes, she's now.
Is she in her room or is she out wandering? No,
she's in a rows.
Speaker 2: She's in her room, and so her with her friend. Yeah,
they're in their room, and.
Speaker 1: So I okay.
Speaker 2: Here's the other issues with these tournaments. There's two Starbucks
in the hotel, and you know, fifteen sixteen year old
girls love their fucking Starbucks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And last time it.
Speaker 2: Was like, get up, stand in the long line there.
Speaker 1: The app doesn't work. You gotta get in the line.
Speaker 2: Line is like it's like a line for like getting
into a concert. Like it's just wrapped around, you know,
just keeps going and go. I mean, and you'll like
you think, oh, six thirty am. Now, no, no, no, no, no, no, everybody,
it's at the Mandalay Bay. Everybody flies in, stays at
Mandalay Bay. It's at the convention center of the Mandalay Bay.
So therefore Mandalay Bay packed all weekend.
Speaker 1: So I guess this sounds horrible.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you don't even know the half of it.
So I tell Nataliet, look enough with the Starbucks. First
of all, you don't really eat anything. You don't need Starbucks.
Let me get breakfast sent to the room. What time
do you want it? She gets her order from her
friend at six thirty.
Speaker 1: I call.
Speaker 2: I'm on hold with room service at ten o'clock at
night for like, you know, like a half an hour
at least.
Speaker 1: Is the hotel's packed, it's sold.
Speaker 2: Out, it's packed, families everywhere, and so I'm on hold.
Finally get the bitch on the line. I'm like, yeah, okay,
scrambled eggs. What time to be delivered? I go, it
has to be there at six thirty. She has to
be at the convention center at seven. I have to
be there at seventeen to meet the assistant coach to
get the wristbands to get into the thing.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 1: So okay?
Speaker 2: So six thirty she says, well, we don't have that
time slot available. We are packed at full capacity. We
could deliver seven thirty eight o'clock. I said that's too late. Great,
And then I get pissed, and I'm like, okay, what
about can I place the same order for Sunday morning
at six thirty? I don't even know what time they're
playing yet, but I can cancel, you know, at least
let me get it in for Sunday. So this is
all happening at night, Like this is like at ten
o'clock at night. So okay, So I put that in
for Sunday morning. Then I'm like, okay, now what am
I going to do for Tomorrow morning? So I go
on door dash. I start looking for like breakfast places
that are open that early. Find Denny's, get their order,
and then you can put in like on Postmates. You
can put in what time you want it delivered. I
said six thirty. Am, okay, now go to bed. So
now I'm done hipping it and hopping it up at
the bar, I'm like, all right, I gotta get to bed.
Speaker 1: I go to bed.
Speaker 2: I set my alarm. I don't know what five fifty,
just because I want to make sure.
Speaker 3: No, you just just to clarify, yeah, because I feel
like I'm on this train with you. You had your
good time at the bar, then you have to come
back to your room. So now it's ten o'clock. You're
trying to do all the things for the next day.
So no better than when you're like a school night
and you're having to think about what they're gonna eat
for lunch the.
Speaker 2: Night like that, It's like not not relaxing. No, you're
not on vacation. Oh no, hell no, no, I'm on right.
And by the way, it's not ten now, it's more
like eleven thirty.
Speaker 1: Got back to my.
Speaker 2: Room, right right, So okay, So I do the door
dash thing, I set my alarm, so I go to bed.
All night, I can't sleep because I'm thinking what if
that breakfast doesn't come on am my w which it's
probably not going to well, you can do it, and
it says okay.
Speaker 1: I didn't even like. I'm like, just it's gonna come.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't come, i'll just go get them like
something in the hotel.
Speaker 1: Figure it out. But okay.
Speaker 2: So like every hour, I'm like waking up, get no sleep. Finally,
around five point thirty, I naturally wake up and I
look at the phone and it says, you know, Shelley's
getting your order, working on your order.
Speaker 1: Now. I was like, oh, thank the Lord.
Speaker 2: Right, So anyway, long story short, Shelley gets there. I'm
following her on the map and I tell her. At first,
I tell her meet me at the front desk, and
I'm like, no, if I screw up, now, I'm going
to edit the instructions instead of front desk. Come meet
me by the elevators. I've seen door dash people meet
at the elevators. Oh, go to the elevator elevator banks.
And she was right on time with their orders and
got the orders and took it to Natalia's room, fed
them and didn't any order anything for myself because it
was too nervous. Then I went back to her room
ate their leftovers anyway, the first.
