The Mamas' NYC Adventure

There's this new program, I'm, it, it just, it's still in beta, but we just got beta access to it. So you take your audio files and you drop it in. Mm-hmm. And it uses AI to like fix your audio. No. And it sounds quite

a. Oh, so did you use it for Tyler's?

Uh, yeah.

Chris used it to help

because I was amazed at how

I know cuz it was really fucking loud.

It was so loud. I thought, we're not gonna be able to hear a thing on these microphones.

I know. I was, I was really worried about it. Yeah. I was sitting there before you guys even got there, cuz we got there wicked early. Mm-hmm. Right. We were, it's like an hour and a half before we had said we're gonna meet for podcast recording time.

And I, I'm like,

no wonder you had to pee

construction. I know. I had to pee so bad when we were done. I was like, oh my God, I've,

where did you end up going?

Well, I went over to Whole Foods. You could be able to buy something. Yeah. And then they were like, you have to have a receipt code. So I came out of there and then we went, where did we end up going?

There was somewhere I went to the library. No, we didn't go there. There was some other place anyway. Oh. It was like a, a coffee place. And so I went in there and they needed a fucking code, but there was somebody working that was like right there and he's like, I'll let you in. Seriously. I'm like, be like, listen, thank God.

Cuz like, I don't know if you can see it,

but I am full of, I could tell you were getting a little antsy. I'm like, is she okay? I thought you were worried about this sound. No, now I

know. No, her, you know

what, that big old coffee, honestly, that that whole

conversation could have gone for like half a day. Oh my God.

And it would've been amazing. He was so, but it ended right when it needed to because the phone batteries for the recording of the video part, did it go, were like 3% when we were done. Oh my God. Yeah. We just made it. Oh yeah, we gotta have 'em back on. But we had an hour and like 44 minutes I think of video recording time.

Mm-hmm. And then we were there for an hour and a half before. Yeah, we rec, we had that giant coffee. Oh. I had several coffees cuz we had gotten Starbucks on the way to walk over there. Oh geez. And then I had him go to, he wanted to get like a breakfast sandwich or something and there was like a place right there and I was like, get me another latte cuz I'm gonna need some coffee.

Yeah. And uh, I mean, just goes right through you. The cough. I could see it and you were like, yeah, I was doing this. I was, it was yellow. Yeah. Like everything was yellow. I was just like, don't I need to

go? She gonna Peter pants, she cough. Yeah. Or if you think about it too hard, then it's all over. Oh yeah. I don't know if you're at that

place in your life, but Yes.

Oh, I'm very much How about like,

say to myself, don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Don't think about, why is it that you

can water? You're no. For so long you can, you can do such a great job, but the second you get into the bathroom and you go to take your pants down, it's like, it's like you

lost too late.

It's happening. Yes. I'm like, how does what,

how does that go? I do such a good job holding it. And then you get there and it's like the brain is just like, okay, it's time glue right there. Like, just wait, just wait, just wait. Yes.

I literally have to talk myself through it. Yes. Don't go. Don't go, don't go. You got this.

It's bad. Well, you know, I was hope, I was like, babe, that's what happens when you're old and you've had babies. Well, well, and that's what PJ said, cuz I said, honey, you know, I've, I've really reached a serious point in my life now where like, I cannot wait. Like if I have to pee, I can't push it off anymore.

These better trips are cooking Here. I gonna work. No, between you and Max, I

need to go. Our traveling adventure was just that. It was bathroom to bathroom Max appear. Yeah. Well he's, he's

this here. He's, we're in

the, we're we're in the, um, airport coming home. Oh, by the way, we're the drama mamas. Oh yes. Oh yeah.

I, Chris, we're

Angela. Oh, and I'm Kathy. Because we gotta talk about these

escapades. Oh

yes. I mean, cuz we got so much, so much, so much. Yeah. Yeah. So we're, we're coming home in the airport, we're hanging out and there's literally like the best fucking bathroom you've ever seen in an airport. And it's right there.

We've been gorgeous hanging out for hours because we had to arrive early and you know, we were lucky, like, you know, TSA didn't take 5 million hours to get through. It was super quick. And we had to, we had called for the, like a car service and had it all like set up so we didn't have to worry about how are we gonna get all of our people, cuz there was a bunch of us all together flying together, sitting together.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. You know, so anyway, we had the car service come and pick us up early, and so we end up at the airport really, really early. Like, like what, three hours? Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. So anyway, we're hanging out at a massage. The nicest, like giant bathrooms. There's no lines, there's no anything, you know, and this like airport with like all this food and everything.

And so we're just hanging out for like a while. Mm-hmm. Until it's basically time to get on the plane. Yeah. And everybody's like going to the bathroom. We're fine. It's time to go. One more stop now we walk. Yes. I don't even think we have walked 500 feet. Oh, it's another bathroom I should go in. That's, I should go in here.

We're not down to where the airplane is yet. No. Like we're still in the like pre Are you in? Yeah. This is in La Kennedy, LaGuardia. Okay. We were at Kennedy. Yeah. In LaGuardia, which is a nice airport. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So yeah. And if you've been in there, we were in that area where there's like a fountain and it has projections in the fountain and the water does like shapes and stuff.

Yeah. There's a big food court area mm-hmm. And stuff. But, uh, yeah, so we're like, We make it 500 feet maybe. Yeah. Oh, it's another bathroom. We should totally stop and just make sure that's Max. Yeah,

just picture like you've distracted him. Them now too. So she goes, and then I think we

literally walked 500 feet.

Why didn't, and so Pinky turns to me and she's like, why didn't they just go, when we were at the other bathrooms before we started walking, I have all our shit work carrying it's

heavy. I think we did go then too.

Then we get there. Yes. Then we finally get down to the terminal and they're like, okay, we got our stuff sitting in the chairs.

You guys watch this. We're gonna be right back to the next bathroom. Oh

my

gosh. How'd you ever make the flight?

I know, right? I think Max probably peed twice on. Yeah, he's

a

ner. You've, you've ruined him. You've like, now he thinks he has to pee every opportunity, every, he's

just like his aunt. Okay. Sorry

Carol.

You've probably heard people say this about like your phone batteries and your electronics and stuff. Right? Like if you charge it and you leave it on the charger all the time, then the battery life isn't as good. Right. While bladders, I read somewhere are very similar to that, you said telling him, oh, I don't know when our next bathroom visit may be.

You should try now. Of course he can't fucking hold

it. No. And then I'm like, gobs, do you have to pee? She's like, no, it's been like 10 hours. Mom, I'm good. That's

Stella. Forever can go forever. Like are you, get in there and squeeze something out because we don't know when our next opportunity is. Fine. No, I'm

fine.

Yeah. When Pinky was little she had a walnut bladder. But that makes sense, right? Yeah. So, you know, you have to grow into it. She was walnut sized. Yeah, she was for a long time. Yeah. Not just when she was, I mean she's been little for a long time. Yeah. Anyway. But now that she's older, I don't know if it's cuz I never see her actually drink anything, but Yeah.

And she never

has to go. Well you know that's a good point too, cuz Max is an avid water drinker. Mm-hmm. And Gabby is like the Sahara desert, so you know she's gonna dry up like it's spit shit.

That's what we tell the kids all the time. Like, y'all are never drinking any water. I don't never, you just go dry up.

Just shrivel up when you're talking about how your skin is so dry. That's fucking why. Yeah. Like drink something, not Coke. Something not Coke.

She'll eat without having like a drink. I'm like, either don't you need something to like wash?

So I've gotten to this point total derailment, but I have gotten to this point now where if I don't have a drink, when I eat my food doesn't seem to wanna like go down my esophagus.

So you've

trained

that like she's trained her bladder? I guess so, yeah. I got a lazy esophagus now. I don't know what the fuck that's called. You do?

Yeah. It needs a little lubricant maybe. I don't know. Well that's

what, that's what the drink does. Exactly. So if I don't have it, like I feel like I'm dying.

Yeah. Because I can feel it in there. It's, yeah. I can feel it.

Old lady problems. I know. Our old lady, what the problem? What the fuck? It sucks.

Dang old is the worst. It really is. I feel great. It's all a testosterone. That's what we need. Mm-hmm. We need more testosterone in our lives. No, I have that.

