♪ Made a decision on me ♪
♪ I'll face the sunny, sunny, sunny ♪
♪ On a head of vision ♪
♪ What is life be like? ♪
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to For Cry Now Loud.
How you doing, Stephanie?
Good. This is our Tuesday show.
Yep.
We have a good Patreon for y'all.
(laughing)
Pretty funny.
I was really mad when that happened,
but I've gotten to this sort of stage in my life
where I'm always like, well, it's a Patreon.
It's a...
It's a Prideers really.
I really didn't care that much,
but I was like, this is a good Patreon.
It was a good Patreon.
So stupid.
Soon as it happened, I texted you,
and I was like, I got a Patreon.
And you were like, "Hallelujah."
Hallelujah.
We love it when we tell each other we have a good Patreon.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, my friend Glenn, he sent me a video this morning
of him at work, and he's got his screen in front of him,
and he's listening.
He's like, I love...
Because first of all, your co-host is hilarious.
He goes, I think I like her better than I like you.
It's like, thanks, Glenn.
And then he's...
So he sends me the video, and I click on it,
and I hear us, and he's listening to our Patreon.
And it's like, what's up, fuckers?
And then I hear his voice go, what's up, fuck face?
(laughing)
Yeah, so that was cute.
Yeah, so we do have a good Patreon.
I call the Elbe.
Elbe is on her way home.
Well, she just arrived at home.
I could see by my life 360, which features prominently
in our Patreon this week.
Yes.
And my life 360 just told me Elbe arrived at home,
but she was at a rave for two days.
So it was in Italia for two days.
Hard summer?
Hard summer.
Oh my God.
Yes. Yes.
Elbe at the best time.
So in Italia.
Of course this morning you probably saw the same thing
on the news was that there was an unofficial after party
of hard summer.
I didn't see that.
And there was a shooting.
What?
Yeah.
There was a shooting.
I believe two people died, and like six people were injured.
Doesn't have anything to do with our kids,
because they called it an unofficial hard summer after party,
but it was took place in downtown LA.
Oh, okay.
Way after.
Okay.
So Elbe was officially ended at 10 p.m.
Right.
Elbe was, so Elbe was staying with her friend in Irvine,
which don't ask me why they, they did it to save money
on hotels.
Right.
They could have stayed with us, but there was a big party group
of them.
Yes.
So they all stayed at an apartment in Irvine where friend goes
to college.
Right.
So every, so Friday night she went there after traffic.
Mm-hmm.
And then they went to a hard summer sat, so Saturday morning,
they all woke up, had breakfast and they got ready.
And then at like noon or one, they went to hard summer.
Mm-hmm.
And Saturday night, late night, they drove back to Irvine.
Got it.
Okay.
Slapped there.
Mm-hmm.
Next morning, got up, had breakfast, got ready, and then went back
Sunday.
Okay.
But then she was back home.
Okay, but I was going to tell you this, and I'm wondering if you
shared this experience.
I mean, I was watching Elbe's phone just windowed down to nothing.
Yes.
By the time I went to bed, her phone was at 1%.
By the time I went to bed, Natalia had no phone.
It was just, it kept, I don't have three, three, 60.
I have to find my friends.
I have my friends.
Yeah.
So one, I see that it just keeps saying like she's in the same spot,
even though I know the concert was over at 10.
Still said she was downtown.
Meanwhile, she was in an Uber on her way back.
They were staying at her dad's house with her friends.
Okay.
Both nights.
That's perfect.
That's kind of close.
So then I was like, okay, now then I waited until she got service again and got her phone
juice up.
So yeah, I couldn't go to sleep until I knew she was like not still in downtown at 11 o'clock
at night, you know?
See, I've trained myself and I thought this was huge growth for me.
Not that you need to grow, but I'm just saying for me, now that I got three kids that are
out and about and doing stuff and running out of battery power, I was just like, you
know what?
She's with friends.
She's with a bunch of friends.
She claims they all stick together.
Right.
If her phone runs out, her phone runs out.
That's how I, but the first night I get the call, we can't get an Uber.
Can you call?
We're at Wendy's.
Can you call?
Can you get us an Uber?
And then then I get the call like, oh, we got an Uber.
I was like, okay, but so then I was expecting that was going to happen again.
So none of her friends?
I know in the Uber, they kept trying at the Uber's were not coming, something, you know,
how it goes when concerts get out.
It's like, I wouldn't even know how to call an Uber for somebody.
I did it last time.
I know I remember.
Yeah.
I remember they were in front of some nondescript building, like some brick building.
And you had to be like, I don't know, they're on a building.
They're on Crenshaw Boulevard.
Yes.
Near Chase Bank.
That was a year ago.
Yes.
Yes, go get them in front of Chase Bank.
Right.
Then what do you do?
Just give like a description of what they look like?
I just, I think I gave the address of the Chase Bank and then I was on the phone with her and
then she's like, oh, I think we see him.
Then she got it.
She got him.
So she figured it out.
Okay.
Yeah.
But why am I the mom?
There's like 10 of them.
Why me?
Right.
Why you call?
Does anybody else have a mom that's or dad that's hanging around that wants to, I don't
know.
Like she's like the ringleader.
But yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> I would say that I normally am too.
