♪ Made a decision on my face ♪
♪ The sunny sun went on ♪
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- What's up everybody?
Welcome to For Cry Now Loud.
And it's Friday.
It's Friday.
Woo, this is our, I think this episode,
I'm pretty sure will mark,
is this our last one of the month,
our first month, or is there one more?
There might be one more.
- I think there's one more.
Yeah, the 30th.
- I can't believe it's like, it's almost July.
What the hell?
- It's crazy.
- I feel like Natalia just got home not that long ago,
so he just got home and it's already like July.
And then Natalia goes back in August.
I love having the kids home.
It has been so nice.
We, I've been making a lot of dinners.
And of course, they're like, yeah, yeah,
you guys want baked chicken?
Yeah.
Okay.
And then it's like, oh, I'm going out with my friends.
I'll eat it later.
I'm like, all right, then we have leftovers.
And then it's like, what's for dinner?
What's for dinner is the baked chicken I made
two nights ago that you guys skipped out on.
That's what's for dinner.
- Right.
- But it's been fun.
Like, we've been cooking and having dinners together.
And last night was the final game of the NBA playoffs.
Or the, yeah, the NBA finals.
And Sunny was watching it in the living room,
which a lot of times he watches in his room
or he was watching in the living room with me.
And then Natalia came out and sat out on the couch
and was like interested and asked
and the two of them were talking basketball.
I'm like, what is going on?
I love this.
- That's so cute.
- And she went and had dinner with her dad last night,
Sunday night, her dinner, which, okay,
little peak behind the, she's, I'm like, oh, yeah, okay.
So you're going out to dinner with your dad.
So then I hear her like, I dad, oh, okay,
pick you up in 20 minutes.
Oh, at the old house.
Okay, okay, bye.
Like she's like, I'm gonna go pick up dad at the old house.
What?
I don't know.
You can't eat, I don't know.
I think she drove to dinner or I don't know,
but like you can't come to my, he didn't want to come to my house
to go to the old house.
By the way, in the car that you bought her.
- Right.
- For the, you're paying for?
- Yeah.
So she just, yes.
- She's never.
- She drove.
- Right.
- Interesting.
- Yeah.
But, yes, it's been nice having the kids home.
There was a party like, one this, one family
always has graduation parties, you know,
every year they have parties and to summer parties.
And they had like, you know,
hey, welcome everybody home party
because all the kids in the neighborhood are home from college.
So like, Sunny and Natali,
Sunny and Natali had both their friends,
their group were going.
And Sunny looked so cute for a change.
He was like dressed.
Finally, this kid is like, you know,
paying attention to what he's wearing.
Like he had like a white t-shirt, like khaki pants,
white t-shirt and like a button,
it opened a button down, but it was open and sleeves rolled up,
like corduroy, like shirt, thick shirt.
And then like cool Nike tennis shoes for a change
that he just bought on his own.
And I was shocked because usually
where's the same tennis shoes every year.
It was a running joke that this kid
wanted the same Adidas black walking shoes every Christmas
and he'd wear them every day throughout the year
and then by Christmas, there'd be like holes at the bottom.
And it's like, did you want like cool shoes?
Nope, just want those shoes.
Finally he got like nice cool kicks.
So it was cute.
They went out to the party and had a good time
Natali and all our friends were there.
And then you know, like I think I talked about it last week.
Natali's friends come, they spend the night and it's like,
oh and I had to drive one of her friends home
and I did a Patreon about one of these kids recently.
But Natali is like, I gotta go,
I gotta get to my, she had a hair appointment
and she's like, can you drive my friend,
call her Betsy?
Can you drive Betsy up?
Drop Betsy up.
Betsy used to live seven minutes from her house.
So it was like, sure, okay.
And then I had something that I had to get to like in like an hour.
And then so I'm like, I get in the car with Betsy
and she's like, oh, I don't live at that house anymore
where our family moved.
And I was like, oh, where?
And she's like, yeah, Al Tadina.
Like deep, deep, deep.
And on the 210 freeway, it's always at that time
at three o'clock in the afternoon,
bumper to bumper to bumper.
That's too far.
And it was deep far.
And then I get off the freeway
and it still says 10 minutes to the house.
Oh, God.
So I'm driving like up into the hills
passing like the eaten fire, burnt lots and stuff.
And I'm like, is your house safe?
Like where is this house?
You know, and she's like, oh, it's another seven minutes.
And I'm like, oh my God, it took me, I was gone an hour.
Oh my God.
I'm like, oh my God, back.
I had to get changed, get dressed and get to my appointment.
So I'm like, thanks a lot, Natalia.
For, oh, I forgot to tell you she moved.
Anyway, yeah, it's been great having them all.
(laughs)
It really is nice though.
It is nice, yeah.
And then you get, this is like your whole summer.
Yeah, yeah.
My problem is I really need my kids to get jobs.
And yes, yeah.
It's hard, like we were saying before the show.
It's hard for them to get hired
when they're just gonna have to turn around
and leave, you know, or go back to school.
Right.
So I am, so Elby came into my room the other day.
I was so pleased because I'm like,
Elby, you have to get a job because she is doing tours
for UCLA, but it's minimum wage.
I'm like, there's not gonna be enough money
to live on now, let alone have some money saved
for when you go back to school.
You know, when you go back at school.
Right.
She's like, I know, I know.
And I was like, you need to get a job
hostessing at a restaurant.
And it'll be fun.
I was like, you get a job hostessing at like a fun restaurant,
you know?
So she came in my room the other day with her computer
and she was like, okay, I wanna apply for jobs
will you help me?
And I was like, yes.
'Cause that's where like our scrappiness comes in, right?
