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Hi.
That's Stephanie Wilder Taylor.
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Yeah, so, um, hi, what's happening?
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It's Monday.
Mm-hmm.
Um, I'm happy to be here.
Yeah.
I feel like it's been, has it been a big week?
It's been hot.
It's been really hot.
Yeah.
Had a busy weekend.
Yeah.
So, you said--
I'll be some picks and videos, which were exciting.
Yeah.
I couldn't hear what I was sending you.
Um, yeah, I'll tell you about that.
I went to a baby last night.
Okay.
But this weekend Natalia moved into her, her apartment, I guess.
This, so she moved out of the place she was living into a newer, not a newer, into another
place.
Um, because she, the, well, her friends from the other place are gone.
There's only like two girls left and one is, you know, I don't get along that way.
And then she found this other place that she is sharing a bedroom.
So, it's like a three bedroom, but it's shared with six people.
And one of the, so in her room, it's pretty small.
And she got bunk beds.
So she's sharing it with her roommate, with bunk beds.
And so anyway, it was, you know, first of all, this is the first time I've driven a Santa
Barbara in my new work, in my new car, which is an electric Mercedes and the, what, and
not the Tesla.
And so I know I'm going to have to charge it when I get there, which I usually do when I
go see her in Santa Barbara.
I know where to go.
Yeah.
Well, hold on.
I'm not trying to, um, yeah, interrupt, but I'm curious about this because I'm about to
get an electric car.
So doesn't it get like 200 and something miles?
It does, but the weird thing is, is, it's a little say how many miles, but then it also
gives the battery.
So I left on a full charge, but by the time I got there, it was 50%.
So even though it'll say, like in the Tesla, it'll tell you, you know, you need this amount,
this amount of battery life to get back to your original location, but this car doesn't
have that feature.
So I don't know.
I was, I was really, you don't want to get home.
And beyond zero.
Well, I could if, if I could make, I don't know if I would, wouldn't make it, I don't know,
you know what I mean?
And also I had to do a lot of driving in Santa Barbara once I got there going back and
forth to Target and stores and, you know what I mean.
So there was a lot of that driving.
I don't know.
I just, it, when I would go to Santa Barbara, just go to this, there's a place, this big
mart center and they have, you know, like seven Tesla charging stations, then a crate across
from it is like six or seven electric EV charging stations.
So when I got the car, they go and I said, can I charge it at a Tesla thing?
They said, sure, here's the, it's to use this attachment.
Okay.
So I get there at 50%.
Plus I know I'm going to be driving around town throughout the day.
So I'm like, at some point I want to go get it charged.
So there was, we took like a lunch break and then I went to go to the station to charge
it.
Now I've never seen a non Tesla in the charging station.
They're always just Teslas.
So I already feel kind of like a fraud.
Like, you know, like why don't I just go use the EV charging thing?
But from what I know from those ones, you have to pay for it.
And I don't know if there is, if there are the quick charge like Tesla.
So if I have the attachment, I might as well just go the, what I know how to do.
Anyway, so the Tesla charging stations are all packed.
Then one guy pulls out.
Now the charging thing is on the other side of the car now.
So with Tesla, it's on the driver side.
This car, it's on the passenger side.
It's so funny because I have two cars, Prius and the Tiguan and both are on the other side
and I always have to do a bunch of mental math like to remember, okay, where am I?
What's on my, which car am I in?
Yes, yes, right.
So I sat there and waited.
One guy was like, I only have like 20 minutes.
So I was like, okay, so I pulled to the side.
Now all these other Teslas are coming in thinking I'm not waiting for a Tesla.
So one guy pulls out then the Tesla pulls in.
And I was like, okay, well, let me position myself a little closer.
Plus this one guy said, I'm going to be leaving soon.
So I get that.
So then he like gets out of the car, he waves at me.
So I get in position to pull in.
So he pulls out.
Nobody else was waiting.
So I pull in and I'm like, wait a minute.
How is this going to work?
Oh, no.
It doesn't reach.
It's not reaching to the other side.
So I feel like a jet.
So then I'm like, I just wasted 20 minutes waiting.
Well, couldn't you turn around and then back in?
I tried that.
It does still doesn't reach.
It's still, it's still, oh, I tried that, but the whole, okay, so I don't want to get in the
weeds, but the hoes are on sometimes they're on the left side, sometimes they're on the
right side.
I pulled it back in.
It wasn't going to, yeah, that means it would have to go across the whole car to the back
and it still wasn't going to reach.
Okay.
But that was, okay, so all right.
So I pull back out.
Now I'm like, okay, I have to go to the, to the other, to the regular electric vehicle side.
Now I pull in, it's like, add a order.
Okay.
So I pull out.
So there's only like, you know, you're scaring me for getting an electric car.
I know, right?
Sorry.
It just bear with me.
So I pull in, it's out of order.
So now the other ones that are working are being taken.
Okay.
So then I pull out.
Now I'm waiting for the electric car side.
But then I see one Tesla stall where the hose is on closer to where it could reach for my
tank.
And that guy pulls out.
So I'm like, okay, I'm going to try this.
So I pull in, it reaches.
Okay.
So I was like, I'll excited.
I was like, yes, I get the, I get the attachment, put it on the thing.
I plug it into my car.
It fits everything works.
Everything fits together.
Perfect.
I plug it into my car.
Fits it goes in.
Nothing.
It's not charging.
No.
Why?
Is it because this is a dud thing?
Is this, is this station a dud?
Is that, but the guy just pulled out.
He was charging.
Why isn't it not, why isn't it your attachment?
The attachment fit just fine.
Could click, could click into the car.
And nothing.
Not charging.