If you recall how crazy it was when they went to who's party did they go to court?
>> Jamie.
Jamie Lee Curtis.
>> Jamie Lee Curtis.
Jamie Foxx.
>> Jamie Foxx.
>> Jamie Foxx's kid.
>> Halloween party.
Yes.
Somehow I was coordinating.
Well, what the other mom was trying to help too.
>> Yeah.
>> It was funny.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
I was just like, I'll be, I'm sure she'll figure it out, but I'm not going to, well, there
was that other time I want to say six months ago that I was freaking out.
Remember?
And I was like, she went to, I went to, I had to go to bed when she was out of battery.
She was at a different one that was like deep in San Bernardino.
>> Right.
>> And I woke up the next day and I, I was so scared to check my phone and then I checked
and she was in or back in her vine.
>> Right.
>> Your phone charged.
>> Right.
>> But I'm just like, I know.
>> What are you going to do?
>> So Sunny started his new job today.
>> Okay, hold the phone.
Go back.
Last we talked was Monday.
>> Was Monday when he was going for the interview on what, it got rescheduled for Wednesday.
>> We got Wednesday.
>> Tell me how that went.
>> So I took him to, I learned not the job.
>> He got the job.
>> And most of this is a different job.
>> No.
>> Okay.
>> Because he doesn't have a car.
>> Right.
>> So I had dropped him off at his job, which is-
>> Was he business casual again?
>> Yes.
>> But cute.
>> Yes, he was looking cute.
And I dropped him off.
I see Dylan in the window like waved at him because Dylan works in the same building or
with this company as well.
>> Okay, so it wasn't like a big building?
>> It's a pretty big building.
He described it as two stories and it's all these studios with like green screens and
they sell a bunch of stuff.
>> Okay.
>> They do sports, memorabilia, they do sports baseball cards, but they also do like handbags
and purses and plants or whatever.
And they have all these studios where they just do a live streaming.
And he's going to be working in the studios while they do the live stream.
>> Okay.
>> Doing what?
I don't know.
But yes, it was a good, he was in there for like an hour.
>> Oh, wow.
>> I was watching him like they walked him out to the front of the building.
And he's just standing there like with his chest out, his arms like crossed, like you know,
like looking confident and stuff.
And shaking his hands.
>> I'm just shaking his hands.
>> I know, I know, shaking the guy's hand, looking at him in his eye.
And then he got in the car and he was like, yeah, I got the job.
I know, I know.
So what did he say they asked him?
Because I know this was, he was supposed to know a lot of stuff about sports.
>> Yeah, they talked a bunch about sports, but they know that he has to go back to
school in six weeks and they said, that's okay.
>> Can you do any of it remotely?
>> I don't think so, but maybe, I don't know.
We'll see.
But yeah, they asked him some questions about sports, a lot of stuff about sports and what
he knows.
And then, yeah, they said, can you start Monday?
We need somebody right away.
And so he was like, yeah, so he starts today, works part time, a couple days a week.
Like three days a week, Mondays like Wednesdays and Thursdays or something.
And today he works from eight to two.
And then, I don't know, his hours are different next on Wednesday, like noon to five, something
like that.
And how's he getting home, Uber?
So I got him, I rented a car for him.
Our pal Adam, Adam, yeah, he got, he told me there's a Turo app.
>> Okay.
>> You can go on that.
You can find a car with your budget and they bring the car to you and drop it off.
So Adam, a car dropped it off yesterday.
>> I do a lot of people who use that and love it.
>> Yeah, it's really convenient.
>> Yeah, somebody I'm very good friends with, now I'm trying to remember who it is.
It always does it.
Oh, my friend Cecilie, not my podcast partner, my other friend Cecilie loves that and uses
it and gets the same driver now and she goes to certain, there was a person who, it's like
you use somebody else's car.
>> Yes, yeah, right.
>> Yeah, and she ended up befriending the person where her daughter goes to college in Kansas.
>> Oh, nice.
So she gets the same guy.
>> Oh, I see.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, and got the car dropped off yesterday and he drove it for a while yesterday and got
used to it.
And because he hasn't been driving in a long time.
>> Yeah, and then left this morning, got there early and so today was his first day.
>> Today is his first day and he's probably getting off work now, two o'clock.
I know.
>> I can't wait to hear.
>> I know, I can't wait to hear about it.
I'm so happy.
>> Was it pay?
Is it minimum wage?
>> Minimum wage.
>> All right, yeah.
Minimum wage.
>> What are you gonna do?
>> And he's like, it pays more at in and out.
>> I mean, that's the thing.
I know.
>> That's the thing with minimum wage.
It's like, if there's no tips, it's kind of hard, but it sucks to I know.
But whatever.
>> It sounds like it could be a good thing on his resume.
>> It will be a good thing and it's a good thing for him to get out and work with other people
and get out of the house and have a job.
>> Yeah.
>> Like we talk about all the time, how it's important for these kids to get work experience.
>> Is this his very first job?
>> This is first job.
>> Okay.
>> In a workplace, yeah.
>> Okay.
>> I know.
>> Okay.
>> I'm excited, Sunny.
>> No.
>> All sunny, bunny.
>> Yeah.
>> You better work, Sunny.
>> Yes.
I love that.
>> Yes.
So I'll have an update next.
