♪ Made a decision ♪
♪ I'm out of face ♪
♪ The sunny sun went on ♪
♪ I had a vision ♪
♪ What is life be like? ♪
♪ To reach the sea ♪
- What's up everybody?
Welcome to For Crying Out Loud.
And where are your hosts?
Stephanie Wildertaylor and Lynette Corolla.
- Yeah, that's us.
- We're here, we're here.
- Given it to you.
- Given you what we got?
- You know what we got?
- Yeah.
- Hope you pick up what we're laying down.
- Yeah, exactly.
- It's been a long time.
We've been doing this for a long time.
- Yeah.
- Made some friends.
- Yeah. - Some enemies along the way.
- Yes, some friend of me.
- Yeah.
- We've been doing it for almost 15 years.
- Yeah.
- That's insane.
- It's pretty cool though.
- Well, Hell has a podcast for 15 years.
- I don't know, we do.
- Yeah.
- I feel like, oh, I thought of something
that I wanna talk to you about, but in a minute.
- Okay.
- In a minute.
But guess what?
First time I think this has happened to me
in like many, many, many, many years.
So Friday night, I'm driving to go get Zander from somewhere.
I really need Zander to get a driver's license
because that kid loves to go and do shit.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- Oh, does he love to have a social life?
- Yeah.
- But wants to be carted around.
- He has to be carted around.
So he went to go support his friend
who was doing improv sports, like comedy sports
at our school. - Oh, yeah.
- Comedy sports.
- Yeah, comedy sports.
But it was at a school, it was at Oak Park High School.
- Okay. - Which for me is pretty far for us.
So, I mean, originally John was like,
maybe I'll just take him out there and then stay there.
And then we were both like, that's stupid.
Like, I'll just go, I'll go pick him up.
- Yeah.
- So I went to go pick him up and it was like,
oh, it's nine o'clock on Friday night and I'm driving.
And all of a sudden, the road narrows.
One side of the road is blocked off
and every car is like kind of coming to a stop
and there's some police.
- Uh-huh.
- And then we were like, what's going on here?
So I pull up and I was like, oh, what's going on?
And he goes, sobriety checkpoint.
- Oh, yeah.
- Yes, baby.
(laughing)
- My moment of glory is upon us.
- Right.
(laughing)
- Guess he was not been drinking.
- That's right.
- You know I had to tell him how long I've been sober, right?
- Oh, yeah. - Oh, you know it.
But I tried to make it kind of funny
because I was like, I haven't had a drink in,
oh, he goes, 'cause, ma'am, have you been drinking?
And I was like, no, I haven't been drinking in 16 years.
(laughing)
Kinda came out like I'm 50 and I can kick.
- Yeah, that's right.
- That's right.
- I was like, no drinking for me.
But here's the funny part.
Well, it's actually not funny.
It's kind of sad.
So there's a woman in front of me though
and she got stopped at the checkpoint
and then they made her get out of her car
and I was like, I swear to God, she looked totally fine.
She was walking a straight line
'cause they walk her over and I go,
I literally said to the guy 'cause he was like,
okay, you can go and I was like, okay,
but the car in front of me was stopped
and then they walked the woman out of the car.
- They didn't have her move the car out of the way?
- Well, that's the thing.
So she's, they walk her over and I go,
oh, well, what?
- What?
- Yeah, and he goes, don't worry.
And then the cops had to come and move her car.
Poor lady seemed totally fine to me.
She was not walking in any,
and I literally said to the guy, go, she seems fine.
- Yeah.
- She's not drunk and he goes, well, she probably said
she'd had a drink.
- So that they have to pull you over and check.
- Right.
- And then I was like, you know,
it's better to just say you haven't had anything to drink, right?
Like, you know, people say like, have you been drinking
and they go, yeah, I had one or two.
- Right.
- Then I think they assume you've had seven.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- But maybe,
maybe if you've had like, if you, maybe they can smell it,
so then you have to say you've had one,
but I don't know.
I don't know what the right way to get out of that is.
I don't know either.
(laughs)
People think I should know, but yeah, I don't know.
- Yeah.
- I felt bad for that lady, but also I felt like,
okay, finally I get to flex.
- Yes.
- You know?
- Yeah.
I was funny because I got stopped at a sobriety checkpoint
like a couple years ago and I was on my way home
from like somebody's house.
So we weren't, I wasn't drinking.
I didn't have a drink.
And I, it was like right by my condo,
but I did pull out a cigarette right before
because the traffic stopped.
And once in a while, if I'm stuck in traffic,
I'll smoke a cigarette because I'm like,
ugh, I, you know, I'm like, ANSI,
I wanna get out of the traffic, whatever,
makes it go by faster with your gloves on.
- With my glove on and my windows all down.
- Why you look like a crime scene?
- Right, I know.
So like I pulled up as I was driving up to the cop,
I took a head off the cigarette and he goes,
he takes a flashlight and right before you get even talk,
I just blow a poof of smoke right in his face.
