Speaker 1: I made a decision pace sunny Sun yet on I
had a vision. It's night, Hey everybody, what's up? Everybody?
Welcome to for crying out loud.
Speaker 2: It's Stephanie and Lynette, your girls, and uh we're recording
from home today on.
Speaker 1: Zoom. We are doing that. The reason why, though, is
not laziness. Well it is also laziness arbit for me
to call myself a non lazy person, but it's because
we couldn't. I couldn't make the sound work properly. I
was so scared that I was going to get the
same audio glitch as I got last week, which trust me,
many of you told me about. I heard all of
your feedback. I know that. So what had happened? What happened?
What happened? We recorded in the studio last week. My
microphone sounded fucked up is the technical term. I went
to go try to use it and I couldn't. I
tried to fix it through a program that fixes audio,
and it was making it dip in and out a
little bit. But that was preferable to the original sound. Anyway.
I couldn't be sure that I wasn't going to get
that same problem, so we just came home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Stephanie, you worked your ass off in there.
I tried, you really did. You tried everything. You got
John on the phone. We tried to get Kaylan on
the phone. He was a sleep, he was he was
a sleep. Oh my gosh, of course he was.
Speaker 1: So then I called you. So I said, can I
can I call you? I said, you up? Can I
call you? And he said yeah? And then I said, hey, anyway,
I don't want to bother our audience with this. But
Kaylin said that there was nothing different about the audio,
and that he had used that same microphone the following
day and it sounded just fine.
Speaker 2: So oh jeez, all right, Well, well we're nice and comfy.
Speaker 1: We sure are, and we are comfy, and we are
still looking at each other. It's not like we can't
see each other. Yeah, you guys can see us though.
You don't need to see us. You just hear us
in your earbuds. Funny Bob's in the background crying and
he's not a cry baby. Oh he's crying just for
anybody that's curious. He just went in his crate. Oh
does he like us? Great? Now he doesn't normally like it?
Speaker 2: And how has it been like, have you guys left
the house and has he been okay being home alone?
Speaker 1: So no, we have not left the house without him.
We can leave the house without him if one person's home,
So if like Sadie or Xander or somebody's around, I
can leave for hours at a time. John can leave.
He doesn't need constant attention, he really doesn't. We don't
have to be like next to him all the time.
It's not like it was when we first got him,
and now we've had him for like seven weeks. But
I have gotten so many messages and emails of people
that are giving me training advice, and it's not a
lot of it. We have a listener. Her name is Melody.
She's really nice. Oh my god, it's funny. This is
why we don't normally zoom because he's looking at me
and crying. Anyway, we have this listener named Melody who's
really great and she works with at shelters. She's an animal,
she's a dog trainer, and she sent me a lot
of advice. And sorry, it's.
Speaker 2: Of course, Stephanie. She's like waving around her arm.
Speaker 1: Because because he's not usually like this, but for some
reason he's crying anyway. Melody was like, listen, here's what
you got to do. Everybody's telling me I have to
create train him. It's really hard to create train a dog. Yeah, like, yeah,
I can't just stick him in the crate all of
a sudden and shut the door and be like have
a good day. Everyone's like, okay, you got to leave
him in the crate for like a minute, you know,
and then you can walk out. But it's easier said
than done. It's a lie process. Also have to try
leaving him at home for short. There's a Listen, Lynette,
I'm not a dog trainer. Okay, that's not what you
would think. You have to be a fully trained dog
trainer to train your dog. Forget about like, hey, watch
a YouTube video, work on it five minutes a day.
That's not really how it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well you're really like getting me excited to
get another dog.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Listen. A lot of people might think
it's soon that I didn't that long, but I got
to tell you it filled up. You're gonna see it
really is great and I love him so much and
he's yeah, he's really a good boy. And guess what
my foot is better enough that I've been taking walks.
I've been doing the walks again. He's really good on
the little walks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 2: I my old boss at ABC texted me about Phil, like,
and he's he lives in my neighborhood and he works
he works at NBC, and he has two labberdoodles. And
he was like, anytime you want them to hang out
with you, I'll drop them off in the morning.
Speaker 1: Pick them up at you know. And and I was.
Speaker 2: Thinking about that, but like, then, you know what if
I get attached to them, you know, it's not the same.
And here's the other thing that I'm just driving me crazy.
