Speaker 1: I made a decision, I'll pay Sunny Sun yet on
I had a vision.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: What's up everybody?
Speaker 3: Welcome to a brand new year. For crying out loud,
we missed you, guys. It's a brand new twenty twenty six.
I hope you guys are all feeling well. I missed you, Stephanie.
We haven't been in the studio for two weeks.
Speaker 2: Two whole weeks.
Speaker 1: That's a long time for us.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: We've been doing this show fifteen years now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we rarely ever miss a week or an episode.
Speaker 2: We really don't, and we we're only going to miss
one week. So we pre recorded two shows with LB right,
which is why you didn't get a Patreon that week.
That was like a bridge too far. Yeah, but this
was our first like vacation. And then one week into it,
you messaged me and you're like, okay, so we end. No, girl,
we have another week off, and You're like, what, it's
already been like a month.
Speaker 3: It seemed like it was forever because I was in
Chicago still and I was coming home the night before
when we usually record on a Monday, and I was like, what,
what was What's going on for tomorrow? And Stephanie's like, girl,
we have another week off. I was like, oh, that's Rallelujah.
I know yeah, because I was coming home late the
night before from Chicago, I would have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah. It's it feels like so much has happened.
It feels like it's been a year.
Speaker 1: It has. It feels like a lot of life. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I trip, Yeah, I've not taken any trips, but the
kids have been home.
Speaker 3: And I have a gift for you that you're going
to open.
Speaker 2: Then I'm going to open on the error. Yes.
Speaker 1: Should we talk about that? Want me to set that up?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: So okay, there's this guy that we found years ago.
His name is Robert Phelps and you can look at
him on his Instagram. His his instagram is Robert pH
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S Art Robert Phelps Art on Instagram. And he is
this phenomenal gifted artist that paints mostly animals, people's pets.
And somebody had him pay Molly for us years ago
and we loved it so much, which I still have
that's up in our house. And then I had him
paid whenever somebody in the family's little doggie passed away,
I would have him paint a little art, you know,
for their dog, and it was really I liked it.
It was a nice gift to give to people. And
then he also painted Phil out of Nowhere, like somebody
had him do Phil, and he just sort of captures
your your animal's soul. It's really hard to explain unless
you know your dog. Like you can look at the
painting and go, oh, it's beautiful, but when you really
know your pet, you see he really has this gift
of capturing their soul, like their eyes.
Speaker 1: You see it in his paintings.
Speaker 3: So when people passed away, I was like, I really
want him to paint a picture of people for you,
because we never give each other gifts and we don't
need to, but this was kind of important.
Speaker 2: I really wanted it was so sweet of you, and
I'm so excited and so should I?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Should I open it? So? He so, So.
Speaker 1: I have it here wrapped.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna videotape it and we'll put it on
our Facebook page, yeah, or Instagram.
Speaker 2: So he sent me a card. Dear Stephanie. It was
an absolute joy painting such a beautiful girl. I hope
this painting helps keep her shining with you always warm
regards Robert.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, and by the way, this has been sitting
in my house for a week.
Speaker 2: Okay. Oh, I like that he sent like wrapping paper, Ellie.
Speaker 1: Oh now it's oh now okay, story Bobe.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So Stephanie sent me a couple of pictures of people
that I sent along time.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Look at me. And I asked for Oh my god,
so exact is it? But not but not like not
like paint just painting the picture right, you're so.
Speaker 1: Right, like he capt spirit, He captures it.
Speaker 2: Should I bring do you want to bring it closer?
Speaker 1: Okay? So we'll take I'll take better pictures and we'll
post it.
Speaker 2: Okay. And I asked for her tags because the picture
had really old tags and it wasn't the weren't the
her tag that she usually wears. So I asked if
it could be. So he had to go off of me,
just explaining like a pit like the tags, yes, and
how you wanted it and did he yes, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: Ah, oh, I love it.
Speaker 3: So you see what I mean, how he captures their
soul like it just you can like just like stare
at it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to put it in my office. I'm going
to put it where I do my podcast. Oh nice,
look at it all the time. Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I would car and hug you, but it would break
up our show. Yeah, no, it's okay, thank you. Yeah,
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: So I love it so much.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're doing.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Robert, yeah listening.
Speaker 1: Yes, go check him out. Robert Phelps art.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. You know who else I want to
think is a my GLP lady.
Speaker 1: Ah, how's that going.
