Speaker 1: Made a decision a face sunny sunrd on. I had
a vision.
Speaker 2: Night.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome, what's up. What's happened. We're still sick, I.
Speaker 2: Know, but I feel like I'm feeling a little bit
better now and you're feeling a little bit worse.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing good, hanging on by a thread now.
Speaker 2: I feel like too, that you should be feeling better
after four days on antibiotics.
Speaker 3: It's the medication. I think you're right. I think I
need to try something different because it's making me nauseous. Yeah,
you should not be having to feel nauseous every day. No,
it's not good. This is the first time I've been
up and out too.
Speaker 1: In like a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same, although yesterday. Actually, hold on, let's say let me,
let's say at our people, let's get that done. Ashley
so chic. Stephanie's a stinker wrinker Athena. We love your dancing. Sandra.
It's not easy being green, but you do it. You
don't care, you suffer through. I'm green, Jennifer, get up,
you're green. Aaron's a dirty Sanchez, she's brown. Leslie with
the coughing like us. Alicia Scalante from the City of Almonte,
Kelly Brandt took you to planned parenthood. Rebecca Lubin, She's great,
She's so adorable. Cham Vage Pey he's hot, so hot,
so sweet, Missy and Gabby so so contagious. They gave
me this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they did.
Speaker 2: Huh, Katerina, check your mueller. I have a sneaking suspicion.
You might need a root canal. Mallory hits it out
of the park. Probably love your pancakes, Rita rocks will
Elizabeth Williamson's kids and her best and that Nikky call
your girl. Katie's rolling on e Kellyloody dun and Dick
is frolocking. Yeah, oh yesterday. I just this is the thing.
I get like, oh, I think I'm feeling better, and
then I I get like all motivated to go leave
the house, and then I regret it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have any feeling right now. Yeah, I
haven't had that.
Speaker 3: I know, like when you know you've been sick for
a while and you lay in bed and then you
get that like you get a jolt of energy.
Speaker 1: You know, oh you're starting to feel I'm waiting for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the problem is when you're coughing so much,
you know, even though you feel like, okay, I'm not
contagious anymore because this is old now, but you feel
like people are going to turn around when you're coughing,
like seriously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was on the plane coming home coughing like
and people are like bastard during and I was like, yeah,
but you know, it's just one of these things.
Speaker 1: Been lingering. I haven't feel like I haven't gotten sick
in a long time.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think you have.
Speaker 1: No, I don't get sick that often.
Speaker 2: I don't either, but then when I get sick, I
just get sick for it's just endless. It's the endless,
endless thing that lasts like a couple of months. And
same with Kaylin. When you get sick, when you get
a cough, it lasts like four months. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just thinking, it's been a while since
I've been sick. But yeah, I remember the last couple
of times, probably about a year ago, I was coughing
for like like a month or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, like four months.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a long time.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Yeah, I started I felt a little bit
motivated yesterday. Okay, this is throwback to old times. Remember
when we used to do ads for Madison Reid. Yes, well,
Madison Reid like kind of turned me on too. I
started coloring my hair with Madison Read. And I don't
color my hair that often, but when I do, I
literally use Madison Reid.
Speaker 1: Nice, I know.
Speaker 2: So they have Madison Reads stores now. Yeah, so my
hair is in bad need of like coloring. It looks
terrible right this minute, and it's not like washed or
done today, so that's why it looks crazy. But because
Sadie's going to color my hair tonight. But I was like,
there's a Madison Reid store at the village in Woodland
Hills kind of near it's adjacent to the to ping
them all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one in Studio City too.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they have like a color bar, so they'll
color your hair. But here's the thing. They charge one
hundred and twenty seven dollars to color your hair. You
can just go get your hair colored there.
Speaker 1: Oh really, But.
Speaker 2: One hundred and twenty seven dollars is not cheap. No,
it's like basically the same as if my.
Speaker 3: Hairdresser colored in my hair, right, But do they give
you the stuff to take home with you?
Speaker 2: And everything. No, they'll they'll do your hair.
Speaker 3: They'll color your hair, but like if you say I
want to buy it and do it at home, they'll
they'll set you up like match it. And so I
went into the store to buy because I could order
it and have it chipped.
Speaker 2: But I was like, I got like a wild hair.
I was like, I'm gonna color my hair today. Spoiler alert.
I didn't, but I was intending to. But I had
that like Okay, I think I'm well enough to like
leave the house and I'm gonna go to the Madison
Read store and buy my color bring it home. Then
I was gonna have Sadi color my hair. So I
made it to the going to the village and parking
and starting to walk and then I'm like, man, I
had to stop and blow my nose like every five seconds,
and Sadie was like like getting full body like chills
from you know, grossed out like mom, and I'd have
to be like okay, hold on, and then I'd have
to cough and cough and cough, blow my nose again,
and then I'm like all right, I'm good. I hate
to find the Madison Reid store. Then I'd be like
out of breath. Yeah, it was a mess. So I
get the Madison read bring It Home, and that was
like my big air. Then I had to like have
a nap, I know. I was like, all right, I'm
gonna just rest. Then I'm going to clean.