Ever since Phil passed away, I'm getting all these al
our boyfriend algorithm is kind of screwing me up because
I'm getting all these ads for like when your dog
goes to the Rainbow Bridge and here's a beautiful statue
of your dog, or here's a stuffed animal of your dog,
or here's a beautiful painting of your I'm like, I
want to it's like breaking my heart, like stop. I
don't know how to get those ads to stop, but
it's bothering me anyway. And now I'm looking for houses,
and I'm going out this week to look at some houses,
and I'm thinking, you know, I should probably wait till
I move into a new house, especially if I get
a puppy. So, you know, I don't know, and I
don't know if I can wait that long, but hopefully
it's sooner than I think that I get. Well, so okay, what, yeah,
what's your what's your time timetable? Well, as soon as
I can find something that I like. There's not a
lot of you know, it's kind of slim pickings right now,
but there's a couple places we're going to go look
at this week, which I'm excited about. And I'm also
getting the condo ready to be put up for sale,
but I have to have the tenant move out first,
so we'll probably touch a little bit on that on Patreon.
But uh yeah, so I mean, you don't you never know.
I don't know what the timeframe is. I mean, and
then you got to go on to escrow, and that
could be sixty days, thirty days, ninety I don't know,
so it's probably gonna be a little while, but you know,
and I've talked to the kids about the setup in
the house, and yeah, I mean, you know, like I'd
like for them to each have their own bathroom. But
if I have to get a house where they have
to share a bathroom, that you know, that's going to
kind of be tough, especially with those two.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then maybe I buy a fixer upper and put
in a bathroom or put in a pool or whatever.
But you know, but there's like some places that are
out there that I'm looking at, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: I'll keep you guys updated. That's so much. That's such
a big project.
Speaker 2: It kind of is, but it's kind of exciting. Like
I'm excited about it, you know, and I get like
my friends are sending me places on Zillo and I'm
looking on Zillo as well.
Speaker 1: You know, you get excited about it.
Speaker 2: But the area that I'm looking at is kind of
not that big, so it's like a specific area. So like,
I like my realtor is like, but he sends me
new listings like twice a week, which is nice, so
you know, we're getting started with that.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's similar to when you say you're
open to getting another dog and then people just start
sending you Oh, my god.
Speaker 2: People have been sending me, you know, like here's a
labradoodle rescue. I don't know if I want a labordoodle, though,
like I've always wanted a Golden Retriever, so I've been
looking at like Golden Retriever rescues. I always wanted one
of those. I've always I had two labs back to back.
And I like that genre of dogs. I like the
Labradors or the Retrievers. So I don't know all but
I don't want to start really looking into the dogs
because I don't want to get excited, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. You've
got sort of one thing after another, and I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I'm just, you know, one thing at
a time. But I had we had Easter yesterday, which
was nice, and I had this story about Natalia uh
in Mexico.
Speaker 1: But East, what did you do for it? Did you
guys do anything? No? Absolutely nothing. And I woke up
in the morning and I realized it was Easter, and
I was like, oh, it's Easter. And I swear to you,
I was remembering mostly our stories from like when your
kids were younger, and the melting bunny and the like
the melting with the eye kind of melting down.
Speaker 2: And it's like, listen, East Easter buddy had hard time
this year. We were doing construction on the house and
everything was just a mess. Like literally the couch was
outside where new floors were. It was just a mess.
And I like went to like home depot and then
I got their Easter baskets and then left them in
the car by accident, and the Easter bunnies melted and
their eyes were down by his belly and the kids
were like twelve, and they're like, what the hell? It
was like listen, But I did send Sonny's in Oregon,
so I sent him a little package of from a
local bakery there, like a bunch of little cheesecakes because
he loves that.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 2: And then Natalia got back from Mexico a couple of
nights ago, and I got her like little Susie cakes
kind of thing. So that's cute, like little yeah, yeah.
And then I took her and her boyfriend out to
brunch yesterday, which was nice that to like really meet
her boyfriend.
Speaker 1: And I like him a lot. He's a good kid.
He is, but yeah he is. Yeah, did say it? Next?
Speaker 2: Year, he's going to be saying anything about what happened
with their breakup. Uh huh no, Now I'm gondn't tell
you would have fucking kicked me end of the day. Yeah, yeah,
she would have thrown a fork at me. But now
they Uh well, I'll tell you what the Mexico ordeal
after our break because it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: But what was Oh I was just going to say though, too,
that my kids like east the Easter Bunny ship sailed
so long ago for me and I for me, I
feel like I try, you know, I always go all
out on the holidays. Well what I say all out,
I mean all out for me. It's like we get
a tree and then we celebrate, but it's not like
moving the elf around like in the old days. But
I feel like some of that, a lot of that
stuff went away around the Tooth Fairy. What happened is
LB figured out the Easter Bunny first, which is kind
of funny that she did not put two and two
together about the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. That lasted
for a long time. But apparently when she was young,
we were at a friend's house and we were you know,
we would always get the kids in one room. We
would always do Easter up. I'd either do it with
the caseum's or I had this other LB's little bff
from preschool. Her mom had us over a couple of
years and whole spread, you know, bagels and the whole thing.
