♪ Made a decision on me ♪
♪ I'll face the sunny sun ♪
♪ What on a head of vision ♪
♪ What is life be like? ♪
- Yeah, everybody, what's up?
It's for crying out loud, mother, evers.
- We just did a, this is our new thing.
Little peak behind what goes on here in the studio.
- On a Monday. - On a Monday.
(laughs)
- On a Monday is we've been getting Patreon out first.
- Yes. - Usually one of us is just like,
oh God, I got a Patreon.
Last week it was me.
I don't even remember what was really bothering me.
Oh, I do remember it was my neighbor.
- The neighbor, yeah.
- Yeah. - Oops.
- Yeah, so that happened.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then this week we have a Patreon.
I have a Patreon. - Yeah.
- So you'll have to listen. - Oh yeah.
- It's gonna make some of you guys upset, mad.
- Yeah, on the next behalf.
But anyway, right now we're in a good mood.
- Yes, we're so happy.
- Well, I just, I was frustrated when I got here
because the friggin' electricity went out on my street only.
Why? I don't know.
Like at 12.05 in the afternoon, just out.
And sending an Italian off to work, so I'm home by myself.
Now I have to get ready to come here.
And my garage, my car is inside the garage
and I can't open the garage.
So I was trying manually by pulling the rope thing inside
and the door would open like a foot.
And then I couldn't,
- Oh, and then you gotta get under it.
- So you got somebody has to pull, push it up.
And I'm by myself.
So I go to my neighbor who's not on my street.
She's like, I'm kinda close to a corner.
And there's another street.
They have electricity.
They're the ones that I, the husband and wife
and the two little kids that were selling Girl Scout cookies.
They have a gay pride flag out front.
I love that they're the only neighbors I really talk to.
So I go over there and she's home.
He's gone and her kids are at camp.
So luckily she could come and she helped me push the garage door up
while I pulled the string to get my stupid car out.
And then we close the garage.
And now I'm hoping electricity will be back on when I get home.
But what a fucking ideal.
- I love garage clicker, have a battery, isn't it battery operated?
- No, but the garage door is on electricity.
- Oh, okay.
- Can't, can't open.
- God, that's frustrating.
- I know.
- The things that we rely on for electricity.
- I know, there's pain in the ass.
- You forget when the power goes out.
You're like, oh, I know I can't see if it's nighttime.
I need to light some candles, but also my refrigerator
is for electricity.
I can't microwave any food.
- Right.
- I'll never eat again.
- No wifi, I know.
- No wifi.
- Right.
- That's the worst of it.
- It was the worst, I know.
And so no computer.
- Luckily I had to leave and nobody's home to suffer through it.
And I'm hoping it comes back.
I don't know if it's 'cause it's so hot, it went out
'cause sometimes that happens.
- That does happen 'cause too many people running the running
at the high level.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So I turned the AC off before I left.
- At a high level.
- I like the way I use the term high level as if we're just,
we're just really expertly running our AC.
We're just working at a really high level.
I don't know what it is about.
Well, I guess the AC also has to work harder.
- Yes.
Yeah.
What do you keep your AC set up?
- My house stays pretty cool.
I swear sometimes it says it's 78 degrees
and it doesn't feel like that inside the house.
So I always just put it like one or two digits down
what if it says 78, I put it at 75 or something.
But then it gets cold fast.
So then I turn it back up again or whatever.
So I don't know.
And then the kids come home and then Natali is always turning it up.
She always turns it to like 69.
As if it doesn't need to be at 69.
It's fine at like 75, 76.
It's cool.
- So I used to always keep mine at 76.
That was our standard.
- Yeah.
- And I didn't notice it that much,
but it did start to feel hotter in the house all the time.
So then at one point I turned it down to 75 and I was like,
"Oh, big spender."
(laughing)
I could have turned it to 75.
And then that was for like a year.
And then I don't know this year I feel hot all the time.
So we switched it down to 74.
- Yeah.
- And that seems to be comfortable.
- Yeah.
- It depends on how hot it is outside.
And there's one AC for the main living room in kitchen
and then there's one for all the bedrooms.
So the bedrooms, the kids always turn it down
and then I gotta get up and middle of the night and fix it
so that it doesn't keep running all night.
You know, I keep it like 75, yeah, 76.
- In our bedrooms, so we have one of those,
like, well, you guys can't see because we're not on video,
but it's one of those ones that's a wall unit,
but not the old fashioned kind that are like in your window.
- Yeah.
- I don't know what they call them, but they're good.
- Yeah, it's mounted up on a wall and it's got a little vent
underneath.
- Yeah, so we have that in our bedroom because
that's our renovated garage and it would work
that AC too hard to get it into our bedroom.
We would have had to reroute the door,
you know, it would have been a pain.
So we installed that, but that one, you have to keep it lower
'cause otherwise it's really hot, even if it's that,
you can't keep that one at 76.
- No.
- You have to put that one at like 72.
- Yeah.
And it still feels kind of warm in the room.
- I bet.
- Also, Penelope is just hot all the time, poor dogs.
- Oh, no.
- I know, we trimmed her as much as we could.
I don't think it helped, but you know, she's old.
I don't know if I've ever mentioned that before,
but she's an old lady and now she's just hot all the time.
Summer's worse for dogs, especially when they're old.