Well, maybe by Friday show.
We'll see.
But.
>> Yeah, we'll see if he texts you.
>> If he texts me.
>> I know.
I was giving you the play by play last week.
Zander was supposed to be going to Trader Joe's.
>> Yes.
>> And I think while we were recording, he was there for a while.
I don't know if that's what happened.
I was like, oh, he's still there.
I was recording and I was like, oh, he's still there.
Something good must be happening.
He must be getting an interview.
No, not so much what happened.
What happened?
What happened is he had to wait and wait and wait apparently for the manager to, the manager
was doing interviews.
So they kept saying like, do you want to wait for him?
And then Zander was texting John who was like in the parking lot.
>> Right.
>> John could have just gone home.
We would like blocks from there, but he didn't.
And then Zander kept going, what do you think I should do?
Should I wait and John's like, I guess you're there.
Yeah.
So I think it took like 40 minutes for the manager to make himself available.
And then he, I guess Zander said he was like not super friendly about it was just like,
okay, so wait, what's your name?
Okay.
How old are you?
And then Zander's like 17 and he's like, we don't really hire that many people under
18.
We really tend to hire over 18.
>> Right.
>> Because they can't use the cash register.
>> Oh, I should wait.
>> So all they can do is like stock and bag.
And which, and I said, well, did you tell them that you were turning 18s, you know, in just
a couple months and he goes, yeah, I told him he didn't seem to care that much.
And he was like, okay, well, if you hear something, we'll be deciding who we're going to interview
in the next few days.
And that's right.
>> You never heard anything.
>> I never heard anything.
>> And what about anything else that he's interested?
Well, now he's going back to school.
Well, I guess he could get a part-time job while he's in school, but I don't know.
>> He could, but I'm like, I told him that he should try to offer, he should do guitar lessons.
>> That would be cool.
>> Like, to kids in the neighborhood.
>> Yeah.
>> I said, I'll post you on like next door and then I forgot to do it.
But I got to do that.
But listen, he could be inexpensive in the neighborhood.
He could charge like $40 an hour, get kids an hour-long lesson, which I think is worth
every bit of $40, and still be making way over a minimum wage.
>> Absolutely.
That would be a great gig for him.
>> Maybe making like twice minimum wage.
And if he did like a couple of those a week, that could be some good extra spending.
>> Yeah, that would be good.
>> Yeah.
>> And he doesn't get paid doing his gigs.
His last gig, okay, last week I forgot to tell you about a gig that he did at a farmer's
market.
>> Oh.
>> They put out the, you know, a box for tips.
>> Right.
>> And they each made like 25 bucks.
>> Oh, that's nice.
>> And he played for like an hour and a half.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah.
Can you do that every Sunday, farmer's market?
I mean, I think these sometimes have other musicians come.
But he could do more of those.
He's trying.
That's good.
>> Yeah.
>> That'll be good.
Listen.
>> Yeah.
>> And he better for him to get an actual job, yes.
Then I had, not LB, Sadie.
LB has a job.
So Sadie was applying some, one of our listeners said, hey, good news.
Ulta is hiring 16-year-olds.
>> Oh.
>> So here's the weird thing.
You go to the Ulta website.
And it says like, jobs for teens.
They have that on there.
Like if you Google, jobs for teens at Ulta, they do they advertise, yes, we're higher
in, you only have to be like 16 and you could get a job doing, being a task, tasks associate
or a beauty advisor.
These are like the couple of the teen jobs, you know, beauty advisor.
So she goes to go to fill out the application.
We found out that a couple stores near us were hiring for those positions.
It seems like we hit apply online.
It's really just like all they want is job experience.
There's nothing on there.
It seems very unlikely that someone's going to get their first job that way because it's
like a prior job experience, prior job experience.
There's like four different places and if you have to fill it out, it's not a lot of
-- >> Right, yeah.
>> So you have to write like NA in every space on it.
So it's very annoying.
But she did it for, she did it for two different ones.
It took so long to fill it out.
>> That's such a pain in the ass.
>> I know.
>> I don't get it.
If you're going to advertise for 16-year-olds, what 16-year-olds already has all this job experience?
>> I know.
So why is that insane?
But I like that some places are looking for 16-year-olds.
That's good.
>> I guess it's, if you look at up though, there's reddit threads for everything.
It seems very corporate.
There's a pretty strict dress code.
>> I know.
>> All to?
>> Yeah.
It's very business casual, which is not sad.
Sadie should be working at like, which they're not hiring at Urban Outfitters.
>> Yes.
>> All her clothes are from Urban Outfitters.
>> Yes.
That's perfect.
>> She's kind of goof, which I think she would be very cute working out like a Sephora
or whatever.
>> Yeah.
She does her makeup like amazing.
>> Yeah.
>> But Sephora, you have to be 18.
And like I said, Ulta, they want you to be dressed like kind of, I think, conservative.
And corporate.
>> Yeah.
>> Flane colors, no patterns, no tank tops, no like, it's very, they want you in like cardigans
and like, I don't know.
>> Slacks.
>> Yes.
>> Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that sucks.
>> Yeah.
>> So was Sunny excited or was he like, no, he was excited.
He's excited.
He was like, although they did tell him yesterday, they sent him an email and they said he's
going to start in the plants department.