- Oh no.
- And I go, I'm so sorry, that was bad timing.
I didn't mean to do that.
- Yeah, and then he was like, were you drinking?
And I said, no, actually, why isn't.
(laughs)
Totally surprised. - Can you believe that?
It's like Friday night.
Yeah, and so yeah, he was like, all right, go ahead.
Yeah, but I guess if you do say
you did have a drink or something, then they got a check.
- You have to check, yeah.
- Probably easier for them if you just go, no, nothing.
- They're probably, yeah, yeah, surprisingly no.
- Right.
- You're like, but I did just murder somebody
and then clean it up.
(laughs)
- Your back seat has bleach, like, you know?
- Out of the glass, we're not worried about that.
- Yeah.
- That's how we're looking for it.
- My blue surgical gloves.
(laughs)
- I was wearing them.
- That's what I was picturing.
- Yeah, that's what I was wearing them.
- Oh, I think I've seen a picture of you
with your blue gloves. - With my blue gloves, yeah.
- 'Cause I normally, when I think of gloves,
like, dishwasher gloves, I think a pink.
- Yeah.
Those are the thicker ones though.
The ones I wear is like, the latex.
- The latex.
- Like the thin ones.
- Like, doctors wear.
- Oh, I picture you with like, dishwasher gloves.
- No!
(laughs)
- It's too hard.
- Are you kidding?
- You're trying to hold a little siggy,
like, if it's a pinkie, a big rubber gloves?
Oh my God.
- Like, you're holding one of those word number one
from things trying to put a cigarette in that.
- Yes.
- Tuck it in there.
- Yeah.
- You're just like, that would be so ridiculous and hard.
- Yeah.
- That would be hard.
I can see now, you're wearing like gloves
that you would wear to be a doctor or color your hair.
- Right.
- Or realistically.
- Yeah, but I mean, you know what I should buy
is one of those cigarette extension things.
You know, like, in the olden, the 20s,
where they had that long, you're cigarette
at the end of the long thing.
- Oh, yeah.
- I bought one on Amazon and it broke within like two weeks.
Just like broken half.
But maybe because I got a cheap one.
Yeah, that's what I should have.
Or I should stop smoking.
- Yeah.
That's hard.
- Yeah.
- You think there would be like more,
have you ever tried one of those like,
like, chantics or what, you know, those quitting smoking things?
- No.
But I mean, I've, he's definitely, he's back a lot.
But like right now, are you craving a cigarette?
- No, not right now.
It's usually like towards the end of the day kind of thing.
Like, I don't get up in the morning,
go, I gotta go have a cigarette.
No.
It's more like it comes later in the day, you know.
- That's how I'm a sugar.
- Is it really?
- Yeah.
- And go, God, I could go for some gummy bears.
No.
It's that terrible, like, first thing in the morning.
Unless you were doing a colonoscopy.
That's all you could eat.
- Except for the bad ones.
- So that's why I'm not interested in gummy bears now.
But it's not like I wake up and go, God, I get a candy bar.
- Yeah.
- No, but it's like, the day starts creeping along.
Get home.
You're like, I could, I should open those yogurt covered pretzels
that the kids ate a few and forgot about.
- Yeah, yeah.
And I have not forgotten about them.
- Yeah.
- But in the morning, I'm all big and bold and like,
oh, no, I don't need it.
- That's how I am with the cigarette.
Yeah, I'm not gonna have anything.
And there will be days that go by that I don't have a cigarette at all.
- All day?
- Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I don't smoke every day.
- Oh, wow.
- Yeah, it's mostly like later in the day,
or if my house, the reception is so bad on my phone,
so if I have, like, the best place to talk on the phone
is in my backyard.
So sometimes if I, I'm getting on the phone with somebody,
I'll go outside and have a cigarette
while I'm on the phone with them.
I'll do that.
- Let me ask you this, yeah.
You know where Wi-Fi calling is on your phone?
- Yes, I had that.
- It's on?
- Yeah.
- It still doesn't work that well.
- No, no.
My friend Tamara, her phone,
she's the one that's been on the show before.
She has that too.
And she always thinks it's me, but it's not me, it's her.
- Yeah.
- Because I have to say to her, like, no, it's you,
you just don't talk on the phone.
I'm the only person you like talking on the phone with,
so you just don't notice it.
But it's terrible, her reception.
She's out there in Porta Ranch.
- Yeah, you know, you should try FaceTime audio, not FaceTime.
We've done it because I learned it from you.
- Yeah, it's works better, much better.
Because then I can move around more
and be on the phone without it dropping, you know?
But like some people call me not on FaceTime audio,
and then as soon as I'm on the phone, they'll go,
hello, you there, hello, you there,
it's so fucking annoying.
But I wonder why if your wireless,
if your internet is good in the house,
then why isn't your call, your phone's good in the house?
- I think I might need a new phone
because it doesn't happen with Sonny and Natalia.
- Oh, really?
- Or other people at my house.