- Yeah.
- It's not great for their arthritis.
You think it would be better than cold, but it's not.
- It's not.
- It's the opposite.
It's bad for them.
So she's always uncomfortable and she's always panting
and she's just,
- Is she still sundowning?
- Oh yeah.
- It's so funny.
I watched a scary movie with Sonny the other day.
The visit, it's like an M night Shyamalan movie.
- Yeah, I know the one you're talking about.
- And the grandparents were sundowning.
Do you see that movie?
- I didn't see it, but I know the plot of it.
- Yeah.
- Yes, all right.
Kind of kooky.
I mean, M night Shyamalan hasn't had an actual twist
where you're like, what the fuck?
Six cents?
- Yeah.
- I think since six cents?
- Six cents.
He never has done anything else like it.
I mean, he's done a lot of movies summer.
I think they're hit and miss or whatever.
Sonny said that's supposed to be pretty good.
This was suspenseful.
I didn't want jump scares and shit like that.
What you did have, but no slashing and shit.
It was more suspenseful, like creepy.
Yeah, the gram, the gram mother was like sundowning at night
coming out and like scratching at the wall and in her,
in the nude.
- Oh, God.
- Yeah.
- That is kind of creepy.
- It was creepy.
Yeah, the gram mother was in the, yeah.
Yeah, you gotta see it.
It's all right.
So, um, so you, Sonny, it has his job going.
- His job is good.
He's been there.
This is his fourth day.
- Oh, that's it?
- He only goes like three days a week.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- And today's his fourth day.
- Oh, yeah, because he was only up like his first day.
He'd only have like one day I think when we talked last week.
- Yeah, his first day was last Monday.
- Okay.
- One three days and now he has to be there at eight in Hollywood.
I love it because it's like the kids are getting an attalia
has to be there at eight, 30, he has to be there at eight.
They're up early.
Like you guys want any breakfast?
No, we're fine.
It's like, all right, bye.
Love it.
- It's a good work.
- It's great.
- So yeah, he likes it.
I mean, the first day they just had him, it's a plan.
- The plan, I'm gonna say, right?
- Yeah, he was like packing little cactuses all day.
But the people were kind of, they were cool, you know?
And then the second time he went, he did the, he went into the green screen studio and
like sat where the producers are and they were showing him what to do and stuff like
that.
Helping out when they needed stuff like going to get whatever a product that they were
doing.
They did the sports cards on the left, his Friday last year.
- Oh, he did.
- Yeah, then he got to do the sports thing.
That was cool.
Yeah, I mean, it's just like, he's the lowest man on the totem pole, you know?
He's at intern.
So they just putting him where they need him.
But yeah, he likes it.
But now this week he's going today and tomorrow and then he's not going the third day
because he's leaving, they know.
He's leaving to Monterey with his dad for like the rest of the week, going on his annual
Monterey trip.
And he's excited about that, looking forward to it.
He loves it.
Yeah.
And then he's going to go back to school mid September.
- Yeah, not for a while.
Not for a while.
- Not for another month.
Yeah.
And then the week he leaves, my nephew and his wife and the two little kids, they came last
year and stayed with me for a week.
They're coming again.
They're going to go to Disneyland.
They're going to stay with me for a week.
And they're coming right after sending Natalia leave so the house will be empty.
Yeah, it's fun.
I like that.
I love it.
I have fun.
You know, when you're around little kids, you're like, oh my god, I forgot what it's like.
You know, they're up at, especially because they're on Chicago time.
So they're up at 4.30 in the morning.
It's like dark and I can hear them like, running and stuff.
But the parents get up with them.
But you know, it's nice.
I think it's nice.
You know, having family spend time with you for a week.
And then they go to Disneyland for in the middle of the week for like a day or two.
So.
Would you go with them?
No, but I told them I want to go to Universal Studios.
I haven't been there in like 25 years.
Really?
Yeah, I never took them.
The kids never, when they would go, they would go with their friends and parents.
So I never had to take them.
So yeah, I haven't, I said, let's go to Universal Studios because they were like, you want to
go to Disneyland with us and I'm like, no.
But I would go there to the Universal Studios tour.
So I have been to Universal Studios in the past.
Well, not in probably like five years.
But, sorry, John was texting me.
Why would he text me when he knows that I'm doing a show, but he did.
He wants to know where the clam sauce is.
Yeah.
No, we're trying to buy a car from Adam.
Yeah.
Through Adam.
Adam learned it.
He's asking me how much he makes because we have a corporation.
Oh, I see.
He wants to know what I, what I, what I pay him.
Right.
On our payroll.
Anyway.
Okay.
So I've been to Universal Disneyland a million times, but Universal, the difference now is
when we were, when we were young, yeah, it was all about the tour.
Yes.
It's not about the tour anymore.
The tour is a small part of what they do, right?
And they still have some of the cool stuff, which like the earthquake, they do.
Oh, they do.
It's remember that it was like the big things was the jaws.
Yeah.
The shark comes out and tries to eat your tram.
Yeah.
Yes.
Did they have that anymore?
They do.
They still have jaws.
They still have it.
I love it.
You'd think they would like update it, but also remember since it was so long ago, the
big thing was like, this is where Lucille Ball's dressing room was.
Right.
Now you're like, all right.
Yes.