Speaker 1: Day, so everything was fine.
Speaker 2: So that that was the so far, so good, so far,
so good, so far, so everything a sigh of relief, yes,
and yeah, everything's okay. So and also keep in mind,
this is a new team. There's about five girls from
last year that I know the parents from because we
went to all the conventions together, and then there's a
bunch of new newer parents and new kids on this
you know, so and Italian seems to know pretty much
the other girls as well, from other I don't know where,
but anyway, this coach has a hard she's kind of
a hard ass, and she's she's a new coach this year,
and she's pretty tough, and her delivery is not necessarily
the greatest. She girls were in tears last weekend at
the other tournament in Orange County, and you know, they.
Speaker 1: Are a little afraid of her. And so I already.
Speaker 2: Was going into this going okay, I'm like bracing for
this coach. And so then okay, so the tournament starts,
Natalia's not playing, not playing. Then she puts her in
at the end and she plays.
Speaker 1: God yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So then throughout their playing their games, okay, and they're winning.
Speaker 1: They're doing really well.
Speaker 3: So how many games, Like I'm not familiar with tournaments,
so they start out, how many games are they playing,
like in a row?
Speaker 1: So they they they have okay, so they have they're there.
Speaker 2: They have one game, but one game is consistent, consists
of three possibly three matches they play to twenty five right, right,
If they win, they play another.
Speaker 3: So how many matches do so they play.
Speaker 1: Like they have a game.
Speaker 2: Then they have off off is like you know, thirty
minutes whatever.
Speaker 3: And do they have to referee?
Speaker 2: Yes, then they ref then they play, then they're off
and they ref then they play.
Speaker 1: It's like that.
Speaker 2: It's like all day, like all okay, off raft, ref play, play,
especially starting early in the morning.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's not.
Speaker 2: And by the way, it's at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center,
huge convention center. Over one hundred courts are playing. They're
on court ninety five, oh god, and the like.
Speaker 1: Luckily it's in the same hotel.
Speaker 2: However, the walk from the hotel from the elevators to
the convention center and once you get to the convention center,
you got to get inside and then find her court. Luckily,
she's on the same court pretty much the whole weekend.
And so then that court's another six minute walk from
the entrance. So it's about, you know, a good fifteen
minute walk from the hotel elevators to her court, right,
and it's crowded and it's pas you get closer to
the convention center, there's people everywhere. Everybody's running around, parents
and kids, and it's a big casino as my mother,
the big a Kasha. So everything's okay, and she plays
like you know, they play the first game, you know,
she plays a little bit at the end.
Speaker 3: I'm like, are you watching the game?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I was watching. We were all like
front row. Now here's a funny thing. There's this mom. Okay,
she the nicest, sweetest, she's so sweet. Okay, I didn't
know she had this in her Okay, because I met
her like a couple of weeks ago at other games,
talked to her before the game starts, and.
Speaker 1: She's super you know, she's she's she's nice.
Speaker 2: The dad is really nice, and they're so they're kind
of cute with their daughter. They call him by her number,
come on and let's go, and like if she's under stress,
he'll go like daddy loves you. It's really cute. Mom's
really nice. She screams throughout every game, none stop, coodn't deal,
doesn't take a break, couldn't deal.
Speaker 1: I had to you'll you'll find the audio and you'll
hear it. No joke.
Speaker 2: Last day, all of us, like the moms I was
been hanging out with, like, she's kind of near us,
and we we hear her scream. We all just look
at each other, like, how is she still going? It's
Monday afternoon. She's been doing this since since Saturday morning?
How does she still have a no joke?
Speaker 1: She screamed.
Speaker 2: As soon as the other team gets the ball, she
screams side out the teams the team's name is SG
O SGJ.
Speaker 1: Screaming side out.
Speaker 2: She's all the other moms are all look at each
other like, how is she still going?
Speaker 3: Remember my remember back when I thought years ago, Sab Sab?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought of you. What is wrong with I
don't I don't know?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So okay, so yeah, so I'll tell.
Speaker 2: You more about the chicks. The mom scream but it was, yeah,
it was pretty hilarious, but so the other parents and
so I don't know, did you happen to get a
recording of it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't not. I was recording Natalia and she's like,
two people down, you can hear it. Yeah, I'll find it.
Let me, I'll find it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: So I did, heard it and put it in my
favorite file. I love it. So the games are going
and something's going on with Natalia. And Natalia is not
a crier. She barely ever. She just she doesn't cry.
Speaker 1: Just tough. She's tough.