Speaker 2: I just want to say that I've kind of come
full circle on the you know, I was really anxious
about it and then and then I got some heat
a little bit when I was like, yeah, I've been
taking the GOLP and it's good. Oh. Then I was
feeling a little bit like I'd taken too much. I
do have to get used to it because when I
first was on it, as I said, I couldn't I
was like, I can't eat at all. But then I
I went down in the dose and I was basically
microdosing one MILLI you start at two point five, but
then I was doing one. But anyway, long story short,
I've adjusted out and now I'm at like almost two
and a half, almost at what most people start with.
And it's pretty great. And I'm going to tell you
why it's the I can understand why I've heard that
people like Oprah have gotten sober using it, like even
though they just took it to lose weight. It does
something to the sort of compulsive feeling that you want
to just overeat and that you can't get full. And
it's like it's not just a physical thing. It doesn't
just make you feel It does also make you feel
full quicker. It just changes a little bit of something
in the way your brain works so that you don't
feel like, oh my god, I can't get satisfied right right.
It really does work in a way that I haven't
felt like, I'm so much less compulsive about sugar, so.
Speaker 1: Like the sugar cratings are completely gone.
Speaker 2: Well I'm not going to say they're completely gone, that
would not be true, okay, but like I originally lost
some weight, but also you know how like, well you
probably don't have this, this is like a me thing.
But in the past, always whenever I've lost weight, even
if I didn't have a lot of weight to lose.
But if I had some weight to lose and then
I lost some weight, a compulsive feeling would kick in.
It's very all or nothing. My brain is very all
or nothing. So it felt very much like, well, if
I lost some weight, then now I could be.
Speaker 1: Really skinny, right, you know, Yeah, I'm going to keep going.
Speaker 2: And it's not if you're thinking like, oh, that's just anorexic.
It's not that. It's more like I have to be
working towards something. I've got to achieve this. I'm already
I'm having control, so now I want to stay in control,
and but I'm not having that this time. I'm like, Okay,
I lost some weight. I fit back into my like cool,
Like I'd like to keep the feeling going of not
feeling like thinking about food all the time. It really
does do the thing that they say reduces the food noise.
And our girl, my girl Karen, who I is in
our Facebook group, has been helping a lot of our
fcol people wow. And she said that she will do
fifteen percent off. She's not an advertiser on our show.
I just a bunch of people were saying like, can
I use your girl? Because some of the things that
even things we advertise, which are great and I have
a friend who's using one of our advertisers, but it
is a little bit more pricey because you have to
sometimes pay for months up front. You know, they get
you in with an introductory price, but then you're going
to pay more. Listen, you get for that, you do
get ongoing care from doctors. But if you don't feel
like you need that, yeah, and you just want the
medication right, good instructions, and she sends you everything you need,
it's it. Yeah, so you're just staying at that at
that dose, you're not you feel like you don't need to.
I've gotten a couple more vials of it, and but
I have been well, no, I did go up. So
I had originally gone from two to one, and then
I've slowly climbed back up and now I'm back at
like a little over two. Okay, But and it's doing
the thing that it was doing before. Listen, some people
are on like fifteen, Wow, you can go way up.
She's but it's not like I'm It's not like you
know Heroin right, you need a lot?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Guys know what I mean. Like you know when you're
doing like, yeah, heroin and you're.
Speaker 1: Feel like you need more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got to shoot him a lot more.
Do I get the same high? God? Darn it? Well
that's great.
Speaker 3: I like that that you now feeling like you can
fit into your jeans and feeling better.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it doesn't stop from wearing hugely baggy sweats
every day, of course not. But I can see why
people like it for other compulsive things. I know people
who have used it to help quit smoking, for like
it can help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not suggesting that you go to GLP. I'm
just saying it's it's a cool side effect.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, I've heard about that.
Speaker 3: And I amn't going to have an appointment soon with
my doctor knock around for my yearly checkup.
Speaker 2: So I have one coming up, you do, yes, I
wonder if we have it the same day. I feel
like my knock around appointment, I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Off they may, I mean it's soon?
Speaker 2: Is it soon? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, mine's not for a while. Mine's for like a.
Speaker 2: Mine is Oh, mine's on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, mine's from like in a month. Oh
I just made the appointment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so Thursday's actually really perfect because tomorrow I'm
getting a tattoo.
Speaker 1: You are yes, and what are you getting?
Speaker 2: And where you're thinking. If you're thinking, oh, you're going
to get a tattoo of Pepo, you would be incorrect
not getting a tattoo of Pepo. I'm getting a tattoo.