Speaker 1: Oh good luck.
Speaker 2: John's like You're not cleaning anything, I know. So then
I laid down and watched toil song.
Speaker 1: Right, see not good enough?
Speaker 2: Good problem was I was sick enough to be like
I'm not. I was like, I'm not sick anymore though,
but I'm just like it's exhausting to go out and
run one error.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Well so for me, I have Phil who likes to
go on his walks and I haven't been able to
take him, and he's just looking at me all day,
going what's the matter for you? I feel like that
those commercials, you know, like do you have depression? And
you'll roll over and the dog's looking at you with
the leash in the mouth. You know, they gotta look
over and there's Phil like just staring at me, like
what's going on. You haven't taken me out in the backyard,
you haven't taken me on a walk. So I face first,
I take him into the backyard. I'm like throwing the
ball and he's not a retriever. He goes and gets
the ball, but he doesn't bring it to you. He
just plops down and chews on the ball and then
starts to tear apart the ball. And then I sit there.
I'm like, okay, Like now I'm getting annoyed and tired,
and I all right, I guess you're tired just like me.
And I go back inside and there he is appalling
on my bag. He's like kicking my head, kicking my
bed again, like.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's do so.
Speaker 3: So then finally, like I mustard up, like I gotta
take this dog for a walk. I'm just gonna go
down the flat street and back and cause it's kind
of hilly in my neighborhood. And so I go down
and like I get three houses down and he sticks
his head into the bushes and he's like trying to
get and I'm like trying to pull him, pull him.
And now I could tell he's got something because he
is not budging my poll and I'm like, come on, phill,
let's go for a walk. I pull him out of
the bush and he's got feathers in his mouth, something
in his mouth and he just goes loop and it
just disappears. Bird gone, dead, bird gone, swallowed the bird?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, yes.
Speaker 2: Do you think he felt he found a dead bird
and ate it or do you think he found killed
a bird?
Speaker 1: It could have been injured, just like the last bird
he swallowed. He is a menace to society, this guy.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: But then because the day a couple of days before
this walk, I was, you know, I couldn't take him,
and I was giving him these like what do you
call him these bones with the marrow, Like you can't
break the bone, but there's the marrow inside.
Speaker 1: It's like peanut buttery. And he the thing.
Speaker 3: So I gave him like a bunch of those, and
then he got into the trash outside because I.
Speaker 1: Didn't take it.
Speaker 3: His appetite, his appetite, and also I didn't have a
chance to take the trash out because I missed whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm like a dab, I'm you know, just it's just
been sick.
Speaker 2: And uh, you didn't take the barrels out, So you're saying.
Speaker 3: No, there's I have a trash can that sometimes I
put just trash back there.
Speaker 1: And then I take it to the cans, okay.
Speaker 3: Anyway, he got into that and normally I keep it
behind a fence and everything so he can't get to it.
But the gate was open anyway, he got into it
and tore it apart. And now I'm like, oh, and
I know what's coming next. Sure enough, four o'clock in
the morning, he wakes up. He he wakes me up
to go to the bathroom. I take him out, and
usually Phil does not wake me up in the middle
of the night to go to the bathroom, so I
let him out. He goes the bathroom and then he
plops down outside on the yard, on the on the
on the concrete outside, on the cool concrete, instead of
coming back in the house, like he's never done that before.
I'm like, what are you doing. It's four o'clock in
the morning. Like, hello, we're going back to bed. It's
not time for you to sit outside. So we go
back inside. He gets up on the bed and then
a few minutes later he starts having a seizure, and
thank god he went outside to do his business, because
usually when he has a seizure, he's usually has a seizure.
Speaker 1: He gets off the.
Speaker 3: Bed, he throws up, and he has a seizure, so
he's on like the hardwood floor. This time he was
on my bed and when he has a seizure, he
you know, he can hee poop. He bit the shit
out of his cheek and there was just blood everywhere
and he was dripping blood from his mouth after he
came out of the seizure and he's like, and I'm
feeling like shit, I can't like you know, I'm like,
he's walking around the house, bumping into things. He's getting
blood on the furniture. I mean, it looked like a
Terran you know, crime scene in my bedrooms. One just
this last one, yeah, one that just happened, the one
that just happened, because because he bid himself again. Yeah,
he bites himself and this time he bit him really
he bid himself really bad. But you know, I check
it and it was okay the next day. But like
at the time, it just doesn't stop bleeding and he's
just wandering into things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, but and then a couple days later, ate the
bird But it's been fine ever since he ate the
bird man.