And Elbe apparently saw out the window and saw some
of the adults hiding the eggs, and so she didn't
say anything that day. She didn't go like, aha, I've
caught you. But later she was like, so I know
there's no Easter Bunny. And I was like, how do
you know? And she goes, I saw, I saw the
grown ups hiding stuff, so there's no Easter Bunny. And
I was like, oh, you're right. And I didn't want to,
like right away make that sort of a punishment. I
didn't want her to equate figuring something out to like, well,
now there's no Easter anymore. But it did kind of
take away. I didn't knock the wind out of my sails.
And I don't think I like did it up anymore
after that? Right? I see?
Speaker 2: For me, I keep it up. I'm like, well the
Easter bunnies. Did the Easter bunny count yet? Like sunny.
Did the Easter Bunny send you a package? Did you
get anything yet?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I kind of came and they're like, you know, since
they were young, but now they kind of expect a
little something, right, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of cute. Whatever. Do you get
your kids anything for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2: Now? I used to when they were little. I used
to get them a little thing, But no, same, not
in years. Yeah no, now that's that ship sailed a
long time ago. I don't even wear green and sink
Patrick's Day anymore.
Speaker 1: Same, but who's gonna pinch me? Hey, my kids are
way more into that stuff than I am. I just
don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well you know Saint Patrick's Day is a
big day for college kids out there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah. So I yesterday, like you said, it
was Easter and I woke up and so Thursday was
John's birthday. But I had a really busy day on Thursday.
I had stuff all day long. I had to and
then I had to record, and then I had to
teach my writing class, which, by the way, I have
openings if anybody wants to come take my writing class,
and a lot of for crying out loud. People have
done it and do it. It's really fun. And I
have openings on Thursdays and it starts not not this Thursday,
but next Thursday. So anyway, and then I had to
watch Real Housewives, and then I had to record Real
Housewives because I was leaving early in the morning for
somewhere which I'll tell you also about to go to Chapman.
I took Xander on a tour of Chapman. That's another
whole story. But so I was like, sorry, John, your
birthday's kind of off for today. Well, let's pretend it's
not your birthday. So we pretended it was his birthday
on Sunday, see what I'm saying. So I woke up
and I was like, today's the day we're celebrating John's birthday.
Oh it's also east Her right. But so that night
last night I made scallops in a like a butter
garlic parmesan baked scallops. It was really good. Wow, garlic
mashed potatoes and steam darta chokes. Oh that's awesome. And
we had carrot cameber dessert.
Speaker 2: Oh cute, not homemade from ralfs, right, that's so cute.
Speaker 1: Did you get him anything I got. We're so not
birthday people and we do not like to buy each
other things for our birthday. But I did get him.
We did get them a pair of Converse, some white converse.
His are really dirty and gross, so we got him
a new pair. Oh that's so cute. He goes, are
these my size? It's like, no, no, John, I got
them in my size because I want to wear them. Right,
that's funny, Yeah, that's cute.
Speaker 2: Last night, Natalia and her boyfriend left to go back
to Santa Barbara, and like she came, you know, to
say goodbye.
Speaker 1: To me, and she was like she was like mom,
you know, uh something like I just are you lonely?
I'm worried? Like are you And I'm like no, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: And she's like okay, well, you know, just because Phil's gone,
and you know, like you just feel like She's like
you can come up and visit and we can come
visit you.
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm I'm fine, I'm okay. You know.
Speaker 2: Then they left and then you know, two hour drive
to get back to Santa Barbara. Like an hour after
they left, I get this like knock on the door
and there's these little flower arrangement that and she's like,
go to your door, there's a fly, there's flower. Go
to your door, there's a sur pride. So she got
her and her boyfriend gonna be flowers. Oh it's so cute, like,
you know, thanks for everything that you do kind of thing.
Natalia's gotten so much nicer in her older age. It's
really nice. That's really sweet.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, it was very thoughtful. I was remembering. See,
I only remember the bad stuff, and not that this
is even bad, but I was just thinking about when
when Natalia was a little more of a handful, remember
around the time that I feel like you were doing
the volunteering thing, and I just remember or because she
didn't do girl Scouts, I just remember her when a
bunch of girls came over and they were gonna they
were like making cookies and stuff, and you said they
came in they were like a tornado. They like used
all the dishes and then they were like.
Speaker 2: Bye, Oh They've done that many, many times. Many times.
She still does that. She comes, she cooks and she
leaves a mess and like, hello, I'm not your maid.
What do you do when you're back in Santa Barbara?
You clean up. Yeah, yes, yeah, that was yes, yes
she was her and her friends would always make a mess.
But yeah, so's nice hanging out with her. Yeah, and
her boyfriend. I got to get to know better, which
was sweet.