I remember like, yeah, you would go through the tunnel and the tunnel would turn.
Yes.
That was the earthquake thing.
That's the earthquake thing.
And then, yeah, and then they show this is where they filmed Psycho, you know, there he is
in the window.
Yes.
Yeah.
And this is back to the future lot.
Right.
Yeah, boy.
All really old.
Right.
All of the stuff.
Yeah.
But now the main attraction of it is the rides.
And there's a lot of those rides that are like virtual.
Uh-huh.
Why did I pronounce it like that?
Virtual?
Virtual.
You know where it's there.
It's just you're sitting in a seat and the seat kind of moves a little bit.
Yeah.
It feels like you're on a roller coaster.
Right.
And when you get a little bit older, those things just give you a headache.
I know.
You can only go on like one or two of those and then you're like, oh, I don't feel,
I don't feel great.
Well, I'd prefer real roller coaster to that because.
Yeah, me too.
Because then you're outside.
Yeah.
But you're not inside of something.
Yeah.
Isn't there one way where there's the King Kong comes at you and stuff?
Now I'm not sure about that, but there is a Jurassic.
Oh, there is a toaster kind of thing.
And then there's Harry Potter world, which they're excited about.
Yes.
I mean, listen, it's, I think it's fun for people who haven't been there.
Like what?
I went once and like I said, I was like, wow, $20 for some chicken tenders.
Okay.
But that's the first thing I've done.
I've done a lot of things.
Yeah.
But it is funny too because I used to love Disneyland.
Me too.
Especially when the kids were little because you see it through their eyes.
Yeah.
Even when Elby was pretty young, she was always really scared of rollercoaster.
So the only thing she wanted to do was go get her face painted.
Yeah.
And like meet Jasmine.
Right.
No, who is her favorite Ariel?
Ariel.
But there was the meet the princesses thing.
Yes.
And then the princesses went, hey, how are you?
And I think you can get their autograph.
Yeah.
And a little eight year old son he was like, really?
He was miserable.
Yeah.
He was like waiting for the princesses.
Like waiting to go on another ride.
Right.
But Natalia loved Disneyland all the way until like 17 years old.
She would go every year for her birthday.
That was her thing.
Yeah.
She wanted to go to Disneyland.
But I remember end of high school for Elby, the graduate graduate school.
And I remember end of high school for Elby.
The graduate graduate was Disneyland.
And they were going to make them go.
I'm sure we talked about this.
They were going to make them go.
They had to leave at seven o'clock in the morning from school.
And then they didn't get back until like four a.m.
The following morning.
And Elby was like, hell no.
She was like, I have, as you would say, an ass full of Disneyland after like 11 hours.
I'm good.
I want to go home.
And at grad night at these schools, they don't let them leave.
Right.
They keep wanting to stay home.
Yeah.
So kids were taking pictures of themselves and sending Elby didn't go where they were like sleeping
on benches and you know, it's so stupid.
It makes no sense.
4 a.m.
That's ridiculous.
And the magic mountain one.
I think my kids will they went and said, oh, their middle school did a magic mountain trip.
And it was, I think it was fairly miserable.
Yeah.
Again, they keep them there forever and you can't leave.
You can't get separated.
Right.
I took Sunning to his favorite place to go was the natural history museum.
Yeah.
Tell me about it.
We spent all day.
It was so fun.
I mean, we went for like four hours pretty much and we went to every exhibit and Sunning, well,
he just loves it there.
He knows everything about these animals.
We saw the like laughing hyenas and I was like, oh, he's like, have you ever heard them laugh?
And I said, no.
I was like, pull it up on YouTube, like, you know, and then he, let me see the kangaroo.
And he's like, have you ever seen the kangaroos try to take the dogs in Australia?
It pulls up the video of that.
I saw that one.
Yeah.
It's like, so it was like interactive for me.
Like he was telling me I think you look like a boxer.
Right.
It's got like these huge muscles.
It's all filled and holding on to this like black lab.
I think it was right.
Yeah.
And then the guy has to go try to hunt the, right?
I should get the dog away.
It's, they're so freaky looking.
Like, yeah, they're insane.
They look like like, like, like, you have sea doves.
Yes, they do.
And so weird.
But then the female one is cute because they're short and little and they have the little baby in the pouch.
But then the dad is just standing there ready to fucking punch you in the head.
Take your dog.
Yeah.
They look mean.
They do look mean.
Yeah.
So it was nice.
And then we went out to dinner in Italian restaurant by our house afterwards.
MY GOD all he did was, we talked about sports and the business behind it, the you know
franchises and what's a good franchise versus a bad franchise like all the business stuff,
that's the kinda stuff I'm interested in, we talked about that.
It was a really nice day, I really enjoyed it and I think he loved it too.
So I think we're going to go to the zoo this week.
Even though it's sad at the zoo now, I don't know, I feel so bad for those animals.
I do too, it's really hard to see that.
I know, but we were talking about all the animals at the zoo that we used to see when we
were kids and I was like, maybe we should go to the zoo before you go back.
I was like, okay, so yeah, I'm having a good time.
I remember a weird stuff about the zoo, which you probably do too, because we both grew
up here.
But do you remember the smell of those wax molds that you would make at the zoo?