- Yeah, it's my phone.
And are you sure why if I calling is on?
I'm gonna tell you why I say that,
'cause I've had mine on before,
and then I went to check and it had turned off.
- Turned off?
- Yeah, and it was because it didn't stay on
because I had to fill out some emergency thing.
- Okay.
You know how to do it?
I'll show you later. - I'll show you later.
Yeah, I'll check it, but I'm pretty sure
'cause I've talked to so many people.
I also got these extenders for my Wi-Fi stuff,
my signal extenders in two different spots in the house.
Still, I got a little bit in that, I don't know, whatever.
But I'll figure it out.
- That's pretty annoying.
What was I gonna tell you?
Two things.
So LB is moving back.
- Yeah. - I really got a text from her.
This is the text and you can try to imagine.
She goes, "Call me when you're done.
I went to the apartment in new place."
- Yeah.
- So you know what that means?
I need some stuff.
- Yes!
"Call me when you're done."
- That's good point. - I need to point.
I need shit for my apartment.
I've seen it and here's all the stuff I need.
And I'm like, oh, money.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I have to pay her, so I have to pay her to wish and
bill is due.
But they charge you for insurance to do have this.
Then you have to do this because she's not at university.
- Yeah.
- But next year you will.
So you have to, you can't do it.
Your kid has to do it.
They have to ask for a waiver for the insurance.
Because if you have insurance,
there's no reason to pay for double insurance for them.
- Right.
Right.
Especially close to LA.
Like, I can just take her to urgent care.
- Yeah, that is the doctor.
- So I don't need it.
So and it's costs like,
it's like four thousand, it's over four thousand dollars a year.
- Wow.
- Which we don't need.
So they have to get a waiver for it.
And it's not automated.
Like they have to look at it and they have to check all your
information and they have to approve it.
- Okay.
- So what my point was going to be the shit that I need her to
take care of is very slow to take care of.
You know, like, hey, can you, I can't do it.
Third party can't do it.
Can you please go and apply for the waiver?
Oh yeah, yeah, I'll do it.
- Yeah, now.
- Then the next day, hey, did you apply for the waiver?
I need that to be approved before I pay your bill.
- Right.
- Oh, no, I haven't done it yet.
I have to, then I have to be the bad guy and go sit down
and fill out the waiver.
I need you to do it.
Okay.
- Yeah.
- Then of course she goes to do it and she has five questions,
you know, a million questions.
More than five.
Like, oh, can you, I need a picture of like the insurance card.
Oh, I need this.
Oh, I need that.
I'm like, okay, see, that's why I asked you to do it.
Like when I wasn't busy, right?
We could do it to put, so anyways, she did that,
but now I haven't heard from them.
- Uh-huh.
- So my text to her was, have you heard back from,
'cause they will tell her it's been approved, right?
It's been waived.
So I text her, hey, have you heard yet?
'Cause now John asks me every day,
so I'm asking her, no, I haven't heard that,
but call me 'cause I saw the appaulment.
(laughing)
I've got an opportunity for you to spend more money on me.
- That's right.
- Isn't it how it will always works?
Unbelieveable.
- Oh my God, I asked her, hey, can you please find out
who was in the apartment before you?
Because it's all students.
It's not official student housing,
but it's all, it's all these renters only rent to students
right off campus.
I was like, find out, whoever was subletting the apartment
before, 'cause somebody had it for the year,
and then somebody sublet it for a few months, for the summer.
- Okay.
- So I was like, find out who's sublet it.
You guys find out from the landlord
if they wanna sell you the beds that are there.
- Right.
- Yeah, I don't really know how to get a hold of them.
I'm like, okay, well, your roommate to be
has been in contact with the landlord.
All she has to do is call them or text them and say,
"Hey, can we ask the tenants who are in there
if they want to sell the bed?"
- That's the best.
- Right, did that ever happen?
- No. - No, of course not.
None of that ever happened.
They think, all just get these stuff.
- Yes, right, they don't get it.
I know.
- Or we'll just find deals.
We'll find people go on Facebook marketplace,
but they don't understand that if you do that,
and it's not next door, it's just a pain in the ass.
- Yes. - I gotta run to truck.
- Yeah.
- They just, you know, I think,
'cause Natalia does a lot of this stuff too,
to ask them about this, ask them,
I think it's like they just don't wanna bother
other people or look nerdy or look,
I don't know, something.
And it's like, it's not that hard to just ask that person
for the phone number of the, whatever utility company
or whatever it is.
It's like, we can find out on our own.
Like, or you could just ask.
- Right. - Can't you just ask?
- No, they won't.
- No.
I was, you know, I was looking for somebody
to take over her lease at the other place.
- Right.
- I think the Lord have mercy.
She called me the other day.
She's like, my friend, so and so wants the place.
She looked at it.
She knows how much it is and she wants it.
And I'm like, great, great.
Okay, I go, what's the next step?
I don't know, I'll find out.
- Oh.