Speaker 1: So he stayed howweat? So they stayed over a couple nights.
Speaker 2: A couple nights, and then I have this Disneyland story
I'll tell you.
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Disneyland story? Well, so, or is this the Mexico story first? Well, okay,
so I'll tell you the Mexico.
Speaker 2: So basically, Natalia went on her spring break to Mexico
to Tulom with like four guys, four girls, a bunch
of them. They got an airbnb and I don't even
know where Tuloom is.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's pretty far.
Speaker 2: She had like a seven hour layover at the Guatemala airport.
Speaker 1: Wow. On the way out. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, so they get this airbnb. They're there for
a couple of days and she calls me and tells
me that they rented ATVs and her friend, her roommate
and her best friend was driving.
Speaker 1: One of them got pulled.
Speaker 2: Over by the federal allies and was like hassling them
and wanted money, and so they were like going to
do so they followed them to like some atm and
the locals were like, don't do it, like they do
this all the time. Don't do it. And they took
off and they left. So that happened. Wait, what do
you mean? They took off and they left. They just
like got back on their ATVs and zoom. The federalities
left because the locals were like standing up to them.
They're like no, they're not gonna yeah yeah, and so
they just they left them alone.
Speaker 1: They took off. Wow. And so that yeah, So that happened.
I was like, you know, I'm sorry, I know.
Speaker 2: And I was talking to Mike Durstein about it, and
he said that happens a lot, like they pulled they
see Americans, they pull them over in certain parts of
Mexico and that'll happen, but yeah, don't give them money
if you can or whatever.
Speaker 1: So that happened.
Speaker 2: Then she calls me on her way home, flying home,
and she's like, I'm going to be home at like midnight,
and we got to tell you this story that happened
last night, so can stay up. So I fell asleep,
woke up. They all come home and she tells me that.
So their last night there, they all they were in
the airbnb. The electricity went out, completely out, but they
were getting ready to leave to go.
Speaker 1: Have dinner or something for their last night, so.
Speaker 2: They were like hopefully They went and checked the breaker
and it wasn't the breaker, okay, So they called the
guy or they texted the guy and the airbnb and
went to dinner. They came back from dinner and they
were still there's still no electricity, no water at all
was working.
Speaker 1: They went to check the breaker.
Speaker 2: Somebody went to check the breaker again, and somebody destroyed
the breaker. Took the breaker off and like destroyed it
and it wasn't any of them obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this electricity, we don't want to have electricity
in this play came out. They just get drunk. It
just like kick the breaker off the wall, right exactly.
Speaker 2: So somebody did that, and so now they're in this
dark airbnb kind of not kind of off the beaten path.
Natalia was like the scaredest she's ever been. She couldn't
sleep the next and then the next day, like they're
getting ready to leave and they're using their jugs of
water that they had to drink first like shower, you know,
and it was she was like, I Am not going
to Mexico again anytime soon. She was terrified, and I
was kind of like glad because I was like, yeah,
you know, like Airbnb, like go if you're gonna go,
like stay in a resort area or someplace like that
that's not off the beaten path, you know. I looked
at her Airbnb and it was like in the middle
of kind of nowhere, like mountains around it. So I'm
sure they did it because they all pitched in or
whatever and they were, you know, saving money, but like,
come on, So she never not going to Mexico again
anytime soon, because you know Natalia, she always loves to go.
I remember I had to go with her on her
spring break during high school and stuff. We stayed in
like hotels, you know, so, yeah, she's not going anytime soon.
Speaker 1: So that was pretty scary. When I went to Mexico
with John, we'd been dating for nine months, and we
went to this place called Mahauitas, which has all these
little casitas. It was so it was really beautiful, all
these little individual you know what a casita is, right,
they just don't really some of them don't have a roof.
They're kind of like their structures. It's really nice and
they would come and bring you breakfast every morning. But
you're on this little island and it was so freaking boring.
Like I'm just saying, like, once you've been there one day,
you're like, this is so beautiful. But then what And
I want to say, this was not like smartphones weren't
really a thing, so you couldn't just scroll. You couldn't
just lay on the beach and scroll on your phone.
That was not a thing. So you had to read
a book, which listen, no shade to reading. But like,
I know, some people like nothing more than to read
a good book. But the problem is when we first
went to Mexico, we stayed we were in a resort
for a couple of days, and that was just like
First of all, I was still a drinker, so that
was like amazing. We're on the beach. You know, it's
great waves, you can go swimming in the beach, there's
people around, there's people taking your order on the sand
and bring in you a beer, have a little survesa,
you know. Then there's activities. Then you can walk into
town and like go to dinner somewhere. So from that
we go to this, like I said, absolutely beautiful. Sounds
so good on paper, You're like it's just the most relaxing, like,
but I was like one day and that was going
to be the main part of our I think we
were there for five days and I bye, yeah, that's
too long.