I think I said this before of the I want
the outline of the state of California.
Speaker 1: That's cool on my forearm really like, oh, I'm by
your wrist.
Speaker 2: Like but like here right under your risk forearm. Yeah, yeah,
like above my wrist, how big? See funny thing you
should say that. So when I was with Sadie, I'm
going to the guy at the Honorable Society where Sadie
got her big tattoo. And of course I don't know
with tattoos. I feel like a lot of people are
of the mind that bigger is better, but I'm not
of that mind. Now. Yeah, So he showed me three drawings.
He was like, I made three designs for you, and
the smaller of the designs was still a little too
big for me. But then say I was like, yeah,
I think this, but like a little bit smaller than that.
And Sadie's like, what, no, that's that's so small. And
I was like, it's not that small, you know. He
don't want a giant I don't want to be I
don't want my arm to be like Caliver, right, just
want it to be like kind of something for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 3: Somebody I know just got a tattoo of their their
kids first initial on their arm, like right, kind of
like on the inside of their arm, near the back
of the by the elbow, on the opposite side of
the elbow. Okay, just a little, just a little like initial.
But it's so small it looks like dirt. Oh that's
the thing.
Speaker 1: And but but it is just an initial, it's not anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, this would be a good couple inches.
Speaker 1: Yeah or what see, that's the thing you want it.
Speaker 3: You don't want it too little because then somebody's going
to be like, you got something on your arm?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, but I think the design, I think
the one that he drew was like three inches. It
was pretty big. I I don't want like a little
one where you'd have to be close to it. It is, right,
but like okay, like that two inches big? Yeah, like
two and a half inches me. Yeah, I don't know.
That's great anyway. Doing that, John was annoyed.
Speaker 1: Because well, John doesn't have any tattoos, does he?
Speaker 2: No? No, No, he's a loss from Connecticut. He's there.
The man has no he has edge in his personality
and in his but he's not an edgy man. The
guy's been wearing listen, he was like a gap guy.
I think maybe J Crew. I got him into Lucky brand,
but that was years ago, and now Lucky is like
the official Dad brand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's not like cool, right right, No, but.
Speaker 2: He's been He wears the same jeans and the same
like the same look as for like twenty something yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a dude. I had to do that, Sonny.
Speaker 3: I had to update his wardrobe for Christmas because he
was wearing the same Nike sweatpants, the kind that's tight
around the ankle, and Natalian and I were like, dude,
that's not cool, Like you don't want to wear you know,
sweat You want sweatpants that are just lay flat around
the ankle, just a straight leg, not not bunches up
around the ankle. Yeah, so I got him some like
Alo sweatpants, not like these, right.
Speaker 2: Or like what I'm but I got a pair. I
know what you're saying. I got a pair of sweats
that are like just the straight leg.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the straight leg. That's what he needed. So I
got him a pair of those. Somebody gave him jeans
for Christmas. He has not worn jeans since he was
six years old. Never You've never seen sonnywear jeans.
Speaker 2: I get it. I know they're not comfortable. Once you've
been in sweats for a while, You're like, why would
I want to have to buttons that have.
Speaker 1: It like I waist now?
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, they're nice that you can
wear them, like if you get dressed up and you
got to go out to a nice restaurant or whatever.
But he's like, yeah, other than that, probably never gonna
wear them. You got a pair of two Levi jeans. Yeah,
he's not wearing them. So how was your Christmas?
Speaker 2: Well wait, but how was your the gift exchange? Oh?
Speaker 3: So yeah, we went to Chicago and it was so
it's just Sonny and I went and it was It
was interesting because Natalia went to her dad's and Sonny
and I went to Chicago and the gift exchange.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was better. This year. It was good.
Speaker 3: So I got the same girl I got. I got
one of the wives, my nephew's wives. She got me,
so I got her.
Speaker 1: She got me.
Speaker 3: I got her like some face stuff, some like nighttime
face stuff. And she got me a Bruce Springsteen T
shirt that says like LA eighty four or something like that,
and on the back it says Bruce.
Speaker 1: So she got me that. So it was cute. It
was good. It was better than a utility.
Speaker 2: Flash like one hundred dollars though it was fifty dollars.
Oh okay, yeah yeah. And then I got and then
what did she buy for herself with the leftover? I'm
totally kidding that's that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that it was like a nice yeah, Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 2: It was cute.