Yeah.
Like where I'm like, okay, let's do this.
Let's look up.
So I was like, okay, let's look up restaurants.
Oh, so there's this restaurant in Sherman Oak.
So I'm sure you've heard of it.
Have you heard of Bacchery?
Oh, yes.
We love that restaurant.
So it's a great restaurant.
There's a few of them, I think.
But I went to eat with my little Jewish moms group.
Uh-huh.
There's some non-Jewish ones in there,
but we went there for a couple of birthdays.
There are like the hottest waiters.
Oh really?
Like there's so many young, pretty people that work there.
Yeah.
And I was like, what about a job there?
And then she was like, oh my God, yes.
There's so many hot guys that work there.
And I was like, exactly.
So then, but then, so she applied to that one online,
but I was like, you gotta walk in.
Yeah.
And the hand of your resume and say,
hey, I applied online for a job,
but I just wanted to introduce myself and like,
give you a resume.
I was like, that is the only way that you're gonna get hired.
I guarantee you they're not going like,
we should hire a host.
Yeah, I know.
Let's look online and see who's applied recently.
Yes.
Yeah.
No, they're gonna, it's, it's, those people are out of sight
out of mind.
You walk in and say like, hi.
Yeah.
And our bubbly and they're gonna hire you.
Right.
But trying to get her to do that is a little difficult.
But anyway, so she applied to some jobs.
But meanwhile, um,
Sadie and Zander,
like, haven't applied to anything.
Yeah.
They're having the laziest summer.
Oh, so this is what I was gonna tell you.
Okay.
So I went to a party yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
So I had the craziest weekend for somebody, my age.
I know you're going to parties.
I know.
I had to go to this party.
So my friend Ronnie Karam from Watch What Crappens,
who our audience turned me on to that podcast
and then Ronnie and I became friends
and then I did Rose Pricks with him.
So he had a party.
So I went to his party.
And I met, so our friend Meredith Lynch was there.
Yes.
Love Meredith.
I'm so happy for Ronnie.
So Ronnie, when I met him, he just had a little podcast.
We had him.
He'd been on our podcast
and we helped them get like, grow their audience.
Yeah, I remember.
And then Ronnie and I started the podcast
and he lived in this like studio apartment
basically on Fairfax.
Now he has like a big beautiful house in the hills.
Wow.
I'm so proud of that guy.
That's amazing.
Total scrappy self-made, like built that podcast up,
like super hard worker.
Yeah.
But anyway, there was this woman there named Kiki Monique.
Have you ever heard of her?
No.
She runs, she has a show on Bravo and on radio Andy.
Serious. She has a show called Reality Check.
Anyway, this is just what a mom brain I have.
And I know you get it.
Yeah.
So they were talking, she was talking about,
we were talking about her job and like all the stuff
that this woman does.
And Meredith was asking me like, how are the kids?
Like how's Elby and I was like, she needs a job.
I'm trying to figure out she needs to get a job
like hosting at a restaurant.
And then Meredith is like, well, Kiki
could should text Tom Schwartz for you and get her a job
hosting at Tom Tom.
Oh.
And I was like, that would be amazing.
And then of course I had to try to bring it up
like three more times because she was like, yeah, totally.
I'll text them.
And then I was like, okay, like, yeah, seriously?
But like seriously?
So then I talked to her a little bit before I left.
And I was like, okay, but I'm really going to hit you up
to like help my daughter out.
Of course I showed pictures of her.
Just Instagram thirst trap pictures.
Yeah.
Her and like a bikini.
I was like, look, she could host it.
Tom Tom, right?
And she was like, yes, totally.
She's perfect.
You know?
So I was like, okay, so now I have to text this woman today.
You do?
I got a text on it.
Yes, you need to.
I only have her Instagram, but like, I'll DM her.
Yes, it's like great to see you.
How's, how about my daughter?
I feel so dumb about it.
But like you miss all the shots you don't make.
You don't have to have her.
Exactly.
However that sports go.
Exactly.
Yeah, you got it.
You got it.
You got to have.
I like, even if you she doesn't get back to you,
that's a great idea.
Have Elby go in there and drop off her resume.
And maybe say, hey, my mom, don't mean to come.
Yeah.
You know, he can unique referred me.
Right.
She could.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You know, I mean, if, if people get touched in the
afterwards and said, hey, like a friend of mine's daughter is looking for a hostessing job,
you know, he might just be like, yeah, have her ask for so and so or whatever.
Exactly.
Right, right, right.
What if, how cool would that be though?
I would work out like a Lisa Vanderpumper.
You know, I would love that.
And where is that restaurant?
I have no idea.
I think that it was in the Valley.
No, I wish it was in the Valley.
What's looking up?
We don't have a K-Lin anymore.
So we have to look up.
Yeah.
Tom, Tom's Tom's Tom's Tom's.
I never watch any of those Vanderpum.
It's in West Hollywood.
That is in West Hollywood.
Yeah.
Well, it's okay right over the hill.
She could take a can, you know, it's far.
It's Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
It's going to be a pain in the ass to get to.
But listen, she'll make bank.
How about Jackson and Studio City?
I mean, I pretty sure that's like a burger place, right?
Yeah.
I don't know if they have hostesses there.
Oh, they don't.
It's pretty casual.
Oh, I guess I have a casual bar.
And what do I know?
What do you know?
Well, maybe the six.
What about the six in Studio City?
The six is cool.
Yeah, there's a lot of good restaurants.
There's so many restaurants she could go to for hostesses.
I wish Sunny could be a hostess.
She could be a host.
Yeah.
I feel like it's a good job because it doesn't probably require that much training.
Yeah.