- So now it's been like four days of me going,
what have you heard?
What did she talk to her mom?
Does she get the okay?
She's like, you only have mom,
so okay, it's coming up quick.
Like, actually, you're already moved out.
Like, she could start now.
Like, what's going on?
What is she saying?
I don't know, I'll find out if I, nothing, nothing.
Like, okay, is she getting it or not?
Like, I want to see proof.
So.
- Hey, it's aggravating.
- It's so aggravating.
- Also because Elby got the keys to her place today.
Today, she can move in.
She's not gonna move in right now because,
and this is, this I'm happy about.
She wants to keep at her job as long as possible.
- That's good.
- The school doesn't start.
Today is like the aife,
and school doesn't officially start
until I want to say like the 25th or something.
- Yes.
- Same with Sunny.
- Yeah, so they're on the same schedule.
So she's like, I'm just gonna stay here as long as possible.
I'll just go, I'll start living in my apartment,
like right when classes start.
Which is good because like I said,
she's working a lot right now.
- That's great.
But also like, you know.
- Yeah.
- Well, I don't wanna be like the day before she moves into her
her apartment.
- Yes, she's randomly.
- Yeah, trying to figure out what bed she's gonna sleep in.
- Right.
- So do you have to go look at her place
and help like with figuring out what she needs?
- Yeah, so take measurements and shit.
- Yeah, it's a pain.
- The lucky thing is because, yeah,
Elby's not super responsible about stuff.
Like for instance, yesterday in the morning,
I get a text from her, mom, rent is due.
Rent was due on the eighth and it was per rated for the month,
but I was like, okay, who do I pay it to?
I've heard nothing about the landlord,
even though I had to do the credit check, not her.
My credit check, mine and John's credit,
we had to pay a deposit.
We had to put all of our past like employers and blah, blah, blah,
not Elby.
- Yeah.
- They don't give a fuck about Elby's job.
- Yeah.
- You know?
So we do all that, but yet we have no contact information
for these people.
And they want a lot of stuff.
Like they want your banking information.
But then I have no contact with them.
So then Elby's like, I go, okay, well, who do I pay it to?
I don't have the landlord's information.
She's like, okay, well, my roommate's dad said
he could pay the whole thing and you can just sell him.
Then it became a kasha, because then I'm like, okay,
find out his name and his cell information then.
Okay, I'm gonna try.
I'm gonna text my friend.
Then I don't hear back.
Then I'm like, oh, then she sends me a phone number.
Okay, no name or anything.
She goes, that's the cell number.
And I go, okay, I try putting it into cell.
It comes up with no, no, no, no register
and under that number.
So I'm not gonna just put it through.
- No.
- I go, what's the name?
Hold on.
So then she gives me a name, that doesn't work either.
And then I was like, well, that, I showed her,
I took a screenshot.
It's not a person's name, it's, they're not enrolled in cell.
I mean, this, I'm just saying, this is so many steps.
So then I text her back, she goes, okay, let me,
let me look into it.
Meanwhile, I'm just like, she's not looking into it
on my time schedule.
- I hate this.
- She's looking into it on her time schedule,
between like looking at some TikToks,
making a phone call, getting the T from her friend.
But so I'm like, let me, so I text the number
and it is the guy.
I'm like, hey, is this someone so's dad?
This is Elby's mom.
I'm trying to sell you, but this is, this is what I got.
It says you're not registered.
Then he says to me, and you can see it's the information.
- Uh-huh.
- And he's like, well, I don't know
'cause I've already gotten two Zells perfectly fine.
- Huh.
And I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, okay,
but you can see that I put in your, the right phone number.
You can see that I put in your information
and what it said.
So anyway, he's like, here, try my wife.
So I,
- My wife.
So I try it anyway.
So that, I get that paid.
- Okay.
- And I'm like, okay, small victory.
- Yeah.
- Well, by the skin of my teeth.
- Right, I know.
- I get nothing to go on right now.
- Don't you feel that way about the kids?
- Oh, yes.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It's like someone.
- I need to know basis.
- I need to know faster.
- Right.
- Yes.
Yeah, they don't like, you know, they're not breaking a sweat
trying to figure out how to,
- No.
- Get their shit done.
I know, I know.
- But like when I was a kid, there was nobody to be,
like there was, I couldn't just call my mom and go,
hey, can you sell our apartment manager?
- Did you imagine her?
- No.
No.
- If she wanted to go on a field trip,
I had to make sure that somebody gave me the money
that I would take it to school on time.
Like I did all of that when I was a kid.
There was no way my mom was reading letters from school.
I don't even think they even sent home letters from school.
I don't remember.
Like there was none of that.
Like I had to be on top of all that.
You know? - Oh my God.
I get, you know what?
Let's take a break.
I'm gonna remember this in my mind.
- This thing about having just school.
But let's talk about Quince.
- Yes.
- Let's talk about Quince.
- I told you on Tuesday about these really cute pants
I bought and I'm wondering if anyone went and looked them up.