Speaker 2: Isn't this the trip that I remember that you guys
went on a cruise, Yes, and you've got a big.
Speaker 1: Fight, big fight. Yeah, we went on what okay? And
you wrote about it. So what happened is we had
where we have peace in the casitos for five days.
The last night before we were getting to the airport,
we stayed for one night in Puertavarda and we which
sounds great if you're watching the Love Boat, because I
think they all sail out of Cerdiavarda. But isn't that a.
Speaker 2: Vicki from Orange County? Whoops it up? Doesn't she go
to Codevarda? Uh?
Speaker 1: Maybe, I'm not sure. Yeah, but we stayed at like
a motel. I mean, it was pretty icky, but it
was near the beach. And then we were on the
beach and then these people came by and they're like,
do you want to do like a sunset cruise with
a mariachi band and a steak dinner? And I was
like that sounds amazing, Come on, John, And he's like,
I don't think you're gonna like it. And I'm like,
what's not to like? Right, said cruise? Do you hate romance?
What's wrong with you? You know? He's like okay. And it
was so crazy. It was a booze cruise is what
it was. And it was like crazy blaring music right
as soon as you get on this boat, just yeah,
you can't get away from it. And then they're like
come on, ladies, and they're trying to make you do
a thing where like you try to talk with ice
cubes in your mouth and the something where you're like
simulating a blowjob. It was just awful, and then you
might remember this. So toward the end of it, so
I was getting really upset. I wanted to get off,
but John's like, well, we can't get off the boat,
like you're just gonna have, you know, suck it up, Yeah,
right right, And I'm like okay, but I still want
to complain about it constantly, and I want to say, like,
isn't this horrible? And John's like, I've left my body.
I'm watching a basketball game in my head. I can't
hear about this anymore. Yes, it's terrible, but like and
I was like, well, you're not getting upset enough for me.
And then I was trying to get drunk, but I
couldn't even really like get drunk because we'd eatn dinner.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It was just like a train wreck. So towards the
end of it, they're like, everybody come to this one area,
and then it was time to watch cock fights, and
they literally had these birds that were going to fight,
and I was not alone where I was like, oh
hell no, I was getting up set. There were some
drunk like sorority girls there and they started crying like
we're all we're just like this is terrible. I don't
want to watch birds fight to the death. Yeah, and
then oh yes. And then so people were kind of
going like no, and then the guys who are running it,
they were like, please, you must respect our culture. And
then that became like a private joke between me and
John for things so that we don't like respect our culture.
Oh my god, what a nightmare.
Speaker 2: It's a night going on those votes when you're trapped
like that is just I had to do that too.
Speaker 1: Once.
Speaker 2: We did a Booze cruise and I was like, get
me on much longer? Are we on this day? And yeah,
the music is blaring and they make you do all
these stupid games and stuff, and you're just like, leave
me out of it. I'm why did I do this?
Can I jump into the ocean and just swim back?
Speaker 1: Sure, but there's nowhere to escape because it's not like
you're not on a real cruise with like room a
different rooms or a there's one place below deck where
you have the meal, but you can't be down there,
so then they show you back up the stairs and
then you're just on this one deck and everyone's together
is horrible. Yeah, and then John and I weren't speaking,
so we get in this huge fight because I'm feeling
like he doesn't care and he's not having empathy for
what a bad time I'm having, and he's feeling like,
what am I supposed to do? There's nothing I can
do to help you. So now I'm mad and drunk.
And then we have this silent cab ride back to
the hotel or motel, i should say, And then I
start doing my famous like I'm just gonna go. Where
am I gonna go? It's like midnight, and John's like,
you're not, No, You're not going anywhere. Yes I am.
I'm out of here. I start going towards the door.
John's like, don't do that. And you don't control me,
you don't own me. Oh my god. And John's just like,
if you walk out that door, I'm not coming after you.
It's really dangerous. You know you're gonna get stabbed, Like
not by me. I'm just saying, somebody is going to
stab you, right, And I didn't leave the room, but
then I just like sulked on the other bed for
the whole night.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do not miss those days of being
in like silence and being in a fight, like ugh,
the worst, just the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't miss that no. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then over the weekend, Sonny was watching the March
Madness game and so tonight, I guess it's the final
final game and there was the two playoff games and
he was like, Mom, he's like, you want to like
pitch in and bet on Arizona to win.
Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, you know, like send
him a couple of bucks.
Speaker 2: He made his bet Arizona loss spoiler alert, Yeah yeah,
and he was like, I don't know what happened. And
they really like got their clocks Queen by the other
by Michigan. Yeah, so no more bets for me and Sonny.