Speaker 2: She's crying. Now she's in tears. And the first team's over.
Speaker 3: And wait, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I hate it when
I interrupt. But first, the first game, she barely plays, right.
Then she plays at the end. She plays at the end.
So are you suspecting she's crying because she didn't play?
Speaker 1: No, something I her.
Speaker 2: I noticed she was playing a different position and her
confidence was deaf, only rattled. And here's the thing. Look,
I think it's a good thing. I think that she
needs this. I think it's good for these kids. It's
hard to watch, but I will say I think it
is a good thing. She she has to know how
to deal with these this kind of you know, conflict,
it's good to grow. Yes, she's not gonna have the
best coach, she's not gonna have the best Botch' not
gonna have the best teammates. Whatever it is she's gonna
have to you know, it's a learning it's good for
her to grow, and it's a good learning EXPERI grit, right,
got resilience, right, I hear it. But it is pretty
hard tough to watch, and especially when she already has
grit too, by the way, like she's you know, she's
pretty disciplined when it comes to volleyball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And also it's also hard to watch when you
just freaking.
Speaker 1: Flew to Las Vegas, put.
Speaker 3: Down a shit ton of money on multiple rooms, being
figured out breakfast got her ass over there, Like do
you right? Does it also need to be a shitty time?
Speaker 1: Right? My blood was boiling?
Speaker 3: Could be fun, it's fun.
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking in my head, I'm not gonna sit
here all weekend and watch this. I'm gonna say something,
and then that's gonna be bad because then she's not
gonna she might.
Speaker 1: Take the coach might take it out on her.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but these are the things that were
going through my head, Like I don't pay all this
money to sit here and watch my kid cry and
barely play.
Speaker 1: Fuck that.
Speaker 2: So okay, So she plays at the end, but I
notice she's it's hard to tell because she's just always
in the front, but she's middle hitter. She's been middle
hitter forever, all her years of playing. Now she's playing
I guess oppo right side, which apparently is usually for
a person with left left hand and a right hand,
or could play it anyway.
Speaker 1: It's different.
Speaker 2: It's a whole different angle, it's a whole different strategy,
it's a whole different play, and she's just not used
to it.
Speaker 1: And why is she practice exactly?
Speaker 2: Okay, So she's in tears and I could tell she's
her confidence is now rattled. And I'm talking to another mom,
same thing happened to her daughter, and not the same thing,
but she her confidence was rattled. She was in tears
at the tournament last weekend in the OC and we
were talking about it and she was like, it is hard, yes,
you know, she didn't know. She was having a hard
time with that coach too, and blah blah blah blah blah.
So you know we're talking about it now. Then there
so I can't talk to Natalia, you know, and because
they're in the middle of games, and then the last
thing she wants is her mommy to come over and go.
Speaker 1: What's the man you?
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, So then they go on break finally
I can go talk to her, and she's just like,
my coach just keeps putting me in this position. I'm
not used to it, and blah blah blah blah blah,
and then she yells at me. Even when I did score,
she yelled at me because I hit it the wrong
direction and I can't win.
Speaker 1: So it's like if I did hit it the right.
Speaker 2: Way, she you know, she she complains if I hit
it the wrong way, she'll still complain.
Speaker 1: If I don't, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: Like it's, you know, blah blah blah blah blah and okay.
So now throughout Saturday's games, she was constant, like you
could tell, like her confidence was rattled, and and she
was the only person after she comes off, so they
rotate in, rotate out. Every time she came off the court,
she had to sit and talk to the coach's daughter,
who's an adult who obviously plays and she's giving her
tips or so she's something's going on with Natalia. Like
so none of the other teammates do that. They're all
they just go off court. They stand, they're not allowed
to sit, they're standing. Natalia goes right to the daughter,
sits down. They start talking. I see Natalia like just
ball her like she's talking. And then the daughter, who
I found out was really sweet and nice, was like,
you know, like patting her leg like you know, comforting
her and like like Natalia was just like had her
head down and she was like bawling. And then you
hear from the other parents who like seeing her play
last year and stuff like it's hard for them to watch,
Like your daughter is such the team spirit, she's such
a spark plug, and she you know, she was always
so upbeatn positive, and you know, and you know, you
can see like her confidence is getting rattled, and you know,
is she okay?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, she's okay, she's okay and everything
will be.
Speaker 2: Fine and blah blah blah, and then I, you know,
I go to I go afterwards so that they play.
She's playing a little bit, not as much as she
used to play, or what was used to playing. And
I'm getting upset because I want to see her fucking
play like you know, it was irritating to see them
rotate out. And then her coke counterpart comes in. It's like,
when is she gonna put an Italia in?