So I'm like, okay, while I'm doing this bullshit, the, the across from me, the electric
charging station, the guy leaves and then in comes this guy in his truck, his electric truck
and parks it.
And I'm like, oh, fuck.
So now I'm like, all right, I'm just going to ask him how long he's going to be because
the other two cars are parked.
They're gone.
They're, they're shopping.
They're not sitting in their car waiting.
They're gone.
Right.
This guy, he's getting out of his car to plug in his car.
I pull up next to him and I go, how long are you going to be here?
You going to be all day or like, I'm a bit, and he goes, oh, he goes, have you been
waiting?
And I was like, kind of, but I wasn't.
I was, yeah, I've been waiting because I've now been there for like 45 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With the wait time and shit.
So I was like, he was like, oh, okay, you were here first with Sphere's Fair.
And I was like, thank you so much.
I was sweating.
I was hot.
I need to get back to an Italian.
I was like, thank you.
And I go, I don't, I've never done it before.
Are these, are these chargers pretty quick?
And he goes, not as quick as the Teslas, but they're, yeah, they're pretty quick like
like a half an hour you'll get charged,
like a good charge, like, okay,
and I don't really need a full charge,
I just wanna get back up, anyway.
So he pulls out and then I pull in,
get out of the car, I get my card out,
and I swipe it to, so it charges my credit card,
and then it does that scrolling thing, right?
And it's like thinking, and then it says,
we'll take up to a minute, okay, so I'm like,
all right I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting.
And I'm like, I know I'm impatient,
but I know it's been like almost a minute,
it's still scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
The sun is beating down on my baseball hat.
And I'm like sweating, waiting, still going,
still going, still scrolling, still scrolling,
I'm like, okay, it's been two minutes, this something's wrong.
So then I take my card out and it's still scrolling,
so now what do I do?
I don't wanna leave it, somebody's gonna charge my card,
right, is it gonna go through,
then it has a, now I'm calling the helpline phone number,
saying like, what station I'm at,
and it just kept going and going and going,
and then I unplug my card and I plug it back into the station,
and then it stopped and it reset itself.
But now I'm like, this thing's not working,
so then I pull out of there,
and now I'm waiting again for another spot
because I'm thinking this thing is a dud,
'cause two spots are broken.
Then this old couple comes pulling in behind me,
and I'm like, oh, this is gonna, let's see what happens with them.
No problem, oh, they're fine, they go on for,
with their day, it works, they're charging their car.
So what did I do?
Get a, like, I should have just retried it again,
but I thought it's broken because they're,
they're, I don't know, so then I pull out,
and now I'm waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting,
and now somebody comes and leaves.
Now I've been there like, hour and 15 minutes,
and then I plug it in and then it says it'll take like,
25 minutes to get up to a decent charge,
where I'm like, okay, so then I wait.
So then that's what I went through
for my first time charging my new car.
Yeah.
So you mean the first time charging it away from home?
Away from home, yes, on someplace else.
Did you get your electric car?
Not yet.
We're getting it like early September,
oh, starting to rethink.
I mean, we're gonna have a charging thing at our house,
but I was noticing that when I go to Ralph's,
they have these, they have the stations,
the electric, a bunch of the plugs,
and they are always taken.
There are lines.
It's like in and out lines.
Yeah, I know.
I know they could just waiting and waiting every single one of it,
and it doesn't matter you could go to Ralph's
at like 11 o'clock at night.
There's still all charged up.
See is that for people that don't have them at their houses?
Maybe, or maybe they have a slow charger at their house
and they wanna get a flash?
I don't know, but the thing with the Tesla,
it would tell you the closest places,
and then it would tell you,
if there's seven stalls that'll stay in live time,
four out of seven are taken.
So you know, like, you know what I mean?
You can gauge, with this car, I don't know.
I was lucky to know in Santa Barbara
where the charging stations are for Tesla's and non-Tesla's.
So I don't know.
But I feel like everything was such a fluke.
It was like a comedy of errors with that day, you know what I mean?
So anyway, got the charge.
So it was a long cost.
Is it a lot cheaper than getting gas?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
It wasn't very much, like seven bucks or something.
Okay.
So anyway, did that,
and then it was a long day, you know, moving her out of her place,
putting everything in cars.
She talked to her dad and her dad said he would have
his guys show up on Saturday
to because she had furniture delivered
that had to be put together.
She had a bunk bed that had to be put together
and she was gonna be sleeping there that night.
And I don't know what happened,
conflict, something happened, I don't know,
but they didn't come.
They didn't, they weren't coming.
So did he tell her that they weren't gonna show up?
Yeah, like that morning or that night before.
Yeah.
So who had to set up the bunk bed?
So when we were moving her out luckily,
of her, where we were packing her stuff
into the old place, there was a guy there
with his tools and a tool truck
and he was helping students put together furniture.
Uh-huh.
And we were in the elevator and I was like,
are you like, do you have family that you just moved in?
And he was like, no, I was hired to put together furniture
and I was like, we need somebody, are you available?
And he goes, actually, I'm just finished.
And he, oh, he was gonna be finished soon.
He's like, give me the address, I'll, you know, I'll come.
He was the greatest.
Like he was there all day, put together this huge bunk bed
that had to be put together.
He had the tools and everything.
And it took him like almost, you know, four or five hours
putting everything together.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, putting, he put the TV up, he put her vanity desk thing
together, you know, not a lot of furniture
to fit in the room to begin with,
but everything that was in going into the room
needed to be put together.
So he, he did everything and it was great.
Yeah.
So, um, so we luckily we found him.
And then, so did you bring all that furniture boxes with you
or did you have it ordered and have it delivered
to the apartment?
Ordered and had it delivered.