I have pellets.

We, cause I do the pellets. My testosterone levels are good. Okay. You know, It's not that. No.

Hmm. I got my hormones right. Maybe it's the estrogen. I don't know. Or just old.

It's just kidding. Just it's old. Old. Yeah. Shit. Just starts breaking down. I don't have to understand why, but it is happening.

No.

Speaking of breaking down, I haven't seen you guys in like over two weeks because you've got sick.

Ah, you did? Yeah. That New York Ronna. Woo. That's some, that's some potent stuff.

Yeah. We, uh, took home a souvenir. Yeah. A very special, special one. Yes. A very special one.

Look, we were, I don't know about you guys, but we were extra diligent about like hand washing and stuff like that while we were there, cuz Yeah.

And not like touching things like when we went in the subway. Right. I didn't touch like rails as much as I could. We got gloves, so we'd use the gloves, you know? Yeah. Gosh. Didn't help. Still

got the wrongness. No, it didn't help. And you know, we don't even really know, you know, how it, how it even happened. I mean, my symptoms didn't even start till like, Two days after we got home.

Mm-hmm. But somebody on the airplane probably. Yeah. Yeah. But must have got it too.

Yeah. Me and Laura, I feel like we had it first. Okay. So, you know, we were neck. Did you feel sick while you were because we were you? We were neck and neck. It was like when, after we had got home, the next day is when I started feeling it.

Okay. So

Laura, when we saw them on Friday? Mm-hmm. Because that's when we got the tickets for Juliet and we went to dinner. Oh yeah. She had seen Spencer and when she was coming down and meeting us for dinner, she was like, she sat right next to me and she was like, oh man, you know, my throat's bothering me.

Oh shit. Okay. I didn't feel like that. Yeah. And I was,

so did Laura. Oh

dang. I don't know what that's all about. But it could have been, I mean, Jordan had had some sniffles that Right. I mean was coffin,

it was the New York ro, but it was the Lakeland Rona that hit us in New York. No. Cuz she had

been here. No, I think she several days at that point.

Yeah. I, oh, okay. I don't think she arrived Ill. Okay. I think she got, and then I sat next to her at the theater that night and I was like, well, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. Oh yeah. I mean, at this point. Yeah. And then she feel like poop on a stick the next day. Mm-hmm. And she had to travel that day.

Ugh. That's so, that was not fun. Um, and you guys shared a ride

to the airport? We did. And yeah. And from the airport too. Like we had car service pick us up at our homes. Mm-hmm. Take us to the Tampa airport. Mm-hmm. Then, then when we arrived in LaGuardia, from LaGuardia to the Airbnb, which we will talk about, that's another, another story.

Oh. Cause that is another story. But before we squeal, Yes. Try to bring that in. Yes. And then we had to get two Ubers from that place to the hotel that we ended up staying. Two at Ubers. Oh yeah.

Because cause there's eight

of us because there were Oh, luggage and all that luggage. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So, uh, yeah, then when we were ready to leave from the hotel to LaGuardia and then when we arrived in Tampa from Tampa back to our house.

Okay.

So there was a lot of together time.

Yeah, a lot of, a lot together.

We did. Which is why we didn't get it cuz we only saw you guys. I mean, we saw you on the streets all over the place, which was crazy. Mm-hmm. It's a huge city. We kept fighting into

each other. It's a weird, I've said this before to you guys, but like, it's the weirdest phenomenon.

I have grown, like I grew up my whole life in Orlando and never would ever bump into anyone I knew. Like I could literally, we, we in my neighborhood go to the neighborhood Walmart and I would never bump into somebody I. Uh, but I started dating Chris and we would go out to like places in Disney and he would bump into people from Polk County all the time.

And I was like, this is the most bizarre thing. Yeah. And it, it has continued the entire time that we've been together, which is like, you know, 20 something years now. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. And that we're in New York and we see somebody from lc T'S

kid shows. Yes. Oh yeah. How about getting on the plane, going home?

They were in our line getting, boarding our plane

with us. Yeah. Somebody that you guys knew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mikayla's friend was there in New York as well. Um, she saw Mulan Rouge the day after we saw it. Okay. So that's something I didn't know. You can go down and they will like the, down, down to where the pit and stuff is.

Mm-hmm. Where the orchestra was. Yeah. And, and talk to them and they'll like, you know, show you around a little bit the pit. Oh my gosh. Really?

We missed that.

Oh man. That would've been awesome. I didn't know you could do that. Oh yeah. But yeah, because they're both, they were band nerds and you know, she, she went down there.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mikayla's like, I wish I would've known. Seriously. I know. So the Airbnb. Oh yeah. Because we were supposed to have a lot more together time Yeah. Than we did have, which we had a lot of together time. We did, yeah, we did. Because we did a lot of stuff together, like eating and, you know, going and doing stuff.

But yeah, we were supposed to be in this living, like really nice Airbnb together. Mm-hmm. And. Yeah. Rooftop

deck. Oh,

I know. Gorgeous bedrooms. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Room to stretch out. We booked it like way in advance. Yeah. Like way last year. Year last end of last summer. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We had booked it, so we were ready to go.

Super, super excited about it was not cheap. Mm-hmm. Right. Like, but we're going all out, you know? Yeah. We're going all

out. It was like this trip. We're gonna just like, really? Yeah. We're doing it. That's why Chris posted that TikTok with the, have you seen it? Mm-hmm. I'm, I've got $30,000 of credit card.

That's so funny. That Peter Griffin one. Yeah. Anyway, so funny. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely look at, look at it, and it's just like pictures from our vacation Oh.

Of all the fun things that we Oh, yeah. Yeah. So anyway, so we booked it in advance. Everything was good. I had used V R B O, you know, before, um, had never had any issues whatsoever, and we actually have a family vacation coming in July that I've booked a V R B O, so hopefully that's all good.

But anyway, you learn that lesson. Hmm? Yeah. Rarely. So, you know, everything's fine. Up until like the week before, I'm, you know, reaching out to them because I don't have a telephone number, which it didn't even occur to me. Mm-hmm. I only have email, and they've been really good responsive. We're emailing back and forth.

Yes. You know, your chip's coming up, blah, blah, blah. The day before you'll get your codes to unlock because there's no like key, right? Right. It's all like mm-hmm. Pad locked and stuff, and I'm like, okay, no problem. So 24 hours before we get that, and I had already talked to them about wanting to get in earlier because our flight had been, So we knew that we were gonna be landing.

Traditionally check in time was like four o'clock. Um, and I had requested to get in like around two. Mm-hmm. And they were like, okay. So she's like, well, we'll see, check with me when it gets closer. So like 24 hours beforehand, when I got my, my lock code, I brought it back up and I was like, Hey, you know, we're gonna be arriving earlier.

Is there any way we would be able to access the space earlier? And they were like, yep, absolutely. After um, your code will open for the door after 12:00 PM So you have it in writing that they said? Oh, yes. Okay. It's a whole email situation. Okay. So we do our thing, we get there. It's a great, cute little neighborhood.

Yeah. We're like, we're here upper East Side. Mm-hmm. You know, great little building. Yeah. Literally we pulled right up and we're like, yank, here we are. We get out, we go to the building, enter the code. Perfect. It's like tiny. I don't know what I was expecting, but like the hallway was kind of little. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. You know, I hadn't been in a New York building in a long time.

Long time. Like not a residential thing like that. Yeah, it was new for us. Not a

hotel. No, no. Uhuh. So you go in and like, the elevators are tiny, so I think we took, we probably even had to take shifts. Yeah. We did like,

I think three loads of elevators.

Oh my gosh. Going up with our luggage and stuff. Yeah. Because we were on the sixth floor, so, cause everybody had a check bag and then we had like the stuff that we carried with us.

Right. Yeah. It's like a, like an apartment, like a V RBO apartment. But it, it's on the sixth floor and it had and seven it.

Yeah. Six sets. It's a two story with a nice big rooftop, you know, hang out, whatever. Beautifully done. As per the pictures. Okay. So we get up there. And there's only maybe like six apartments on each floor from what I could see door wise. So we get up to doors right there, Dee Dee. Hit the button. We're good.