And then if she goes when she's at school, she could do it on like breaks.
Yes.
Pick up a shift.
Yeah.
It's a big enough restaurant.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm just like, you need a job because she doesn't have any money.
Yeah.
At all.
It all comes from me.
Right.
I know.
And now Natalia has her job.
Going.
It's going.
I mean, it's two days a week.
She's there today.
But she loves, but it's all day.
And she, you know, when she was breaking it down, it was almost the same as when she was hostessing,
like the hours worked out to be about the same.
But it could go to another day a week.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
Because they hired these summer interns at the same time.
So anyway, so she loves it.
She's, you know, doing, she had to pick up Guillermo.
She sends me a selfie of her and Guillermo in her car.
And I'm like, she's like, I had to go pick them up for work.
And she's like, and Guillermo does not live close by.
He lives a good 45 minutes with traffic.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
So she went and picked them up.
She didn't have to take them home.
But yeah.
Like things like that.
She went and got lunch.
She went, she goes and gets coffee.
She cleans up, stalks the fridge.
She's holding the microphone in the audience, you know.
The thing is, is now it's a bummer because Sunny, Jimmy's gone now for the summer.
Right.
So now it's just going to be guest host.
But I wonder how long because she doesn't, she doesn't go back.
Oh no, she's back August.
Like the week of like August 22nd, something like that.
Okay.
And I think he doesn't get back until like after Memorial Day.
Oh, yeah.
But that's okay, whatever.
Like, it's not like she's hanging out with Jimmy.
She's like running around.
She's a production assistant.
So it's good to get that experience though.
Yeah.
She's getting the door.
Yeah.
She really loves it.
She really does.
She was, did the man on the streets last week with Tony Barbieri?
Oh my God.
I know.
Robin and I were just remembering how much we, how much we flipped over him when he emceed
that gala and how I was like, you got to get him to come on our show.
Oh, that's right.
That gala there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was so freaking funny.
Like my, our stomachs hurt.
Remember what I told you that he was just making all these like subtle jokes that people
weren't really getting.
But Robin and I were crying laughing.
Yeah.
Like people like going, is anybody else with me on this?
Like he is being so funny and dry.
Right.
And like there, then there was like one guy behind me who was like totally laughing and we
made eye contact.
Yeah.
He is hilarious.
And, and she's like, yeah.
And I mean, she's known Tony since she was little, little kid.
And she's like, it's just so, it was like so cool to be out there with Tony on the street,
you know?
And she's like, and he's so fucking funny.
I go, I know.
And she goes, he's funny.
Not when he's not on camera when he's just talking.
He's funny.
I go, I know he's Tony Barbieri.
He's hilarious.
So yeah.
You know, she's, she's having a, she's, she's enjoying it.
Like she's doing really, she really likes it.
And you know, Sonny's taken a sweet time.
But I'm like, you find a job yet.
The only thing like I could think of is there's the grocery store in our neighborhood where
I know the, I've known the, the manager, the store manager for 40 years since high school.
And he happens to be at my store.
But he hasn't been there recently.
So I don't know.
But, and now he's, Sonny's driving my car.
So maybe they're, he wants to do like a delivery job, like driving around.
Well, then what are you driving?
I mean, if he could do it like the days, they say like,
some door dash drivers make their own hours and stuff.
So I don't know.
You could do it on the days that I don't need my car, you know?
Or I use an Italian car on the day she's not at work.
Like we could figure it out.
So I don't know.
We'll see.
It's hard, man.
It's, it's hard and it's also, it's different than when we were kids.
Yeah.
Because when I wanted to get a job when I was 16, I just went, you just go around the
way.
This isn't go, can I have an application?
Yes.
I love that.
You fill it out and then they either, they're like, yeah, we're actually hiring right now.
Go talk to the, yeah, it was, it was, it was better that way.
Now everything is online, which you're right, like nobody's looking online and usually if
they are an opening at the place of your business, the other people working there, I'll
go, hey, my sister needs a job.
You know, yeah.
They're not going online looking at applications.
I agree.
I don't feel like they're not.
I don't know.
Depends on the place.
Except that me, the, the way I'm seeing it in my head is like, you fill out the application
online, then you find out who knows somebody because that's what Elbe is doing with one
of the places she applied to.
Her friend worked there last summer and that girl is like, oh, I'll talk to my friend who's
the person I got the job from and you can use her name.
But then I'm like, you still need to go in there and feel, hi, I'm so and so's friend
and I filled out an application online.
I just wanted to drop off my resume.
Yeah, but it's, oh, that's such bad news to Elbe because she's got that social anxiety.
And I didn't give a fuck.
Like I cannot tell you in my life how many times because I waited tables until I was 28
years old.
And I got fired all the time or quit, quit because there wasn't enough money.
So then I would like, when I lived in Santa Monica, I would go walk down the Santa Monica
promenade, go into every like restaurant and be like, can I have an application?
Right.
Yeah.
Of course, that was young and cute.
Like in like 20s.
Yeah.
So you'd have like a male, whoever the male manager was, you know, he like, hi, are you
looking for servers?
And I had experience.
Right.
And they'd just be like, sure, fill out an application.
Then they'd interview you right there and then they can you start today?
Yes.
Can you start Monday?
And you know, usually the person, the first person you're talking to is probably the
person that's like, we got to fucking hire somebody, you know?
So like, oh, so and so walked in.
Here's our resume.
Let's get on it.
Let's hire, you know, right.
Usually that's the, that's the person that wants help.
Right.
Yeah.
I also feel like in though, I feel like in those days, a lot of places were always hiring.
Whereas I feel like it's harder to get a job because there's so many more people that
want jobs.
Yeah.