Speaker 3: She actually asked Suzanne like for a couple ideas, and
Suzanne helped her.
Speaker 1: Oh it was cute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was whatever, Like I'm not expecting, you know,
walking away with a bunch of you know.
Speaker 2: Oh, but you were probably excited when you opened the eyes.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was.
Speaker 2: Is it fit? Yeah it fits?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should have.
Speaker 2: Well it's too cold today, but it's cute, just T
shirt Okay, And then did you guys, do your seafood.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, we went to Bob Chin's. We're not
going there anymore. First of all, I just only started
going to Chicago in the last few years since this
the divorce. They have been going to Bobchin's for twenty
years with their other family that they get together. There's
Wendy's friends get together with their kids. They come every
Christmas Eve. Wendy, remember two years ago Wendy got sick,
yes from bobchin It was two years ago. Same thing
happened again this year. So last year she didn't eat
any shellfish. This time she ate one of those little
mini crab claw leggy things she had, like one or
two of them.
Speaker 1: Woke up in the morning vomiting.
Speaker 3: Diary everything I had to do the whole spread, got
up early in the morning, did everything, like helped her
put I you know, she laid in bed, told me
where to this time. She didn't even care what platters
I put them on. She's like, just do whatever you
want to do. And same thing happened again. So she's
alertic she is allergic. Yeah, Susanne, the same thing happened
to Suzanne later in life, like all of a sudden,
she can't have shellfish, Like the same thing, same symptoms,
same everything comes on a couple hours after you eat it,
and so she's just like I thought, she was hoping
that it was maybe she ate something bad that night, right,
But she stayed away from shellfish throughout the years. And
now she went there again and had a little bit
of shellfish. Now she's allergic to it, I think, so
she can't have it. But it was pretty bad to
wake up Christmas morning knowing that you got like two
other families coming over with their kids showing up at
like ten am with the big locks and bagels spread
that needs to be put out and all the you
know traditional stuff she makes, like upside down French toast
casserole thing that she makes, like you know, got to
put it in the oven and gotta do this, Gotta
defrost the breadth, got to cut up the tomatoes and
the onions for the blocks, and so it was fine,
but I like had a full day of putting everything
out and doing it all for her, which was which
was fine, but that sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sucked for her. Yeah, it was pretty bad.
Speaker 3: But she felt better as the day went on, and
then so yeah, that we did our gift exchange, but
Natalia so face I told Natalia because we're two hours
ahead in Chicago, and I sent her a text in
the morning and I said, because I was up really early,
and I said, call us when you you know, FaceTime
us when you get up or whenever you know want.
So she facetimed she was at her dad's before she
even left her bedroom. She went in her bathroom to
do her contacts, brush her teeth. She face timed us
and we were right in the middle of opening gifts,
and her little cousin Riley, who loves Natalia, she's like.
Speaker 1: She's like, Natalia, I wish you were here.
Speaker 3: And she was on the phone with Natalia. Natalia just
bursted into tears crying. Was so sad. She's like, I
miss you, guys. I wish I was there, you know.
And it was so I was like, well, now you know,
Nuice to be you, I I wish you but yeah,
so she was like really sad. But she had Phil
with her and Malibu and and that worked out nicely.
Speaker 2: And then did she get any Christmas presents over there?
Speaker 1: She got Yeah, she got a lot of Christmas presents. Okay, yeah,
she was.
Speaker 3: She did pretty well for herself over at her dad's
but yeah, it was it was good. We had this
Uber driver on the way to the airport and so
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had this lingering cough on the way to the airport. Okay,
I know that, I know you know this about me.
I hate being in an uber, like I just want
to say, hey, can you.
Speaker 1: Just scoot over and let me drive? It drives me.
Speaker 3: I break out in hives now, especially if we have
a flight to catch. So Sonny and I were leaving
to go to Chicago, you know, two days before Christmas
Eve or a day before, and all I kept hearing
with the rain is there's traffic. Not the lax is packed.
Leave extra early. So we're set. I set up for
the uber to show up at a certain time, let's
say ten am, and the uber lady doesn't show up
till like ten oh three. Okay, usually they get there early.
This she didn't show up till ten oh three. So
then I'm like, okay, so she's she got here, let's go.
So we get we get our stuff. Now I know
that we're we have plenty of time, but we're also
we're not cutting it close, but we're not leaving us
with a ton of time. So so I so I
get outside and I said, my son's coming with his suitcases.