They're Sailor style pants.
They're black and they're kind of made of a stretchy material.
And they're so cute.
They look kind of like work pants,
but I'm gonna wear them with like a white t-shirt.
- That sounds really cute.
And maybe a little loose blazer or something.
- Yeah, nice.
- This is dress up.
- Yeah.
- Super cute.
- Yes.
I mean, they have so many different washable silk tops
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that feel too good to be true.
- We got these pants were so inexpensive
they were under $50.
- I'm gonna look them up.
I wanna get a pair.
- You should, I'll show you a picture before we leave.
- Yeah.
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- Yeah, send them a box.
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- Yeah, okay.
So I was just gonna say that I get these,
I get emails all the time from Zander's AP stats class.
- Right.
- And I'm like, do you even have any idea who I am?
Like, I'm the wrong person to care about.
First of all, I've literally never taken an AP class.
- Yeah.
- I'm not really not stats.
- Right.
- I don't, I'm never, why are you telling me?
(laughs)
Tell him.
- Yeah.
- Tell the person who's taking,
I don't know why I need weekly updates.
- Yeah, that's a great idea.
- I'm like, what's happening?
What's, hey, get me up to date, up to speed on what we're doing
in stats.
The kids are not in second grade.
- Yeah, that's an I know.
- Yeah.
- Hey, we're working on the letter B this week in kindergarten.
Okay, that would be, that would be something like
we can practice that at home.
- Right.
- But it's a senior.
- Yeah.
I know not miss those days or getting those letters.
Like, yeah, let him figure it out.
Let's up to them.
- That's the real need to know basis.
- Yes.
- Like, if you need me to do something,
if he's causing problems in the class
and you wanna have a meeting, that's one thing.
But otherwise, as we say, my name's Paul,
that's not my monkey's, not my circus in italiasis.
(laughing)
So everything good with Sonny's job and he,
- Yeah.
- Little kids.
- Yeah, no, he's enjoying it.
Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, works all day.
And yeah, he's just,
did been working the, in the green room,
not the green room, the green screens.
- Green screens.
- Yeah, and they do these.
It's been more now with sports cards and stuff
instead of packing up cactuses that he was doing before.
So now he's more been, like,
Dylan will send me video of him,
like in this, in the studio, just kinda,
he was ironing the screen or something.
He was steam ironing the screen to get out the wrinkles
or something like that.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
And he was doing something like that.
I'm like, you know how to iron?
He's like, now I do.
Like, okay, great.
He's learning something.
Yeah, he's enjoying it.
But then it's gonna come to an end soon
because he's gonna go back to school a couple weeks.
And that's okay.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
- This is like his first real job.
- At least it's like something, you know,
like because otherwise, he doesn't have anything
to put on his resume except for doing a podcast.
But like other than that, you know, odd jobs,
this is at least like shows that he had a summer job,
this summer working at a sports media company, you know,
so it looks good for,
he's applying, he's doing an application this year, right?
- Yes, yeah.
Yeah.
In fact, like last week, when you told me like,
for them to do the, what was it called the,
when you switch over to the university,
the TAG program.
- The TAG program.
- I called Natalia right after I left.
I'm like, do you know that you got,
and she's like, I know, mom, I know.
I know.
And then she's like, said it ahead of,
before I know what the deadline is.
- Oh good.
- On top of it.
- Bubble-bub,
'cause Albi didn't.
- Yeah, Natalia's a little more on like that.
She, you know, she likes to keep up with the Joneses,
like her roommates and stuff.
So I think she learns from them what to do next.
So yeah, so she's aware of it.
- If they want, don't forget about my girl, Melissa.
- Yes.
- Because your kids are gonna have to do essays again.
- That's what I know.
I told them that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I might have to get her name.
- 'Cause Sonny's gonna have to do a personal statement
for university of Oregon.
- Right.
And Natalia's gonna have to do P.I.Q's for Sonny Barbara.
Although if she tags, I think she'll probably,
she just gets automatically in as long as everything's in order.
- Okay.
- 'Cause that's a guarantee.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Is that the only school she's applying to?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- That's where she wants to go.
And she has, she's done all her prerequisites for it.
- She's getting there, yeah.
Good. - She's doing good.
Both of them have been on top of it.
So we'll see.
That's so exciting.
- I know.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah.
- So Sadie is probably gonna go to community, we think.
But maybe she's gonna apply to a couple of schools like CSUN.
One thing is she's trying to do a portfolio
'cause she's in an AP Studio art class
and she's having trouble figuring out exactly.
She wants to do, she's doing photography
and she wants, it has to be a theme.
- Yeah.
- And it can't just be, I guess, rock and roll.
- Right.
- Which is kind of like she wanted to take pictures
of like at rock shows.
- Yeah.
- She's taking some cool ones.
But so now I feel like her theme is gonna be
rock and roll and culture and community
and something like that.
- Oh, that's so cool.
- I know.