I mean, that even like a shitty job, like working at a restaurant, yeah, are sought after.
Right.
Like it's like, oh, I mean, I told, we've talked about this many times now, but like Trader
Joseph's like impossible.
It's like the freaking mafia.
Yeah.
You really have to be in a family.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
You got to be somebody's like twin brother to get the job there.
Yes.
Yeah.
I told you, those people were like, no, it was really hard.
Like I knew somebody like my friend worked here, but also I had to come in every day and
like asking.
Yeah.
Also, I think if you notice the Trader Joe people, they they're older people.
Like I think that it pays, I think Trader Joe's is very good to their employees.
Probably pays really well.
Probably has great vacation and healthcare and all that because I think those kind of,
if you look at the people, it's not a lot of teenagers and I don't see.
I see a lot of teenagers at mine, but I also see a lot of people that I've seen there for
the 20 years.
I've lived in my house.
Yeah.
I think they don't leave.
Yeah.
You have to kill them.
Yeah.
To create a job over.
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Yes.
Supporting their lifestyle.
Yeah.
Going out all the time.
Speaking of which, Sadie and Zander have ever since, and I, I talked a little bit about
this on our Patreon, but ever since they were in Greece, they have this group of friends
and they are always busy.
And it's really night, like it makes me happy.
And they're new, or since because they met them because of Greece.
Well, they knew these kids, but they didn't necessarily have a reason to be in a, in a
place.
Greece made their friendship become like an actual friend group.
Yeah.
They were all acquaintances.
Right.
And now they're like kind of a tight knit group.
And they're always doing stuff, planning stuff.
And I've never seen my kids more like, oh, tonight we're going to this party or they were
doing this.
That is so nice.
And then, yeah.
And then, Zander had his, you know, he had two gigs in a row and he's trying to book another
gig.
I feel like I might want to try to be like their manager.
Yeah, maybe you can get paid doing these gigs.
I was, well, so there's, there's some places like, you know, Corbin Bull.
Yes.
Sure has been around since your kid.
Oh, yeah.
Many times been to Corbin Bull.
Okay.
Well, Corbin Bull has this little kind of divy bar in it.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
There's like a room you go in and there's a bar and they have like musical act.
Oh, they do.
I haven't been there in years.
I have a feeling they don't pay.
I have a feeling they give you like a percentage of the door.
Oh, really?
Right.
If you go and say you're here to see this band and they charge you like a cover charge,
I'm guessing.
Yeah.
So I think I want to call them for Zander's band and just be like, hey, what's the deal?
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I should start booking his band.
Why don't you be a mom and your.
I should.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Why not?
Yeah.
A percentage.
I need another gig.
Yeah.
Start booking him in like around town.
I'm going to do it.
You know, I mean, there's got to be a niche for like, like, like Patrick's party.
Like to have like a kid band play, but not kid, but like teenagers play.
Yeah.
Kids love that.
Well, like I said, Patrick said he said, hey, would they be interested in doing a birthday
party next week?
And like, hello?
Okay.
So he wrote, he wrote, our guy line are available to play a birthday party next week.
And I wrote, really?
Who's when?
And he goes, give me a minute checking.
Okay.
Two days ago.
Yeah.
So then I just yesterday and then yesterday in the morning, I wrote, hi.
Nothing.
I think Patrick doesn't get back to people a lot very quickly, but he will.
He probably will.
I should just be like, what's the address?
The kids are in the neighborhood.
Where are they going?
We've got all the equipment.
Watch, I'm going to have to get like a partridge family like bus.
Yeah.
So I was going to ask you what driving the bus?
What equipment did they have to bring there?
They brought their instruments and then they brought amps.
Okay.
But Patrick had the microphones.
Well, I should.
Excuse me.
Okay.
Edit that.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
That's what Zander's doing.
But meanwhile, I'm like, get it.
You also need a job.
Yeah.
I know.
I mean, they're not that interested in working.
Shockingly.
Why would they?
I mean, they all have it so easy.
But they really kind of don't because I swear to God, I don't give them money.
But maybe it's because when they go to Starbucks, they use my credit card.
Yeah.
It's not like they're buying their own like coffee.
Yeah.
But they don't really spend money.
That's a thing.
Sunny is not a spender like Natalius.
She needed to have job.
Yeah.
Sunny is bare minimum.
It lives off as a allowance pretty much.
So when our kids were younger, I think Natalia and Elbe were both like kind of mall rats.
Elbe loved to go shopping, but of course she made her own money.
So she was constantly buying clothes.
Yeah.
You know, we talk about how they have like a hundred different types of tank tops.
Yeah.
She'd have the same urban outfiters tank top, but in like four colors.
Right.
Because she could.
So now she doesn't, but she still really does like clothes.
And I have seen her in some new clothes and I don't know how she got them.
I suspect she put it on her credit card and is hoping to at some point, I don't know.
Somebody will pay it up, but Sadie only shops like at thrift stores.
Yeah.
That's the nice thing about thrift stores, but yeah.
I told Sadie, you should apply it like Shake Shack.
There's a Shake Shack right by our house.
It's basically fast food, but I think it's a little cooler, you know?
Yeah.
I don't know if I want to work like in food.
Yeah.
What do you mean you don't feed?
I don't know if I wanted work in food.
Like, I was like, yeah, I don't know if I want to wait tables.
Like then I would have starved to death.
Right.
What about for her like Sally's what's it called?
Sally's beauty supply.
Yeah.
She lives at that place.
That would be perfect.
Except that every time you go in there, there's like one, two employees at the most and
they just look dour.
It doesn't look fun.
Yeah, it looks to work there.
She'd only be working there for the employee discount.