We open. Everything looks nice. I'm like, oh yeah. Well, I immediately noticed that there's dishes in the sink. Oh. And I'm like, okay, well that might be a problem. But now I had the kids with me. Yes. Like the load that I

was on. You were the first one up. Yeah, because she had the, you know, she had the key. She knew where we were going.

Right. So she was the first one

up. Yeah. And the kids are excited.

So she goes, then closes the door. We we're coming up the elevator. There are other places on that floor. Oh no. So we get up there, they don't, all the doors are closed. So it's us and we're like, where do we go? Where are we supposed to go?

Somebody text Kathy. Tell her to open the fucking door so we know where we're going. Tri of bread crumbs or something. I don't think I ever like knocking on,

everybody's like told them like your number 6 0 1 or something. I didn't know. So we're in there and I'm like, oh God. So in the kids, so I walk into like one of the back bedrooms.

And I could tell the bed had wasn't slept in, but like the pillows were kind of tossed. And I'm like, okay. Hmm. I don't think anybody's been here to clean up. Right? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So we go into the other bedroom cause it's a three bedroom, and on the wall is from the ceiling's. Like melting ceiling Melting.

Yes. Like active water leak. Oh. Waterfall. Like coming down, it's wet. Like you put your hand on it, you're like, oh, that's bubbling with the peach. The drywall

was all like liquidy Oh, mm-hmm. From the ceiling down. And so the wall had a color to it. It did, but it, the ceiling was white, so like yours, but it wasn't blue and it was like the ceiling had melted down.

Gosh. The wall. It was, it

was, yeah. It was wild. Meanwhile, it had, I guess some sort of like an air conditioner up there. Mm-hmm. That was right by it to the left. But you could tell that the, the water was clearly coming from the ceiling and then it ran right within, um, an outlet. Oh, it was right up there.

Yeah. Yeah. Through,

yeah.

So like, I'm like, whoa. So then I start to hear the kids that have, you know, You know, scattered. They're, and they're checking out. They're the place and they've gone upstairs and they're like, mommy. And I'm like, what's the matter? Sweet Jesus. I get up there. Well, whoever had that space before us definitely partied their faces off because

there were whippets every, everywhere.

Everywhere. It's like, what a whip it is. It's like a little knight. It's like a cartridge. Yeah. Should

I lay, oh, I can't Google it. I was gonna say, should I Google it? But I don't have my phone. Whipped Cream

canister. Whipped cream canister. Cream canister. Yeah. So the things, the, what we saw, and I'll just explain it was like a cardboard box.

Mm-hmm. You know, clearly where you could purchase said canisters and they, they look like a bullet.

Mm-hmm. Like a thick, like a co.

Have you seen CO2 canisters? Yeah. Like that's kind of what they look like. Um, was a box full of those and they were all green, green uhhuh.

And then on the bed, which was still unmade and atrocious was this big, like, it almost

kind of looked like, you know, when you go to tarbucks you and then whipped cream uhhuh, it kind of looked like one of, that's how you used the

whippet?

I guess so.

Okay. Yeah. So it had all of that probably should like include a tutorial video or something on this just so that we can put the picture in your, and you don't know. Yeah. Have you seen

this in your childhood? We put the pictures on,

yeah, you have to sent me. I don't have any of those. If

you tell.

Oh, I'll send them to you. Yeah. Yeah. So I immediately started taking pictures. I

was too much in shock to take pictures.

Yeah. So I'm pissed. Shocking. Yeah. Well that was the knit. No, there's plenty. There was. Like a rubber glove, like a blue, like a glove that I would use at work. Oh geez. Right. Just, just one.

Mm-hmm. On the unmade bed. I'm like, okay, what are you doing that you need a glove, but whatever.

Um, because you don't need a glove for Whip Pitts, I don't

think. No. But for, no, no. Lots of, uh, like other drug paraphernalia mm-hmm. Within the room. Yeah.

There was a, a thing for which we go, had to Google to figure out what it was, but it was a contain container.

It was empty. Yeah. But it was for like gummy edibles, uh oh, like marijuana. Mm-hmm. Which, you know, when we got to New York mm-hmm. It was like there's no way we didn't have a contact high the entire time that we were there.

We would walk down the street and I'd tell my kids, don't breathe. Don't breathe.

Don't breathe. Don't breathe. Just get past this cup of smoke. Exactly. I had no

idea. Yes. I was like last away with that. Like, the cops don't care cuz fucking legal recreationally, I had no idea. Like the whole can smoke a

joint where everywhere smoke a cigarette. It's crazy. So yeah, so there's that, and then you go into the bathroom and it's disgusting.

There's like vomit on the floor. Like it was, it was just gross. Gross. So I took pictures

of all of this. Oh, and the, and the lanai. Yes. Up there. Uhhuh, Uhhuh had, um, had just whip its, and like stuff, they just partied up there.

They partied and there was a lot of brain cells that were damaged. I'm just saying because the leak, they

partied so much, they didn't clean them up.

We were clean. The leak was coming from the bathroom. So like yes. You know, we were like, well we're not staying here with the leak is like poo water or whatever. Right. So I kind of like evaluated it. She's trying to track down the owner. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Through, because all she had was the email contact. And I'm going up there and I'm like, okay, the leak is here, so if I go up the stairs here, it can't possibly be from the bathroom.

So then I went up there and I'm like looking and I'm like, it's from the ny and I could see the lanai didn't have like, it wasn't flat. Mm-hmm. It was like when you have a flat surface and it kind of, you know, ripples pooled water had been there. Right. And it was obviously causing a problem.

Yeah. Okay. So we had a bunch of different situations going on.

Yeah. We had to at that. Oh. So while we're there and then the rest of the adults arrive and they're everyone looking at the stuff we're telling the

kids, yeah. Kathy finally lets us in. I did. I was like, guys have got to see this. She's like, what? Been up there for 10 minutes already?

Yeah. Sorry about that.

And so, so, um, so you know, now I'm telling the kids don't touch anything. Right. Because I don't know what mm-hmm. You know, what is around this fluids could be, well there be, my kids are all syringes. There could be. Fentanyl.

Well, it was just that news story. Yeah. About the, the people that went into it, like a V RBO or whatever, and their kid died from a fentanyl overdose because they touched something in the V RBO that hadn't been clean, that was contaminated with it.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. So we're like, don't touch anything. Yeah. Cuz now this place is around. So now the kids are also scared because we just told 'em, don't touch

anything. Yeah. So now we have eight people, all of our luggage. Oh my gosh. We're trying to figure out as adults, like what do we do at this point? Mm-hmm.

You know, like, what are even our options? What do we feel comfortable doing? And in comes like a team of four cleaning people. And they're like, Hey. And we're like, Hey, um, okay. Like I, obviously you guys are here to clean. They're like, oh yeah, no, no, don't worry. We'll take care of the whole, we'll, all of it thing.

Like it was no big deal. So they just start cleaning. And so we said, you know what? We're gonna leave you guys, chew it. We're gonna step out into this little mini hallway here, and we're gonna figure out as a team what we're gonna do with our kids. Um, and we'll leave you guys to it. So then we start discussing everything in the hallway and you know, we're trying to be rational about it.

Like we understand when you stay in a hotel or whatever, you don't know what's happened in that room before you get there. We get that. Yeah. But it's a whole nother thing to like walk in and see it now,

you know? Yeah. Correct. Connect. You can't unsee that.

No, exactly. So we decide

at the melting wall. Let's forget about the melting wall.

Yes. Over the outlet,

which was actually more of a, a bigger concern surely was you could clean everything up, you could make it great.

Or if we wanted to hang out on the lanai and somebody like fucking falls through. Yeah. That might be a problem. Like that's an interesting podcast recording, wouldn't you think?

Yes. Well, there goes,

Hey, she was there and then she went Woo.

Yeah. And then she

wasn't. So we, we stripped away the dirty part and like the rest of it and we were like, okay, you know what, this is just an unsafe Yeah. Place to be. So we went ahead, um, I'm trying to contact my, my person. Okay. They all start working on trying to get alternative housing for the week spring breaks.

Yes.

It's

not a spring break. And it was St. Patty's day. Yes. Weekends coming up. And so, yeah, its not, mm. So

we immediately

like got together. I think we worked that out really well as a team too. Like we, you know, somebody was like, okay, kids, you had

this. I stood there and I let PJ and Chris like do the research.