Oh no, yeah, yeah. He was probably cheesecake. Yeah he was,
he really was. But whatever. It was kind of fun though,
to watch it over the phone with him and stuff.
That was fun.
Speaker 1: So Elbie's So UCLA women's basketball won the whole tournament
whatever it is. Yeah, tournament, yeah, tournament, the whole stage.
I don't know what they won, but they won the
whole thing. They won it all you could win. They
won it, right, Yeah. I saw some of the game.
It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Alby was at work, I think, yeah, she made them
put it on. She said, nobody else really cared, but
she was super excited.
Speaker 2: She was inserted, Oh that's cute, that's nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So then like Suzanne earlier in the week was like, Hey,
I'm going I have to work at Disneyland Park this
weekend Friday to Sunday, and I have a room. Do
you want to like come Friday night? And I was
like yeah, because Natalie wasn't coming on till Saturday, so
I was like, sure, I'll come, you know, for one night.
So we went down there and she didn't have to
work on Friday, well she did a little bit, but
and she was like, I can get us into the
California Adventure Park, like if you want.
Speaker 1: So we were like.
Speaker 2: Okay, we were hungry, she had some work to do.
She got that out of the wake. We got there
in the afternoon on Friday. It was really nice. Made
me miss working at ABC so much. But wasn't it
so crouded? Though not really? Well, So we she's got
a room at the California Adventure and it's right next
and not California, at the California Grand Hotel, which is
right next to California Adventure Park. So and she works there,
so she had her past to be able to get
you know, she had to get talent into the park.
So we went into the park for a few minutes.
But then her and I were like, we don't really
want to be in the park right now. Let's we
were hungry. So she's like, there's a good restaurant at
the hotel. We went to the hotel like by the
pool and had lunch and we get this like big
tub of death, what do you call it, tostita, like
with half chicken, half steak, you know, with tortilla chips
and beans and stuff like that. And we were just
so hungry and talking and into our conversation we were
eating so much of it. It never ended. It was
just this we shared. It's this big steel tub. And
then we were like, oh my god. We both felt
so sick because we felt like we ate so much grease,
and we ate so much. We weren't paying attention because
we were talking and we were so hungry. We just
went at it and we were like, no, part, We're
not going to the park, and so we just like
went for a walk to try and walk it off,
and then and then went back to the room and
watched like Dateline and went to bed at like nine
and then got up early and then went home. Yeah,
to get back to Natalia. But that was fun. It
was kind of nice, you know, to get down, get away.
That is fun out of yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah Love, Honey. Hold on one second. So I have
a couple other things to tell you, but I got
this one. I took Bob to get his first bath,
so I guess I could have done it in our
bathtub at home, but I don't know. It was always
a big pain in the ass. Penelope was hated the water.
I mean she acted like taking a bath was the
most torture. She would run away. She would not You'd
have to. John would have to pick her up and
physically put her in the tub, and she would fight him.
So we were I was kind of nervous about it.
So but I took Bob to the store called pet
Food Express uh in Tarzana, and they have a self
washed thing, so for twenty bucks. You get a token
and you can use all their like accoutrements, you know,
so they use the it's it's like a self car wash,
but you just it goes. Number one is you pick
your shampoo and conditioner and then you you know, anyway,
then you could dry them off. So I did that
with Bob all by myself. But so here's the thing
that when they had little tubs, right, were you like
a dog in the tub. Well, it's like it's like
these tile like bathtub things. Yeah, the dog walks up
a couple steps and then steps into this sort of
tub and then you've got like it's like a sink,
you know, a big sink, and then you spray the
water on him. But walk into the store, and of
course immediately Bob tries to pee on a display of
like Linnette, this dog is wants to pee places. Oh yeah,
and he's bombed a pisser and he is house broken.
He goes, he goes, he knows as soon as we
go outside on the walk, he goes potty. He's but
he sees a store. He peed at the pet Co.
He peed at this pet food Express place, and then
you know, I've got to be like, oh my god,
I'm so sorry, And of course I said no, and
I pulled him out, and I thought I caught him,
like he lifted his leg and I was like, oh,
absolutely not, and I rolled him and brought him back outside.
But he when I went to go pay, I noticed
there was a little bit of pee on the floor.
He peed on a display. No, it wasn't really, no,
it was just on the floor. But like he's there
was like a display like a big wire basket and
there would have been stuff in there, but it was protected,
like he didn't pee on stuff, but he lifted his
leg to pee on that, and then he peed a
little bit on the floor, which I'm one, Yeah, I'm
wondering if because of the story you told last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I'm wondering if he smells other dogs in places,
then he's going to do that. Yeah, clearly, Like maybe
he's not going to do that at your brother's house
for Thanksgiving or Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Can't be sure. I cannot be sure, you can't, So
I'm scared of that he will. Okay, this I have
a little crazy, a little kind of crazy story. But
I'm I'm having an internal debate whether to tell it now,
or to tell it on Patreon. I'm kind of leaning
towards I think it might have to be a Patreon story.