Yeah.
And then my big idea was for her to work at Ulta.
Yeah.
Like Ursula Fara, but for an Ulta wants you to have a year of retail experience.
Like they want, this is what I'm saying like for to make minimum wage, they want you
to like have had career training.
Yes.
Right.
Where do you intern?
You know what I mean?
Well, that's the other thing.
Yeah.
Like where's they want a resume?
Like what resume?
Right.
There's nothing to put on the resume, you know, at this point.
Like for even like my friends and her kids are in high school in their senior year.
It's like, you know, they're looking for jobs too.
You know, I say, like I got it.
This is what I just thought of too.
Like a next door app.
I always see as I love watching crazy's on next door app.
Like, look out for the coyotes.
Like, right.
But like I see sometimes like anybody's kid in the neighborhood that wants a part time
job.
I need a part time help at the house or my grandmother could use help.
Like there is like little part time jobs here and they're on next door out in the next
time.
That is true.
And then I also see moms putting on there like, hey, my son is available or my daughter's
available for the summer of any part time jobs kind of thing.
That is true.
I could do that.
I can't post standards, but a band on there.
I want them to get like a real job though.
Yes.
Like with hours every week.
Right.
That's not just like babysitting.
Yes.
You know, that's like a job because I think it's a right of passage.
I think it teaches them responsibility and absolutely.
And it gets them out of their comfort zone a little bit.
Right.
You know, I agree.
I think it really helped.
I'll be a lot.
Uh-huh.
I mean, she was kind of irresponsible at home.
But when it came to her job, she was like, on it.
Yeah.
So I want that for them, but I agree.
Working in a place.
Zander wants to, and he is going to signing up for a stand up comedy class.
Oh, I thought he was doing improv this summer.
No, no, he did it last summer.
Maybe the summer before he was doing groundlings.
Oh, wow.
He's kind of too old for it though.
He doesn't want to do teenage glasses.
Yeah.
He's almost 18.
Oh, my God.
I know.
We'll be 18 in November.
So he's like, a lot of times they attract that stuff attracts younger people.
Yeah.
He was doing it when he was 14 and then they thought it was super cool when there were 16
year olds.
But now he's 17 and a half.
He's like, I, so actually, we checked with this UCB sketch writing thing and they said
they would take him even though he's not 18 if we signed like a waiver.
Oh.
But there's another natural stand up class that he's going to, that he's probably going
to sign up for, that's adults.
Oh, that's nice.
But a friend of mine who was on drunkish was like the, the, the Letterman.
Really?
Yeah.
He just has to refer.
So it's like a class like for adults out in the valley or in, no, it's in Santa Monica
in a, to drive his ass to Santa Monica.
Oh boy.
He still doesn't have his permit yet.
Well, he's got a sister.
I know.
He's just a passenger princess.
Yeah.
Like how you, I mean, he really does.
He's just like, Sadie, can you take me and then it'll be somewhere super far?
Like you, that's how he would be.
He'd be like, can you drive my friend?
Right.
And she'd be like, in fucking Altadena.
Yeah.
She's like, all right.
I mean, imagine now if they go into Jamie Foxx's parties, if he is, you know, oh, yeah, this
time you have Sadie to drive, right?
She would never.
She would want to drop us off.
No, she probably want to drink.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah.
These kids, man, I want to harken back to something that is just funny to me now, which
was how, how in denial we all are as moms when our kids first start like experimenting and
stuff.
I mean, when you found the white claw in your yard and you're like, no, but Natalia said,
like, some hikers threw it up into our yard and I was like, Linette.
And I'm like, no, I don't see why she would make that.
It makes sense.
And I was like a year and a half ahead of you with the oldie.
I'm like, all right.
Yeah.
Yes, exactly.
No, I know.
You know, like now that they're, my kids are 19 and you know, they do, like sometimes they
will have like pregame or whatever.
You know, the thing that I don't get is these other houses that have parties that are, they
know the kids are drinking.
Don't they feel like that's a liability?
You would think.
I know.
That's what I don't get.
So some of the ones that my kids have told me about is like the parents know the kids
are drinking, but they're not supplying the alcohol.
But like, but what's the difference really?
It's like they're just kind of looking the other way.
Right.
I get it.
But not even really looking the other way.
Like they absolutely know and come and talk to the kids.
But then part of my brain at this point, and I know this is going to feel scandalous
to a lot of people.
But part of me is like, well, if the kids are sleeping over, my big thing is drinking and
driving.
Yes.
That is where I'm like, and I've told my kids zero tolerance.
Right.
Just because I did it all the time when I was a teenager.
I could have died.
Like, and there's no excuse for it now because you have a cool mother who will know questions
asked come get you.
Exactly.
Even if you take the car and you decide, hey, I know I took the car, but I feel like having
a drink.
Yeah.
And you do it.
You just need to tell me like, hey, I need you to come get me.
And I will.
Yeah.
I told my kids that too.
Like, no questions ask, I'll come get you.
And the time is like, why when I have an Uber, I don't need to have you come get me.
Right.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Now that there's Uber, there's no excuse for getting behind the wheel of a car.
Or getting in a car with somebody who's been drinking.
That's so part of my brain goes, okay, so let's say you have a group of kids at your
house.
Now, this is not, I'm not speaking for myself because I wouldn't, I would not allow drinking
at my house for teenagers.
Yeah.
But I'm saying, if they're at someone else's house and that parent feels that these, they're
going to look at these kids are drinking, but they're all safe and they're all sleeping
over.
Right.
That's one thing.