- Anybody out there has a kid who did a portfolio?
I guess she's feeling a little bit overwhelmed with that.
- Yeah.
- That's really cool though.
Super cool, yeah.
Like culture and community and that makes sense for her.
You know, I mean she's very creative
and I think she would be great at that.
Some of those photographers can make good money.
- I know.
She doesn't want to go away to school.
- Yeah.
- As I've talked about Adnazium trying not to like
put any pressure on her at all and just be like,
but you know, I think she does want a little support
in what she's doing for her application.
- Right.
- And I don't know why she for sure needs the portfolio.
I guess if she wants to do certain programs,
like an art program.
- Right.
- She might show portfolio.
- Yeah.
- So that's her.
And then John has been doing his history channel thing
for the YouTube.
- Yeah.
- And this was kind of exciting.
So this is like more of a Kaelin topic for him.
But so he's been really working on doing the thumbnails
for the pictures that go up on YouTube.
Anyway, he fixed one thumbnail that they did
and the video went a little bit viral.
- Really?
- And it's gotten 300,000 downloads.
- Holy shit.
- Yeah.
But then so then he was like, okay, he's so into like,
he researches everything, okay.
'Cause he's doing all my stuff for drunkish too.
So he does all my video clips.
And it's so hard to get stuff to go viral.
- Yeah.
- I had one thing get a bunch of hits on TikTok
and it got up to like 60,000.
- I was gonna tell you, somebody,
I was watching the Daily Dosa Donna show
and she was saying there's, when you look on,
I can show it to you, but when you look at you,
like share the video and blah, blah, blah, the video,
like the video, there's one thing that's like hype the video.
- Oh.
- And you press that and it boosts the video
and it gets it more into the algorithm.
- Like did somebody else does it for you?
- Yeah, so the people watching you just tell them,
hey, hit the hype button.
And so the more it gets hyped, people hit it,
the, it's like boost your whatever, everything.
It's good for you.
- But then I looked at yours because I was gonna text you.
So I went on yours, but I didn't see the hype video button.
- Oh really?
Yeah.
I wonder if I have to have a certain amount of subscribers.
Oh, that's what I was, I was gonna ask you.
- 'Cause I can't do like, okay on Instagram,
I can have a link tree that gives you links to all my stuff.
- Yeah.
- But on TikTok, I can't until I have like a thousand followers.
- Okay.
- If everybody could follow me on TikTok,
it would be helpful.
- Oh really?
Guys, go follow me on TikTok.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out my TikTok name.
I think it's Steph Wildertailer.
- Oh.
- Steph Wildertailer, let's see.
I'm Steph Wildertailer.
Yeah, I only have 319 followers.
I think that's probably why you can't hype my videos.
- But it's not on TikTok, it's on YouTube.
- Oh, on YouTube?
- Yeah.
Oh, so you looked for drunkish on YouTube.
- I did.
And I didn't see the, anyway.
- I think you should talk about that.
- That could be, I also don't have a thousand followers there either.
- Maybe that's why.
- monetizes you.
So yeah, you could also go follow drunkish on YouTube.
- There's a lot of shit to follow.
John is doing great though.
Remember when he first started and I was like,
everybody go follow him and everybody who was looking
for his documentary.tv.official.
- Yes.
- Well, he has 10,000 followers now.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
That's amazing.
That's crazy.
He went from six, he had like 6,500 to over to 10 due to this last viral.
It's all World War II stuff.
It's super interesting.
- Oh my gosh.
I have a friend that loves the World War II stuff.
- Yeah.
He has a lot of, I mean, he's still doing his like history and hurry stuff too.
- Yeah.
- But yeah, it's really, really cool.
The stuff they're doing.
- What's the name of the channel?
- It's called documentary.tv.official.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- It's a little bit hard to find.
They're thinking about changing the name to make it easier.
- And writing it down.
- Yeah.
I'll link to it on our page too.
- Okay.
- But yeah, so he's doing that.
Everybody's kind of moving along.
That's nice.
Sadie and Zander don't have jobs, but I don't know how they're going to have time.
- Yeah, that's their senior year.
- I know.
I think about though, like, Elby worked, you know, from the time, from January, January of
her junior year, all the way through the rest of school.
- Right.
Yeah.
- And liked it.
She liked having a job in it.
But Zander does too many things.
- That's what I was going to say.
Like, he seemed so busy with his AP classes and his speech and debate and all that other
stuff.
Speech and debate.
And so, oh my God.
Okay.
So, school is doing a play.
And I was like, Zander, I don't think he should be in the play.
And he said, well, you know that I'm going to get FOMO if I'm not in the play.
And I was like, yeah, but you're also going to have to go to rehearsals like every fricking
day.
And you have so many other things going on and call it applications.
Hello.
You know, and he was like, yeah, I know.
So next day, he's like, yeah, I got call back.
So I'm doing callbacks.
And I was like, oh my God.
So that means you auditioned and he's like, yeah, I did.