You get those animal molds and you pick which one you want, it might be like an elephant
and it would, it would pour some like wax into this mold and then it would come out of
the shoes for you.
I know these for you.
Yeah, and it had such a specific smell.
Weird smell.
Yeah, mind you when you were there.
Yeah, I haven't seen those in a while.
I haven't been at the zoo in a long time either.
Yeah, a lot of that stuff I haven't done with my kids since they were young, because they,
if they do stuff like that, which they don't go to the zoo, but it's, they go with friends.
They go with their friends, yeah, yeah.
You know what, your old mom, I know, I know.
I know.
Hey, what about me?
Yeah.
But now he's older and he's like, yeah, a lot of his friends are out of town traveling gone.
So I'm like, yeah, you know, and on his day off, let's go.
Yeah, so it's been nice hanging out with Sunny.
That's so sweet.
Yeah.
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What was I going to tell you about, okay, so back to school?
Yeah, back to school.
Oh my god, a lot going on with the kids' school.
So this is so interesting.
Okay, this might only be interesting to me, but I think it will be interesting to you.
So went with the kids to pick up their schedules the other day.
And both Sadie and Zander got a free period in the morning.
First period?
First period is free.
No, is a free period.
Now this is how different my two kids are.
First of all, Sadie was like, thank fucking god.
Yeah.
And Sadie has two free periods in her day.
Nice.
But Zander was like, uh-oh, I don't like this.
First of all, Zander is doing so much.
He is a go getter.
Last year he did not take AP Lang and he took the test anyway.
He took tests for APs that he didn't take the class.
So this year he's got AP research, which is so he can get a capstone diploma.
Oh.
I was, of course, like, why don't you just not take AP research?
He's like, but I already took AP seminar.
And so why wouldn't I get the capstone diploma?
And I'm like, I don't know, why would you get the capstone diploma?
But I'm not the best judge of this kind of stuff.
Yeah.
I'm like, you're doing too much, but anyway.
So he's taking AP lit AP stats.
Wow.
She's, I don't know.
Some more classes than that, obviously.
Oh, and then he's taking dramatic, okay, so this is the point I was going to make.
He's taking dramatic writing, which is basically screenwriting, which I think is very cool.
And last year they did the showcase all the dramatic writing students did a showcase and
Zander acted in a bunch of their, oh, that's so cool.
Yeah.
Their scenes or plays or whatever.
And he got really inspired and was like, I want to do this class next year like this is
really cool.
Also, maybe he wants to major in writing, right?
Like it's armor.
Yeah, be cool.
Even though AI is going to totally ruin that.
But okay.
It's a good skill to have in life though.
It is.
Yeah.
And listen, okay, regular writing is probably not going to be needed because, well, I mean,
they'll still need novelists, etc.
But AI does a lot of writing that it doesn't really matter.
Right.
We're still going to need people to write movies and write TV shows.
Yeah.
And if you have that writing skill, it really is.
It's a good thing to have when you carry it into life, going into jobs.
Yeah.
And it could be a good major for him.
It could be a good major that will give him skills to do other things, but also could be
fun.
Mm-hmm.
Major.
Yeah.
Anyway.
So he, but unfortunately, the dramatic writing class meets at the same time as his speech class.
Oh, no.
So he was really stressed out about it.
And I felt, I felt so bad, but the both teachers, the teacher does dramatic writing and the
teacher, his speech coach happened to be there when we were picking up the schedules.
And I said, I think you should take dramatic writing because you can still be on the speech
team and just not be in the class.
Yeah.
You can still do speech.
Oh, that's good.
And he'll just, and the speech teacher was like, yeah, I'll meet with you after school.
But then Zander was like, but mom, like last year in the year before speech class was my
very favorite class of the day of my whole schedule.
Oh.
For two years running.
It was my favorite class.
Right.
I was like, okay, then just take speech.
Yeah.
Don't take dramatic writing.
Right.
And he was like, what I really want to take dramatic writing because maybe it's going to
look good for college, etc.
Yeah.
And I was like, I don't think you should worry about what looks good for college.
And he was like, no, but I also just really want to take it.
And I was like, okay, then take dramatic writing and still be in speech and just like,
yeah, you won't be in the class.
Right.
And then I started thinking about it later and I was like, what if you on days where dramatic
writing is not like that busy, which I'm sure this is a very self motivated kind of school,
I bet you they teach you stuff and then they're like, okay, do your writing stuff.
Yeah.
I bet you could go sit, go into the speech class on those days.
Yeah.
Right.
That's the point.
And then this is so sweet.
There's a teacher, speech coach, yes, speech coach texted me.
This is what I love about this school, okay?
Imagine if this were like my old school that I complained about all the time.
She wrote, hey there, I just wanted to check in and see how Zander's doing knowing him,
the schedule issue is probably stressful.
And then I wrote, yeah, it's definitely stressing him out.
He says speech classes is very favorite class.
And she wrote, well, what if I talk to dramatic writing teacher and see if he can do both?
Maybe he can be officially registered in her class, but comes to speech at least one day
a week.
And they're on a block schedule.
So they only have the speech like three days a week, right?
So like Wednesday or Friday, he could go to speech and the other day he could go.
And I was like, yes, that's what I said.
That was my suggestion.
I'm sure dramatic writing teacher will let him go to your room, especially if there's
a competition coming up.