Speaker 2: He's on anti seizure meds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he takes it, give it to him every night. Yeah,
he's on an anti seizure but you know, he hasn't
had seizures in a very long time. This is probably
only the second time, I think since we moved into
this house. But he always has him if he if
he has some kind of gastrol you know, upsetness in
his stomach, if he's if he's feeling nauseous or something,
that's what triggers it.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 2: I guess the bird just like agreed with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the bird was fine.
Speaker 2: Maybe you should just give him birds yes for food? Yeah?
Oh now yeah, well, Pepo, is she's winding? Is she
doing okay? I mean she's still not as bad. She
still needs like several walks in the evening, so she'll
go all day. But now she does not take it.
She's very unpredictable most of the time. She just wants
really short walks now, and she walks really slow, and
she only walks for like a block or two. Yeah,
but every once in a while she'll do like a longer.
But it's all it's always just up to her. You know.
She will tell you like she'll walk like four houses
up and then just turn around and pull you back home. Yeah,
And she's gotten kind of like tremor, you know, like
sometimes I'll see her and it just looks like her
whole body's kind of vibrating. Yeah, I know, it's just sad.
It's just old age, right, because she's really old. Because
there's nothing really to do about it. Right. We did
give her Librella again, I want to say, like three
weeks ago, and I just don't notice it. Is that
for pains for our thritis. It's an injection and you
do it once a month. But they told us like, hey,
let us know in a week if you notice a difference.
And I just don't notice a difference. She doesn't seem
better on it, but she can't really jump up on
the bed very well. She will do it still, but
sometimes she does it and she doesn't make it, so
we have to like hoist up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you gotta get her a little step still.
Speaker 2: So we tried getting her stairs and she won't use them.
She won't go near them really, So the next thing
to do would be to get a ramp, but the
ramps are kind of narrow, so thinking about doing one
that's like the ramp part goes perpendicular to the bed,
like picture the foot of the bed. It goes in
the same direction as.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, as the bed like.
Speaker 2: It doesn't start far out and then up to the bed,
it ramps up along the base of the bed and
it's got a little rail. So I'm thinking about trying that.
But and maybe she'll she'll walk up that easier than jumping,
because I think the jumping is also the jumping down
is not good for her, and she'll jump up and
then she'll jump down, which can'tnot be helping. Yeah, for arthritis.
I know. It's so sad. I wish dogs lived I know,
a lot longer.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, freaking birds, people's birds live forever. I know, man,
why can't dogs live?
Speaker 2: I freaking plan for them in your will? I know,
you know, they outlive their owners. Yeah, it's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: My friend had two and they both talked. I don't know,
she may still have him, but when we were in
her twenty she had a Kaka two and a cocka teal.
Speaker 2: Is there a difference?
Speaker 1: There is?
Speaker 3: And I don't remember the difference, but I know that
one of them talked, or they both talked, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But she loved those birds. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I told you. I went my hair
my kid's hairdresser. I was at their house. I must
have told you this story. And she was cutting Xander's
hair and I kept hearing like this yelling, and I
thought it was the kid playing video games. Her son
was like playing a video game, and I was like, God,
he's really like loud when he plays his video game.
Kind of thought maybe he was sort of like just
screeching to himself, like right, it sounded human, the kind
of a yelling. And then I all of a sudden
realized it was the bird because I looked at because
at one point I just looked square at the kid,
like what the fuck? And then I realized it wasn't
the kid making the noise, and then I got creeped out.
And then I realized there was a bird all across
the room and it was talking and saying things and
kind of like yelling.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, it's the to each his own. But
that's the last thing I use. Another mouth in the house,
just right, I mean, god.
Speaker 4: That.
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constant two year old. The sounds of a two years
thank you. I didn't like it when the kids were too.
Definitely don't want a permanent.
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Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, pretty cool. Okay. So Xander had his first
virtual speech and debate competition.
Speaker 3: And is that they do it? They always do it,
they do a virtual or is it something?
Speaker 2: No, this was this just happened. So the last one
that I told you about that he didn't do that
well because he didn't. He didn't break on the last one.
The one before that he came in second place and
I was all excited about it. Then the next one
he went to he didn't even So breaking is where
you do preliminary rounds and if you break, you go
to like sometimes there's a round or two of finals,
like a semi final and then a final. If you
make it to the finals, you're going to place somewhere
in the top. And Xander's the state qualifier. He qualified
for state. State competition is next weekend. So you're listening
on Friday, just know that tomorrow we're going to state. Wow,
it's it's in LA this time. So we're just going
to Culver City. So wake up at the krack of dawn.
We go into the Culver City. He does competition all day.
Then Sunday morning he finds out if he broke.
Speaker 1: Are you staying down there?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. And here's why, because if it
was anywhere farther, I would do it. But Culver City
just seems like okay. So the first day of the
competition Saturday, we're probably gonna be wrapped up by like five.
Then what then we're like in Culver City. It's not
like Culver City's nice? Yeah, I know, So then what
We'll go get something to eat and then go to
a hotel. Now at that point I'd be like, well,
let's go home and then come back to sleep, and
like it doesn't make sense. The only real bitch is
the driving in Saturday morning and then driving back in
Sunday morning because it starts at like eight o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that won't be any traffic, luckily.