Okay, so then, so she didn't have to be there to receive it?
No, because the other roommates were already
kind of living in this place.
Okay.
So I show up in the morning to her new place
and it's this big like a part, it, it's like,
it's right out of the movie, Old School with Will Ferrell.
What's his face?
Vince Vaughan.
Like, when you see a flat house and you see literally black leather
torn up worn out couches on the lawn,
that's what was out on the lawn.
Oh my God.
And like, there's some kind of structure that somebody built
like some Greek structure for some flat house
that got moved to the lawn bicycles everywhere,
red solo cups everywhere.
And then you walk up, and I knock on the,
she didn't tell me the apartment.
She just told me the address, but it's this big apartment.
But there's all these little units.
So I show up to the first door and knock on the door.
All I smell is weed, like getting a contact high.
Oh my God.
And like, 9.30 in the morning too.
And I'm like, some surfer dude, you know,
opens the door, I go, is an Italian here?
And he goes, who's an Italian?
And I go, oh, I go, my daughter's moving in and he goes,
oh, there's a bunch of, he goes, check the back.
There's a bunch of people moving in the back.
And I was like, oh, okay, sorry.
And he's like, no, you're all good.
So you didn't drive and tell you there?
No, she was, she was already there.
She spent the night, the night before at her old place
at the, at the old apartment.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, 'cause she was, you know, finishing packing up,
cleaning, she had, she had to clean stuff.
Okay.
So then I show up in the morning and she's like,
go to the new place, but yet she's still asleep
at the other place, which I should have known.
So anyway, I call our wakeer up,
go to the other place, but yeah, I mean,
it was a lot of like packing up and it was like,
when you moved, you know, moving day,
when you're moving into a new place, it's just,
I mean, it was like a whole day of like, you know,
and also I must have went to Target four times,
at least going on Target runs, you know,
like, oh, we forgot batteries or we need, like sheets.
I thought I was like, Natalia, I thought you ordered sheets.
Well, I kind of forgot.
I ordered the furniture,
but I forgot about sheets and I'm like,
but what, but her sheets don't fit on the new bed
because she had the old like extra long twin.
Extra long twin and now she has like a full mattress.
So now she needed, so I'd go back to Target for that, you know, blah, blah, blah.
But Olga met me down there, which was nice.
She was like, oh, I want to come help.
I helped, you know, I like, I want to see Natalia.
You know, so she came down and, and with us and her Natalia and her roommate
and she had a couple of friends help us too.
I mean, it took all day, but we got her all situated, moved in and her bed was done.
Thank God.
Like, and she started school today.
So wow.
Yeah, yeah.
Like we had to get it.
I was thinking I was going to have to go back on Sunday to help her finish,
but we got, I mean, we were there all day until 8.39 o'clock.
And then these bitches are like, in getting in, all right, you got, we're done.
All right.
Then now they're getting in the shower, getting ready to go to a party.
I'm like, aren't you tired?
Like, you're going to a party?
Yeah, like, yeah.
Of course.
That's what you do.
I was like, all right.
Okay.
All right.
I like her roommates.
They're really sweet.
Really good kids.
I love the room that, the girl that she's, I know the girl for a while that she's sharing
the room with.
She's great.
She's a good, like, she reminds me of a Suzanne, you know, like, just a
good solid friend.
And I, you know, I'm happy.
I like it.
I like where she's living.
And, you know, it's a big difference from the other place.
The other place is, you know, had a big balcony and like a nice breeze of air didn't have
AC, but had like a good breeze coming through this place.
It's like a little apartment with no AC, no AC.
Well, it's a big part of that.
Right.
And then, you know, I was in the car, and I was in the car, and I was like, what is that?
What is that?
I was like, what is that?
What is that?
I was like, what is that?
What is that?
I was like, what is that?
But it was really hot.
But she only has like a small window for the air, you know, it's not like a big, I don't
know, and she runs.
Go get a fan.
Yeah.
Yeah, they'll have fans.
They have a fan.
They're probably going to need more.
Or they can get one of those standing like little AC units.
Yeah.
They're not that expensive.
It's not going to cool the whole place.
But they have those little pieces.
I know.
And I thought about it like, should I buy here?
And I actually, other thing too, like, it's moving day on Saturday.
Where's all the other parents?
Now granted, a couple of the girls already lived in this place, so they weren't moving.
But there was two girls moving in.
And one girl's mom showed up for like an hour and then she's like, my name's Paul.
That's between young, like bounced.
Like after just one hour, just wanted to see the place and left.
Like, they're shit.
Like your daughter's got stuff.
She's unpacking.
I don't get it.
Like, why?
Yeah.
I still don't understand.
I'm not as weird.
It reminded me of being back in the days when they would play sports and you'd go to their
games and it's like, where's all the other parents at the games?
You know, remember that?
Like, yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe it's because it's their sophomore year.
I don't know.
I was just going to ask how you're feeling about, so this year, both kids have to do their
applications for transfer.
Yes.
Yeah.
Right.
I don't know when that comes in, right?
Like, if she wants to go to UC Santa Barbara, the application deadline is the same as it would
be if she was a first year.
So November 30th is the deadline.
Right.
These kids are getting started on it now and it's everybody's intense as like the first
year.
I mean, it's a, if she's only applying to transfer to UC Santa Barbara, it's not as bad.
And does she know if she's going to tag Santa Barbara?
She did talk about that.
I don't know.
We have to revisit that because she has her friends that are one year ahead and she's following
what they did kind of thing, which is good.
I'm like, you know, just taking the general classes out of the way, you know, that kind of stuff.
But I don't know.
I got to talk to her.
Natalia is pretty on it with that kind of stuff.
I'm lucky that way.