And she wrote, I'll ask her, I'm sure we can work something out with like a little heart,
heart emoji.
And then I was like, that would be fantastic.
And then she wrote, I know, I want every wonderful thing and opportunity for him though.
And if dramatic writing helps, go do it.
I will make time to coach him and we will work it out.
Oh my God.
And this is the cutest.
And then she wrote just because he's not in my class doesn't mean he would lose me or
the team.
It just mean we need to work a little harder in a shorter time frame each week.
Oh, yeah.
So then I just basically wrote something about his major.
I said, I said it was he went to the showcase last year.
He found it inspiring and plus for schools that are impacted for a communication major.
He might need like a writing major.
And she wrote, also the skills cross apply really well.
I think he may just be having the first of many senior change realizations too.
And then she sent my text to the dramatic writing teacher and she sent his screenshot
of the response, which was, this was what the dramatic writing teacher said.
She wrote, I'm chatting with Zander's mom to check in.
What are your thoughts about this?
And that was about him going once a week.
And I think that would be fine.
I thought about it as well.
Oh, my God.
What a school.
I know.
That's the same.
She was thinking about like, that's amazing.
She said, once we learn certain elements, most of class time is usually devoted to students'
personal writing time.
Also, if he's in the writing class this week and he's not feeling it, I would totally
understand him changing his schedule.
Like, you're so sweet.
And then they see something in him.
And then she wrote, both of us want him to do what will make him happy and give him
every opportunity.
And then I was just, I mean, she's Louise.
That's because they do see something in him.
And it is, I mean, to have that speech in debate skill and the writing skill, I mean,
this kid is going to go places.
It's just, I mean, and he's, he's interested and he enjoys it, which is the best part.
Right.
So then he starts obsessing about having a free period at the beginning of the day.
And I was like, Zander, you're a senior.
I go, a lot of seniors have a free period at the end of the day and they all leave early.
You know that like seniors leave at the, don't stay the whole day.
Yeah.
All of them even go get her kids.
I go, you're just having your free period at the beginning of the day so you can sleep
in every day.
I know.
Is this a gift?
Yes, it is.
This is a goddamn treasure.
Oh, for sure.
Wow.
Right.
How cool.
And they did it with both Sadie and Zander, so that they could, because they know they
are cool.
This is how frickin thoughtful this school is.
That's so great.
Sadie is looking at me.
Like, Zander is like, maybe I should fill in a class there and I was like, no, you shouldn't.
And then Sadie is looking at me like, are you fucking kidding me?
Like, you better not.
Yeah.
She goes, well, I don't know how you're going to get to school, right?
Because I'm not going in early.
And then I was like, Zander, do not put a class in there.
You don't need another class.
Yeah.
I go, you have a million extra curriculars.
What you need is time, you're probably going to be up late doing all the things you're
doing.
Exactly.
Now you can sleep in a little bit so you can hit the ground running.
Absolutely.
And then I told John about that and John was like, oh my God.
He's like, I was doing horrible in college.
He went to Syracuse.
He goes, I was failing.
And the thing that totally turned things around besides stopping partying as much as I was
is changing my schedule so that I didn't have classes first thing in the morning.
Nice.
Yeah.
Like, I was trying to do these hard classes in the morning and like, I was too tired.
Well, because, oh, yeah, you're staying up late doing all your homework and shit.
Right.
And I had a hard to get up the next morning, senior year.
Yes.
Take that.
So we convinced him and then he got home and I told Elby and she was like, oh my God, is he
high?
What is it?
Come on.
And then she talked to him and she was like, Zander, stop it.
You are not taking a first period.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
She was like, every kid I know, even the kids that got into every you see Ivy League, they
still had a free period.
Right.
It's fine.
Yeah.
And he was like, okay.
Wow.
I know.
He's doing great.
And then I had to have a talk with Sadie.
You totally get this.
I absolutely get this.
So then I had to have a talk with Sadie and I was like, look, I just want you to know that
when we're all, oh, because one of the counselors came up to Zander at the thing when we were
picking up the schedules and she, because he was obsessing about not having a first
period and she goes, Zander, you're one of the top students at this school.
You're fine.
Like, you're fine.
Yeah.
We wouldn't let you not stay one of the top students anyway.
I'm like, Sadie's kind of a little bit away, but I'm like, that can't feel great.
Yeah.
So then on the way, I was with Sadie a little bit alone later in the day.
And I was like, listen, just so you know, I'm just trying to meet you where you're at.
And I was the same.
I was, you're a much better student than I was.
I was like, your grades are so much better than mine are.
And if you want to go to college, you can absolutely go to college.
Yeah.
I was like, but if you don't want to go, which is the feeling I've been getting, I'm just
trying not to put any pressure on you and have you understand that like, that's totally
fine.
But if you see me, it's not that I believe in Zander more.
It's just that I know this is what Zander wants.
So I'm trying to, I'm trying to support both of you guys with where you want to be supported.
And she was like, no, I totally get her mom.
Like no, it's, yeah, I don't want to.
I was like, but if you change your mind or if you're even thinking right now, like, well,
maybe I do want to go away to college.
Right.
We'll apply to some colleges anyway, because you can get in.
Yeah.
But I'm just not pushing you in that direction because I don't want you to have this pressure
when you know that I know that you don't really want to.