Speaker 2: That's what I told him. Also, our neighbors. I'm friends
with this woman. I've told you about her. Her daughter
does not go to my kids high school. They go
to a different high school. But she lives across the
street from me. So we're gonna go together, so it'll
look like more fun.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 2: We'll just wake up early. You'll get Starbucks and I'll
have a friend to go down there if I'm bucking,
and you know, do the thing. And once we've done
it on Saturday, it'll be easier on Sunday because we'll
know where we're going exactly, you know what I mean,
we can anyway, So that's next weekend. Meanwhile, a few
weeks ago he had a qualification for Nationals, which is
totally separate from state. So we did that competition. I
judged he did not make it even to the semi finals,
and he was really bummed. So then there was a
thing called a last chance qualifier to try again for Nationals,
and it was online. Oh okay, okay, so Friday, I
pick him up from school early. We come home, he
gets all set up and he has first right. He
had two rounds Friday, one like right after school and
then another one at like five.
Speaker 1: O'clock, all done on zoom Wow.
Speaker 2: And I was judging because I had they needed a judge,
so I was in my bedroom with my judging, and
he was in the off our main like office, competing. Okay, okay,
I gotta tell you it was hard judging online because
I was judging something called It's It's like the humorous one.
So these kids are doing it's very uh like Jim Carrey,
Like it's all Robin Williams doing a lot of different
characters and it's kind of frenetically paced and it's really
hard to follow. And if you're doing that online, listen,
if you're in person, you got to make eye contact
with these kids. You got to look like you look alive,
you know, if you're online though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they can't get any judge and feel any
kind of feedback right, like they don't write.
Speaker 1: It's tough for them too.
Speaker 2: Yes, I had a cold, so I was coughing a lot.
I'm blowing my nose, so I stayed on mute the
whole time, right, So I wasn't and I told them
ahead of time. I was like, hey, guys, i'm coughing
a bit, so pardon me. I'm going to be on mute,
so you're not gonna hear me laughing. But then I
was so glad because nobody was funny.
Speaker 3: Oh no, No, I felt bad, like they were fine.
Speaker 2: It's just not my type of humor. I'm not like
a Robin Williams. I like Robin Williams in his serious
acting days, like I loved him in Awakenings, Yes, but
I was not a person that would have really enjoyed
his crazy stand up earn, although I had a Robin
Williams album that I really liked. But then I was
also like nine, right, as an adult, I'm not into
that kind of Jim.
Speaker 1: Carrey crazy energy, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's like it was hard. And then they could
see my face, you know, and I was trying to like.
Speaker 1: Were you the only judge?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I was the only judge for that one.
Then I judged something. The next day, I judged okay,
So then I guess so round two happened. So then
Sunday morning he had two more rounds then you find
out if you break, and you do, then there's like
two or three elimination rounds. He didn't even make it
to the first elimination round, so he was really sad.
Then I had to freaking judge. I was like, I
know you're sad, but I gotta go judge elimination rounds.
So yeah, so I had to judge something. And there
were two other judges. And do you remember I told
you this story about the in person one where one
of the judges was like a super bossy pants, yes,
and like you thought she was going to school me
and how to judge. I had another one of those
that sort of elected herself, like the judge for person,
you know, like she was on the jury, like she
was giving instructions and I was like, in my mind, like, lady,
right to calm down. Yeah, oh my god. She was like, well,
we need everybody to check their camera and make sure that.
I had to do that too, but I did it
much calmer. I was like, all right, hey, so like
can everybody just unmute yourselves and like come on camera
so I can make sure we can hear you and
see you. She was like all right, one at a time.
Is Dennis here? Dennis is here? Because you see the
square that says Dennis right there, Dennis. Can you please
unmute and turn your camera on. We need to check everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, all these one of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but I was like, you know what, good,
let her do anything. So I let her do her thing,
and those kids were actually like, really good. It was
something called informative speaking, which they can bring visuals. Yeah.
One of the girls, her speech was about Savior complex
and her opening thing was about Donald Trump, and it
was really good and really brave considering the fact that
Nationals is in Iowa. Oh wow, I don't know how
blue it is out there. But you know, it was
not super complimentary about Donald Trump. But I was like,
you go, girl, that's my number one. You're not supposed
to be swayed by whether you agree with them or not.
But I just loved her. Yeah. She was just ballsy
and like very not in your face, but very straightforward
with her opinions. And you know, yeah, you're allowed to
be opinionated. Yeah, it's you're supposed to be teaching people,
informing people about something, and what she was informing us
about was Savior Complex. Anyway, loved her and then apparently
everybody else did too, because there was a lot of
rounds of this and she went all the way to
the finals. I was in her first preliminary round, but anyway,
she qualified for the nationals.
Speaker 1: Wow. How old is she? How old are these.