Speaker 3: You know? Did she ever get to play the position
she's used to playing?
Speaker 2: No, nope, she got she switched at the tournament. She
practiced this a little bit last week, but she put
her in this position for the tournament.
Speaker 1: She didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't think she knew that. I don't think she
really knew that was what was going on, or she
didn't tell me. I don't know. I don't think she knew.
So I don't think that the coach has very good
communication skills. But anyway, so they're doing well and they're winning,
and the more they win, the more they play and
blah blah blah. And then there's like, you know, like
a you know, break, you can go on break. Everybody's
got lunch. Luckily, there's the team mom who I could
never be. This woman, and God bless her. She's the
one that's like, okay, I got pan express. You know,
she collects the money before the tournament from her parents.
She's got the pand Express coming. I'm like, oh, can
you do breakfast and dinner for us to She made
reservations for Buca de Peppo for the whole team and
the families for after for Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Okay, Sunday Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Yes, for the whole team, you know, because then Monday
is more games. But it's going to be like play
to Shock Club.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, never mind, it was a holiday weekend. Nothing. Yeah,
it was a holiday week I was gonna say I
would be surprised that they would schedule games when they
have school, but they weren't.
Speaker 2: No, And the next tournament is in a month in April,
beginning in April in Vegas.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, during spring break. Oh my god. Okay,
go on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the team mom's great, so she like plans
this dinner at Buka to Peppo.
Speaker 1: So Saturday was rough, and.
Speaker 2: Uh, and I talked to Italian a little bit, and
I see, like, I see her crying. She goes off
court her one best friend, Emma's so cute, and she
goes over to talk to Italian. She like puts her
hand on Italian's back and Italian goes like moves away
from her and like like no, no, no, don't come
like I'm okay, I'm okay. And I had to tease
her about that in front of Emma. Later, I'm like,
I thought, I go, Emma, don't feel bad because she
pushes me away when she's crying.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I know.
Speaker 2: And then they were laughing and I was like, Natalia,
don't be such a hard as your friend's trying to
hug you.
Speaker 1: Let her hug you.
Speaker 2: And she's like they were laughing, and so we took
So I was in charge of making reservations. I don't
know how that happened, but I got put on my
lap to make reservations on Saturday night and I'm.
Speaker 1: Trying to find like a place.
Speaker 2: It's Saturday night, it's in Vegas, and there's I guess
ten of us, you know, there's the five girls and
the couple of the parents are going. And so I
got to find table for ten on a Saturday at
like seven, seven thirty because these kids are going to
be tired. They want to go home, you know, go
to bed early, blah blah blah. At this place is
too expensive, this place is too far, this place will
take us, but not till nine.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Finally I find this the same steakhouse that I found
last year. It was a little pricey and everybody agreed
on it, so we made the reservation.
Speaker 1: So we we went out.
Speaker 2: We took the like, you know, a couple of the girls,
and then a couple people dropped out, So it just
turned out to be an Italian like her other three
friends and their moms and went to dinner. And mom
doesn't drink, no, John, dare you? I love her though,
I adore her, but she does cocaine right, Yes, we
were doing rails after we put the kids to bed.
Speaker 3: She's like alcohol, just never like the taste to do.
Speaker 1: Wants a booger sugar.
Speaker 3: All right, So nobody's like partying rights.
Speaker 1: She well, no hold on.
Speaker 2: So the one mom doesn't doesn't drink. And I knew
that because I've known her now a couple of tournaments.
Speaker 3: Yes, is she sober or does she just not like
the taste of it? Because I don't like those kind
of people. She doesn't like to taste it? Yeah, I
don't like that.
Speaker 1: She was well, to be fair, she was married before too,
an alcoholic. Oh okay, so yeah, she is, I don't know,
just likes to okay, and she's not.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's great and I love her, but she's
not like if I went to dinner with you, it
would be like a barrel of laughs kind of thing.
You know.
Speaker 1: She's just polite and sweet night. There's one of those
nice like last year a drink.
Speaker 2: Yes, last year we had like three or four moms
that had like a purposely got a big sweet so
that everybody could come drink, set up bar in their room,
like you know, where are those moms?
Speaker 1: This year did not? We don't have them anymore. But
then the other.
Speaker 2: Mom who came was nice, and I've known her and
Italia is really close to her. I have done a
lot of solids for her, picked her daughter up many times,
including last weekend OC, drove her to the tournaments, and
so she kind of owes me. I don't know what,
but I'm thinking the whole time, this bitch owes me something,
you know, and then like totally forgot that I took.