At him, sunny, I have to figure out for him.
But yeah, I think she's going to tag.
I think she wants to do that.
So tagging is basically if you just have to meet certain requirements like for your major,
you have to have gotten certain classes out of the way.
Yeah.
But she can take them this year.
And then as long as she's taken them or has them planned, then, but the application is
do, don't make the same mistake.
I'll be made because I'll be missed the tag deadline and wasn't able to tag anywhere.
She got in anyway, which was very lucky.
But depending on your grades, you want to be able to tag because you have that guarantee.
Right.
That deadline is like end of September.
Okay.
So she should talk to her counselor about it and get it's just an application.
It's a separate application.
And that's it.
And you just fill it out.
For those of you who don't know, this is a system just for the UCs and it's called tagging,
which is like transfer alliance guarantee.
I think it stands for.
And it just means that you can pick one school and say that's the school I want to go
to.
Yeah.
And then you have to have that.
And then you have to have taken whatever the classes are for your major.
Yeah.
And she's been on top of that.
Like she's been taking those classes.
Yeah.
Then she should be able to tag and be able to do that.
And then she should be able to do that.
Yeah, I know.
I'm so happy at my kid's school.
So Sadie came home the other day and was like in our AP Lit class,
we all have to write our common app essays.
Which did they do that at your school?
No, I don't think so.
Yeah, not Elby didn't do it either.
No, we were on our own.
Yeah, our school is all about like helping them.
So Sadie wanted to know she wanted to write about something that was like a change for her.
A time in her life that she changed, that something changed, I guess.
I don't remember exactly what the thing was, but of course, you know, mom,
I have to write about something in my life, like a change, a big change that happened.
And I don't really remember stuff.
So like, can you help me?
And you're like, I don't got a good memory either.
I kind of told you that.
I was like, well, I don't know.
Can you like, can we give me something?
Is there something like, I'll tell you about a ballpark in it, right?
Yeah.
And she's like, I don't really know.
Oh, she said, I know what she said.
She said, I don't really want to do like mental health stuff because, you know,
she's struggled with depression and anxiety and medicated and all the stuff.
But apparently that's kind of hack at this point.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So it's kind of played out.
That's like comedians talking about like airline food.
Everybody does it.
You know, you better have a fresh take on this.
Yeah.
And in fact, I don't know if this will help anybody.
And I probably talked about it last year.
When I'll be first in her, she'll be applied to like one school that used the common app.
Right.
So for those of you who don't have kids applying to college or have never been through it,
the common app is good for a lot of schools.
Yeah.
But the UCs have their own application process.
And they, for their essays, they use something called PIQs, which are personal insight questions.
Right.
And you have to pick four.
They give you eight topics you choose four and you write only 350 words.
Right.
The common app they want you to write one essay.
I guess about whatever the fuck you want.
Yeah.
And it's 650 words.
So Elby wrote about, she did write about anxiety because we didn't know better.
And we had a shitty college counselor who was like great topic.
Right.
Which is fine because she, she applied to University of Oregon.
That was a good essay.
But when she went to reapply and we use this essay coach who I have put a bunch of our listeners
on her name is Melissa.
She was great.
Mm-hmm.
I have to look up her last name.
You guys can DM me for it.
But I'm using her again this year.
She is a freaking gem.
Yeah.
Anyway, she talked to Elby and was like, yeah, you don't want to just write about anxiety
unless it needs to be tied to something else.
So she talked about anxiety, but it was like the whole point was that she'd had anxiety.
She'd been in therapy for it.
And then she ended up getting to use her, her, her, having gotten through it when she was
a camp counselor and was able to help all these kids.
For homesick or having anxiety, she was like the anxiety whisperer because she'd have
this whole experience.
And then also that's why she wants to major in psychology.
Right, right.
Even though she ended up applying as a socialist.
It all ties up.
Yeah.
So that made it like a very positive, not just like, my god, anxiety and it was really hard.
Right.
Okay, so Sadie goes, I don't want to do mental health because it's played out.
Mm-hmm.
It's fucked out as you'd say.
Yeah.
You imagine.
It's like so fucked out mom like nobody wants to hear about it.
So anyway, you know what we came up with, which I thought was a cute idea and she loved
and she's using was when Sadie went on growth hormone meds and the first time she was
only seven and the nurse, the visiting nurse had to come and like stick her with the needle
and she like lost her mind, had a full on meltdown about it.
And then for a long time, John and I had to only give her the shot when she was a sleep.
And she, I remember.
Yeah.
And then how there, there came this point where she was like, okay, I want you to do a wall
I'm still awake.
Mm-hmm.
And we were like, are you sure?
And she was like, yes.
And so we were like, okay, and we did it and she goes, oh, it didn't really hurt.
Uh-huh.
It was like two years into the process.
Right.
And then she was on them for seven years from seven to 14, seven days a week.
But you know at age seven, that's nerve wracking.
I know.
But she was still pretty young when she was like, go ahead and do it when I'm awake.
Right.
So we did.
And then not too long after that, she was like, I'm going to do it myself.
Mm-hmm.
And then she stuck herself with the needle.
Right.
And we did it.
Yeah.
And then did it every single day since then and then her whole demeanor kind of changed.
She got more confident than she started not freaking out at all about blood tests, about
shots of the doctor.
And she became the one of all three of the kids that was like, I'll go first, it's fine.
Yeah.
Well, let me watch and learn.
Right.
When Zander would be crying about, I don't want to have a shot and she'd be like, I'll
do it.
Yeah.
I think that's kind of a cool, yeah, that's a good, that's a good angle.
Yeah.
I like that.
So that's what she's writing about.
Oh, that's great.