Speaker 2: These are all high school kids.
Speaker 1: Damn, it's amazing what they can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're there anywhere from freshmen to seniors.
Speaker 3: And then so then after they make this round, then
they go to the to the actual.
Speaker 2: So these kids were kids that didn't qualify when they
did the regular qualification for Nationals, but then they have
another chance to qualify online. So this girl, you know,
some of these kids, A couple of the kids who
were in the rounds that I judged made it to
made it all the way to the Nationals.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be.
Speaker 2: But like in Xander's round, which is original oratory, oh oh,
there were two hundred people just in that category trying
to qualify.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: A hundred of them moved on to the primp to
the elimination rounds and he didn't even make the top half. Wow. Wow,
that's how different that is from time to time. Because
then in the state one, there were twenty seven kids
and he was the top two.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well he's still just beginning at it, you know,
he's still a beginner.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, he did it last year, but he was doing duos,
so he was had a partner. This is his first
year doing it by himself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's done pretty well, done very well for he.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how it goes at state next weekend. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm excited here about that. Good luck Xander.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun.
Speaker 2: And fun for me, yeah, and fun for you. As
long as I'm feeling better, you should be feeling better. Yeah.
But it was really funny just to be able to
hear him competing in all his rounds. And I was
trying so hard not to like give feedback because I'm like,
he just did it, but I do. I did tell
him I think his it got very over the top,
so I had I told him that he needs to
like take it down a little bit, just a notch
I think it got. I think these kids get so
much feedback though from different people, and I fel think
a lot of the feedback they get is to like
be bigger, sell it.
Speaker 3: More, and also some of these other kids are doing,
like Robin Williams and Jim Carrey kind of you know,
they see that that's how they're doing it, so they
think that's how they should be doing it.
Speaker 2: I think that you're right, But I think for what
he's doing, I think a little bit less is more.
I think you want to seem conversational and you really
want to connect. Yeah, and I think he was prior
to this. I think it just it got bigger, right,
the more he's been doing it, and then you can
sort of lose your connection and be to performance right
and not be real enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm just like to pick some.
Speaker 2: Moments and really try to But it was also online
that's tough. Yeah, so you're just doing you're just trying
to be just told him he was getting a little
bit shouty.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, no, well that's those are good notes.
Speaker 2: But he can tweak that, you know, Yeah, you can't.
It's hard when to get kids to bring it up.
I think it's easier to bring something down than it
is to bring it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh for sure for kids. Yeah, it's got to
be tough.
Speaker 3: On Zoom isn't like most auditions now, like on Zoom
do people do that?
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, how are you supposed to like connect?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like I have a friend that's an actress and she
usually has to do like these auditions, but she has
to do them on her computer. It's like what happened
to going sitting in a room and being bored for
three hours like everybody else sitting there miserable, I know,
waiting for your name to get called, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean I think that COVID really changed the game
for a lot of people and made people realize, oh,
you can just be on zoom or be or you know,
everybody's doing self tapes now, so you tape yourself doing
the audition. But yeah, if you're in person, something is
definitely lost just putting yourself on tape. Yeah, I it's
gotta be gets really harder to read people's charisma, right right. Yeah,
And if you're in person, you can make eye contact
with the casting director and feel like it feels like
you're really talking.
Speaker 3: To that, right and making little jokes or whatever and
like getting you know, them, getting a feel of who
you are. Yeah, I don't know, it sucks a lot
of things have changed since COVID to going to therapy.
Speaker 1: Now everything's online, which that's kind of a good thing.
I like that, but still.
Speaker 2: You're because at least if you're in therapy, you're speaking
to one person over a zoom, which might even be better,
I think, because maybe it makes it a little bit
less personal so you can like, yeah, say more stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I definitely feel like acting auditions have got to be harder.
That's got to be tough, and you probably have to
be a lot bigger, right right, yeah, like you have
to sell it more.
Speaker 3: Although I would have loved those to be on zoom
when I was a kid because I hated going on
auditions the worst.
Speaker 2: Although also I don't understand why it is that much
worse because you're watching somebody on TV. So maybe you
want to be able to show that you can be
do it on TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, But I I mean, if you're really
like wanting an audition and want the job, wouldn't you
want to be able to like have some kind of
rapport with the people that are looking to hire somebody
for this position. You know, it just feels so that's
it just it's.
Speaker 2: Not personal, yeah, you know, and you can't agree, What
do you think Kaylin.
Speaker 4: Some actors actually liked doing it that way. We were
interviewing this like doing it on zoom. Yeah, well, I
don't know about Zoom, but a lot of times they'll
just casting people say just make a tape and then
send it in. So it's not like on zoom. In
the moment, it's like you just do it yourself and
then send it in. So this one actor we had
on my dad's podcast named Clifton Collins Junior.
Speaker 1: It's fairy.