You're such a good mom.
I know what I mean, I don't feel, it's hard.
It's hard to have twins that are one, they're so different.
And you don't want, you don't want the other twin to feel like, you know, a little resentful
because the other one is doing, you know, I get that so much.
And it's tough.
So you have to like talk to both of them and make sure that they both understand that
you're going to be supportive to them no matter what they want to do.
Both of them, they have different goals and different, you know, it's hard though when
one kid's goals are very celebrated.
Right.
And the other kids goals are not, they could, they can come across way more as a no getter.
But, you know, I always tell Sadie, I'm like, I see you and like when, you know, you have
some amazing talents.
And I told her, I said, you know, I'll tell you the thing that dad always says to me, there's
things that come easily to you that you think are no big deal or not special because you
think if I can do it, anybody can do it, but that's not true.
Right.
I was like, I saw you when you did your costume for this party and you made bruises all over
your body.
Yes.
It's makeup and it was amazing.
Yeah.
I was like, you're going to shine like when you figure out exactly what you want to do.
Right.
And also I said, I wonder, and I was saying this to her, I said, I wonder if you don't go
away to school and Zander does an LB's off doing her thing.
I wonder if it might help you to have some time being the only.
Oh, it's so nice.
You know, getting all the attention and like, yeah, not having anybody to be constantly comparing
yourself to not being Zander's sister, not being seeing LB, you know, and she was like, I
think so.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
That's a good way.
That's a good outlet.
I mean, a good outlook.
You know, she's more creative and he's more academic and that's, he's really creative
too though is the thing like, you know, yeah, he's taking a stand up class.
They are creative in different ways though.
Right.
He is more of an actor, comedian, like writer and she's more visual painting.
Right.
Makeup.
Yeah.
But like, if you ask her about painting or about art, she'll be like, no, I'm not going
to painting and I'm not going to drawing.
Yeah.
But she's good at photography.
She has a really good visual sense.
Right.
That's how she operates.
No.
Why does any of us have to be good at any fucking thing when we're like, you know, 17 years
old?
I wasn't good at anything at 17.
No kidding.
And you don't know what you want to do with that.
It's tough, you know?
And especially if you don't like schools, you struggle in school.
Like, I did.
Like, I hated school and the thought of like going to college, even though I did after
school, I went to Pierce for like a year, but it's just, what, it's not, was, I wanted to
go to work.
I wanted to work.
I didn't want to like sit there.
I wanted to learn a trade and television was what I was interested in.
And that's what I did.
Yeah.
And then you were scrappy as fuck and you figured it out and you got a job and you didn't
need college.
Right.
Yeah.
I got job early.
It's so hard.
I had such low self esteem at the age that my kids are now.
I was not a go getter.
I was an anti go getter.
Imagine if we had like the IPA programs back then.
I know.
You know, that like my parents looked into it and tried to help me, but there was nothing
like that back then.
Yeah.
I was just like, you're on your own.
Either you're a good student or not.
And two brothers that went to college and was on the Dean's List and my brother was
schizophrenia graduated high school early.
When straight to college didn't go to senior year.
Most of them on the Dean's List, like graduated civil engineers and all this mathematics skills
and stuff.
And I can't do math at all.
And I'm just like struggling on the struggle bus, you know.
And then my dad was like, you should do acting.
Put me in acting stuff.
And you didn't like that.
And I hated it.
So it's that's worse too.
Because then you're like, oh, you're the kid who should be an actress.
Right.
No, not that either.
No, I didn't like it.
I did it anyway.
But I was like, then I got older.
I'm like, what am I doing?
Because I had to get a job.
And I couldn't go, oh, I need to go on auditions.
Like I was working as a receptionist at a television syndication company in Agora.
And it's like, that's when I was like, I'm not doing acting anymore.
You know, I thought that I was going to still do it.
I was young.
I was like, 20.
And that was that.
Like I'm done.
Was your dad disappointed?
No, my dad was like, okay, what do you want to do?
I said, I wanted to work in television.
And he said, okay, he went to the bookstore.
Samuel French book store and studio city got a book, a booklet that has all television studios
and production companies that are affiliated with the unions.
And he helped me with a resume and a cover letter.
And I sent it out.
And I sent it to the syndication company.
And they're like, they called.
They're like, we need a receptionist.
And I started there.
And then I worked my way up into syndication sales and was working with the sales people.
And then went to New World and then went to ABC.
Then went to Carcy Warner.
Then went to ABC.
And it was nice.
You know, like I got, I learned the business side.
That's what I wanted to do.
You figured it out.
I figured it out.
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So yeah so today was the first day back at school and they didn't even have to get up at
the crack it on.
So what time do they have to go now?
So now school starts on Monday school starts at 8 30 so they don't have to be there until
like 9 20.
Okay.
That used to be their early day was 8 30 but then they're on a block schedule the rest of
the week.
So Tuesday they have to be there again at like 9 20 when say they really don't have to be
at school until like 11 50.
Oh no.
Yeah.
Like late.
That's mate that's crazy.
Like 11 o'clock or something.
And then what time do they get out?
345.
That's not bad because all the only have a few classes that day and they're each like
an hour and a half a little over an hour and a half.
So if school normally started on Wednesday at 9 20.