Kathryn's probably

like this with her

fingers. Got it. Oh, I was all on it. He was, I was, I was blowing 'em up because I was

telling my family like, oh, Kathy's on it. Don't you worry,

guys. Well, I remember when we had walked in and I had to use the code at the bottom door that there was two people's names with a phone number.

And I was like, Ooh, that person's name is the same name that I email. I wonder if that's her number. So I had gone downstairs. Mm-hmm. Screenshotted the phone number. So it was a girl and a man, woman, a man's name. And I tried to call, of course I went to voicemail, whatever. So then I started harassing the cleaning people and I was like, listen, I need to know who hired you for this?

Who was the contact? They're like, oh, we can help you. So they sent me a number, it's not an American number. Oh, it's got like, you know, five extra digits. I, mm-hmm. I said, no, that's not gonna work for me. I need like, like an American could've just sat back and watched this. Oh girl. They were like, you can't tell her.

You can't tell her that we gave you this number, da da da. I'm like, I won't tell them at all. You just go ahead and gimme the number. You know? So they did. I called, I got nothing, you know? Yeah. Went to voicemail, so I never answered numbers. I don't know either. No.

So, yeah, cuz I hate talking on the phone. No,

she does.

I call her all the time. I

just did call last week. Just did. Yes. I didn't get a

call last week. Oh, I did. Cuz I, I, I needed a favor. So I was like, Hey, can you help me out the, the

headshot, right? Yeah. That was, that was that call. Yeah. She's like, look, I know you don't wanna talk on the phone,

so make it down to business suck.

I did.

Yeah. I was like, the reason for my call. But I am driving because she calls everybody while she's driving. I do. Yeah. It's always, I don't think I have phone call yet where we're in a car. No. So it's, it's good you're being safe. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Good for you. I'm

a safe, I'm a safe person. Yeah. I still don't like the phone.

I know. She doesn't, I felt so bad for her too. Oh. Anyway, so finally I'm emailing 'em. I'm like, listen, this is not like, this is what we got going on, blah, blah, blah. And then it was like, nothing. So I didn't get a response back, but I tried to make it very clear, like, listen, we are not staying here. This is not safe.

I sent them all the pictures, like the whole nine yards, you know, we're trying, now we're having to find alternative housing for our vacation for the week. This is, you know, extremely inconvenient, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they're all trying to find a room. And then they, she emails me back and she's like, well, you weren't supposed to get there till four.

Okay. And I was like, bitch, listen. Oh yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I don't even listen.

Other

than that I, did

I not half Did your hair like

automatically poke? Oh yeah.

Automatic. The bat got real short all of a sudden spiky. It did. And then this

piece, her nails got like this, my ears

and I was like, listen, listen lady, this is how this is gonna go.

Okay.

She hooked out. She cared out. Hoed

out. She did. She didn't go get.

And I was like, listen, this has not safe. We're here with our children and you told me I could be there anytime after 12 o'clock. Mm-hmm. So we're not even gonna go there, number one. Number two, let's talk about that nasty leak that's going on. That's active. Yeah. Okay. Now again, I remind them that we are not staying there.

Mm-hmm. We are not taking, um, ownership of this place. Like our things are not even going in there. We are leaving this. Resonance. So then the next email I get is, oh, well if it's okay with you, we're gonna go ahead and have the roofer come and the plumber come and check it out and let me know if you want it to do before or after checkout.

It's fine with me cuz we won't be there. Correct. I said we aren't

there. I can read. So now I'm concerned. Told you this. Exactly. I'm concerned because they're not picking up what I've been putting down. Yeah. And I don't know how else to say it in like professional clean seemed clear to me. Yeah, it did. I know.

So you know, I'm still worrying about that. And then I was like, you know what? We're here to have a great vacation. We'll settle that up on another time. They're all working on like a safe place for us to be. We found a great hotel. Yeah, the location was fantastic. Couldn't have asked for a better situation.

Um, as far as being able to quick and do it and not have to spend another, you know, $10,000.

Yeah. The only thing that kind of sucked is they only had two rooms that we could Yeah. You know, feasibly be in. Right. Yeah. And, uh, you know, and they were small per mm-hmm. So with the first stop once we checked in was hit the nearest target mm-hmm.

Which was just a couple of blocks away and get a couple of air mattresses. Mm-hmm. Which I know your kids just slept with you guys in the bed, but our kids do not do that. Yeah. Which is totally fine by me because when we have had to do that. Yeah. It is rough. Yeah. Nobody sleeps pink. Yeah. Nobody's, and pinky is like the worst bed hog.

Oh yeah. She knows it.

Yeah. But, yeah. And these were double beds. These weren't even Yeah, they weren't,

yeah, they were sides. I couldn't even do a double bed by myself. They were, it was rough. I felt like I fall off the side every time I rolled over. Yeah. But yeah, it was double

and the rooms themselves were tiny.

Mm-hmm. So, you know, but. It, it, it worked out. We did it. Okay. We stopped at Target. We were like, let's get some things, let's get some time now. Packing on for a vacation where you think you're gonna have a kitchen. Mm-hmm. And like laundry services. Yes.

You think you're gonna to wash laundry?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And especially when you're going to a

cold confinement.

Think she's not upset by that though. She was like, I get to go shopping in New York.

Yeah, we did. We went shopping several days. So, you know that part. Put a little hitch in it. Yeah. But we learned, I mean, the little, the hotel room had like a microwave and a little refrigerator, so, you know, we got some snacks and stuff like that.

So we were able to lot

snack, make it happen. Snack. And we didn't eat 'em. Oh really?

Yeah. Yeah. Chip, we eat out so much to the point you were like, I can't

eat another thing. Yeah, we did pretty good with, with that piece. We probably just ate too much. That's probably better. Both PJ does not like to waste anything.

No, he's, he was eating this pack, that

sandwich from the deli.

Oh, he ate that? I'm pretty sure he ate both of, we kept saying to

Chris like, yeah, I got a half of that sandwich there for you, buddy. Yeah, he was waiting for Chris is like, it's okay, you can eat it. It's fine. Like you go

for it. Yeah, he's big on that.

So, anyways, so within long story, longer, within 24 hours, I had gotten a much better response from them where I felt like they understood where we were coming from and that we weren't gonna be staying at the space and that, you know, I could be expecting a refund. Of course, you know, throughout the emails I had to let them know like, Hey, you know, I, I'm gonna need this taken care of asap.

Mm-hmm. I would like a refund in the amount of such and such. Um, had to spell it out. Yeah, make it, make it really clear. So there wasn't any

no vague, I need a full refund that like, you gotta

smart, you spent Yes. Mm-hmm. How much it was. Um, and you know, unfortunately, if this wasn't taking care of asap, I would have to take it to the next level, you know?

So I definitely was Yeah. Was threatening in that matter, only because I felt like I had to be.

Mm-hmm. Because they were being intentionally

obtuse. Yes, they were. Absolutely. Well,

it takes one bad review with pictures on V R B O to Yeah. Destroy that place. Yes. So, yes, you don't wanna have to go there, but if you can't.

No, the answers you're looking for. Mm-hmm. So, um, they said the refund would be coming in 10 to 20 business days. So I was like, okay. And I'll never forget, cuz we were sitting watching Hades Town. Yeah. When I finally got that email and I was like, oh, thank God. Like, least they're mentioning a word, like chilling.

Oh,

oh

yeah. It's coming

the phone. You know? Yeah. So, um, fast forward, like within a week or so, V R B O, which I didn't even realize, but charged like 700 and some dollars of that total went to them and they had, they had returned that. Oh, good. So that, so V R B O took care of us. Mm-hmm. That's right then and there.

So it was actually from the, the actual mm-hmm. I guess landlord or whoever those people are in the management company. This is who we were waiting. Um, and so last Friday, I, not just this past Friday, but the Friday before, I was like, Hey, um, it's been 10 days. Just didn't want y'all to forget about me. Is there any way that you could cook being sweet?