And I go, what does that mean?
>> Yeah.
>> He's like, well, they sell plants online.
They do a live stream selling plants.
>> What does that have to do with sports?
>> I don't know.
It's a sports company, but they also branch out with other things that they do.
I guess they, so I don't know.
I'll say, I'm hoping that he did more sports stuff today for his sake.
>> But you know, interesting.
>> Whatever.
It's for his own, you know, experience and blah, blah, blah.
I would guess I was just wondering since he brought up that he could make more money
working in and out.
I don't know.
I don't know how he knows that, but yeah, he says that in and out pays more than minimum
wage.
But that's because nobody wants to fucking work there.
>> Who wants to wear a stupid hat?
>> I know.
You know?
Yes.
>> And it's always busy.
>> Oh my gosh.
I had to go to In and Out for him the other night on my way home from something.
The line was all the way outside and down the street.
People don't know like In and Out in California.
There's always a, I took me an hour to get through the In and Out line.
How is that company doing so well?
First of all, their food, I know some people love In and Out.
>> People love In and Out.
>> It's not different than McDonald's.
It does, it's all the same.
>> It seems like it's frozen meat too.
Yeah, get it.
>> The fries are terrible as we've discussed.
>> Yeah, I don't like those.
>> The fries are amazingly better than.
>> So much better.
Yeah.
I know we're starting trouble.
I think our friend Lewis gets, gets hot under the collar because so many people love In
and Out.
A lot of people ride for In and Out, especially their fries.
I don't care.
I don't think it's good.
But also, even if it was really good, is it like an hour wait at two in the morning
good?
I don't get it.
It's 10 o'clock at night, 11 o'clock at night, 8 o'clock at night, 6 million in the middle
of the day.
Like, there's a huge line.
>> Especially in Encino where I live.
It's like how everything else is dead.
You could go to Trader Joe's at 8 o'clock at night, nobody in the parking lot.
If you drive by, it's like a ghost town and then except for In and Out.
>> Right.
>> Yeah, it's insane.
I don't know.
Are they selling drugs there?
>> [LAUGH]
>> Is it run by a cartel?
>> [LAUGH]
>> What's going on?
>> What's it going on?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
Well, it's not for us.
It's not, I guess.
But, I guess not.
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Boom, yeah.
What else is happening?
So I took Phil on a play date yesterday.
Uh-huh.
Was it two days ago?
My friend is house sitting with her.
They have this dog Lily that's like a mix that was like rescued from a pound.
She's so cute.
She's like, she kind of has like a boxer in her or something, but mixed, but she's one of
these dogs where you can pet and the hair doesn't fill is in prime shedding season right now.
And every time you pet, there's clumps of Phil hair all over my house.
So like Natalia's friends are over there.
I walk into the living room and there's like, you know, tumbleweeds of Phil hair.
But anyway, so I go to her house, did this Lily and Philly have like a play date?
And she has a pool and it's the first time Phil's been in a pool since we moved over a year
and a half ago.
Oh my God.
And he was so happy.
He found his way outside and got into the pool before we even let him out.
Uh-huh.
Cause then I see him and he's like, pawing, trying to come back and he's all dripping
wet.
And he's already found the pool.
So he's like swimming in the pool, but the funny thing is is he had on.
He got stuck.
Almost had to call the fire department because he gets up on top of this ledge and it's
like, you know, he's like, you know, trucking around the backyard doing his sniffing and
exploring.
And he gets up on this ledge and jumps down behind this fence.
So there's a fence and a house and a fence.
And the fence is a wood wouldn't fence and it doesn't open or it's not a, it's like a
gate, but it doesn't open.
So it's about the width of Phil's body.
So he gets down in there and he walks straight through it and then it's a dead end and there's
metal things sticking out.
And he's all the way at the very end.
I'm like, what's he doing?
And I get up and I see he stuck.
He can't turn around because there's no room to turn around.
Oh no.
And I'm like, Phil, what do you do?
And I can't get him out.
There's no way out except he has to back his ass all the way back, which is like, I don't
know, five feet long is to back it out.
I could not, I could not get him to back.
He was just stuck and then he started like whimpering, which I've never heard him do.
And he's like, and he's like, yelping.
And I'm like, how do we get him out?
And I'm like, I didn't, he was stuck for like 10, 15 minutes.
Oh my god.
I would start to back up and then there was metal rod sticking out.
And he's like going to hurt his, like he doesn't see it behind him, but he's going to like scrape
his head.
So then I'm like, no, no, Phil, wait, wait, you know, and I'm like, do we have to call the fire
department?
So she's like trying to get, like trying to get him on the other side to like back to like
tell him back it up, back it up.
Finally, I'm calling him and then now I'm trying to get down.
I can't fit to go get him, like pull him backwards.
Suddenly he just starts going back, back, back.
He gets behind the other, the metal rods.
He's, okay, so now he's clear of that.
Now he's just stuck again, just stuck there and won't move.
And now he's yelping and crying again.
So I'm like, Phil, come on, like back, back it, back up, back up, back up, you can't move.
Finally, somehow turns his body around, makes him like, and then he gets stuck sideways.
He can't, and I'm like, oh my god, oh my god, he's going to hurt himself.