It's so smart for schools that can do this, to get them prepared for getting ready to go
to college and getting their essays done.
You know, why isn't all schools do that?
I don't know.
I used to make so many schools do, but yeah, I'll be with totally on her own.
Yeah, my kids too.
They didn't have that.
But yeah, I like that.
So now my kids are going to have to write something all over again, probably.
Yeah, they will.
Yeah.
Elby thought she was going to use her common app essay from the year before.
Well, she didn't need a common app essay because she only applied to Cal State Schools and
UCs.
But she was going to try to reuse her PICUs and in the end, she really couldn't.
She couldn't.
They just didn't fit and they want to see growth and they were kind of old news.
Yes.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And she sort of needed to talk about, to like write something as a transfer student that
would reflect growth since high school.
Right, right.
Even though truthfully, she didn't have much growth.
I mean, she was like, because you got to figure literally, it was, it was, well, it was a
year later that she was writing them, but like, nothing had happened.
She'd been like laying and going to work at the SAAC.
These are tag places and then lying in bed, going on her phone and crying.
Right, right.
Right.
Yeah, that was such a bad time for her.
It sucked.
It did suck, but that's a growing, that's a growing, right?
But that's all another way.
What are you going to do right about like, well, I got broken up with, right now and all
my friends went off the college that I didn't get.
Yeah, yeah, it sucked.
I know, I know.
Wow.
Hopefully I'll get in somewhere this year so I won't have to be in bed for another year
crying.
Yeah.
Is she's going to be a junior?
She's a senior this year.
LB is going to be a senior in college.
Yeah, because so she had one year at Pierce, then she reapplied, then she had the credits
to transfer after one year.
So last year she was a junior and this year she was a senior.
Wow, that just flew by.
I know, because she skipped a year basically.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah.
That's true.
I mean, you're going to be going to a graduation in May.
Isn't that crazy?
That is in crazy.
She can be done with college.
And then if she, you think she's going to do like a graduate program or anything like that?
No, she doesn't want to go to graduate school right away.
She wants to figure out what she wants to do.
She's probably going to live at home.
We've already talked about it.
I'm like, you flew, right?
You flew.
You don't want to leave that?
She had the best last day of work last week.
Oh, you know?
She's like, "I'm going to miss it so much."
She had a great, really good learning experience.
Yeah.
They did like this, these things with, not just with all the interns,
they have them shadow all these different departments.
So like, she got to sit in with the writers.
One day, she got to, she got to be on, I don't know if I should,
she got to be on the headset of the stage manager.
So when they had a guest host who was fucking up,
she could hear them going like, "Oh, God."
She fucked up again.
She wasn't supposed to say that.
Well, blah, blah.
It was pretty juicy.
Yeah.
And I asked her, I said, "Which department did you like the most?"
And she said that she really enjoyed the man on the street stuff
and working with the writers.
Well, of course, that's the best part.
Yeah.
She's like, "The writers are so fun."
They are so funny.
They crack me up.
Is Tony Barbieri still there?
Yes.
And she said that.
And I'm like, "I need to talk to Tony and get, she's like, mom,
he is the funniest guy.
Like, we're just eating lunch and he's just cracking people up.
Like, he's just, everything he says is hilarious."
He was so funny at that thing.
I know at the event that you did?
Yeah, at the Laxagala.
Right, because his kids went there.
Yeah.
And I told you that people were not fully getting it because he was being so funny.
He was being so dry.
He's very dry.
He was being so dry.
But I mean, it seems so obviously funny to me.
But it's like when you're watching at a movie and it's so your sense of humor,
but people are missing stuff.
Yes.
And I told you that there was one guy behind me who was losing his shit.
I was laughing so hard I was crying.
I really did.
So it was Robin.
Yeah.
And Robin and I were laughing.
We could not stop.
Like, I was, my stomach hurt.
I was crying, laughing.
I was like, he's so beyond funny.
He was just being really like taking the piss out of,
he was kind of making fun of the prizes.
And he was just like kind of bullying people.
But in a really fun way.
Yes.
And it was to the credit of the people there, in defense of the people there.
It was kind of loud.
You know, it was a little bit hard to focus.
But I was like, this is a funny comedian for people.
Yeah.
You understand what you're getting.
Great entertainment right now.
Yes.
I mean, if anybody wants to check out a piece of Tony, go look at Jake Bird is his character
spelled with a Y Bird on YouTube.
And his videos are on Jimmy Kimmel Live is hilarious.
He does, he does a lot of man.
Well, he plays this character, Jake Bird, who is like an, you know,
in a rusted development kid.
But like, he's like an over, you know, he's like, he wears like a backpack.
And he's always had all the trials, like free Britney Spears.
Right, right.
You know, or like Michael Jackson, he went to all the Michael Jackson trials.
Like, Michael Jackson never touched me.
I don't know what the big deal is.
And then he went to like a flat, earth or event.
It is hilarious.
You fall down that rabbit hole.
There's so many videos.
It's so funny.
He cracks you out.
He's just really talented.
Yeah, he's been there right.
He's been there for years since the beginning.
So funny.
Tomorrow's his birthday.
Oh, well, I wish him a happy birthday.
You should.
I'm going to.
Because remember we were trying to get him to come on the show.
Yeah.
I don't know if he got back to him.
I don't think he got back to me.
But I'll reach out to him.
Okay, we'll see.
So what is Natalia?
So is Sonny's major sports broadcasting?
Broadcasting.
Yeah.
So that's its own major.
Yeah.
And then what's Natalia's major?
Psychology.
Journalism.
Journalism, that's right.
Yeah.
That's what she.
And that's its own major there.
They have a journal as a director.
Yeah.
She likes it.
She's a good writer.