Yeah, I'm gonna be sweet. I thumbed up my hair yet. No, no, no. It's nice. It's good now. Um, could you just give us a status on our thing? And they're like, oh, it's already been processed. And then I was thinking, oh, those mfs, if they're trying to tell me that that $700 from V R B O is what they're funding me, yeah, we're gonna have issues.

So they were like, no. So I said, okay. I'm like, well, thank you for that, but can you please tell me the amount that is processed for. You know, refund. And they told me the amount and I was like, okay. And it matched, okay, so the numbers matched. So I was like, okay, so that, was that like Friday, like before 12 o'clock?

Well don't you know, Friday before like four o'clock, I had a processing coming through, a deposit, coming through my bank for that amount, and it sat there. Like all weekend. Like my bank was just not wanting to do anything. Well, they don't do anything on the weekend. No. It was just sitting there and then it's automat.

Don't have to do anything. No. Whatever day I texted you, Monday or Tuesday, it, it took a little bit. Yeah. It'd been finally cleared and then and finally it cleared and I was like, hallelujah.

What a, that's so like you've looked forward to this for

months. I know. Well we were so excited to have that space to record

too.

Yes, yes. You know, and I was like, just hang out. Yeah. And it's the first thing you encounter the fake sounds of New York, not Bryant Park Street sides. Oh

my gosh, that was so

loud. Yes. And we wanted the kids to experience, like, yeah, being in New York, not necessarily being in Times Square all the time, but like being.

Yeah. You know, reside more

residential. We stayed in Brooklyn. It was so fun because it's like, yeah, I hear about, it's so smaller. Mm-hmm. I mean, the buildings are only six or seven stories high compared to right. 30. Yeah. It has definitely has some more like family feel to it. It was really nice. Yeah. Aw,

we loved it.

It was multistory too though, for you, right? You had a taste of having stairs. It

was like a brownstone, right? Wasn't a brownstone. Yeah.

Situation. And you would get down to the kitchen, you'd be like, I forgot my phone or something.

I mean, it, I

could back up the stairs. I'm a fairly in shape person. Yeah. And by the time I would get back up those flights of stairs to the bedroom Yeah.

I was like, I don't know what it was. They were skinny, they were narrow, they were

longer than usual. Usual. That's what's weird about New York. The the stairs are like that. Yes. They were like that in the, um, in the Airbnb too. Yes. Real. They were taller. Yes. And it was more narrow. So you definitely felt like, if I fuck this up, it's not gonna go well.

I know, I know.

Kinda drags a little bit different. I mean, we, it was beautiful and it was wonderful to stay there. I'll tell you what, if you, that would be, you'd have to really think ahead every time you came down those stairs. Like, do I have everyth? Do I have thing I need? Because you'd sit at and there's like so many floors that you'd get up a couple floors, you're like, okay, whew.

I made it. And then you'd look and you'd be like, oh crap, I still got another floor to go. Yeah. It was where, yeah, it was very uh, how many stories was it? It was five livable stories and then a basement. Holy

shit. Your bedrooms were

on the top. They were on the fourth. There was like a loft above. Oh, okay.

Really cool loft.

Yeah. Did you guys go up there very much?

No. I mean, we were hardly there because we left in the morning and we didn't come back till after the shows at night, so we we'd slept there. Right. So no, we did not spend a ton of time there. But yeah.

That would've been pretty though. Yeah. Was nice.

They need like a dumb waiter, you know those That's what I'm saying.

I'm like all I could flying

and then wheelchairs that like take you up the stairs. Oh hell yeah. Are not a wheelchair. And I What's like

a chair? Yeah, yeah.

From Poltergeist slide down the stair. Do you remember that The Lady of the ghost would get stuck in the chair and it looks slide.

All right. Y'all need to go watch that movie. But yeah, no,

all I'm thinking of is Ghostbuster Exorcist. I'm getting mixed up. Um, well actually, so I know I never saw The Exorcist until I was an adult. Mm-hmm. But I saw Devil in a Blue dress as a kid, which is the spoof of the ex. I was gonna say, I don't think that's a scary one.

No, it is not. So then when I saw The Exorcist, all I could think was devil in a blue dress. So it was way funnier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But now like that's what's coming to my head is when she like bends over backwards and like down the stairs. Yes, yes, yes. Dead night. I'm not remembering what you're

talking about.

No. This is the one in like the actual chair. The lady gets like stuck. It

was irritating cuz you would scream down and be like, bring my phone.

And nobody could hear you. No. Then you would

call mom. Then you'd have your phone to call another fine or come. I mean you literally could not. We watch at least.

True. I didn't think about that.

That's time. Go

figure it. Anyway. Go. It was very nice staying a Brooklyn. We enjoyed it. We took the subway everywhere. That was so fun. Yes. We even took the subway back to the airport on the way home because we had taken an Uber from the airport to the place. And I'm like, why aren't we taking the subway?

You know? It's like there's no traffic. You know how long it's gonna take? It's a third of the price. Mm-hmm. And it was so easy, like literally a third of the price. Yeah. Literally.

So our first morning there, so pj, so my kids are like, we all want to eat like when we get up and they're early risers and whatever.

I know y'all found that.

We found that diner and y'all just kept going back. Oh, we did. Cuz its crazy. I was like, find a new

place y'all. No, it was perfect. They, they knew us by the end of the week. The guy was like four. Yeah. Okay, come on down. You know, it was great. But anyway, but the first morning we were there, Chris had come down with PJ cuz he was like, let's go get some coffee.

So it was like, cause I can't start the

day without coffee. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And there was a Starbucks right there. Yeah. I was like, just nice. Go get that. Yeah, go get what we did last year. I was like, you don't want something else? I'm like, no, I need that coffee. We can go and have other coffee

later. But you know, you like that because there were several times like, look, we're not gonna do Starbucks every time.

We're gonna find these little places. We're gonna try local business. And I was disappointed every time, like, screw that, we're going to Starbucks.

Like, listen, we tried that. Shy

was gross. It was like milk with it. Oh. Quarter teaspoon of something. So, so I always order

a macchiato and I thought, I'll order a macchiato at this place, and I order it.

And he's like, well, before I make this for you, he's like, what do you think a macchiato is? You know, I'm like, some espresso and some milk and a cup. No, apparently macchiato. Yeah. Is an espresso shot. Mm-hmm. With like splash of the little cream cup, whatever. Yeah. The little cups with just a little splash of milk.

Bitch. That's not a, that's, that's not a venti, that's not what Starbucks has. He kind of rolled his eyes. I'm sure he did.

Well. Cause he's probably like, this is legit

macchiato. Yeah. You're getting the Starbucks. Yeah. It was like some Italian, please. Oh yeah, yeah. I was like, okay. So yeah. What Starbucks has then is what a latte.

And he's like, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. In Italy they literally give these little tiny cups. You sit there, you pound it, and you walk off. No. Like

sitting around. Well, I mean, you don't really have time to sit there in, in New York, right? Like you got shit to do. Yeah. You

do have lots of stuff to do. Yeah. You. We saw some good shows.

Yeah, we did. Did you guys love Hades Town? Oh,

oh, it was so my favorite wasn't that amaz? Yeah, that's how it felt. I mean, it was a really tight race between that and Mullan Rouge. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So

Hades Town just like sticks with it. It really does. Like it gets in your soul and you like

carry it for a few days.

Yeah. And you think about it. Yes. Because ending is not necessarily what, you know, not to spoil it. Mm-hmm. But you know, it definitely is thought provoking. Mm-hmm. And it makes you think about that. Mm-hmm. The shows that we saw, so the Haiti sound, we saw Mullan Rouge and Juliet and Harry Potter. I felt like they were just all kind of different.

Mm-hmm. You know, so it was hard to compare. Yeah. But um, I enjoy like the jukebox musicals. Yeah. Because then I know all the music and it's fun. And, and when they're, yeah. And the,

it's more like dialogue. It feels spectacle too. Yeah.

Yes. It's a huge, it's like a show. I mean, Mulan Rouge is a legit,

from the second it starts, you're like, boom.

Yeah. Yeah. Like you no let down.

You sit down in your chair mm-hmm. And you're mesmerized. You know who said

itself. Yeah. Cuz the people are coming out and walking around the stage. Yeah. Just

the red, you know, the big red

Yeah. Ambiance. You're surrounded by it. You're part of it. Mm-hmm. That's really fun too.