Like what, we were about to call the fire and then finally he swivels himself his whole
body and then gets himself forward and jumps out.
And I was like, oh my god, only Phil, like he got stuck in between, but what do you do?
We were stuck there, like how do we get this dog out of here?
Finally he got himself out and then he went back into the pool and then was like enjoying
the pool.
And the other dog drinks so much water and does not come out of the pool, just keeps swimming.
Like she has to put a timer, like a 10 minute timer till she's ready to get her out of the
pool because and then she drinks so much water, her body like swelled up.
You could see all the water.
Yeah.
Like, this is the plate I feel.
Oh my god, that dog sounds like a bad influence.
It was, I know, I know.
And then finally, the, the drinking all the water, I know.
Teach, feel some bad habit.
I write and now.
So then anyway, then the dog gets out and they're like, I guess pukes up a lot of the pool
water and then, you know, wasn't feeling good.
But that Phil had a nice, it was so nice to see Phil play in the pool though.
He was so happy just like laid on the front step after that for the rest of the day.
Just laid in the pool on the front step.
Oh, it was really cute.
Oh, I know.
And then Sonny had his friends were out of town and he had to take his, his friends dogs for
a walk while they were out of town.
And he took the dogs.
So the girl, he had, there was a girlfriend like house sitting of his friend, but she like
had like surgery on her foot so she couldn't walk the dog.
So Sonny was going to walk.
So Sonny took the two dogs for a walk.
One of the dogs does not come near Sonny.
And the dog, that dog is like the favorite of the mom.
Like, he's like, the mom likes that dog more than he likes his friend, Elliott.
So anyway, so Sonny takes the dogs for a walk and he's gone for like two hours.
And what happened was one dog, he had to like pick up dog shit and then when he was picking
up dog shit, the other, the dog that doesn't like Sonny got off the lead, got somehow
got loose and just took off.
And now Sonny's got this one dog that he's trying to like, who's old and he's can't like
run with that dog.
And now he's trying to chase the other, trying to call the other dogs like, pwn like all the
way down the trail.
And he's like yelling for this dog.
So then he sees somebody and he's like, a good Samaritan.
Like, can you watch this dog like, oh, chase the other dog.
Chase is the other dog.
The dog's nowhere in sight.
They can't find it.
Oh no.
And now, get it.
And get away from Sonny's first place.
Won't come near people.
But then Sonny calls the girlfriend, she gets in the car and now they're like looking
for it.
And he's shitting his pants because they cannot find this dog for like an hour.
The dog was gone.
Oh my God.
They look everywhere, everywhere.
And he was like, I don't know what he was like in tears.
He's like, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Like what if they find out and she's like, well, let's just keep driving.
They were driving.
Wait, who's the person that was helping him?
That wasn't the dog's girlfriend.
The girlfriend, that was house sitting.
But she had surgery on her foot.
So she couldn't walk.
Right, right, right, right.
So she got in the car and picked up Sonny and they went looking.
The dog doesn't like her even.
No, the dog is skittish to people, right?
All come near people.
Okay.
And then he was, this dog was gone for like an hour.
They finally drove back to the house.
And when they pull up to the house, there's the neighbors are out there with the dog.
They found the dog.
Thank God.
Like, oh, back at the house.
They found him, no, they found him like wandering around and they, they called, they
finally got him and he had his leash still attached to him.
So then they, and they had, he had his like collar.
So they brought him back to the house and waited for them to come home.
I know.
I mean, what a nightmare.
He's like, now I know what parents feel like when they lose their kids.
Yes.
And like, yes, see?
Now you know.
Yeah.
It's like, this fucking dog just took off.
And like, he's like, I was in my mind going, what am I going to tell his mom?
His mom loves that dog.
They wouldn't mind it.
They're out of town.
Like, they're in Europe, you know, and there's a time difference, you know, but yeah, he
was like, shitting his pants for that.
Like, yeah.
That's such a nightmare.
Remember when I told you, because this wasn't even that long ago when I, there was a, okay,
this happened to my next door neighbors.
Their dog was wandering around, but, and then we got the dog and put it back in the
front yard and there was that whole thing.
Yeah.
Remember a while ago I was walking people and there was this like, callee and it was blocks
away from me and it was just wandering around.
It was like running down the street.
Uh-huh.
And I caught the dog and then I called, I finally caught the dog called the number on the
caller.
And remember the girl was like, oh, yeah, I'm in class right now.
Oh my God.
Remember it?
Yeah.
She's like, that's my mom's dog.
And I was like, okay, well, where do you live?
Because there's no, she was like, can you bring the dog back to my house?
And then I was like, okay, what's the address?
And then that address was on the street because yeah, the dog gets, gets out sometimes.
So then I brought the dog back.
I had to have another neighbor, a guy who was jogging.
Remember this?
I had to have him watch people.
Then I bring the dog back, put it in the backyard.
And then as I turn around, the dog just goes, shoo, runs out the front door.
The front door had been open.
Oh, that's right.
And then ran out the gate and ran away again.
And then I had to call again, turned out that the frickin mom of the dog was home.
Right.
And just had a left or a door open or whatever.
Right, right.
What happened like three times?
And then it happened another time and I was like, I don't know, you're on your own.
At some point, like, yeah, you're on your own.
I know.