I was telling like you know, I was telling them
at the dinner table. Yeah, when we came home from
the OC, I got an earful from your daughter and
she was like, oh, that's right, thank you so much,
by the way for taking her last week. I'm like,
m I missed the Super Bowl of her. I mean
not really, but I had to take her and it's
not close and it's away. Yeah, okay, but you're welcome.
Thanks for remembering. Anyway, So we went to dinner. It
was nice, the kids had a nice time and blah
blah blah. But yeah, and the other moms like, then
there's another mom who's like, I have some medicinal if
you want to come back. I'm like, well, it's not
I can't do that when I'm in Vegas. I just
the only time I can do weed is like I
just got to be at home and not talking to people.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, it's not to make this about me. Yeah,
but the drinking part, Like if I was somebody who
could have a couple of drinks and just like get
my party on a little bit and then be done
by ten and go back to my room or whatever,
I would obviously not have be sober for twelve years.
Because I did. I it never worked out. For like,
my personality is not fun when I'm drinking, only because
then you have to worry about me because I don't know,
like I don't, I can't. I don't have three drinks.
Speaker 1: And like I can do that in Tulac, like I used.
Speaker 3: To get drunk, yeah, and then and then I don't.
Then I say shit or I just or I just
like don't feel well, and then I have to go
back to my room and then I can't wake up
in the morning, and it's just like it's no. I
never could find that sweet spot of just having a
few drinks and relaxing right right.
Speaker 1: I sawt that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for so many years, I was like, if I
could just have three drinks and like, I know, not
feel kind of drunk and go.
Speaker 2: Let's have more, let's do shots, right right.
Speaker 3: But that'll be me, Like I'll have a few glasses
of wine and then you'll be like, anybody want to
do a shot a yeagermeister, And I'll be.
Speaker 2: Like me, you know, yes, I get oh yeah, I
used to be.
Speaker 3: And the other people that drink will be like, no,
I don't want to shot a yaegermeister. What are we seventeen?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: And then I'd be like.
Speaker 1: I am, but come on, yeah, let me ask you.
Speaker 3: This is this?
Speaker 1: Am I? What am I? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we're waiting for the table, right, yeah, we
get there on time, we have reservations, and there's still
like a few like twenty minute wait.
Speaker 1: So we're waiting.
Speaker 2: We're all standing around and I'm like, okay, I'm with
like one mom doesn't drink. One mom's a stone or
the other mom. I don't know, just she want to drink.
What I'm like, could we like go to you guys
want to go get to the I'm dying, like we've
been on the go all day, right you want all
I want to do is get a glass of wine
or just rely like, could we we want a soda?
Speaker 1: Let's can we go to the bar bars right there?
Could we just go? Like sit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm okay, Like you know, one mom like you
want like a seltz or something like oh no, I'm okay.
And then one mom's like yeah, okay, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: So we go, and then of course as soon as
we get to the bar, they call us right the
table's ready, And I'm thinking to myself, Okay, this is
where I'm thinking to myself, all right, I'm dying for drink.
Do I just go sit at the table and then
wait for the drink. When the bartenders sitting right at
staring right at me and right to take my.
Speaker 3: Order, no, get your gloves and then bring it to the.
Speaker 2: Table, I'm like, right. So I'm like, I'm just gonna
get my drink and then I'll meet you. And by
the way, my wine is now stepped up to a margarita,
and I'm like, fuck this wine. Shit, I mean, I
don't get a headache and tired. I want to margarita.
Speaker 3: So I go, I'm just gonna you guys that I
miss the most by the way of drinking, even though
I mostly drink wine at the end. But Mark, if
I miss one thing, it's a freaking good margarita. The feeling.
I love a tequila buzz.
Speaker 2: Yeah me too anyway. So anyway, so I'm like, i'll
get am.
Speaker 3: My, Okay, let's get some margarita, kaylin, I'll start over tomorrow,
day one, tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's it's all good. Yeah, well, well i'll be I'll
support you through it.
Speaker 2: So I say, go to the table, ladies, I'm just
gonna get and then they gotta do that wake make
me feel like a jackass where they go well, no,
the table's ready.
Speaker 3: Fuck off, I know that.
Speaker 2: Fuck you.
Speaker 1: I'm in Vegas.
Speaker 3: I know the tables ready.
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2: I want the guys ready to take my order right
now to when to sit and wait?
Speaker 3: Fuck off?