First of all, she doesn't get out of the car
to help with the suitcase. Fine, even though my suitcase
is really heavy. Then she she does get out when
Sonny comes with his bags, and she she says, is
there a target that we can stop to on the way?
Speaker 2: Wait? What on the way to lax.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's dry having us to lax Is.
Speaker 2: And then also I set it up.
Speaker 3: She's three minutes late, which is kind of a big
deal when you're you know, like we gotta goah and
we're taking us.
Speaker 2: To a fucking flight and it's raining.
Speaker 3: And it's like in lax Is supposedly like packed right now,
and is there a target we can stop to? And
I was like, my stomach drop. I go why she
said I have to use the restroom really bad. I
was like, bitch, go in my house, like you can
use my list, go go. She takes her sweet time,
she doesn't have an urgency in her step. She goes
into my house. She's in there for a couple minutes.
I'm like, oh my god, this is a nightmare. Then
we get back into the car.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: It was like I was texting Wendy, like I hope
we don't miss our flight, you know, because she was
driving so slow. She kept breaking when you didn't need
to break. And I'm not, like, I know, I'm a
like fast driver, aggressive driver.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that she likes.
Speaker 3: Soon as the highway opened up, she could have like, okay,
let's pick it up to the speed limit. No, she
went ten ten miles an hour under the speed limit
and kept breaking for no. You know those people that
break for no reason, They just keep hitting the brake,
Like why are you breaking? Is this your first time
driving it? I broke out in a sweat. It was
one of the worst experiences ever. On the way to Lax, yeah, like,
can we stop at Target? That's how my vacation started.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, crazy, like looney.
Speaker 1: Tune, looney tunes.
Speaker 3: But then I made a note of this on the
way back from Chicago and we were at Chicago Sunday night.
We go through security and you know, like you're they
when you go into the security, they have you like
they go okay, put your hands over your head and
you know, hold still, don't move. The thing slides around
your body and then they go okay, step out.
Speaker 1: So I did that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened came over me, but I
put my arms down and then the lady's like, okay,
step out, and I stepped out, and as I stepped out,
I did the worm like that with my hands. I
was like and I did a little like thing with
my feet, like like did like a little robot.
Speaker 1: And the lady was like, oh hey, and she's like, wait.
Speaker 2: You gotta do it with me.
Speaker 3: And then she grabbed my hand and we did the
like the wave thring like through our arms and she's like,
you go with your bad self.
Speaker 2: I go, Sonny, did you just see that? Did you
see that? He's like, y oh my god, so embarrassed.
He's like, yeah, I saw it. Oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know why, but I was like.
Speaker 2: Somebody had filmed that, it would have gone viral. I know,
moment with the airport security.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2: Like who says the airportsa has no sense of human right?
I know, I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know, like I didn't expect her
to participate.
Speaker 2: Not so cute. Yeah, oh my god, I was. This
is going to sound totally off topic, but you're going
to understand how I made the connection in my brain.
But I was at the gym the other day and
U humble bragg hashtag gym and there was a lady Okay,
you know, you know there's a lot of like connudity
in the gym, and I'll never understand. I'll never really
understand why. Maybe it's my lifestyle, but why do you
need to be taking off all your clothes at the gym?
I know, so I got your house. Yes, I agree.
Speaker 1: I had a friend.
Speaker 3: Every time we would go we would go to the
gym or whatever. She and then there was like whirlpool
area like back when I was you know, when the
kids were younger. She would take all of her like
she'ld be all in her all glory butt naked and
like get into the good nights going to the chikuzzi.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, why do you got to do like,
didn't you bring a bathing suit? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't get it. Yeah, it's not me. I'm just
I don't know.
Speaker 2: No. And it's like, you know, we don't hear a
lot about nudist colonies these days, but people act like
the gym is just they're walking around. But the other
day somebody took it to oh oh, like a way more.
I was like, wow, is this person just seeking attention
or they're just very free? But they were completely naked
and then they were in front of the mirror, posing
and taking pictures of themselves. Oh my god, like for
their fucking OnlyFans or something. Yeah, And I was like,
what do you not understand that there are we're walking
around like what a weird thing to do, right, And
it's like that's crazy, Like I get that you're just
not self conscious and you're proud of your body, but
like I'm telling you, full on like posing like looking
over her shoulder and herself full bush like everything. I mean,
I tried not to look like I it was quick, right,
and then I looked away, but then I was like, wow,
what is she? I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't get it, but I mean to
each his own.