I just, I think about all the times that Phil has gotten out that people have found him
and brought him back home.
I remember when he was on the Facebook page, like, is this your dog?
And there's a picture of Phil on the trail.
I was like, I was living at the condom.
I'm like, Goddamn, somebody left the gate open at home.
Yes.
Yeah, it's the worst.
Yeah.
I mean, it happens.
It does.
But then I have another neighbor who will never listen to this show.
And I'll be loves their dog.
It's a guy.
He lives by himself.
He's, he's, I don't want to say that he's strange.
He's probably a nice guy.
But he's got like a weird vibe with his dog.
But he lets the dog sometimes just go wander the neighborhood.
It is a little white dog and there are coyotes in our neighborhoods.
Right.
So me and my other neighbor who I've told you about, my friend Mitch, who we go and walks
together sometimes.
Mitch is the one that definitely years ago when I got in a fight with the neighbors, with
the bull, with the bulldog.
And Mitch was just like, oh, fucking hell, though.
I hate those people.
What we're, we're going over there.
And I was like, no, Mitch.
I was like, fuck that couple.
We're going to, we're calling the police.
I was like, no, no, no, no, no.
Mitch is like right or die.
So but Mitch is always, he's always mad at that guy.
He's like, what is he doing?
His dog is just wandering around the neighborhood.
Right.
Like, what is it?
Just daycare.
He just thinks the neighborhood and it, it really has a zero training.
It does not come when it's called and it just runs around in the street.
Yeah, it's just like, it's going to foreshort get hit by a car.
I don't understand that kind of dog parenting.
I don't get that either.
I would never let my dog wander around.
Even fill at his size with coyotes or whatever.
But yeah, the dog's going to get hit by a car.
Like, and then when Sunny was on his Odyssey looking for this other dog, he took a video.
He said he, he, he, he saw this bobcat and a coyote just walking together in someone's
yard and in our neighborhood, of course, they would team up.
I know.
Two assholes.
I'm like, wow, that's so weird.
He's like, isn't that weird?
Yeah.
We have bobcats in our neighborhood too.
You can just imagine the conversation between those two.
They're just like, well, people are kind of scared of me.
People are scared of me too.
People are more scared of me.
I move quicker.
Real scared of me.
Yeah.
We should team up.
This is like the, the, the, um, not the Hellside Stranglers is at the Hellside Strangler
with his cousin.
This is like them.
Yeah.
We should kill some pets.
Yes.
It's like, listen, this is going to sound kind of crazy, but like I love to kill like small pets
in a neighborhood.
And then the bobcats, like, doesn't sound crazy to me at all.
I was thinking about doing the same thing.
We could be on the news together.
We got to team up.
We got to do it.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Let's just go scroll around the neighborhood and just like see what's up.
We'll see what's, we'll see what comes out.
Oh my God.
It's so true.
How many times have we talked about that?
Like, how do you find two people find each other?
I got, I want to know.
I'm so like interested in knowing we're going to talk on Friday.
Did you watch the thing I told you to watch?
Yes.
Mr. and Mrs. murder.
Yes.
I mean, that's crazy.
That was a good one.
You guys, we'll talk about it on Friday, but if you haven't seen it, it's on Hulu.
Oh, go watch it.
Do your homework.
Maybe some, whenever our listeners pointed it out, I listened to it.
Then I made Lynette watch it.
I didn't listen to it.
I watched it.
Well, toward the end of it, I was just listening.
Let's be real.
I know.
I did fall asleep a couple times.
Towards the end, it was a podcast.
Yes.
You're like, I can close my eyes.
I get the gist.
I know what everybody looks like.
I know what they look like.
I know their names.
I can imagine it now in my head.
Right.
What do I need to see swamp?
I don't need to see very soon.
Oh my God.
What the alligators?
I was eating when they, I don't know for some reason.
I can't look at alligators when I'm eating.
It grosses me out.
You know what I'm dying to find, by the way, is somebody said that we should look this
up for one of our classics.
I've been editing our classic our, our, our throwbacks for old school episodes.
I have found a lot of good ones.
I found the, the one where, and I couldn't, okay.
All right.
This is going to get in the weeds for a second.
But I found the one where we first had heard, just living in Los Angeles.
Just feeling good.
Oh, really?
And we were both loving it.
And like, we played the whole thing and we're like, oh my God, we're obsessed.
We learned it.
We knew it by heart.
Yeah.
So I found that one and I was like, oh, this is a good one.
I'm going to for sure air this.
But when I went to edit it, so what will happen is I'll scroll through them and I'll
like find a story and I'll be like, oh, yeah, this is, this is a fun one.
But then when I go to edit it, I take out shouts and I take out ads.
And then I'll, but I have to kind of go slow through it.
I have to listen to a lot of it.
And we, there was way too much Mike Bude talk.
We were loving sort of scale.
And I don't know if you're total, if you're aware of this, but I think it's just because
I read Reddit.
I mean, Mike Bude has always, he's always been a problem.
Yeah.
You know, I think we just didn't know that he was, he was much less, well, because I still
maintain he was less problematic when we were listening.
Yeah, because remember at some point we were like, we don't know what kind of, he just
narrates it.
He just narrate the show.
Yes.
Not put in his opinions.
Right.
Just narrate.