Speaker 1: I'm tired. I want my marta rita.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're in Vegae do why do you gotta
no shit? The table's ready, it's under my name.
Speaker 1: I know that. Why do you got to make that
second round? Well, the table's ready. We could you just
write thank.
Speaker 3: You rules you're in the bar in a restaurant and
drink off, okay, so go fucking sit down.
Speaker 1: God Jesus. So then I'm like, margarita, make it a double.
I get margarita, and.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, I'm gonna down this and then
I'm out of wine for dinner. But I didn't get
that far because I was too tired. As soon as
I started drinking that margarita, I was like starting to go,
oh God, I'm ready for bed.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We got to order dinner and talk. And and you know.
Speaker 2: There's the one mom who's likes quietly and she's very polite,
their little silver earrings, and I don't know, it's just.
Speaker 1: Like, speak up. We're Vegas.
Speaker 2: I can't hear you, like talk louder, you know, And
she's like quiet. They're all they're all being too polite,
right right, you know, except the one mom that does
talk quiet. She's like, you know, she pulls me aside
later in the trip and like, I just want to
get real. Let's have real conversations. I don't want to
talk about blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I know, where were you? Why didn't
you pipe up the other night?
Speaker 2: By the way, I have to look like the jackasses
making jokes and like tell the coach to fucking you know,
pound bricks, you know what, you know what I mean?
Like anyway, so we it was nice and we had
nice dinner with the one that didn't drink the other
one's stoned, and the one drinking half of a glass
of wine. And I'm sucking down the double margarita and
girls are having fun. And then the girls, of course,
soon as we sit down, they put their order and
then they get up. We'll be back, like I have
fun taking pictures, they go take pictures, back, sit down.
They're all dressed like sharmutas their skirts they're wearing volleyball
shoes and they're wearing like baby doll dresses that are
like up you know, to their couch, and it's like
you know, and then they're walking in front of us,
and us moms are like, I just wish they knew
what they had, Like you guys have no idea what
you got? It like have fun, Like look at those butts,
you know. Anyway, So nice dinner, but I'm fate now.
I'm like Saturday night, I'm relaxed. Had that tequila hit me,
and I'm just and do you have to be back
up with the crocodanica? Yes, okay, but I got their
breakfast coming.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You're welcome moms. By the way, I got two of
their breakfast. There's other two girls spending the night with
Natalia got their breakfast order.
Speaker 1: They're covered.
Speaker 2: They don't have to get up and worry about their
daughter's breakfasts in the morning. Right, you're welcome. And by
the way, I did it two nights in a row.
I got the door dash. Nobody ever offered money or
anything interesting. I don't care, but it's like it's all
noted though, you know, it's like, come on, what the yeah,
this is not a free ride, like can I offer
you money for forgetting like instead it's like thank you,
you know. And the one mom who I've been driving
her kid like I'm still waiting for a payback, you know,
and got her breakfast two days in a row. Hello, yeah, okay,
So now it's set. Now we're into Sunday. Now, okay,
Sunday was a rough day, but competitively okay, So Sunday
is a competitive day. And it's like they're doing really well.
They're in the gold and they're they're kicking ass. And
Natalia was playing and she was getting some playtime. So okay,
so Sunday comes. So there's this. They played on Sunday.
They were at the court at eight am until they
didn't finish until nine thirty.
Speaker 1: Of course, they had their breaks and their.
Speaker 2: Lunch in between, but they were on the go on
call because some games were running late, so they couldn't
play on time. They had to wait till they couldn't
go back and hang out. They had to stick around
the courts. It was a lot of that, and I
luckily Natalia will go I'll just you know, before she
puts her phone away in her bag, she'll go, we're
playing and then I then I know when to come,
so I'll have to sit around with my thumb up
my ass and let me tell you something, it's a
little it's pretty lonely when you go to these things
for me because I see, like all these kids, they
have both parents there pretty much except from like Natalia's
one friend, although her friend who I was with, they rotate.
So next month I'll be hanging out with her dad.
You know, they they rotate. And then the other mom
is remarried and she's got, you know, her new husband
who doesn't have kids. He's a stepdad, but he comes
and he's there a few days and then leaves, like
so they all it's it's nice because that way, it's
like you're not she's out of water, who's got to
go get it? Me? I gotta go, you know, I'm
running to go get her water. She forgot her her
tagging her bed upstairs.
Speaker 1: I gotta go get it.