I just don't like, I, in my neighborhood in our, like, the culture that is in our
neighborhood, the sports parents, there's this parent, there's all these different, and
then there's always these same couple houses that have the graduation party where they have,
they'll have them have champagne before they go to prom and they put them in the sprinter
vans for prom and send them up, but they'll, they'll give them shit.
Like I'm always like wondering like, aren't these parents afraid, you know, because if
there was ever drinking in my house, I did not, I didn't, I wasn't aware.
It wasn't like, hey, is it cool that we have like a kegger?
No, I would be like, they were down by the, the horse trail, you know, that's where I would
see the white claws.
And I didn't know that, but like, but there's actual parents that like serve alcohol at
these parties.
And they're, I, I guess they trust that all the kids are going to be ubering and stuff
or walking.
But I don't know.
I don't, I just don't, I wouldn't feel comfortable like having, oh, mean, these parties and some
of them serve alcohol.
There's some of them that have, you know, they have older brothers and sisters who are in
college, but are in over 21, but then they also have a 19 year old sibling at home.
And then their friends come over.
So they're cool with them going and hanging out with the older siblings in the, you know,
guest house where there's alcohol knowing that the older kids are drinking, but then their
siblings come around with their friends hanging out with them.
Like, don't they, they must know that those kids must be, of course, drinking too.
I don't know.
It just seems like I know what a liability.
I know my kids go to a party at one kid's house that's first year of college.
And there's a whole, it's a guest house situation.
They're not allowed in the main house.
But every time they go there, there's, they say there's tons of booze.
That's so weird.
And this girl's probably 18 or 19.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
I mean, it's weird, but like, how did we get it when we were that age?
Well, I go to Valley Ho liquor store.
It used to go Valley Ho liquor store.
It was like on Balboa and Van Owen and, and we would just, yeah, we, well, for, and
also Dawn, my girlfriend, Dawn looked a lot older and she had a fake ID.
So there was us with the fake IDs or we would just go and go, hey, can you get us some
booze to some, some guy walking in?
And then we get, we get our, our drinks that way.
But also didn't you go to keg parties?
Because I went to keg parties all the time.
And I don't know it, there had to have been some parents involved in like getting that
keg delivered.
Because you'd get they'd get a keg, it would be on the back of a pickup truck.
You drive into the woods, they'd set up the keg and then we'd all be there with our red
solo cups.
Yeah.
Getting hammered.
Keg parties.
I can't, I think they came along later after I was 21.
I mean, we did definitely have parties with kegs.
But as kids, my friends, I don't remember them having kegs.
Oh, that was my whole high school.
Ninth grade, ninth, 10th, 11th, 12th.
Well, when I lived in Spokane, Washington, that's all we, that's every weekend and we called
it choir practice.
And it was there was a park.
There was upper Manitou Park and lower Manitou, but there was also woods.
You would drive off some road and it would literally be like, you'd be in the woods and you'd
find that party off some road.
And then they, and there would be like, I see.
A hundred kids hanging out.
Right, right.
Yeah, we didn't have, we didn't have the woods.
We had a school parking lot that was staying out in.
But that was just my little group of friends too.
Yeah.
Like high school because I was my, my parents never let me like, like they did not want me
spending the night out at houses and stuff.
And then finally, like when my mom and dad got divorced, then I was like, well, fuck this
shit.
I'm going to do what I want to do.
But when I was in junior high, I had to come home all the time.
I wasn't allowed to go out very often.
I wasn't even allowed to go with the next door neighbor that was going camping with, you know,
with the kids in the neighborhood.
They just wouldn't let me go anywhere.
But then I got, when I was in high school, I was like, fuck this shit.
And then I went to high school all the way across town from where I grew up.
Right.
And, you know, and then I would just end up sleeping there all the time, you know, but near
me, huh?
Yeah, yeah.
Near where I was.
Yeah.
Because you go to people's houses that lived closer to where like your school, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Yes.
That's where I would hang out.
My friend Pam, who was a no getter.
That's my mom's called her.
And she lived in the house.
She lived right off of Balbo and what a, I don't know.
And she didn't see no avenue.
But anyway, she lived right there and then I would go and spend the whole weekend.
And then I wouldn't even want to come home on Sunday night.
I would spend the whole week there going to school with her, walking to school and coming
home.
I was, I was the, I was the mobile muffin at Pam's house.
Right.
Now that I think about it, right?
You know, as her, her mom was feeding, feeding me.
Oh, yeah.
I was the mobile muffin at my friend Michele's house.
Yeah.
And then I'm like, how did I get money to eat lunch during the day?
I can't remember how that came about.
Like, if I never went, I remember my dad would give me lunch money the night before.
But if I was at Pam's house, how was I eating lunch?
I don't remember.
She was probably feeding you.
Yeah.
I guess I wouldn't eat at school.
I wouldn't have money for school.
I mean, I didn't, I didn't really have money either, but somehow I remember oftentimes
going to McDonald's and being only able to afford like split fries.
Yes.
Someone like scrounging up like $2.
I don't know, maybe babysitting.
Yeah.
Yeah, there was some McDonald's across the street from our, from our school.
And we would, I would like save up money to get the McRib.
And then me and my friend, Omely, would like, Wednesday is going to be McRib Day.
We loved the McRib.
And then we would split fries because we couldn't eat you forward.
And then we would go across the street and get the McRib and then we would hide because
people would mooch.
They go, whatever, you walked on campus with McDonald's.
Oh, you're a fucked.
They're knocking the shit out of your hand.
They're spitting in it so they can eat it.
They're grabbing it out of your hand.
Guys were so mean like, yeah, there was assholes like you had McDonald, you had to go hide.
And we had every Wednesday during McRib season and have the McRib.
Yeah.
Haven't had it since.
Funny, our kids are so spoiled now.