Speaker 2: I guess, I guess if you're just feeling good, you're
feeling good, feeling good even in the Los Angeles. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh god, shit, that bad that you can't have yourself
is a day. Right, Oh my god, we see you
know that whole thing by heart.
Speaker 2: We used to, I know. So okay, I have like
so many things, yeaky, all right. First of all, I
had my Honka party. So this was after, this was
pre Christmas, but there was a Honka party. I want
to say. It was like on the twenty first at
my friend's house. And remember how much I love like
a white elephant gift exchange and to remember, well, I
don't know if you remember, but I was going to
bring back my Yiddish refrigerator magnets that I actually that
I won. So I won them the last last year
ago and it was horrible and I had an early number.
So I picked them and then nobody would steal them
from me, right, So I was like going to get revenge, right,
So I wrapped those, but I tricked people because I
put them in like a gift bag, like I didn't
just wrap it like a little square.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was paranoid that people would not pick it. So
I made it seem like really like something cool. Yes,
And I put it in a bag with like really
made it look nice with tissue paper. Yeah. And sadly
a girl who's only like sixteen, a sixteen year old
girl got it, and I was one of the perpetrators,
like would get it back, you know, No, Luckily a
family friend of hers. The mom felt bad for her
and like stole it from her at one point. Oh yeah,
but I we actually our family did kind of well
because we got Lbie got some lottery tickets and then
one fifteen dollars really yeah wow, and also like some
giant candy bars. Oh so good for her.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then oh of course, okay, so I've been so
excited about this.
Speaker 1: Party and so the whole family goes No.
Speaker 2: That's so yes, Yes, that was our intention was for
everybody to go and have fun. And it's a family party. Yeah.
And these are family friends, these are my closest mom friends.
And Sadie and Xander were just like, okay, yeah, we'll go.
And then I knew Sadie was going to try to
wheesel out of it. I knew it, and she I
knew she was going to try to best deal on me,
like she, yeah, I have no plans, No, I'm coming. Okay.
I made her shop with me, I made her wrap
stuff up, you know, and I was really excited about it, right.
She knew that. Witch knew I was excited. Last minute,
she's like, I'm going to go. I'm going to She's like, no,
she goes, I'm going to come, but I'm going to
leave from there. I'm going to take a separate car
and leave to go to this whatever show. I was like, okay,
but you're going to be leaving. It sounds like you're
leaving before the gift exchange. And she was like, well,
what times the gift exchange? And I said, well, the
party starts at six, so I'm sure we'll be doing
the gift exchange by like seven thirty. And she was like, yeah,
that's the time I'm going to leave. It's like all right,
and then you know, last minute, she's like, yeah, on
second thought, it's kind of out of the way, so
I'm just gonna So then Xander was like, what the
fuck we'll say when I'm not going? Why I go
to talk to and I get hurt, right, So he's like, yeah,
I'm not going to go either. I was like, whatever, whatever,
but Elbie went. So Elby was coming from work, which
was very close to where we were because we were
out in Woodland Hills and she was working at Calbasas.
And then Elby is like when she gets done with work,
is like, oh, hey, my friend, that I only have
one day that I can meet her, which was not
true by the way. She ended up seeing her multiple
other times. She was like, this is the time that
I can see her, So I'm going to go have
a late lunch with her as soon as my shift ends.
I'm like, okay, well, what you mean by a late
lunch is dinner because first, yeah, so she didn't show up.
She showed up at like a quarter to eight. I
got there right before the gift exchange, which with lots
of texts from me going hey, are you still coming,
like you're eleven yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but so what did you get?
Speaker 2: So I got like, I don't remember, I got a
gift card. I got a Raising Caine's gift card. By
the way, I don't understand the fuss about raising. I
don't get it either. These kids love it. They love
raisin cakes. Do a Starbucks gift card. Yeah, I got
it right. They're getting some fried chicken with like hot sauce.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know the kids love it,
kids love the raisin cane. Yeah, I just know about
it because they would always want and after volleyball gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think. I feel like so much
has happened while we were on break, but it was
only two weeks. Had I gone to the jazz concert
at the kids No? Okay? Oh, also so my kids,
man Xander burns himself out doing being involved in all
the things. But they're doing SpongeBob the musical at the
at the kids' school. Oh yeah, I think it's Xander.
Did I tell you he got Patrick? No? Yeah, he's
one of he's like one of the starring roles. Right.