The thin, he told me, hey, the drama teacher pulled me aside and wanted to know if I would
be interested in being the assistant director for the play.
- Ooh.
And he was like, but he couldn't decide if that was a little bit insulting because it meant
she wasn't going to give him a lead.
And I was like, okay, but even so, much less to do.
- Yeah.
- And tell people what to do.
Also, if you miss a day or rehearsal, who cares, there's an actual director.
- Right.
That's right.
- Right.
- He's assistant.
- Yeah.
- Not all on you.
Yeah.
And he thought about it and thank God he did make the right decision.
And he's like, I accepted assistant director.
And I was so happy.
And then I had to like check myself because I'm like, what?
- This is crazy.
I guess it's the lesser of two evils, but I'm like, well, why am I so happy?
You're the assistant director and also that you're pro.
And Sadie was like, I don't even, I want no part of this.
- Yeah.
- So now he can't go home with Sadie on the days that they have rehearsals.
- Oh, no.
Oh, really.
Oh.
Now wonder why he needs his rehearsals license.
- I know.
- But here he is.
- Yeah, he is good.
- It's good for him to be, to get that experience of being an assistant director because
he's been in plays.
He's done a lot of that stuff.
Now he gets to taste of what it's like behind the scenes and so he'll be a little more well
rounded and he'll have that experience.
So that's good.
- Yeah, they're doing clue.
- Right, that's cute.
I like that.
- It is so funny though, because the Santa is a great kid, but he does remind me, it's very
different because I was not, I was not a joiner as you know, I was, I was not a joiner
and he is a joiner, but I did have that stuff and so does he sometimes.
He's definitely a procrastinator.
He's smart and this is how I was.
I was, I was very smart so I thought I could wait till the last minute.
I was smart and I was ADD.
So I was like, wait till the last possible minute, do stuff when I'm under pressure.
The problem was if you don't like study at all, like I didn't, even if you're smart, you're
still going to fail because you can't learn it in one, you know?
So for him, he's doing great in school, but he will wait and he will be in a cramp at night.
Yeah.
Sunny is the same procrastinator.
Natalia, no, she plans and had a time and she gets on it early and, you know, but Sunny
waits to the last minute and procrastinates and then he's always like, I could pull it
off, but it's like, this is an high school, dude.
You can't always just pull it off.
- Right.
Well, that's is not like Mr. So-and-so's class and, you know, junior high, like this is different,
but he seems to pull it off.
I don't know, but he is a procrastinator.
- But like for instance, Zander took that comedy class, right?
And I would see him and John and I talked about this because he saw it too.
They would give them homework and he didn't do, he never did it until like 30 minutes before
class or in the car on the way to the class, you know?
And then like one day that he didn't do that well, he was like, I just don't know what happened.
Like they told me that, you know, they didn't even have like really, I was like, well, did
you edit from the week before?
No, they didn't tell me anything needed editing.
I'm like, but you got to go over your stuff.
Like you're taking, he's like, I know, I was really busy.
It's like, okay, but that's why I'm like, he spreads himself too thin and then doesn't
do any one thing really well.
But like who can judge?
I know.
I was doing nothing and still didn't do anything.
Right.
Exactly.
Seriously.
I didn't do anything well.
I had a job at Burger King and I got fired, you know, immediately well suspended, but that
was their way of firing me.
Yeah.
And that's all I had going on.
Right.
Oh, I know I joined this thing called Junior Achievers.
Uh-huh.
J-A.
That was in like, in school?
I want to say this was in like 10th grade.
It was like an extra curricular thing.
Uh-huh.
In their right mind would think it recruit me for Junior Achievers.
I should have been a junior underachievers.
I was not achieving shit in high school.
And of course, I did not last very long.
And I seem to remember that it was like, you know, like being in the gifted program in
elementary school where all you're doing is like, oh, you get to also do paper mache.
It was like nothing.
It was like something where we were going to like make something out of wood and sell it
and like right from the beginning, I was like, oh, no, thanks.
Yeah.
And I dropped out of that immediately.
Yeah.
I know.
I mean, my older brother, he would, he was always like, you know, he was Mr. Achiever.
And I mean, I remember I forgot about this, but he built a hovercraft.
What?
When he was 16, he built a frickin hovercraft.
Like, there's pictures of it somewhere.
He built this huge like disc out of wood, like, you know, wood or whatever, two by fours,
something.
He built a frame of it out of wood.
Then he took like bed sheets and starched it and put the bed sheets like starched over
the thing.
Then he took a high, a lawn mower motor from the lawn mower, put it in the middle with a
propeller at the bottom.
And so the thing had skirts all around the, had a skirt, like a two inch skirt around
the whole edge of it, the roundness of it.
And he stood on top of it and he had a thing, a lever that when he pulled up on the lever,
the thing went up off the ground and hovered off the ground for like, you know, a couple
minutes because of the force of the propeller and the wind.
Crazy.
At 16.
Wow.
And I'm just sitting there going, like, what's my wind up, Beni?