You know what?
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I'm telling you Patrick has some, I'm looking in our studio right now.
Patrick has a couple bottles.
You know I'm tempted to take a couple.
Yes.
He's not using them.
I don't think.
I know.
He just has them on display.
Yeah.
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So, Mike Bude, yes, we thought we thought that and then if you recall, we found out some
sort of problematic things, but I was kind of on his side because we felt he was being
kind of wrongly.
Oh, yeah.
I was like, we did a whole episode about it where we were like people are two, they're
the wokeness is getting crazy, people are like misinterpreting things he did and I don't
know if they were or weren't, but all I know is that maybe due to alcohol, I don't know
what it is, whatever circumstances of his life getting really triggered by listeners
or bad reviews, I get it.
Right.
Been there.
Yeah.
But he started to go like further and further into like sort of outskirts of starting
getting too big for his bridges.
I feel like.
Yeah.
And also just very maga, but you know, and offensive and then offensive on purpose, then
he got fired from places and then I quit doing sort of skill rewind blah, blah, blah the rest
of history.
But and so now I hear so much more problematic stuff because you know, you hit sort of a place
where you've had so much backlash that you can either really apologize and try to do
better or you just go fuck you.
Right.
You double down.
You guys can all go eat shit.
Yeah.
So that's where we are.
Right.
With him.
So when I listened to us just fawning and going like, oh my god, and we were in that stage where
I don't think we'd started rewind yet, but we were like, oh my god, this is like the greatest
podcast.
And then we were doing lengthy examination of different episodes.
So I was like, hmm, going to skip that one.
Oh, really?
Couldn't edit it out.
It was so much.
We spent like half an episode talking about it.
So I was like, I could try to string together just like some of the best stories, but it's,
it ruins the flow.
Right.
Because if I find a good episode, I found a good one, which was, do you remember the story
of losing sunny on that trail?
Yes.
I mean, we won't repeat it because we'll save it.
I think that might be our next episode.
Okay.
But maybe it's coming up in a few weeks, but that was a really good episode.
Those pictures just showed up on my phone recently, like from that trip.
Oh, and I was like, oh, God, that's the trip that we, I lost sunny on hiking trail.
Yeah.
And you were with a little Buddha, little Buddha, little Cammy.
Yeah.
With their family.
Yeah.
But I was, oh, so what I was trying to get to was I've been looking like crazy for the
time that we discussed abducted and plain sight.
Yes.
It was a great episode.
But Kaelin did not name it anything that would tip that we were talking about that.
So I have listened to, so I looked up when it came out.
I was just going to say it came out in May, something 2017.
Okay.
So I went to that.
I went to when it would have come out.
I don't think we, we both watched it right when it came out.
Right.
We've been out for a little while, but I'm telling you, I've gone through like the rest of the
year basically trying to find really the episode.
I cannot find it.
So if anybody wants to go scroll through old episodes.
Yeah.
That would be good.
That was so fun.
I mean, would we have not watched it until 2018?
Would we believe that late to the party?
We might not have.
I mean, we were busy moms back then.
So I don't, maybe we didn't catch on to it right away.
Or maybe one of us watched it and then told the other one to, I don't know.
I can't figure it out, but that was good.
I know.
I was there.
There have been, I'm so glad that I have found certain episodes that people requested.
The one that was where we were talking about how our kids could find us even if we were
at the bottom of an ocean.
Yes.
They come down with some rain.
You found that one?
Yeah.
That one's posted.
Yeah.
I've posted every classic one where there was just something really, really funny.
But I do keep finding it is really funny that we've been doing this so long that there are
stories of our kids being like pretty little.
Right.
I know.
It's so funny because I, like I reached out to that daily dose of Donna.
She got back to me, so I'm going to text her.
But I was, you know, I was going to tell her like maybe listen to a best of two because
we've been doing our podcast for so many years.
I feel like we're kind of like now we're doing a lot of inside jokes and talks and stuff.
Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, we've been doing it for so long.
And yeah, you just think of all these funny stories that we used to talk about.
I think things that we came across.
I posted the one, this might be the one that's coming up on Thursday where that dad called
you and basically accused you of the dad from the elementary school got mad because I believe
that his kid took home Natalia's creed.
Yes.
Crystal.
Yeah.
And then like spoiler alert, he calls you crazy.
Right.
Because you, anyway, it's such a funny story.
Yeah, he accused me and then I, I thought I hung up or somebody else called and I thought
it was somebody else, but it was him on the phone.
You're like this fucking guy.
Like this guy, you should have heard this guy.
And he's like, this is that guy.
I was like, ew, okay.
Yeah, but still.
Oh gosh.
So many good stuff from like right when it happens.
I think I want to comb back, way back through some of our patrons and see if they could be
posted as regular shows.
Yeah, that's a good way.
Like now that we're far away from the situation.
Yeah.
That would be good.
I was trying to find the one where I did a dramatic reading of that mom from my kid school.
But I went back, I did find that one.
Somebody told me when a rough date of when it happened.
But I was like, you know what, even, even this far away from it, I was like, this one's
going to come for it.
She's crazy.
Really?
You don't think you could re-remember the woman that, yeah, so her daughter was just like a
terror.
There were so many stories about her.
But then she accused Sadie of bullying her daughter because she didn't say hi to her.