It was always a later day on Wednesday and Friday so if it doesn't start till 9 20 their
first the first class doesn't get out until 11.
So they can get to school at like 10 55.
That's great.
That's great for them.
They need that extra that time in the morning is nice.
I know.
You have to get up and rush and get out the door and you can you know finish up homework
and take that time to make your lunches.
Yeah.
Do what you got to do.
Also I was going to tell you and you know I'm always like scared of getting in trouble for
this but so remember I told you last week about going to that volunteer yet the meeting.
So you know the emails are coming in fast and like through a fire hose.
Oh no.
Like every day I'm getting like if I went to check my email right now I'd have so many
emails because that's what happens when school starts.
Well I'm on the board somehow right wrongly because I shouldn't be I'm not but I was it
was reminding me when you were talking about the math stuff because I'm like there's
all these emails flying back and forth about banners about selling banners.
I don't give a fuck like.
I don't know.
And it's all the.
Well here's the thing in their defense they're not really asking me to do anything but you
know you feel that way because you're like well then why am I included in the email right
right right.
Well I think they include me on the email because they don't want me to be out of the loop
okay.
But you know I'm saying like if they were to hear this they would get insulted because they'd
be like bitch we're not even asking you to do anything right but I feel pressured just
seeing the thing you in the loop right.
I'm like don't even keep me in the loop with at which point they would be like great
that's fine and they'd be mad.
And I don't want them to be mad because they are super nice people.
Yeah but I just feel inadequate because I see these emails and it's like hey do we want
to do the banners that are like 25 by this by that because they're four cents right less
than the blah blah blah blah.
And I'm like I can't do math.
Yes you can.
No I can't.
I don't care.
I can't visualize it.
I don't know how big that is.
Yes.
Send me a picture.
What does that look like?
I know.
I don't know.
Anyway like no I think we should go for the this dimension.
How do I know?
Yeah.
Well are people answering and responding?
Yes.
Well then good one that's my co-chair of the thing that I was trying to get out of.
Yes.
Oh yeah she's but oh she's.
Here's the thing.
This has been my whole life Lynette and I feel like you relate to me on this.
When it comes to certain things I still feel like people are speaking another language.
Yes.
It's how I felt when I was in class where I'd be like okay like algebra.
Nobody else gets this either right?
Yes.
Teachers speaking another language right?
And then I'm Mandarin to me.
I cannot understand any of it.
But then I look around and people would be like scribbling seriously and I'd be like what
are you doing?
Like how are you?
How do you?
What?
Oh I went through with Sunny and Natalia in their home math homework.
They got everything.
They were like Sunny would show me and like write it all out.
I'm like I don't get it.
I don't know.
I don't get it.
I'm glad you get it.
I don't know how you got it because my brain you don't have my both of them are good at math
and I was good because that's great because I don't understand but you do you do your homework.
Even in elementary school when they were teaching them new math and I was like well why I carry
the one.
That's right.
And they're like we don't carry a what?
I'm like carry the one.
You cross out the number before it and then you borrow 10 from that one.
I don't know.
They didn't do it that way.
You know they changed the math.
Yeah that's right.
And I was like that.
Guess what you're doing it that way because that's the only way I can tell you.
I taught them that way and their teacher Mr. R would be like I know I get it.
But when you do that you're teaching them not the way that they're doing it now.
So it's kind of not that helpful.
Yeah.
They would teach me the new way.
Right.
And I'm like I don't get it.
And I'm like I'm out.
And thank God like I taught between y'all.
That's the best.
So that's how you feel when you get those emails coming through.
I mean yes.
And I know what you mean.
So I'll be like we're all annoyed by this right.
Like this is crazy who cares.
But then I'll see my friend.
I'll chime in.
Then there'll be an email from her right away going yes because the blob it he blob
this this dimension and I'm like okay good.
But you're good at other stuff so again I'm always like I'm an idea person.
Right.
I'll have an idea you guys implemented or not that's on that's up to you.
Yes.
No, but I do stuff when I'm forced to do stuff.
Right.
I think that's the ADHD in me.
It's like if I have to hyper focus you know if I have to do the music department fundraiser.
Yes.
Then I get on it.
But I just I do I've looked up myself how to properly make a sign of genius.
You know and then I'm good at like bugging people about stuff.
Like I'll sit in an email and be like but even like for instance.
Okay.
So the thing that we're doing on the our fighting ice project that I'm doing.
So the woman that started this off though I saw that originally sat on her Facebook right
right.
She's my friend Jane is the biggest do got her you've literally ever met in your life.
She's a relid she's the spiritual she goes to church.
She's oh there if there is somebody who needs her help she's on it and organizing it.
Yes.
Right.
Yeah.
So you just go to her Facebook and go what do I need to be doing to be a better person.
Oh okay.
I'll do that.
Yeah.
But if you sign if you make the mistake of signing up sometimes she'll be like great.
Okay.
Run with it.
That's why she's good at it.
Right.
But then I'm like wait what?
I got to do myself every week like because then she's like well I'm going to be doing this
other one this day in this day.
So you got it.
Yeah.
And then I'm like well I get I get it.
I say all that.
But I am because then I'll put it on my Facebook and then I've got like all our podcast
listeners were like great.
How can we help yes.
They're like me in the way of like well I can't really do all that.
I'll give you 20 bucks.