What do you want from me?
I had this brother that was like an overachiever with everything.
You're a doubts like, you're going to be a star.
Exactly.
She's going to be a star.
You're going to be one of the tonight show players.
That's right.
That's a Johnny Carson player.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
He's like hovercraft, shmurcraft.
My daughter is going to be a big star.
Yeah, we're like, no, not that either.
No.
I want to be that.
And made the think of that because we were watching, I watched that the documentary, the
train wreck of the balloon boy.
Oh, right, right, right.
I was like, oh, I got it.
I remember my brother built a fucking hovercraft.
But yeah, that was so good.
You didn't even do it justice when you were, when I was explained to you.
But yeah, it was so over the top.
Right.
Yeah, the acting was crazy, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Like, oh, no, to fix the thing.
Wait, what?
Zool friends up in the helicopter and the, in the, in the, in the space.
Oh, no.
No, I told you to tie down, tie it down.
What?
She's like going, what?
Huh?
Give me a break.
Oh, my God.
That was so funny.
And he didn't even really get in that much trouble for it.
No, he didn't, no.
And then how about when they were on Larry King and she, he was like, did you hear us yelling
your name when we were calling for you?
And he was, the little boy was like, yeah.
And they were like, you did?
And he goes, why didn't you say something?
And he goes, because I did it for the show.
Yeah.
People are like, what?
What?
The show.
Yeah.
And then his dad tried to spin that one.
And he was like, no, he meant the show, like the show of life.
Like, like, all the people in the, in the, in the, on our lawn is making a show.
Like, okay.
It was so ridiculous.
Yeah.
But remember when the brother was also in on it, he was like, the dad's like, where is
so friends?
He's like, oh, no, I think he's over there.
Really?
The brother was the worst actor of all of them.
I felt so bad for that kid.
I know.
And one, the middle brother didn't say much.
He was just like confused the whole time.
Is my brother up in there or not?
Right.
That's crazy.
Oh my God, that dad was so over the top.
He was so ridiculous.
Also, the mom was in on it too.
And like, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, she came, she tried to pretend.
Remember she tried to pretend she didn't speak English.
Yeah.
She didn't know what the word hoax meant.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think she went to college in the United States.
Yeah.
She's like, I don't know.
Oh.
Oh my God.
And there's still together that couple.
Oh my gosh.
And how is that boy?
I think he's fine.
He's still around.
Was he in a little friend?
He did for the thing?
Yeah.
The older boy and the kid that was supposedly trapped.
Yeah.
It was a good documentary.
Yeah.
Those train wrecks are kind of good.
Yeah.
They are a little hitter miss.
Did you watch the one about the real story of the PI months?
No.
That one was terrible.
That was pretty bad.
Yeah.
No, the one about the party, the project X, the real story of project X.
No.
Was it good?
No.
Because it was in England.
I was like, is not too far away.
I thought it was something that happened in the United States.
Right.
Well, it was based on something that happened in the United States.
Oh, okay.
I watched the trailer and I was like, I don't think.
Yeah, it's a little bit lame.
It's basically a party.
This girl decides to have a party and then they sort of do like a project X and tell everybody
and then they're all like, it's going to be crazy because it's going to be like project
X and, yeah, it's not really bad.
No.
Crazy.
Okay.
Anyway, this has been super fun.
Yeah.
So what we haven't done yet is some hello to our beautiful people like Kristik at the
strap and Stephanie's a stinker rinker in Athena.
We love your dancing and Sandra Snowden.
You being green.
Jennifer, get on up.
I'm so dirty.
Sanchez.
Leslie's coughing because you know why COVID is back.
Sorry, Leslie.
Alicia Scolante from the city of Omanque.
Kelly, you're a beautiful person.
Yes.
And she'll be there for you.
Yeah.
Rebecca Lohman is so cute.
You should have a tray.
She has a beautiful baby.
Missy and Gabby are up to no good as usual.
Creating another project X.
Uh-huh.
Katarina, make sure you go and have regular dental checkups.
Valerie, it's the park.
Polly is not about her face.
She's a beautiful face.
Rita's rocking Elizabeth Williamson's kids in her baths yet.
Nikki, call your girl.
Dick is frallicking.
Um, I think we did all of the shout.
So let's just add them.
Learner.
You heard about them on Tuesday.
Adams got a car.
Com.
Yeah.
Mike Gerstein.
If you need a plumber, go to drain surgeons a Z dot com and mention F. C. O. L.
And he'll give you a good deal and, uh, or just call him if you have questions.
Give him some love.
Yeah.
Probably your plumbing questions.
And listen to drunkish, please.
Um, I love your downloads.
I've been steadily doing two episodes every week.
Um, I'm sure you heard this week's episode is a woman named Jamie Robar and she has a really
interesting, like, pretty crazy drunk story.
Nice.
Okay.
She's sober now.
Okay.
Yeah.
Thanks everybody, your parent.
Don't eff it up.
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