Speaker 4: He's been in everything. He's in West World, and he
talked about I forget what movie he was going up for,
but he talked about doing like one hundred takes and
he could set up like the lighting and he could
set up this thing with his computer, and then he
could do it over and over again and you can
make it better, and then you can pick which one
he liked the best. And he ended up getting the
role because of that. But yeah, see it actually kind
of worked in his favor that he could do it
over and over and over again and then pick the
best one that he liked.
Speaker 2: Okay, But from a director's standpoint, imagine hiring somebody and
I could bring them on set and they're like, I
need fifty more takes and I'll nail it well, Like
it's just a minute. You did it so great in
the audition. He's like, well that was like take number
one hundred and five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, don't you want to see them do
their cold reading? Like see how well they do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: A professional?
Speaker 2: One more chance to know? Yeah, like you know if
they go, oh can I do it? Can I do
it again? Or give them a different way to do it,
But like, yeah, I would not want to find out
that my actor had to do it over and over.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess this guy has like hundreds of credits,
so he's very experienced actor as opposed to somebody that's newer.
I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess that's different.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's got its upsides and it's downsides,
I guess for both. But yeah, I wouldn't want to
hire an actor that had to do.
Speaker 2: It times a hundred times.
Speaker 3: I put filters up or you know, who knows what
they did behind the scene.
Speaker 2: I got and imagine like the mania behind that, like
you run back, you watch it, You're like, oh god,
damn it, no, I took a step this way. I
want to take a step that way. Do it again,
just oh my god, over and over and over, just
like not good enough. The guy's wife or husband or
whatever is like is like it's fine, right, No, it's
not fine. It is not fine. It is so far
from fucking fine. Okay, do it again, all right? Can
you hold the she's having on the camera and she's like.
Speaker 1: Kids are doing a lighting.
Speaker 2: The calendar is like changing.
Speaker 4: Like there's actually a famous story about Josh Brolin. So
Josh Brolin was doing a movie with my dad. It
was a Quentin Tarantino Robert Riguez movie called Grindhouse, and
so Josh Brolin was on it and he got the
Coen Brothers said, hey, we got this movie we're interested
in you doing. Can you send in a tape? So
he got during the lunch break one day in between filming,
he got Quentin Tarantino and Robert Driguez to light and
shoot his audition tape that he sent into the Cohen Brothers.
That ended up him being No Country for Old Men,
which then blew him into the stratosphere. He became the
super megastar that he is today. He wasn't that big
back then, and the Coen Brothers watched it and they went, yeah,
the audition was okay, but who lit this thing? This
looks like a really good.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a great story.
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Speaker 2: So did sorry, did Wendy go home? Finally?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: She left? Did she go?
Speaker 1: She took the kiddy with her?
Speaker 2: No, they missed that cat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she left a few days ago.
Speaker 2: And oh my god, this was the longest trip ever.
Speaker 1: I know, how long was she?
Speaker 2: Here? Was she?
Speaker 4: In?
Speaker 2: Three weeks?
Speaker 1: She was here almost a month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you were there for a week. Then you
guys were both in like Arizona.
Speaker 3: And we didn't we didn't go to Arizona. We just
didn't Floord we were supposed to. Oh and then uh,
that guy caled.
Speaker 2: So you were okay. So you were there for one
week or two weeks.
Speaker 3: For about a little over a week and then and
then she came here. Then she came here because she
was in the middle of finalizing her divorce. Now they've
been separated for years, but this has been like a
long time coming. And she's you know, back home in Chicago.
She's a grandma, so you know, so she could have
the flexibility of not she didn't want to be in town,
and you know, as much as she loves her kids
and grandchildren, she kind of wanted just to be like,
you know, in a different kind of space. And so
she was at my house during that time and saw
her go online and you know, on zoom and had
the judge finalize their divorce while she was at my house,
and it was, you know, it's really emotional for her.
So she just wanted to just hang out, stay with
me during that time. And she was so happy she did, so. Yeah,
so she was with me for a while now and
she had her kitty cat, and then they left, and
Phil has just been like what, he's been sleeping by
the door where the kiddy cats slept with Wendy in
the other in Natalia's room, and he's just been going
like and that's where the litter, like he's just wandering around.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But then she flew.
Speaker 3: Home with the cat, and now I'm I don't know
if I want to get a cat anyway.
Speaker 1: Because she's like, yeah, you could.
Speaker 3: Fly with the cat, you could blah blah blah. And
she flew home and the cat. I mean, by the time,
as soon as the cat got in the carrier in
my car on the way to Lax, the cat was
meowing like he was just having a hard time. He
would not stop me o and his meow sounds so
so sad. Maybe because I never paid a call.
Speaker 2: She was going to bring the cat on the plane
with her, yeah, yeah, like not put it in the cargo.