Listen it. It's a new it's it's a like an
old school how I had some stories about Penelope, but
now I have one about Bob and.
Speaker 2: It's okay, and you don't want Bob to hear it,
so it's got to go a Patreon.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the wrong people are going to
have the wrong opinions of I don't know, I see Okay, Okay,
I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna save it.
I think I'm gonna save it. But I will tell you.
I do have another story for you, which I'm trying
to decide. Well, yeah, we have I have shows to
watch for the Friday show. Okay, I'll just tell you
about this. So I took Xander to see Chapman. So
I've been talking about this school and it was really great.
It's not that far. I thought it was going to
take us a long, much longer time to get there.
It's no different than like all these tournaments, tournaments that
we would take the kids to. It's in Orange, California.
Which is I guess it's part of Orange County. It
is in Orange County. But it's the cutest little town.
It's almost like if Westwood and Portland had a baby.
It's got these little like it's a little place where
it's only a few blocks around in this area, but
it's all little antique stores and like a record store
and like a vintage store, and you know, it's like
a college, little college, little college town. You know what's
funny is when we were kids and your parents would
go antiquing, right, is super boring because you'd be like,
it's just like old stuff. You don't know what's about. Okay,
guess what at our age when you go antiquing, it's
all shit from our childhood. Like that really, yes, because
think about it. Okay, if you're looking at stuff, if
it's fifty years old, that's an antique, right, that's true.
You're not looking at stuff that's like one hundred years old.
That would be like valuables in a museum. You're looking
at stuff that's fifty years old. I'm finding like really
cool like toys from my childhood. Like that's something like God,
and I was like, this is really cool, Like now,
I understand, like why my parents wanted to go antiquing
all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, you know, my parents didn't, but Gina Kimmel
loved to go antiquing and we would go to the
Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1: They would have their uh.
Speaker 2: Flot meet once like once a month, like the second
Sunday of every month, and it was all like antiques
and she loved it and I was fucking bored to tears.
But I was just telling Sunny about it, and he
was like, I'd like to check it out sometime at
the Rose Bowl. I was like, Okay, it'd kind of
be fun maybe, you know, because she was looking for
furniture and stuff, but there's also like records and yeah,
clothing and stuff like that that could be yeah, retro,
cool retro.
Speaker 1: It's like tons of retro stuff, like cool cost jewelry,
but like I said, toys like from our child like fun.
I don't know. I thought that was really cute and
and Xander loved it too. We went with a friend
of Xander's whose parents and the girl also wanted to
check out the school for her. So she's not going,
wouldn't be going this year, but she would maybe apply
for next year. So she's older. She took like a
gap year from school. Really sweet, sweet kid. So we
met up with them and we went to the Dodge College,
which is a film school basically. So first we go
to the main campus and then we're in the completely
wrong spot. So then I decided to actually read the
email and figure out where we're supposed to be, and
it's nowhere near it's not part of the main campus.
So we and I'm like, it can't be this whole
other direction back where we parked. I didn't think that
was possible. It was. It was completely separate. We go in.
It's gorgeous what they'd the way it's set up, And
anybody who's listening who's like has a kid that goes
there or has seen it, knows what I'm talking about.
But it's like a movie studio in the way of
like it's like it's like you've just walked into Burbank
Studios or something, well, right, right, right, like this or
like Warner Brothers. Yeah, but it's got a main lobby
in this place. They have this big theater where the
kids show their films, their shorts or whatever. Right, my god,
Sunny would love this place. Yeah, yeah, Well, anyway they
do because they have sports broadcasting at this they have everything.
But this is like a film This is like a
film school, so they have all this really high end equipment.
They have animation, they have documentary filmmaking, they have editing,
and it was a very cool tour. And I was wondering.
I was I didn't know if Xander would have loved it,
because I know he wants to be creative, but I
didn't think he wanted to go to like film school
per se. Right, But it's very collaborative because he would
be in the advertising marketing section, but they all do everything,
so like, even though you're in advertising, you still learn
how to like edit and use the cameras and do
all the stuff. And that's so cool. Yeah, I love that. Yeah,
so he really liked it. I love the area. It's
very safe and clean and nice and everything. These freaking
private schools they know how to do it. They have
a lot of money, Their facilities are nice and like,
you know, did you get to see some of the dorms. No.