She's always been a good writer.
And I don't know.
I mean, I was like, do you want to work on like a late night show?
Like you're getting in a little late now.
I don't know how much longer Jimmy is going to be doing it, you know?
But anyway, yeah.
She's like, I just she just like the environment.
She's working at a boutique clothing store where she met like Paris Hilton and Oprah Winfrey.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And she said Oprah was not night.
I mean, not really friendly, but just kind of just like not that nice.
But Paris was so sweet.
And she like showed me a video of her.
She seems nice.
She's seen she was really sweet.
And she was like, she was like, I hope you get commission for all this.
She's like, if you do put in an extra pair of sunglasses or something like that.
And then she showed me a video.
She's like, let's just not just take a selfie.
She told her she's like, let's take a video.
And so there's a video and she goes, she goes, loves it.
She's like, loves it with her friend.
Yeah, she was like super nice.
So she might have an opening at that store for no time.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That would be great.
Yeah, that would be great.
So we'll see.
But yeah, she started school today.
I can't wait to hear how it go.
How it went.
Back at it.
Yeah.
And then it was kind of sad like going back home.
I know like she was she was home for the summer, but she was here and there.
And kind of in and out.
But like when they leave again, it's it's sad all over again.
I know.
You know.
And then Sonny's going to be leaving in a few weeks.
I know.
You know.
It's going to be hard.
But then okay, so Sonny leaves, but not to like mid September.
Yeah, like September 20th, 21st.
Okay.
So we got him for a while.
Yeah.
I know.
Elbe is going to move in like mid September too.
Mm hmm.
I've got to say I'm kind of proud because Elbe has been working a lot of hours.
Because she's still doing tours for UCLA.
Oh, she is.
Yeah.
Which doesn't pay very much.
And it's like you only get like a couple hours, like two hours.
Right.
For a tour, but she's been doing that and her hostessing job.
Yeah.
And she's still liking it.
Yeah.
She loves it.
She told me yesterday she was like, I'm so glad I have this job because it's kind of perfect
for me.
She's like, 'cause I really like my coworkers.
It's not that hard.
It's like, you know, it's kind of fun.
Yeah.
Social.
I already have friends at work that I can hang out with like after work.
Oh.
It's kind of perfect.
Yeah.
It is perfect for her.
Right.
I mean, it's not like she had to learn a, you know, yeah, yeah.
And she's going to still do it when she goes back.
I mean, I think it's going to depend on how easy it is to have her car there.
And like, I think she will, I hope she works like one or two weekends a month.
Yeah.
Because she needs the money.
Yeah.
But it is sort of far.
It is pretty far for her.
It's in Calabassas where she's working.
Oh.
It's not that close to UCLA.
No.
So, I mean, I think she's going to look for a job closer to UCLA like in Westwood.
And if, but she's going to keep this until she gets something else.
Yeah.
Oh, that she could get a job in Westwood.
There's tons of restaurants and stuff there.
No, but girl, it is all who you know.
Yeah.
You have to, and in fact, she even told me at the place she's at now, they keep hiring
people because people keep leaving because they're going back to school or they're, you
know, I don't know.
One girl is moving to like Argentina.
Yeah.
Another guy just got like a, you know, big boy job.
But they're like, yeah, it's really easy to hire people because like all the employees know
someone who wants a job.
Mm.
They never do it the way it, which is exactly what I thought, which is like, you're not
going to get a job by just submitting the resume online, say that scene.
Yeah.
People's so and so recommends you.
Right.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Sonny's working every day this week, which is nice.
Every week he's got a different schedule, but he's like, yeah, they want me to come in every
day.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So.
Oh.
He's going to work every day this week.
Would you be happy about that?
Yeah.
He's fine with it.
I mean, some days he's bored and then some days it's, it's kind of cool, you know.
Like some days he's just packing up cactus and like putting him in little shipping boxes.
And then some days he's in the studio when they're doing live streams of, you know, sports
cards and he's like, I'm learning like what they're doing, you know, the engineering part
of it, sitting with the guy, you know, whatever.
So, yeah, I mean, some days it's good.
Some days he likes it.
I feel like that's a good internship for him though.
Yeah.
Broadcasting career.
Yes.
Yeah.
It'll be good.
Yeah.
So, then when he goes back to school, he's not going to be able to do it when he goes back though.
I was hoping maybe, but not doesn't look like it.
So when he goes back, he's going to look for another job.
So we'll see.
I mean, Eugene, I don't know what, you know, he's just going to have to get a job at like big
five sportings, but there's something, you know, yeah.
He pulled an all-nighter over the weekend because, because, now because there was like a UFC
fight and then there was like college basketball starting, but it started really early in the
morning and the UFC fights were in the middle of the night because they were from Saudi
Arabia or somewhere.
Uh-huh.
So he likes stayed up all night and then stayed up throughout the day and then went to bed
early the next night.
But this is what this kid, like he lives for sports.
He just loves sports.
So for baseball.
Is he still doing his podcast?
No, he stopped when he went to college.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Plus, his co-host Gabe had a baby and stuff, but it'd be nice if he started up a podcast
again.
And that would be good.
Good for him.
But I don't know.
I mean, he needs a job job, but yeah, yeah.
How was that podcast doing?
I mean, no, it was doing okay, but they didn't have like ads and stuff because nobody was,
I think they just did it just to do it.
Well, Sunny is doing it for fun, but, um, yeah.
But he did it for since, since he was, I don't know, 11, 12, he started with Bald Bryan,
you know, and then did it with Dylan for a bunch of time.
Now he sees Dylan at work, which is kind of funny.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Wait, what does Dylan do there?
I have no idea.
It's a, it's a, like, a media company.