Yeah.
And I'm like great.
And I but I do feel like I have to organize it every week because but there's people that
I want to be the people that are like sure I can't do it this week but like yes I'll
give you money or drop off.
Tell me what to bring.
Yeah.
Right.
But I'm like you tell me what to bring.
You know what I mean?
I mean like yes I somehow get elected to be in charge of shit.
Yeah.
And I don't think I should be in charge.
But when I really am in charge I will step up and like be in charge.
Yes.
And you have been all complain about it a lot.
Just the podcast is for you know what I mean?
Yes.
But you've been doing a great job.
I mean you've been doing it.
You have been doing it every week.
Every week.
This Thursday I have to go get the pre appointment for a call andoscopy.
Oh yeah.
I got to do that too.
Yeah.
I got a good doctor for that.
You do?
Yes.
Where is it?
Well it's in thousand oaks but it's once a year.
I think the yeah it's once it's not that far if you think about it.
Okay.
He's really good.
Did you get an appointment right away?
Yep.
Okay.
I got an appointment right away.
And that will be my pre appointment and then they'll prescribe all the stuff I got
to take and then this will be my second one.
I haven't done mine yet.
You haven't done a first one?
No.
I just did it my mammogram for the first time in years.
Okay.
Last couple days ago and it hurt like a fucking bitch.
Yeah.
I just and I don't know why.
I know and I'm always afraid like there's going to be an earthquake while my boob is stuck
in there.
And the lady is doing it.
It was fast though.
It just took like a couple of minutes and I was done.
But you know I haven't had it in a while so we'll see.
Get a result in seven to ten days.
Yeah.
You got to get all this stuff done.
I have to get all this stuff done.
Yeah.
Stay on top of it.
Yeah.
I got to stay on top of our health.
Absolutely.
We got children especially at this age.
Hell yeah.
Listen, let's, I have, we have so much good stuff for Friday.
Yes.
Oh, I was going to, do we still have time today for this one thing or maybe I should save
it for Friday?
I wanted to read you this parenting article that I'll save it for Friday.
Okay.
But let's say hi to our favorite people like Christa Strupp.
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You packed in stacks especially in the back.
I don't think it's mother for a butt like that.
Kidding at a fries with the shake shake booty.
Looks could kill you would be an easy or shotgun bang.
What's up with that thing?
I want to know how does it hang straight up?
Wait up.
Hold up, mother.
Like Prince said, you're a sexy motherfucker.
I like this.
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Be boy style.
I have a mouth.
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Right as the sun.
I want to have some fun.
Give me some of that yum yum chocolate chip.
Honey dip.
Get a scoop being a ride in my scoop.
You make me want to shoot.
Thank you.
Almost had the whole thing.
We almost did.
Thank you, Christa.
Stephanie's is dinger rinker Athena.
We love your makeup.
Sandra's not easy being green.
Mm hmm.
I love that song.
It's not easy being green.
That's me straight.
Jennifer get up.
Erin's a dirty Sanchez.
Leslie's still coffee.
She's still coffee.
I'll let the coffee.
Hope it's back.
Alicia's got a city of El Monte.
Kelly Brand.
Uh, she's not your aunt.
She will have her van gased up.
Yep.
Rebecca nobody's so cute.
Eshan Vosha.
So cute.
And he has a nice baby.
Gabby and Missy.
Well, they were volunteering at the mammogram center.
They were protesting your mammogram guys.
Come on.
It's not cool.
Katarina get that molar checked.
Valerie Bubba Fenwick is out of the park.
Polly, we love your pink cake syrup.
Rita Roxal was with Williamson's kids in her bassiette.
Nikki call your girl and dick is frallicking.
And we got some business shout out.
I alley do my friend Tamra mellow.
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Um, M E L L O.
She does all kinds of cool.
I'm telling you, Zander wears his guitar pick necklace all the time.
It's the really the coolest thing.
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Our friend Courtney Moore has i e embroidery, i e embroidered on Facebook and they do hats,
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This is our friend is she's my friend.
I'm not going to say her name because she's anonymous, but her handle is unbecoming stories.
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I have a mouse pad.
Mm hmm.
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That says something really funny on it.
I can't remember what which I basically found somewhere else took a screenshot sent
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Oh, she's like, I'll make you a mouse pad.
Oh, Becky and a mug.
Yeah.
Sugar skull.
It's our friend Marin.
It's on the island of Kauai.
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If you want to check them out on Instagram, they're at sugar skull 808.
Um, also Adam learner.
I am literally.
John is filling up paperwork as we speak.
We're getting.
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Yeah.
All right, everybody.
Thank you so much.
Uh, we got a lot for Friday.
Yeah, I really do.
Yeah.
And I've been posting best of old school, F C O old school and I found the abducted a plain
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I know.
And that's posted.
I have some really funny ones coming up.
Just go check, go check there on Thursday.
Yeah.
And listen to my podcast drunk.
I'm gushed.
Yeah.
I've been working really hard on that.
I have, uh, and I have an episode this week that is really good.
Um, and then I also have a second episode of the week with Meredith Lynch, our friend Meredith,
where we basically talked all about all the drinking that goes on in reality TV.
Ooh, that's a good.
Yeah.
Can't wait to listen to that.
Okay.
All right, your pair now.
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