But so this Saturday, John is taking him to Accepted
Students Day. The thing was we were he was always
going to go to the Accepted students day, but he
was having trouble trying to picture, like get excited about
any school because he hadn't seen He's only seen Santa Barbara,
so right right, it was like, if he was going
to be excited about Chapman, He's like, I have to
see it first, so so mm hmm. I said, well,
let's just go have a collavitur of just the Dodge
school and then you can still go to accepted students
stay and see the rest of the campus and do
what I can do tours and see dorms. But we
did find out that the dorms there triples, but they
each have their own bathroom, and he was pretty excited
about that. That's cool, Yeah, yeah, said that it kind
of makes him nervous the idea of like having to
have like a bathroom down the hall, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2: I agree, Yes, that kind of that sucks. Yeah, that's
really cool. I think that sounds so perfect for him.
I mean, I wish like Sunny would have checked that out.
He would have loved it. I don't know why he
never came up Chapman, but that's real. I mean, that
sounds so perfect to Frexander, and you know with I
feel like a lot of people in the entertainment industry
come probably from Chapman, especially the people that go right
into like the film industry or documentaries.
Speaker 1: I mean that sounds so perfect. Yeah, he had this
really cute tour guide, this young guy who's a senior,
and I just love this guy's energy. Right from the beginning,
he was just very engaging, really funny. You could just
everybody you know, Well, there was a guy and a girl,
and the girl was a little Tracy Flick from election.
She was a little intense and a little like too
peppy and a little like and so when you got
to pick who you wanted to go with for the tour,
and even though the guy was like, I'm all my
my side of the tour will do the film, film
and production, and she'll do every all the other majors
at Dodge, but we were like, now, we're not gonna
We're not gonna go with her now, so we'll go
with him. So then we kind of whispered to him
like hey, is it cool, like well you also cover
this stuff, and he's like, yeah, I'll cover all of it.
So we're like, okay, cool, Now we went with him.
He was being very funny and he said, you you know,
we have you know, they get these like people who
have come to the school before, like celebrities who have
graduated from Chapman, and they come and some of them
do like a master class. I want to say, Bradley
Cooper might have come and down a class. Ariana Grande
did a class. So I guess there was this. He said,
there was this like famous director that came to do
one of the master classes, and you have somehow he
got a spot to come to the master class and
the they would show your short. So he had made
this short and I want to say this was in
his sophomore year. But he goes, yeah, so I'm I'm
so excited. I'm getting my It's like my dream, like
this director is going to watch my short. And then
afterwards the guy goes, he goes, that was the most
painful fifteen minutes of my entire life. Oh my god,
are you kidding me? The way he told the story
was so funny. He was like, I was like, oh no,
but also, oh my god, like this director say, and
then and then he goes, and then he proceeded to
give me really helpful feedback like, so that's that's good.
He was, like, I was glad he didn't like blow
smoke up my ass, Like, yeah, I'm here to learn,
you know. So he said it was really really cool,
and I don't know it was. It was very helpful.
Speaker 2: I like that kid. I love that kid. Good always
good when you have a good tour guy. Yes, yeah, yes,
I've experienced some good ones and some duds when why
went when we took tours, and it really makes a
difference when you got a kid that's really excited about
it and it's like super cool and not intense, you know,
it's nice. Yes, I oh, any more other tours on his.
Speaker 1: On his agenda. So so this Saturday he'll go to
the Accepted Students Day and then the following weekend is
his speech and debate tournament in Northern California.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Now, if he'd gotten into Berkeley, we would have toured Berkeley.
But he did not get into Berkeley, so we won't
be touring Berkeley. And then if he didn't love Chapman
were like, we could take a drive. It's like an
extra hour and a half to Davis, But I don't
know that he needs to go see Davis because it's
going to be Santa Barbara but in a different location.
All the ucs have very similar majors. You know, I
don't write. Yeah, yeah, I'm happy between you and me,
and I'll keep my I'll keep my voice down because
I think he's just in the next room, in the room.
I just hope he loves Chapman. And then it's like done.
I agree, it's does he I mean, how did he feel? Does?
He said? He really like, yeah, so I'll oh, so
I was just going to tell you that. I was like,
I'm not sure, and he was like, no, I really
liked it. He's like, it's really cool. He said, there
was so much cool stuff to do, like I would
have trouble figuring out, like narrowing it down. Yeah, I
want to do everything there. So that's great. Yeah. Like
I said, it's very creative school, and he'd be surrounded
by you know, they have a whole One of the
majors is writing for film and television, which I don't
think he should do that major because it's very limiting.
I think I think if you do a major that
has a little more business in it, it's gonna make
you more well rounded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I agree, Yeah, like marketing and things
like that. Yeah, I mean it sounds to me like
he's gonna end up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, fingers crossed. Yeah. But oh my god,
so I have so we have so much for Friday's show.
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