So he does, I think Dylan's a producer.
Yeah, he does, he does, he does podcasts and stuff.
So he doesn't do like where Sunny's, what Sunny's doing, but he's in the building.
So right, which is nice, you know, for him to have a pal there, yeah, even though he doesn't
really see him very often, but because they're on different floors.
But yeah.
So, I don't know.
It's going to be a whole different, I have stories, but I'll save it for Friday.
Well, you can tell some of them.
We have time.
Well, also real quick, I just want people to suggest for me, possible majors for Xander.
He's really feeling stuck trying to figure out what to do.
He loves music, as you know, but he's worried about majoring in music because it seems like
if you're going to major in music and college, it's very niche.
Like yeah.
You don't have to be like a, like play an instrument that's not, you're not going to major in like
playing rock music.
Right.
It's not really a thing.
Yeah.
But you could major.
There are certain schools that have like music production or like songwriting majors.
He could go to school.
There's one called, I want to say Belmont, um, in Tennessee, which is like songwriting.
But he doesn't know if that's his, like, okay, the other day I asked him like, okay, what
do you want to do?
And he's like, I want to be a standout comedian.
He said that really?
Yeah.
And he was like, I know, I know, I know it's ridiculous.
And it's like, you know, not realistic.
I get it.
But like you asked me.
And he's like, no, no, I mean, yeah, I, but like you're probably not going to be like a
standout comedian.
Yeah.
It's not really a thing.
I was like, but you should think about being like a content creator of like comedy.
Right.
Like do the thing that I could never do, which is like, have a YouTube channel.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Do something like that.
And he's like, yeah.
Isn't that how Matt's straight or whatever straight, whatever is right.
Right.
We hate that guy.
I know.
But didn't he do like something online?
Isn't that how he started it?
He did a lot of videos that, yeah, before he was actually a great comedian.
Not that he's a great comedian.
And he did a lot of videos that he got caught the algorithm.
Okay.
Well, but here's the thing.
That aside, I was like, okay, that's fine, but you're not going to learn to be a standout
comedian at college.
That's not really a thing.
And you don't need it.
Right.
Like you live in Los Angeles.
Right.
So, you know, you can take classes at the groundlings and you can take classes at upright
citizens per gate and you can, he's doing a standout class right now.
I was like, all of that stuff is available to you.
So he's like, well, then what's the point of college?
And I said, the point of college is for you to like try a bunch of different things and
get a call.
I don't know what the fucking point of college is either, but, you know, I got to tell the
company line.
Yeah.
But it's to develop you as a person and then you get a college degree so that on the off,
off, off chance that being a famous standout comedian doesn't work out, you have like some
other skills.
Yeah.
But he's so worried about like having to do a major that's like a major, right?
Yeah, he doesn't want, he wants to do something that's really fun.
So I was like, well, you know, and here's the thing.
I think communications would be a great major for him.
Problem is at a lot of like the UCs, very impacted major.
Like UCLA, the admittance rate for communications is like 10%.
Oh, yeah.
So I was like, you need to get in with something that's like a little bit wider, right?
You know, so maybe like I was thinking like a creative writing, um, major.
Yeah.
So I'm trying to talk him into something like that.
That would be good.
Or what if not he doesn't want to do like broadcasting or something like that.
I don't know.
That could be cool.
Yeah.
Do you know, I have to see who has that right?
I mean, you know, with Sander, I feel like, I don't know, if I, I mean, I feel for him like
I could see him getting a job at like a production company and working his way up to like
writer or something like that.
You know what I mean?
I think so too.
I could see that if he didn't want to.
It's got like a lot of energy.
He's very funny.
Like he would thrive in like a, that chemical environment, late night TV show environment.
Yeah.
I could see that he would love it.
Well, anybody, if anybody has any ideas for the actual major that could be, you know, accessible
to the, they could get him in the door to a college and then, you know, then he'll see
what he likes.
If you like to drop out of college and just get a job.
Yeah.
Something.
Right.
So, so like multi, what's the like dimensional?
I feel like he's got a lot going for him.
I mean, a lot of different, like he's interested in a lot of different things.
I know.
And that's the thing he doesn't really want to tie himself down to like that.
Yeah.
I don't blame him.
I'm with him.
I know.
But then like, what do you, what do you, like he does want to go to college though?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And I could see him thriving in college.
Well, he should maybe go to like an artsy college with, you know, that kind of, those kind
of programs, like a creative writing program, stuff like that.
Yeah.
I got to figure out what that artsy college is because we also have to be able to afford
it.
Yeah.
What about Cal Arts?
It's so expensive.
Isn't.
Yeah.
It's so expensive.
I mean, he can apply there and we'll see if they want to offer him a lot of money, but
I kind of doubt it because it's very competitive, you know?
Yeah.
Every actor's kid is going there.
I don't think they're offering a lot of discounts, but I see.
Yeah.
But what did you have a story or you want to save it for Friday?
I've got some good stuff for Friday too.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I was just going to say I went to, this is like, I sent you a video last night because
I was sitting in the backyard.
It was so nostalgic.
So it was Suzanne's dad's 80th birthday party.
And it was, it was, her dad is like the biggest hippie and her, like, her whole family are
hippies.
Basically, you know, her sister was like a teacher.
She's a, she teaches at San Diego State.
She teaches theater at San Diego State.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And she, that's her sister and then her mom and dad are both remarried to other people,
but they're just all hippies, you know?
And so I grew up with them.
And I haven't seen her family and her dad in years and a long time.
So it was so nostalgic.
And I should have known, like, so she was like, come to my dad's, you know, 80th birthday
party at my sister's house, which is by my neighborhood where the fires were, like, she,
they evacuated, they had smoke damage to their house and stuff.