Mm-hmm.

That was great. So we enjoyed every single show. I would recommend them all to everybody. Um, yeah. It was just, which wouldn't be

such a bad thing if they gave you just a tiny bit more leg room to sit. Oh my gosh. Because I felt like I was so nervous that if they, they moved in front of me, I was gonna be like knees in their head.

Mm-hmm. I mean, you've gotta. You know, um, good line of view Yes. To the stage because they're so sloped. Yeah. But yeah, I was like, oh God, just don't move, don't move down there when you're down there. Just don't move. I'm gonna like, I know. I want a knee in the head. That

was, we went to, um, little Shop of Horse and Off Broadway.

Mm-hmm. And that was a teeny tiny little theater, which was fun. It was very intimate. Yeah. I mean, the lobby was like the glass lounge at L c t. That's how big it was. Oh, that's awesome. But the same way, like my knees were up in the other person's ears, like trying not to move the whole time. It was really good.

We really enjoyed that. We didn't love mj. Really?

Oh really? Okay. Well that makes me sad. I know. So what about it? What, and we had high hopes for that and we, we did too.

Uh, the dancing and the music was amazing. Like the guy that plays mj, there was a little one who was adorable who's like six or seven.

Mm-hmm. He was little Michael Jackson. He was as cut as could be, could sing and dance. Like

you're looking to cast that right now, I'm sure.

Cuz he's probably about to grow out of it. Mm-hmm. And there was a teenage one and then there was the grownup one and the teenage and the grownup. They spoke like Michael Jackson did.

So very soft and very high and it was really hard to hear what they were saying. Oh. So we were like missing half of the dialogue. Yeah. That's hard. But when it came to the singing and dancing. Yeah. Like Thriller. I could watch that all day long. It was crazy good. Yeah. Oh my gosh. The dance, the Michael Jackson dancer.

Yeah. I think his name is Miles Foster. I'm probably get that wrong. But Yeah, the guy, he won the Tony. He would like fall on the ground and like boop, pick himself back up without no hands or anything and keep dancing. It was, oh my gosh, that's crazy. Wow. But the whole time behind us, were these four or five old ladies talking the whole time?

Oh, he is wearing the glove. He's got the glove on now. S Sylvia, do you see the glove? Oh my god. What's he putting in his mouth? He's popping a pill in his mouth. He takes pills. Didn't you know that? Oh, I'm not kidding you. The whole holy shit time. And the louder it got, the louder they got. I was like, God, you know, give him the looks.

They didn't care. They didn't. Where's Gary? Gary left at halftime. Where'd Gary go? Hey, Sandy's not doing well. This is what they're saying. Sandy's, Sandy's not been well lately. I think he went home. Oh gosh, look at the time. We got reservations at five o'clock. I'm like, what? You should, oh my God.

They, I feel like they needed a pill.

They did the

whole, oh. Oh, seriously. Fuck up.

Like, did you see the move she just did right there? I do that in yoga. I go every morning, five days a week. Silver

sneakers. Wow.

It was like random association, anything they saw, they decided to have a conversation about, like its, I didn't hear it. I'm like, oh, how did you not, because you know me with my sound.

Yeah, yeah. The notice whistling.

Yes, yes. So I don't wanna miss the show. Oh. But that just

ruins the experience. It did. It ruined that, and we couldn't hear very well. And then the, but the

music and dancing. Mm-hmm. Now is the whole amazing concept of the show, does it talk about his life or does it just bring him through music, have a plot?

It's, yes, it definitely has a plot. It follows his life's story, kind of from his point of view, how his father was so abusive and the struggles he went through and the press and all that. Mm-hmm. It kind of downplays a lot of the controversy. It doesn't really get into all of that. It's more about how he.

Developed his music and where he got his ideas from and Okay. So I mean it was very interesting. It just work creative direction. Yes. You put that up against Mulan Rouge and

Yeah. It's not gonna hold a candle. Six

was fabulous. It's neck and neck for me between six and Mulan Rouge. Really? Yes. Six is really, I know, I did not expect it either.

But it's, you're engaged the whole time. You're part of the, the story. There's no fourth wall. Like they're talking to you the whole time and you're voting, you know, you're supposed to be voting on who had the worst life with Henry and Yeah. You know, all comes about women's power and why do we define ourselves by our man?

It was really good. Yeah.

Ah, that sounds like fun. Well

that's interesting cause we watched part of that, like a slime tutorial or something for uh, six. Mm-hmm. I don't know, maybe a year ago. I hadn't, I didn't pick up that that was what was happening.

I didn't either. And I've, we listened to the music over and over and over.

Yeah. I, I had no clue that that's kind of the, how they strung it all together.

Yeah. Well, definitely not in the music like we put on Yeah. The car all the time with the kids, and I've never picked up on that either. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It was really good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, some of the songs are definitely, as the kids say, bs Yes.

But mm-hmm.

Just show my Yep. They're all explaining their story with him and why they had it the worst. Yeah. Why they should win this

contest. Uhhuh a Lynns is the best, but she's the, she's my favorite anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, uh,

Katherine, the first Katherine Herd costume was just, oh my God. So beautiful.

So beautiful. Yeah. So that was, I really enjoyed that. Yeah. And then they all came out, all the queens came out afterward. The kids got all their signatures and pictures with them. Oh, that's awesome. And one of 'em, even like Kate posted something on, I don't know, TikTok or something and tagged and they like wrote back, thank you so much for coming.

It was really cool. Yeah. Yes. I can highly

recommend that. Yeah. Well we definitely saw a fair share of shows. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that was good. And there's still plenty more that we already Oh yeah. You know, wanna see,

oh, I know we wanna go, we've gotta go back again soon. Cuz there's more shows that we didn't get to see that I wanna see.

Mm-hmm. Like, you know, it would've been nice to work in something like Sweeney t or whatever. Mm-hmm. We just, we

tried, it was, the seats that were left were out outrageously expensive.

Yes. That was kind of what kept us.

Mm-hmm. That was our barrier to entry. There's only so many shows you can go to in one trip and, you know, not be an thousand dollars.

I mean, your Yes. Your average cost, you're looking at like $200 a ticket. Right. By the time they add fees. Yes. And, and, and over that, if you wanna or see, or more if you wanna see Yeah. Let you know. Mm-hmm. Goodness. If you wanna sit right up front, then forget about it. Yeah. Cuz we even

thought about like, shock just opened.

Mm-hmm. What, like right before we got there. Mm-hmm. And, uh, we were thinking about that. Yeah. I looked at those tickets, you know, we looked at those tickets mm-hmm. And it was like, okay, well we can't really sit together, but we could do it. Mm-hmm. Um, maybe we could do like two and two and then like two and two, you know, and just be around.

But then I was like, I don't really like country music all that much, so like, I'm joking. Sure. It's gonna be my

jam. Well, when we, so our flight got canceled, we were supposed to fly out. Yes. Sunday morning. Oh, right. Yeah. At like seven o'clock. So it's about four 30. And we're. Like literally rolling our suitcases toward the front door and we get a text.

Yes. Your flight has been canceled. Oh my. Oh my gosh. So we got on what airline?

Delta. Oh, Delta.

We get on and Alex is like, well there's, you know, we can take this three o'clock flight, but we have like three layovers. We'll get home at midnight or we can take this one. I'm like, I'm not doing that. We had a direct flight.

I want a direct flight. Let's just, you know, is there one the next day? Yeah. So we got to stay that

extra day. It's not like you had to worry about where you were staying, you know? Right,

exactly. Um, so that was really, it was kind of a nice little perk to it. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Um, but we looked at like the last minute tickets to try to go see Sweeny Todd, or Anne Juliette.

And the cheapest were 250.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Even the last minute stuff is Yeah, yeah. I know. Because we thought we could squeeze in

another show. Yep. Yeah.

It's ripping. Keep up when we were doing something else. We'll just explore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's plenty of. Yes. I mean I've, we ate a lot. I'm still like dreaming about the, the place, the Japanese place that we found.

Mm-hmm. It was like, it's literally just a couple of doors down from where we stayed. Mm-hmm. On 30. I couldn't tell you about that place.

Did you go?