Speaker 3: No, but she had to keep it in the carrier
with her, you know, or a cat carrier. So as
soon as he was in there in the car he
was already and then when she got to the airport,
he was just non stop meowing. It was max his
face like against the you know, against the bag, trying
to like I mean, he was just miserable, and she
said he luckily like she I mean, made sure that
nobody around her was allergic and stuff, because the lady,
one of the flight attendants, felt bad and said like, okay,
like you can, you can take him and put him
on your lap as long as it's okay with everybody
around you. And they were like fine, And she just
had him like for half of the trip on her
lap and that calmed him down. But then as soon
as he had to go back into the carriers, flipping
out and she's like I I she goes, I was
a nervous wreck the whole time because I've never you know,
she's never had a cat before, and like complain and
cry like that. I mean that would have driven me
nuts for five hours on a flight like that.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but just get a cat and
don't fly with it, I know, I mean, you're not
gonna have to fly with the cat. You should have
somebody catch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But then it's it does kind of ground It does
ground me. I'm already grounded with Phil.
Speaker 2: But it's a different kind though, because you could send
Phil the daycare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess I could do that.
Speaker 2: Tip Does that lady still have the phill daycare? You
know what?
Speaker 1: This is weird?
Speaker 3: The place by my house where Phil would go when
I would go on trips and Phil loved it. There
she the last time when I went to Florida. I
asked her and she said, well, she goes, We don't
have in our home, but we just rented a facility
out here and it's it's big, and we have like this,
we have like a fake pool put in an AstroTurf
and it's huge, and we have people sleeping overnight with
the animals.
Speaker 1: So we do have a boarding facility. It's just not
in our house.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, and she goes, and by
the way, it's your ex husband's warehouse.
Speaker 2: Oh, isn't that crazy? That's weird.
Speaker 1: Isn't that weird?
Speaker 2: That doesn't seem like a money maker to like, he's
rent at a warehouse have a facility. So is it indoors?
Speaker 3: It's indoors and outdoors, I guess I haven't been to
it yet. I don't know what she's done to it.
She sent me pictures.
Speaker 2: But how did it look.
Speaker 1: It looked nice. I mean it looked like a weird.
Speaker 2: So the animals sleep.
Speaker 3: There there, and they there's people that spend the night
with the animals, and there's cameras everywhere.
Speaker 1: But it's not the same as being at her house
up the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So now it's like back to square one with Phil.
I mean, I could send him there, you know, maybe
she'll give him a discount since he owns the place.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: No, I mean I could send him there, but or
you know, my friend Jen has a dog walking business,
like she would probably maybe stay with Phil.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I'm ready for two animals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you had somebody come and stay at your place,
then you could have them watch the cat too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose it is funny.
Speaker 2: How like, now that the cat's out of your house,
you're like.
Speaker 1: I mean the novelty got no I do?
Speaker 3: I mean, I really love that cat, and I missed
that cat, and and and then I watching Phil. You know,
Phil loved the cat too, but Phil didn't it. Phil
was like, take it or leave it kind of thing,
like I go, Phil, go play with the kitty cat.
You know, I'm sick, Go play with the kitty cat.
Go play with the kiddie gut And he'd get up
for one second look for the cat, and then and
then PLoP back down, you know. I mean they would
have their moments, would they chase each other and stuff.
But Phil let out a yelp the other day. He
was like, eh, I go, what was that? And the
kitty I guess, like wrapped his legs because he bites,
he's nibbling, and he like wrapped his legs around Phil's
back legs and just was like biting his leg and
like bit him. I never I never heard Phil yelp
like that. It was really loud. Oh wow, yeah, the
cat give him game or what for?
Speaker 1: It was really cute. Though they were so cute together,
I could.
Speaker 2: See see I could see wanting to like recreate that.
But then it's gonna have to be very cat specific.
Speaker 3: Right, like what if they did what if they didn't
get along, or what if this cat is yeah, or
what if I don't I don't know, or maybe I
would have to foster a cat. See I don't know,
we'll see you do that. Yeah, I don't know, or
it could just be me and Phil. Maybe I'll get
him a bird so that somebody talks to him moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Phil fat ass, Oh fatty. So I was
just gonna tell you that LB this girl is living
her absolute best life. It's just so funny how long
we've been doing this podcast. That she was just a
little girl. I know, maybe not a baby, but like kindergarten. Yeah,
like she was kindergarten I think is when we started.
Sounds about right, yeah, because the twins were two and
she would have been five five years. She was five
years and ten months when she started kindergarten. But anyway,
it's just funny now that she's this college year yeah,
and coming to the end of her freaking junior year
in college. Wow. I know. I mean she did skip
a year, but still it's crazy. The next year will
be her last year of college.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But she announced to us, I don't know, like a
week ago, she was like, yeah, I'm going to Oregon
this weekend. So she and her friend, she's got this
group of guy friends, and one of them goes to
University of Oregon, and so she and another friend who's
local flew there partied all weekend.
Speaker 1: Did they go to the game?