Yes, because she didn't say yes.
And then she wrote me this crazy long email about it.
Oh, that woman.
Where she was like a war.
She was like an elbie waved from the car to my daughter.
And then it was a create, I read it very dramatically.
But as I listened to it, I was like, she might still come.
I just, I'd be so scared.
But you know what?
Who cares?
What's the worst that could happen?
Right.
I changed the names to protect the innocent.
Yeah, exactly.
She's not going to get sued.
How is anybody going to know?
I don't know.
Maybe she moved.
Didn't she move?
I thought they left.
No.
And in fact, they're still around.
Her kid goes to school.
A few blocks from where my kids go to school.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So she's still in the area.
Yeah.
Well, she doesn't live anywhere near me.
The mom doesn't.
But the LA is weird with schools.
Yeah.
You drive, you know, you drive to the schools.
Well, I mean, I feel like, you know, it's a good idea to go back and look at patriots, you
know.
That is a good idea.
Yeah.
I'm going to do that.
And if anybody has an, if anybody has an old favorite that you have even close to an
idea of what date we would have talked about it, whatever it is, I will go back and
listen.
Okay.
I know.
Oh, the, like the only issue for the really early ones is Xander.
Like, I have been posting a few where I'm still calling Xander Maddie because I'm like,
what do you, I mean, yeah, that didn't start until like, 2008, like, I don't know when
he was eight, he was still a he, but I was, but I was saying a different name.
But I don't think he'd be mad at that.
Well, I was.
Yeah.
Anyway, all right.
Let's say hello to our, let's say, to our people like, um, Christa, get the shop.
Stephanie's, Stinker Rinkers.
Hi, Stephanie.
Stephanie.
A few in a Ginshared.
We love, we, when you do send us those dancing videos, we love them.
Sandra, it's not easy being green, but you do it.
Jennifer stand up, girl.
Erin is a dirty, Sanchez.
Leslie with all the coughing.
Alicia, Escalante.
I'm from the city of El Monte.
Kelly Bryant.
She will take you to Planned Parenthood.
Yeah.
Rebecca Lubin is so cute and very helpful.
I just want that to be known.
We love her.
You shine, Vospeh.
You just send me a picture.
I did with his baby.
So cute baby.
Oh, I know.
When you have it, another one.
Yeah, get on that.
Missy and Gabby.
Those two.
Mm-mm.
Katarina, you know what to do.
Valorys, a Bubba Fenwick.
Paulie, we love your pancakes.
Rita's rocking that bass yet.
Or a basset hound.
Rita basset hound.
Elizabeth Williamson.
She's got many kids.
Nikki, call your girl and Dick is frallicking.
And then we have some shout outs to do.
Yes, we do.
We already just talked about Adams got a car, so you know about that.
You know about Adam.
But also, let me tell you about my pal, Mike Gerstein.
Yeah.
So if you're in the Maricopa County area, he will give you plumbing advice.
He will come out and give you an inspection.
If you're not in the area, you can give him a call.
He can talk to you just like Adam Learner.
You go to drain, drain surgeons with an S plural, drain surgeons, ac.com.
His phone number is there, his email is there.
And if you mention FCL well, he'll do a $99 sewer line inspection.
So go check him out.
My pal, Mike Gerstein.
Yeah.
So the family skepticals, a podcast about raising kids with no religion.
So you know, it comes out like every three weeks, family skeptical.
Wilma and Frida, that is a fabulous restaurant.
I love them.
Palm Springs and Palm Desert.
So if you're out there, you know about that.
Basic Becky will get you a t-shirt or a mug or a mouse pad.
And there's one t-shirt that I just thought was funny that just says surprise.
I'm drinking.
And another one, if you like drinking, there's one that says drinks well with others.
That's cute.
Funny ones.
Okay, just basicbecky.com.
If you're on the island of Kauai, go to sugar skull.
It's a bakery and gift shop.
They do wedding cakes and wedding toppers and you can go to their website sugar skull 808.square.site.
And Jacob Crowley.
Oh, love Jacob.
ACLU, baby, go give some money to the ACLU.
What are you?
It's not going to do it.
Come on.
Get to it.
So important.
Also, speaking of that Gabby, our friend Gabby is shouting out the United Farmworkers.
So go to ufw.org, founded by Caesar Shavez.
It's a labor union for farmworkers.
Let's help people out.
That's right.
Also just want to thank you guys, even though somebody said that I was a virtue signal.
I said I didn't want a virtue signal and then I virtue signaled.
But you guys have been really helpful with getting me money for supplies for my feeding
day laborers.
I love that.
I'm doing that every week, going again on Thursday, already have an ordering pizza again
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It's an amazing, like I know you guys aren't there to see it, but if you could see the faces
of the people 60, we feed 60 every week.
And it's, I just honestly everybody has been like trying to help everybody's like,
thank you guys.
We have a great community.
Yes.
Also, our friend has a column on medium.com, which is called Unbecoming Stories.
These stories are going to knock your socks off.
They're so interesting and she's a great writer.
So if you're interested in reading some stories, go to medium.com at Unbecoming Stories.
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Yeah, and I'll do the last couple next week.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks everybody.
Yeah, you're a parent now.
Don't eff it up.
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