Yeah, but you can tell your story. First. It called mu m

e w

Uhhuh. Mm-hmm. Oh. It was the best Japanese I've ever had. It was so good. We'll have to try that

next time.

Yeah. So you had said you had loved it, right? Yeah. So TJ and I were like, listen, like kids are gonna go upstairs. Yeah. We sent the kids up. We're just gonna go Cuz it's literally like, yeah cuz it's

not

probably the kids' jam. No. So I'm gonna preface this with. I, I, I like sushi, but I don't eat like sushi.

Mm-hmm. Okay. You're the California roll person, four year roll or like something cooked. Shrimped and pour.

Okay. Like a fruity roll. Right. I didn't realize when I recommended, sorry. No fault.

Cause it's like it's not your fault. Yeah. So I go in, I just, habits moved. Yeah, no, it's like, go ahead, sit down. And the guy, the place was not busy, but he wouldn't seat me until PJ had come cuz he had dropped the kids off at the room.

So he comes back down, he's like, okay, whatever. We'll sit. So we sit down, we look at the menu, you know, PJ's been with me a long time, so he knows. He's like, um, Kathy, did you look at the menu before you came here? I'm like, no babe. But it's like sushi, it's Japanese, you know, Chris and Kristen went, it's gonna be great.

And I'm looking through and I. Oh Lord, this is like, this is like legit. This is real. Yeah. Sushi. Yeah. Yeah. This is not, you know? Mm-hmm.

It wasn't just sushi, like it was their, it was, it was more than that. Mm-hmm.

It was, yeah. It was authentic. And they do real, they had like a lot of breaded things, so I was like, mm, I'm not gonna try that.

Cuz I did not wanna have a belly ache in the middle of New York City. So we weren't going, I wasn't gonna be adventurous when it came to my diet. So I was like, no, I don't think we're gonna do this. And he was like, okay. Now I could tell he was a little disappointed cuz that is PJ's jam. Mm-hmm. He's like, you know, and I'm looking like, was there a step We would've

gone with them, Kathy.

Oh yeah. You should've taken it the third time. I was like, we took the kids. They

ate. They

had the second time. Yeah. Mm. You know, I, I was looking for like a ginger salad. I would even have, or like,

well they had some stuff that was kind of like ro. But

Ramy is not gluten. Yeah, I do that. Yeah. I like, but even like some soup, like some onion soup, but not like the tofu soup.

I don't like the miso. So I was like, well, like I really tried to look on that menu and he was like, you wanna go someplace else? I said, yes, please. So we put the menu down and we walked out and I was on the way out. I was like, I'm so sorry, sir, we have to leave. He's like, okay. And we went down to that place called Liberty, which was like two doors down, and we had like, you know, nachos and mm-hmm.

Whatever. So,

um, that was like a kind of a pubby type place,

wasn't it? Yeah. Right in the middle of where the, there's like another two little Irish

pubs right there. Yeah, yeah. We were looking all over for a good Irish pub and we should have just gone right there. Oh, psyching at the Irish. Yeah. Not, not that the other one was bad, but it.

Yeah. It

wasn't like authentic. Yeah. It was more like a bar, but no, those, yeah. And you could sit outside. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Let's talk about the Irish for a minute. The Irish, we knew there were so many bagpipe bands.

Oh, it like the, the parade was happening while we recorded. Yes.

But we went over to the Leto store afterwards.

Well, they were, the kids were skating at the rink at Rockefeller. Mm-hmm. And then we went to, Lego store is right there. Mm-hmm. So it was. A block away from the parade. So while they were skating, I was like, oh, let me go walk over. I hear some bag pipes. Mm-hmm. I'm taking pictures. I've never seen a bagpipe band before.

There was like 42 of them. Like Oh, a bag. They would go through all represent different groups. Yes. They have their little banners and there'd be a bunch of people walking with them. And the next group would come through and it's another 40

bags and they all play the exact same song. The same

song's.

Not kidding you for hours.

It's that traditional. Yes,

yes. That's

exactly what it was. Over

and over and over again. But man, there were a lot of drunk people that day. Yes. Because when we went to six, the line to go in there was an Irish bar right there. Yeah. So we were stuck waiting in line with all these really drunk people with their, we walked

share box on Find that spot where we met up with you.

Yes. So we could hand off Pinky. Mm-hmm. Cause she saw six, but we didn't see six. Okay. Gotcha. But um, yeah, cuz they were kind enough to like, Say, yeah, well we'll take ownership of her. And then of course like off on

Pinky's seat and took and he was asleep. I looked at, not during funny the show, but I looked over her.

I'm like, you sleeping?

You did say it. You called it,

how did I called it? He could sleep anywhere. That's five minutes. That's all

I need. So we had to walk through that with the kids. Oh, and the bar was like half outside. Well, yes, it was kind of that, you know, we were engulfed

and,

and it was a nice day. Yes, it

was, if I remember correctly.

And there was a lot of drinking, a lot of, a lot

of ice. I mean, people started right in the morning and drank all,

all day. Oh yeah. I mean it was a point where they were like dropping beer bottles and it was exploding all over

us. Oh, what time did the, we met you at like six o'clock. Right? It's still pretty early.

I can't remember if that was the eight o'clock show. I think it was.

That was a yes. Cause it was Friday o'clock cuz our

show was at eight. It was the same time. Okay. So we're there probably an hour early. Mm-hmm. It just didn't make sense to do anything else. Right. So we just kinda went over there and then we found this like little spot with a wall and we could sit on the wall.

So we were hanging out and waiting, but we had to walk through that. So we walk the kids through that mess. I'm like, just Okay kids, you just hold onto me. We're gonna go through. Yeah. So we cut through and we find the place, we sit on the wall and we're like sitting there. And then there's like this guy with this girl and they are both totally like just three sheets

to the window.

I'm whatever. I'm sure. I think they all woke up drinking

that day. I, yeah, they definitely did. And he was talking about, what was he saying? Oh, is Chris still

here? I don't know where he would've gone. Is he sleeping?

Oh, you're hiding. What was the guy saying?

Well,

he

wanted to get with the girl. He wanted to get with the girl girlfriend Buddy had, yeah, that's right.

He had a girlfriend, the new girl. Um, the girlfriend didn't like the girlfriend or the, the girl that was there didn't like the girlfriend. Oh, knew the girlfriend. Yeah. Do drugs cause Right. He wasn't allowed to do drugs because if he was caught doing drugs, he would not be allowed back in the family business.

Oh geez.

Wow. And they got up and left and some

decisions to make, help her like walk. Oh, I'm sure. Which we saw a lot of that. Mm-hmm. There was um, like three old ladies walking by and the middle one was being held up by the other two. Mm-hmm. None of them were really

good in shape to be holding up the other.

No. But

the one in the middle was definitely the worst. And the kids were white taking all of this in. Oh yeah. Cuz they hadn't really seen any of that. Mm-hmm.

No.

About

he wanted to get with her. It wasn't good with her like

date

her. Oh. Oh right. Like just being explicit and she was fine

with that. Oh geez.

Little one night, Stan. Yeah. Well we went to, um, Gail's Broadway Road. So it's a lot like the Ellens Stardust. Oh yeah. Where the waiters sing.

It looked a little better. That experience. You sent that picture or some video or something. It was amazing. It was

amazing.

Was crazy. So we need to do that next time.

Yeah. The whole,

the think menu they can do gluten-free with the exception of the French toast. So Lily Kate was in heaven. Nice. And you know your waiters, they take their turns singing. But there was a, we were sitting and then the bar was right there. So this drunk lady, I mean she was, I don't know how she was still sitting up and every time they would start singing she would look at us with her drink and start singing to us.

And the kids are like, what's wrong with her? I'm like, like, what is she doing? She's

trashed. Yeah. She's totally contact

cuz she'll love and sit down with us in a minute. And when we wouldn't look at her, she'd look at the guys next to us and try to sing to them. She was gone. We

learned not to mess with the wildlife.

Yeah. Yeah.

Oh man. Tell the, tell the story. Oh, the coffee story. Yes.