Speaker 2: So she told me that they were all planning to
go to the game, and they woke up to go
to the game, but then they had so much they
were partying all morning and by the time it was
like the afternoon when they were supposed to be going
to the game, they were all.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, Sunny went to the game. What he
did with Archie as friend? Yeah, they had a blast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh really, yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2: Did Oregon win?
Speaker 3: It was a scrimmage? It was oh yeah, it wasn't
like a game game, he said. It was kind of
like a scrimmage thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, well yeah, So it was just funny because I
found myself I'm like, okay, well see, it's no different
the way I sometimes life through sixty her get her
location when she's at school. I don't do it all
the time. It's and it's not like a thing where
I'm like, oh, where's Albie. It's just like usually after
a night of after like a weekend night, I'm like,
did she get home? Okay? Is she in her apartment?
You know whatever. But it was funny because I found
myself like, oh, okay, she's just traveling on her own,
like no big deal, Like I just remember the first
time she traveled on her own and all the calls
and like, okay, now what do I do? So okay,
I've got to get through security. And I was like, okay,
you got this. Just go through this. Where's the security,
you'll see it. Okay, Mom, I got through security. And
now it's like, oh, cat, Like what a difference a
year makes, you know? Now She's like, I just remember
from eighteen to now she's twenty. It's a whole different thing.
It's like, talk to you later. I would check in
with her. I was like texting her, going, are you
having fun? And she's like, so much fun. I'll tell
you all about it when I get home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I'm not texting me back.
Speaker 2: Now, got any stories? She's like, oh my god, Mom,
we're so crazy busy, talk to you later. And the
cats in the cradles, little spoon a little bit like
I want to know now right now, And it was
really cute. She came home, so she was three nights.
She left Thursday morning and she was there Thursday night Friday.
She left. It like she got picked up at five
thirty in the morning. Wow, because to get those cheap flights, Yeah,
they weren't at the most convenient times. So Thursday morning,
she left, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night. Then she
got home. She got home at like one in the
afternoon yesterday, came and sat on my bed and like
told me all the details of the whole weekend.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's so nice.
Speaker 2: She was like, oh, and then we did this, and
then she was telling me about something that they do
that sounded really horrible. I can't remember what it's called.
But they make a drink. They take water and then
they put alcohol in it and like juice and mixers
and they get like it's called a boorg. Have you
heard of this? And then they write on each others
and they walk around with them. And she was like, mom,
trust me, I did not drink that much of it,
but they do it like first thing in the morning. Yeah,
this is like serious drinking culture in college. She's like,
they all and then they all write things on each
other's they name their drink. They name it so like
Lbie named hers Elborg, and then other people were naming
it like I don't you know the borgorad or whatever
I was. I'm listening speaking as an alcoholic in recovery.
I'm like, ah, oh yeah. And then you're carrying around
a gallon of alcohol and mixed with water and you
have to then you play drinking games with it, and like.
Speaker 1: Ah cool.
Speaker 2: I try to make my face and not do anything,
like what the fuck? That is so dangerous? I try
to go interesting and she's like, mom, I swear, I
just I have like a few SIPs of mine, and
then I was like, I gave mine to the This
guy can drink like a lot. And I'm like, yeah,
that sounds super fun. And I really really try not
to go. Do you guys do anything that doesn't involve alcohol?
But I did not say that. I thought it, but
I was like, that sounds so fun. But you know,
you got to do that otherwise they won't tell you stuff.
Speaker 1: I know that's true.
Speaker 2: She's gonna still do that. She's just not gonna tell me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you have to worry about Albie.
I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just see. You know, it's just like when alcohol,
when a lot of alcohol is involved, stuff happens.
Speaker 1: You know, that's true. Right right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: How do you feel like your kids are doing with
the drinking?
Speaker 3: I feel like, well, Sunny's the same, Like I don't.
He saysn't, You're not a drinker, Natalia. She will drink,
but she's I feel like she's got a way better
head on her shoulders because she went through it during
high school and realize what can happen when you get
when you overserve your own you know, she realizes her limits.
And she'll tell me now, like she doesn't like to
get They do a pregame or whatever before they go
out at you know, while they get ready, and then
she'll drink a little bit. And then after when they
go like to parties, she doesn't. She doesn't really want
to drink because she doesn't she's seen too many chicks
like passed out, and she's like, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want that to happen to me, you know,
and she just doesn't.
Speaker 3: She's kind of over it because she's gone through it
so much like through in high school. I think, I mean,
she still she still gets her drink on, I think sometimes,
but not like she was when I think she knows.
Speaker 1: Her limits kind of thing.
Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah, yeah, because you know, I'm always gonna
worry about my kids.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, oh yeah, they got the gene.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I mean I so far. I
know ILB likes to party for sure. I mean, I
don't know if it was just a matter of having
that whole year of really not doing much and not
socializing that much that it's like let's go crazy in college.
But you know, she never had that like freshman year
in college to get it out of her system, right,
so now she's you know, yeah, you know, but whatever, Yeah,
what will be will be?
Speaker 1: Yeap, this was like super fun.
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