Speaker 2: You know. It's like it's nice when people have that
somebody with you, you know. Luckily, I got earbuds and I'm
listening to music. I'm listening to ice cubes. I'm like
seven thirty in the morning walking down to the convention
center getting pumped up, you know, and but it's it is.
It's like and then there's the downtime where I'm like, Okay,
I gotta start ordering furniture for my condom, starting to
do that, but then I end up talking on the
phone and Sonny wants me to go place bets and.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But like it it is, it's kind of it's pretty lonely.
You know. I'm not saying WHOA was me. I'm just
saying it's that's what it's like. It's like you're there
for like three days and just wandering around.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I gotta imagine though, that other I can't imagine all
these people, both both people and the couple being there
like you're there. If Albi was doing that, only one
of us would go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of.
Speaker 3: Us would have to be home with the other two kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, the kids come. It's a whole family vacation.
Speaker 3: Oh no, oh yeah no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's because probably this weekend was a three day weekend,
or you know, it was a President's weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing.
Speaker 3: So no, I feel like that kind of stuff to
me is like divide and conquer.
Speaker 2: I agree, but there's a lot, a lot of the kids.
The whole family was there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean also just for me, that's an expensive trip.
Then taking all five, you know, our of us there,
getting somebody to watch the dog, you know, having every
getting multiple hotel rooms, all the meals, and I would
just think that would be a pain in the ass.
I would just have one person go man Noyea.
Speaker 2: A lot of the parents, they the whole family's there,
both parents.
Speaker 3: And does Adam ever want to do one of these?
Speaker 2: He would if he wasn't. He was out of town
this weekend. I don't know what the exact dates are
for the next one, but I will let him know
and we'll see. But then there's Natalia who wants me.
But of course Adam's not going to get our door
dash in the morning. He's going to tell her get
up and go get your Starbucks or maybe he will.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I don't know. It's never done it, so we'll see.
But if you're Natalia, you want your mama there. But yeah,
So the bottom line was Sunday was a stressful date.
Natalia played a lot, and then towards the end they
were getting crushed by this team from Bakersfield. And it
was a stressful game. Everybody was crowded around because the
club that they're in, all the other teams, the older one,
the older girls, the younger girls were done. It was
at Sunday night, at like nine o'clock. They were all gathered.
It was an exciting game as neck and neck. And
as soon as the game was done and the Natalia
kicked ass. She played, she played the new position and
she was doing good and then at the very end,
she just broke down and she ran off to the
bathroom was crying. And I didn't see that. And one
of the parents was like, Natalia, just is she okay?
She just ran off to the bathroom. So I go
to the bathroom. I'm like, what is going you know,
what's going on? And she said, you know, I'm not
used to this position. And then one of one of
her teammates yelled at her. This girl is a sweet girl.
She's known the Italian her have been on the same
team for a few years now and they do butt
heads sometimes because she's really intense and Italian's intense and
this girl's and she yelled at her and she's like,
you know Tara's not setting me up. And Tara's you know,
was like, I'm not going to set it to you
because you're not hitting it the.
Speaker 1: Right blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: She's coming down on me and I'm not used to
the position and lah lah, and she's crying, and I'm like,
we're in the corner and she's telling me everything. And
then I see the corner of my eye her coach
was in the bathroom and can hear her. And her
coach comes over and now this is the first time
I can hear her what her coach sound talks like
what she's saying, I mean not you know what, I
want to hear what this coach has to say in Natalia.
So she's upset and she's like she comes over, she
puts her hand on her back and she's like, what's
going on? Huh, tell me what's going on? And she
tells her and she's like, you know, Tara's yelling at
me about this blah blah blah blah blah. And she's
listening to Italian and she's like, look, I know I
have thrown you into a position that you're not comfortable with,
and you're not you know, it's not familiar, she said,
but I oh. And Natalia told me she had the
opportunity to go to another team. She's on sixteen thunder.
There's a seventeen thunder needed position in the beginning of
the season, they asked her, but her Natalia's coach talked
her out of it. And so Natalia when she was
crying to me the day before, I could have went to.
Speaker 1: The other team and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So, so the coach comes over and she says, listen,
I know it's a stressful thing. I know I threw
you into this, but I did it on purpose because
I wouldn't have wanted you to. I see that you
have talent, and I see that you can do that
you can take on this position. I see that you
have potential and you know, dominating in that position, and
we need you in that position. And if I didn't
see this and I didn't think you could do, I
would have let you go to the other team in
the beginning of the season. And she said, Natalia, I'm
really proud of you. I know you have the potential,
and I know it's stressed. And she's like listen, this tournament,
this weekend is for fun. It's just fun. It doesn't
mean anything. Just try to enjoy it. I know it's
easier said, but just try to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: It's just for fun. And you know Tara, you know
she You.