He kept saying, he's like, yeah, I am not gonna
get I'm not going to get a big part I
want to get. And it was I don't know the parts,
but like mister Crabs. Yeah yeah, and he's like that
part seems really kind of fun to me, and that's
what I'll probably I'm hoping to get that part. And
I was like, what about like a bigger role? You
know and he's like, oh no, I can't even hit
those notes, like they're not going to give me a
bigger part. And then I was saying to Sadie, was like, yeah,
Xander's going to get Patrick and I was like he
didn't know, he doesn't think he is, and she's like, mom,
he is, trust me on this. Wow, that's big. She's
like he loves to like play it down like even
though like you're going to get it, and then sure
enough he did.
Speaker 1: So now they have to rehearse and that's coming.
Speaker 2: It's constant rehearsals makes my life crazy because Sadie. So,
Sadie got a really small part and was like, fuck this,
I'm not being in the play, which I kind of get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's like.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go to rehearsals every day of
my life and then have to be through go through
tech week to have this like no lines, oh en symbol.
Speaker 1: She was like nah, no, no bright and.
Speaker 2: So she's not in it. So Xander is to stay
after school like three four times a week and she's
not going to be able to drive him home. I
was just gonna say, so how does he get home?
You have to go back and you're gonna have to
go get him. Yeah, But like I tea, I'm teaching now,
I'm going into like my season, three nights a week,
I'm teaching. So I'm like, John, that's.
Speaker 1: My name's Paul, that's y'all.
Speaker 2: He's like, I got it. Wow, look good for him. Yeah,
I'll please to go get her. So let's see what
else he is. There's right now, there's still stragglers for
the college apps. There's still the private colleges they can
still do applications. And I don't know he's he he's
really only applied to San Diego State, which he got into,
which I told you, I think, right.
Speaker 1: I don't think you told us that that he got into.
Speaker 2: Okay, So he got into SDSU, which is a great school,
and I think he feels like, Okay, we're good because
it's funny. Elbe did not get in there. So they
do some early admissions right for kind of top students,
and he got early admission and LB did not get
early admission and then also got denied even the later admission.
So I was really, I really have low expectations for
what's EPP and with Xander, but he got into that school.
Speaker 1: So was he happy.
Speaker 2: He was very happy. He hasn't seen it yet, but yeah,
he was really happy. But I think it's he already
is kind of low motivation on the apps, and I
think this made it even more. Like the other day,
I'm like, aren't there a few more schools that you
wanted to apply to? And he's like, yeah, I gotta
get on that because the drop dead deadline is in
like ten days, right. It seems like a few days ago, right, Wow,
I haven't heard anything about it since.
Speaker 1: Really, well, maybe he's just gonna stick with San Diego.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or I don't or I don't know, but I'm trying.
I'm really trying to not make it make me crazy
this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen a difference with you.
Speaker 3: I feel like this time, I feel like you were
so shell shocked from what happened with Elbie and all
her applying and getting not even except it's so crazy,
you know. So I feel like you've now like kind
of been a little more like, all right, we'll just
see where the chips.
Speaker 2: It's so incredibly disappointing when your kids, you know, work
really hard. There's a lot of pressure on these kids
to for their college applications. The thing is too I
think a lot of people know this, but it's hard
to really grasp it. Your kids can work so hard
on their applications and we, you know, really drive home
the importance of a great essay, and we hire these
outside counselors and then you know how long they spend
reading these applications, like ninety seconds, like skimmed. You know.
I think they look at the grades, and if the
grades are good enough, they don't I've read this in
several sources. They really don't look at the extracurricular activities
or any extras on the applications or even the essays
until they intil a different round. So like they look
at the grades, they go, okay, moving, we'll move that
one on. They don't get more than like a cursory glance, right.
So part of me was just like all of the
power struggles and the aggravation with Elbe and then to
have her be so sad, yeah, and have a shitty
year at you know, Pierce, but then she got into
where she wanted to go. And also I don't know, Okay,
I'm feeling a little bit like Elbe is going to
graduate college this year with a sociology degree. And part
of me is like, Okay, it's great that she's going
to be a college graduate. I just did air quotes.
But like, a lot of what gets you a career
in the world is who you know, how curious you are,
how persistent you are, how open you are to doing
a lot of things. I don't think she's feeling a
little bit jaded about the whole paying for college for
four years, right, yeah, for what it's just I mean,
and elbe part of it is also because Elbie has
been telling me just and I might talk about this
on Patreon, but about how kind of burned out by
school she is, Oh really yeah, just by the act
of like studying and finals and midterms and like, and
she's having a little bit of like, I mean, my
classes are interesting, but also kind of who cares? And
I was like, yeah, because you're not. There's not this
immediate like, oh as soon as I graduate, I can
finally be a sociologist. Right now, you're just getting an
education for the sake of right having an education? Yea?