So it was nice to be able to go to her house where everything was okay back to normal because
they were kind of misplaced for a while.
So anyway.
So she's like, just come, you know, I didn't think anything of it.
I brought a dessert and I came and it's like, I saw like all her family I haven't seen
in so long.
Like her mom, her mom was so fun and so like, she had the best sense of humor and her dad
would take us to like concerts, like, Duran Duran and wait in the car while we were go to
the concert, you know, like that.
Oh.
And he would take us to dodge your games, like, big dodge your fan, you know?
And it was like, just so nice.
And he's, you know, he would sing.
He'd have a guitar and he would sing when we were.
He would be young.
I forgot about it.
And then she's like, my dad's going to sing tonight, you know?
And I was like, oh my God, I'm sticking around for that.
So should I play a moment of him singing?
Yeah, don't remember what song I sang you because I couldn't hear.
I was just like, I got to show this to Stephanie.
Like it was, it was so sweet and so nice to be around like my second family.
I've switched whimsy.
That's her dad.
That's your dream.
It's so good.
What song is it?
Do you know it?
Oh, I don't know what song that was.
See, I didn't know any songs because it was a lot of Joan Baez, a lot of like-
Let's see, here's another one.
I don't want out of that.
No mind, you got the mouth.
You can't get out of that.
You know what it is?
I mean, doesn't it sound like you're back in the 60s?
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It is so sweet.
Some more protest songs.
Oh, total, total war protest songs.
And like, yeah, a lot of like a Linda Rohn's dad, Joan Baez, oh, grateful dad, grateful dead
songs.
I don't know any of them though.
And Susanne's boyfriend and I are sitting there like, you know this song?
Everybody singing.
I'm like, I don't know this song.
Did you know like, was it old Linda Rohn's dad song?
It was one, you know good, you know good, you know good, you know.
No, no.
Now it was like a deep cut that somebody else wrote, but she covered it.
Okay.
There's something like that.
Okay.
Something roses.
I don't know.
Silver threads and golden needles.
No.
Okay.
My parents used to play the shit out of their Linda Rohn's dad greatest hits and Fleetwood
Mac, old Fleetwood Mac.
I remember dancing in our living room on like Maroon Shag carpet.
Yeah.
My brother had all those albums.
Little Ghost Woman, second hand news.
I don't know the names.
And it was, yeah, it was just like it was a great night.
I was really sweet and saw her whole family and her dad, like just, he, any loves Jimmy Kimmel.
He's like, you tell that Jimmy.
I am a big fan of his.
He speaks the gospel.
So he's, do you tell him keep fighting?
You know, it's like, that's how her whole family is like fight, you know.
It was just so great to see them.
I was just taken by surprise.
I was pleasantly surprised.
I was just thinking, oh come to my dad's 80th birthday at my sister's house.
I was like, oh, yeah, I'd love to see your dad totally forgot about like the flavor of her
family and like how great it was.
And like I grew up with them.
I was there all the time, you know, at their house and just great people.
So were they like so happy to see you?
Oh, yes.
Very happy.
Yeah.
And her mom, she's like, this is my Lynette because she brought her best friend.
She's like, we met in college on the campus of where are they?
Where do they go?
Remember?
But she's like, yeah, we've known each other forever.
We're best friends like you and this Suzanne and yeah, it's just and then to see her, her
nephews and it was great.
It was a really nice night.
It was a nice evening, nice summer evening.
How was Suzanne's daughter doing is she going back to NYU?
She was there.
Yeah.
She's going back.
She hasn't go to and but she goes to New York, her colleges and the city.
Peace.
Yeah.
It's sunny thinking a few weeks.
Yeah, in September.
From the east.
Yeah.
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She can give you a mouse pad.
I have a really funny mouse pad now that I love.
You know, do you want to say what it says?
Oh, it says, oh, that's my blocked by Scott Bayo.
I had that one.
But this one says, I can't remember, but it's really funny.
It's like one of those 50s.
It looks like it's the 50s, but then it's like sweary.
Oh, yeah.
You got it.
Yeah.
Lauren has a gift shop called Sugar Skull on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.
And you can just check out her Instagram page or give her a follow at Sugar Skull 808.
And if you want to get to Hawaii or anywhere, go on a cruise, do whatever.
Why not use Christine Black from Waves and Wonder Travel?
And you can find her just on our Facebook page, go, hey, where's the travel agent bitch?
Yes.
You can come find you or you can email her Christine at Waves and Wonder Travel.
And Jacob Crowley, listen, we need the ACLU.
Yes.
More than ever right now.
So why don't you throw 20 bucks at the ACLU to do what we need?
We need help right now.
Mm-hmm.
Also, Fern Candle.
That's our Fern Kelsey.
She runs this business out of her home.
She makes delicious smelling candles.
They last a long time.
They last a long time and they smell so darn good.
So go to FernCandle.com.
And Adam Learner, Adam's got a car.
If you want to get a new lease, if you want to get a used car, if you want to just buy a new
car and you're in California, it's totally free.
Totally free.
And anywhere else, he can still do it for you and find you the best deal.
And there's a fee, but he does a reduced fee for crying out loud people.
So go to Adam's got a car.com.
Yep.
And then Mike Gerstein, if you need a plumber and you're in the Maricopa County area or
in Arizona, he can come out, just go to drain surgeons with at saz.com.
His information's all there.
And if you're not in Arizona and you have questions, just give him a call.
He'll talk you through it and he does have a discount rate for our F-C-O-L listeners
as well.
Now go check him out.
All right, you're a parent now.
Don't eff it up.
Yeah, I'll take that angle.
Oh, yeah.
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