I would come meet Zander after school if he was staying after school for some activity.
And he'd be like, can you bring me something to eat?
And it was his Starbucks order.
I had to go drive through Starbucks.
You know.
Yes, you do the thing.
I know.
Okay, what do you want Jersey mics?
Okay, so you know, you roll up with like his mocha, whatever, whipped cream on it and
his spinach sandwich or whatever.
Yeah.
Kids are like, damn.
I know, right?
Other kids are like, I ball in you with that.
Yes.
So that's Starbucks.
Yeah.
Damn.
All right.
Well, before we wrap up, like we should mention the fact that yes, I fucking know that Karen
Reed is innocent.
All right.
Let it go.
No.
Look, listen, were the cops very corrupt?
Yes.
Everything weird went down.
Do I still think that she hit John O'Keefe?
Yes, she 100% did.
Would I, if I was in the jury, be able to like find her guilty of like killing him?
No, I'm sure I would not have been able to.
But even the, I've read some quotes from some of the jurors and they have said that, yeah,
she probably, she probably did clip him, but they don't believe that she killed him.
And there's too many holes.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
The only juror, I only saw one juror, I think I saw two, I saw one on TMZ who didn't talk
very much.
Kind of gave like one, you know, like a very quick answers.
But then I saw the same girl that was on a lot and she was like got like her, she was studying
to be an attorney in Brazil and she doesn't think that she was hit.
But then she did say that there was other people in the jury room that did initially think
that.
And then they had, but they had to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Yeah.
And that was the problem.
Um, so what do you think about P Diddy?
If you're going to go free?
Oh my God.
I hope not, but no, him, I don't want going free.
But I heard that the case might be over by the end of this week at TMZ.
I watch Harvey Levin to his wrap up right every day almost.
And he said on Friday that they think that by mid week, the defense could rest and then
that it could be in the hands of the jury by the end of this week.
I'm just worried because I've been down there like every day with my free P sign.
And like is it going to be all for not?
Like, if they find him guilty, there's a lot of those people at the courthouse.
There are.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
There's a lot of free, diddy, free P.
They, um, yeah, no, I don't know.
I, there's a thing.
I think that they, I think they have them on transportation across state lines, that charge.
But the, the real charge is going to put them away for a long time.
Is the racketeering, I think, right?
The Rico charges.
Yes.
And I, it is.
It's kind of a toss up.
I see these analysts on the news talking about it, but it's kind of a toss up because the
defense had done a pretty good job in saying like a lot of these people, you know, saying a
lot of their, his girlfriends, not just Cassidy, but the other girls that testified that said,
basically like, you know, we, we, we said we would go along with it because we loved
him.
And this one girl that wasn't Cassidy, she was, she was like, Jane, though, whatever.
She, her testimony was so sad because this was like, she met, she met him and he loved
Bomter and he thought that she was going to be P did these only girlfriend, even though
he said like, you know, I, I don't have one girlfriend.
I have multiple girlfriends.
Right.
And it wasn't Jane friends with his other girlfriend.
I think, yes.
Like, there was so like testimony saying like he says, Oh, we're going to go to Miami or
we're, we're going to go on vacation and it's just going to be the two of us.
And she was excited.
And then she'd get there.
And then he'd be like, you know, down for a freak off tonight.
And she'd be like, well, what the fuck, P?
I thought it was just going to be me and you.
Now, it's me, you and the punisher, you know, like, you know, it's sad.
Like, you know, so there was a lot of like wishing and hoping that they were going to
be together if they would just do the freak out.
If so there's a lot of text messages going, yeah, I loved it.
I loved it.
No girl loves a freak off.
I'm telling you that right now.
You know, so I hope there's more women on that juror than there are men because, you know,
especially with the UTI and stuff that testimony about with Cassidy.
Ain't no woman loves a freak off.
Okay.
The more you know, yeah.
No, sounds very, very painful.
Yeah.
So the thing is is I don't know if they're going to be able to really close that loop and showing
that there was coercion, there was, you know, um, bribing and, you know, like threatening
that they're going to, but, but there has to be also that there was other minions working
for him that we're doing this on his behalf.
Blah, blah, blah.
So I don't know if they have that, that, that yet.
And the defense really doesn't have to do much, but just poke holes.
So that's why they think they're thinking the defense is not going to go on for weeks,
calling witnesses because, hey, they probably don't have a lot of witnesses to call, but
b, all they have to do is just poke holes and be like, well, you have a message saying,
you love your freak offs with him, you know?
Right.
So I don't know.
I don't know what's going to happen.
I just, I found that like the thing with, with Cassidy's mom, did you hear about that?
Like him telling her, you know, like one of Cassidy's friends called her mother and said,
you got to help your daughter.
She's getting beaten.
She's getting, you know, you know, um, threatened by deep, diddy with these tapes.
And so the mom was like, I guess then he found that out.
And then I think he like, ride the mom 20 grand, like you need to pay me 20 grand just to
show he's got power over her because she did, she had to like, you know, get a lender, get
the 20 grand, she had to pay it in him.
And then he paid it back because 20 grand a p to do is nothing.
So he only did it just to show power and like, I have control.
Look, I have control of this situation.
So if they could show more of like that kind of stuff, that I think would help, I don't
know, but they rusted, right?
Yeah, they didn't ask me to help.
So I, why did they not ask?
I don't know.
I was, I heard our show.
I know, I know.
I mean, they could have like, ten, he could have put in a good word for me.
Ten, he garragos.
Yeah.
We're neighbors.
Yeah, I don't know.
I was waiting.
Um, have you watched anything good?
Hmm, because I'm looking for something to watch.