Speaker 2: Guys go back a long way. You understand her. She's
just coming from a stress. It was a stressful game.
You guys did great. I'm proud of you. I'm proud
of you as a player, and I know that you can.
You can do it, so I wouldn't be pushing you
like this weekend and I'm doing this on I have
a vision for you.
Speaker 3: So she thinks that this position is better suited for
her than middle hitter.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the team for her team at this point
in time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, but if she'd gone to the other team, she
could have stayed as the center.
Speaker 1: Oh no, probably.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but she said that I need you in this
position for this team, and I know that you can.
You've gotten She said, how long have you been playing
middle hitter?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Natalie's like since I was in whatever, I don't even
know how long. She's been playing since like seventh grade
or something, and she's like, it's time.
Speaker 1: For you to grow and to learn another position.
Speaker 2: And she's like, I'm going to be doing it with
the other girls too, and other position. I don't want
you getting comfortable in the same position when I especially
when this team needs you as oppo whatever her position
that she's putting her in. And I was like, she
just did. I was like, Okay, now I understand where
this coach is coming from. Her delivery sucks, right, but
I see that she does. You know, she's doing this
for a reason. She's not just fucking with Natalia or whatever.
And that's why she's having her sit out and talk
to her dodge and my daughter played that position. That's
why I want you talking to her, you know. And
like she joked around. She's like, would you think I
would let you sit down if I didn't think, you know,
because the girls aren't. She's like, because as soon as
she came off, she she was able to sit and talk.
She's like, you're lucky I let you sit I don't
so like she's joking with her. And she made her
feel better. She made me feel better, and then and
then it.
Speaker 1: Was then the rest.
Speaker 2: Well, I wish she would have had this conversation at
the beginning of the weekend instead of Sunday night, right
after watching her cry all these crimes is right, And
maybe she did. I don't know the conversation. I saw
her talk to Natalia multiple times, and I saw Natalia like,
you know, nodding her head and wiping her tears and
she you know, had her hand on her shoulder and
you know, but you know, Natalia doesn't fill me in
that much. And I was like thinking, Okay, I'll get
all the info on the way home, and we're traveling home. However,
come Monday, they had to play again and they kept winning,
and so I had to fly home and Italia had
to get a ride home from the payback sister. Finally,
I'm like, can you drive Natalia home? And she's like really,
and I was like yeah, and she's like, well, you know,
she's not going to get home. We're not probably not
getting home until ten. I go, well, I don't know
what to do. They're still they're still playing, and so
she was like, oh, yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure, and
then she said I have my small car. So I'm like,
I'll take her suitcase with me, big ass suitcase. I'm
like that, that's fine, I'll take that with me. And
so Natalia got home at like ten o'clock last night.
I got home at seven, and they played and then
they lost and that was it.
Speaker 1: And it was a jam fucking packed weekend.
Speaker 3: So so wait, they didn't play Monday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they played yesterday, so they played all day.
Speaker 3: Okay, So and then did she do better that day
after having had that talk with.
Speaker 1: The car, Yes, she played awesome.
Speaker 2: She played all the whole time, and she that same position,
in that position, and she did great, and she's happy
and she was cheering. She was a different she got
like she I felt like she got her confidence back,
especially after that talk. But I wish she would have
fucking had a talk, right, what the fuck? And by
the way, she wouldn't have had that talk. She hadn't
seen Italia crying in the bathroom, you know what I mean? Right,
And maybe she did, I don't know. But then I
after she left, I'm like, you've seen Italian. I think
that she's coming from a good play like so I'm
like making sure she understood everything. She you know, she
really took it in finally and she was like yeah,
and then she felt better, and fuck Buka de Peppo.
Speaker 1: We did not go because we didn't get done playing
till late. And that was that.
Speaker 3: So how did you get food that night?
Speaker 1: Went to the food.
Speaker 2: Court right outside the thing, got a slice of pizza,
went to bed, bye bye bye.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I feel like I've been on a
journey and here I am now. Yeah, this was fun
and yeah, yeah, and you're back.
Speaker 1: Come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've had an ass full of people, yes, and wait,
and I have a Patreon where I've had an ass
full of good a mom, I can't wait. Oh boy, okay,
maybe we'll.
Speaker 2: Play this episode out with the audio.
Speaker 3: Oh that would be fun.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you Caylin.
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