Is it not going to have much to do with
what she does for a living.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I do ideal.
Speaker 3: But also though doesn't she make connections and you know,
there is a lot of that like yes, going to school, yes.
Speaker 2: But what does that have to do with like the
subject that she's studying in college?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Right? So then you're like, okay, she She's like, don't
get me wrong, I love college, but it's a she's
feeling a lack of motivation. And also then once she
graduates college, she's going to have to like figure out
what the hell she wants to do and how to
get a job, you know what I mean. It's not
like you graduate UCLA and there's some like welcoming to
the right committee careers. Yes, hey, you graduated UCLA. What
do you want to do? Yeah, we'll figure it out
for you, like right career day. Yeah, now I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 3: Then what I think a lot of kids though, after college,
are thinking then, now what kind of thing? Because yeah,
like that doesn't mean automatically you're just going to go
off into the workforce. But so it is also like
is it necessary if you want to do what you
want to do, Like Sunny wants to do sports broadcasting,
is it necessary for him to go to college for that?
Speaker 2: You know, for me.
Speaker 3: I wanted him to live on his own, have this
college experience, you know, I'd like for him to get
an education graduate college. Same thing with Natalia, but both
of them, like, you know, whatever they want to do,
it's probably going to be using connections with between their
parents and our connections. Probably probably it's what it's going
to boil down to.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, you're probably right. I mean, they can
work really hard, but yeah, that's partially why I think.
That's partially why I'm getting a tiny bit jaded about it.
And now I'm not feeling like, oh my god, Xander's
got to get into a great school, because part of
me is like, and and then what right, then we
take out loans for four years of his education to
go fuck around at school when like he so, I'm
just not going to be that sad if he decides, hey,
maybe I'll just do Piers for you, right or two years?
And do I know I've talked about this before, but
I'm just saying, like I really am feeling like, what's
the point of me being like, come on, Xander, you
got to do those college apps? Because like, do I
really want him to go to Chapman not really expensive?
Speaker 1: And like for what same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even some of these programs where he would
be very interested in majoring in music. I'm like, did
I think I told you that? I think I told
you this that I ran into when he did his
big performance, which we might not have talked since then.
They're a big concert, the big music show that I
run the thing. Yeah, I did tell you this because
I told you about giving Anna the money that everybody
raised for her. Yes, yeah, But did I tell you
about the music teacher with me saying that Xander got
applied to Santa Cruz for the music program and his
music teacher was like, h really his music teacher went
to Santa Cruz and majored in music and he's an
amazing musician, and he was like, let me talk to
him before that. I was like, He's like, I don't know,
because hey, if he wants to be a musician, he's like,
he'd probably be better off gigging around here. Yeah, Like it's
not a great like music scene. And also, I even
though I was in the music program, I had to
take like guitar stuff at the local community college because
the music program it's very sort of classical. It's kind
of old school. Yes, and he's like, I don't know
if it's for him right right, It's like, that's okay,
Well it's a good thing you talk to him. Yeah. Yeah,
it's tough, I know, but they're so close to it.
I mean, this year, your kids are going to be
graduating high school. Your daughter's gonna be graduating college. Like,
then what and we still have a podcast? Then what
for our podcast? And what for our podcast? No? Same
thing about life with grown kids?
Speaker 1: Don't ask him, right exactly?
Speaker 2: Speaking of that, should we say, hello, I've got so
much for Friday. Okay, I have shows, do you Okay,
here's some homework for you guys to do between now
and Friday. Yes, I am obsessed with this TV show
called I Am a Killer.
Speaker 1: I started watching it because you told me.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so good. It's really it's everything
that we like I feel like about yeh crime. Yeah,
but there's kind of a twist, which we'll talk about.
So watch an episode of it. It's on Netflix so
you can all watch it very easily. And then we
watched the Jody Hildebrand to the Jody Hildebrand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I watched the Chevy cha Stock did you
see it too?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could talk about that too. Yeah, okay, okay,
so that's your homework between now and then, and okay,
let's say, how do our friends that are still our friends?
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need to go. Rebecca Lupin, he's so cute. Sean is
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