I heard there's some new documentary, but I can't remember what it's called or what it's
about.
So that's not going to help you.
Did you watch the Titan stuff?
I haven't watched it yet.
I brought it up to John and he was like, that sounds really depressing.
And I was like, yeah.
And I know he won't want to watch the, what is it?
Gilligo, Gilgoth.
No, no, yeah.
Yeah.
There's serial.
The Ohio State documentary.
That's okay.
That's so funny.
I watched it last night.
It's not hilarious that you brought it up, but these people that I was talking to at the
party at Ronnie's house said they watched it.
The problem was they were like the guy who was telling me there's a couple was like, yeah,
I totally cried.
It was really sad.
It was really heartbreaking.
And they really never got any, I don't think got justice for it.
Spoiler alert.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, you got to watch it.
But like, the thing is is that they, it took a lot for these boys to come for, well, they're
men to come forward about what happened.
And a lot of it happened on the wrestling team.
And then what happened was is like, and I'm not going to spoil it, but there's one thing
like people are like, oh, yeah, are you trying to tell me an Ohio State wrestler?
You know, couldn't, couldn't stop this old man from the last, well, you got to watch it.
But like, you know, so it is a sad story.
That's depressing.
The Titan was kind of depressing, but it was more like this guy got away with literally
murder.
Yeah.
But, but yeah, the, the Ohio, the Ohio doc, it's on HBO Max.
Yeah.
And it's called, I don't know.
I'm not going to be with Ohio State University.
Yeah.
I need something like fun to watch the cheerleaders, the cowboy cheerleaders.
That's back, right?
Yeah.
I haven't watched it yet.
But that I think would be fun.
Yeah.
You know what's funny is our friend, our friend Mark Wahlberg.
Yes.
With no age in his last name.
My kids were super impressed that because, okay, so Mark Wahlberg was at Patrick Kikies,
the party Lynette and I went two, two days ago.
And my kids were like, your friends with the host of Temptation Island?
Oh.
And I was like, yeah.
And then Elby got super impressed that she was happy.
She had a whole conversation with him and he was being like, really sweet to Elby.
Oh.
And told Elby she could come on his bonfire podcast and talk about like guy problems.
Yeah.
Whatever.
But she was like, my God.
It's the host of Temptation Island.
And then Xander was like, Mom.
How come you never told me that?
And I was like, I don't know.
He's like, it's like one of the biggest shows on Netflix right now.
Yeah.
Yes.
I know.
And then Suzanne sitting there and she's like, who's that?
I go, Mark Wahlberg.
Like, Mark Wahlberg, I go, this poor guy, if I have to go through it, what a match and he
goes through.
And that's that.
I go, did you watch Temptation?
No.
Okay.
Never mind then.
Yeah.
Did you watch Antique's Road Show?
No.
I don't.
I thought a few episodes, well, the Mark Wahlberg show and syndication from like 1998 and see
it.
I know.
I feel so bad for him.
I know.
I told you when at the poker thing that I went to what and like, he's just like, this is
just my life.
He goes, it's so bad.
I was like, have you ever thought maybe you should just change your name?
He's like, well, it's too late for that now.
No.
It is too late.
He's like, I've been in the business a long time.
Yeah.
I've got the other one changes name.
I know.
How about he get as a middle initial?
I know.
He's kind of an asshole too, the other one.
Yeah.
I'll go ahead.
It's called him Marky Mark.
How about that?
Which I feel like they do.
Yeah.
But still, there's no getting over Mark Wahlberg.
Yeah.
Anyway, this has been super fun.
And we again did not say hi to our fabulous people yet.
Not yet, but we got Ashley.
She's so chic and Stephanie is a stinker.
Athena is a great dancer.
Sandra is green around the gills.
Jennifer fell.
Erin is a dirty Sanchez.
Leslie is still coughing.
Alicia.
Escalante.
From the city of El Monte.
Kelly Brandt is going to guess up her van and take you.
Yeah.
She's going to put a diaper on.
We just, we should just escalate that.
Rebecca Lubin is she going to put her in my pocket.
Esha on Vajpe.
Oh, hi.
I'm going to ask you what?
Missy and Gabby up to no good as always.
Katarina.
Girl, please get to the dentist.
Valerie Bubba Finwick.
Paulie, we love your pancakes.
Rita's rocking that bass yet with all the Elizabeth Williams since 25 kids.
Nikki call your girl Kelly.
Lani, Dick is probably king.
And only one more.
We got Adam.
Adam Learner will get you a car.
Got me a car.
But Adam's got a car.
And also our friend Kelsey is Furn candle is her business.
And she's going to get you a candle.
Michelle five.
They smell delicious.
And they last a long time because of the soy wax, which is better for the environment.
They just make a really fabulous gift.
You could get it with a whole kit for somebody.
If you were doing like a housewarming, you could do like a little wit cutter.
Yeah.
Little gold wit cutter.
And it's you.
Yeah, it's really nice.
And it's like Furn candle.com.
All right.
Guys, listen to drunkish because this week's episode, which I forgot to promote on Tuesday,
is a friend of mine who was on our podcast a long time ago named Kathleen Wilhoid.
She's an actress and she's going to be in the Murdoff murders when they're doing the
hulu.
Oh, documentary.
A couple episodes.
Really for that.
Yeah.
In October.
Anyway, she's in that.
And she's an actress.
And she's a singer.
She came to our show and she's saying a song for us and she's amazing.
I love her.
And she has, it might be my best episode.
Oh, really?
I'm drunkish.
Oh, my gosh.
So that's this week.
So go check it out.
Okay.
All right.
You're a parent now.
Don't eff it up.
It's good.
I'm a day letting go.
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