Okay. So our first morning, our first like, sleep, whatever we get. PJ and Chris are like, let's get coffee. There's this. Um, and you know, we had like a list of foods that we wanted the kids to have while we were in New York. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Bagels, like bagels and pizza. And I wanted them to have like a dirty water dog, which by the way is not the same dirty water dog that I remember as

a kid. I have no fucking clue what that is. That sounds disgusting. I know. I don't want some dirty water on, I'm not sure. Hot

dogs. Okay. So it's like part of the childhood experience for me, which is, which is never what you think it's gonna be.

No, it was disappointing. Yeah. And I didn't even try one, but it was on the list. So I can remember growing up being a little girl, going into the city. And on the corners of the streets, they would have these hot dog carts. Mm-hmm. Just carts. They wouldn't have like advertisement on it. How you see now, like the sobrey, whatever, it was nothing like that.

It was like authentic, like whatever hot dogs in the water, that's probably, they use the same water for like a week straight. Lord knows how, that's why I call 'em dirty water dogs. No, I understand. And with like the buns, they're a little crispy cuz they're a little stale, but, and you have like the, the mustard, they got cheap that day.

Yeah. But they're cheap. They don't, and you walk by, they just stick 'em off the garbage. Yeah. And you get a hot pretzel, which is better than probably any hot pretzel you've ever had in your life with the salt. And you get a dirty water dog and that that's your thing. And you keep walking and you're eating your lunch.

So I can remember that as a kid. For whatever reason that felt good to me. So I'm like, okay, we're gonna get that. And I go in there and I'm like, where is the, this is not what I remember. There's no some bread like, you know, beef. Chris, we, we never even got,

I know Chris never got his meat on his stick.

Oh no.

It wasn't good. We got that one day. Yeah, they had all that stuff. So anyway, we had this whole list. So one of them was the bagels. So we got up in the morning anyway, continue. PJ was like,

okay, you know what? Got slide those in occasionally? Yeah, sure.

That's what she said.

The kids do it too now, which is really

disturbing.

Oh, that is, oh, that is disturbing. That's all right. You know, they, they'll get it Apples trees, it happens, you know? Oh my gosh.

So I just don't wanna forget to talk

about Drowsy chaperone. Oh, I know. So keep, we're going. Yeah. Yeah. We

might have to take this episode to make it too. I know, because we're just,

I don't know how long we've, we've been recording so

far.

Probably a long time. We've wait on hours so far. But anyway, so PJ's like, okay, we're gonna go down, we're gonna get bagels. I'm gonna get a coffee and like a Kaiser roll with butter, because Kaiser's rolls are just like the best. Okay. So we go down there. Chris is with us. You know, clearly we look like horrible tourists because we're all dressed up like we're an Aspen, you know, for the weekend.

We gotta Gabby's Well, they

yellow. Oh my God. But they're also like the puff feasta. Yes. So she's like, you know, bright yellow steak puff marshmallows. Yes.

Well, I'll tell you what, that jacket came in handy. They did. We never, her lost, didn't lose her. So we're standing there and he's like, what do you want?

And there's people that are like, clearly on their way to work and, you know, just need to get their coffee and do their thing. And here we are, like this group trying to figure out what we want. And I'm like, oh, can I have a bacon and egg on this? But I don't want this and I want the egg. Like I'm being a total, you know, Sally from when Harry met Sally, and, um, the guy's like, listen, I can do this, this, and this.

And PJ's like, all right, so PJ's ordering, so this, this ev this homeless man, okay. He's clearly homeless. Comes up, he's a tall gentleman, took up some space and I could see he's like hovering next to us. And I got the kids, cuz remember this is our first morning. So we're all like, you know, Stay close to me kids, you know?

Yeah. No comfort whatsoever going on. And the guy's like right behind PJ at the thing. And so I'm like, Hey, babe. I'm like, I think he wants a coffee. Get him a coffee. Your your first mistake. My first mistake. Which is horrible, that, that has a mistake. But PJ turns the guy. He's like, you want a coffee? The guy's like, yeah, I'll take a coffee.

PJ's like, Hey, get him a coffee. He's like, you want cream? Nah, just black. Okay. Yeah. Whatever. Maybe some milk. I was like, yeah, I want milk. I said, babe, get him a bagel. Get him something to eat. You know? And the guy's ignoring me, like, not even worried about having a bagel for breakfast. Mm-hmm. So PJ gets the thing, the guy, um, he's like, all right, 26, whatever.

So PJ goes to hand him his card and the guy's, no, I only take cash. And I'm like, I have cash. Well, I have cash. Cash. Said it out loud. I've got cash. Yeah. Set it outta my, it's, it's in my back pocket.

So much falling

through the air.

So the homeless guy's like Cha

Chase. Exactly. So

it clearly your first 24 hours in New

York.

Yeah, on my cross body, like underneath my jacket, underneath my sweater, underneath my scarf. I'm having to like do everything to get to my money. I pull out my little wallet, you know, that's like a nice wallet and I'm like, you know, I had like a thousand dollars in there. Oh geez. Because you never know when you might need some money.

And so I pull it out when I only got 50. So I'm like, well babe, I got a 50. And so I give to pj waving it to pj. Yeah, I was, and meanwhile people are like leaving cuz they're like, this is taking forever. You know? So PJ goes to pay the guy, the guy's like, okay, thanks. And he gives him, he gives him, you know, money back.

Well, PJ had already handed the guy the coffee. Mm-hmm. Okay. And the man's still standing there. So the man goes, Hey, I want some cash. And PJ's like, no, I already got you a coffee. Now the truck is literally like 200 feet from the hotel entrance. Mm-hmm. It's not far. So PJ Chris is like hanging back cuz he's thinking, okay, this may not go very well for pj and I'm gonna sit back and watch.

Yeah. And I got the kids, so I'm like, okay, we're just gonna walk right now. I've had to put everything back into my wallet. I've had to zip up by stuff. It's a production. Okay. And so I'm walking with the kids and this guy is hammering on pj. Like, I didn't want that coffee. And every other word is an expletive, like coffee.

Like,

like all this stuff down on that. Yeah. Sorry. There's a lot.

That was a bad one. Oh.

But that's what this guy is saying. Like all up in PJ's ear, you know. What

is the FBO problem for you?

What? What? It's a string. It's what? It's a string. I drop the sound A string. Whenever it's a string. It. Every curse word I, I know.

Strung together. I will drop the sound down in the recording. Sorry

guys. That's, this guy was just the occasion,

the left bomb's one thing.

Yeah. The look of confusion. That was that look on my face. Like that, that's how like angry. This, this guy is getting right and he's just like, no, you, I got you the coffee.

That's what you got. That's what you wanted. That's what you got. You're not getting any cash, you know? And so we all start walking. So then now Max is getting concerned. I'm like, no, it's okay. And then Chris, thank goodness, was like hanging out by pj and so as we're walking, the guy is yelling at us, takes his coffee and throws it at us.

Oh my God. Gosh. Okay. Throws it at us. Now, luckily whatever brand this this truck uses for coffee lids and cups is pretty sturdy because even though he chucked it at. It. The lid never came off. Wow, okay. Which is

good because very, I heard it was really

hot. Yeah. Chris had to pj, he was like, man, you know you're lucky like that, that lid stayed on cuz that coffee was piping hot, you know?

Like it could have done some damage. Oh yeah. And it hit right behind Gabby. And so the guy got so upset and so pissed off. He goes and he picks up the cup, he takes off the lid and he goes and like throws it back on the ground. Like, my gosh. PJ's like, really dude, really? You know, I'm trying to help you.

And then they just walked. That's what you get for

being nice in New York.

Yeah. You don't do it. That's right. So that was day one. And from that point forward, nobody got shit from us.

That's right. I know. It's unfortunate. That's because there's a lot of, on the subway, a lot of guys would come through and be like, Hey, I need some money.

But I'll tell you what, there's some super nice homeless people that helped us at the subway cuz they could tell we were No, that's good. The first couple days trying to figure out what side do I need to be on? Am I going uptown or downtown? And they were super helpful. It was really nice. That was Chris's

job.

He was the subway. Mm-hmm. It tells you like, you know, Google Maps or whatever or Apple and you're like, I'm going here. And it tells you, take this to this downtown. Yeah. We figure that out

eventually. But sometimes like if you miss the sign, like, because they'll be like a J but is it uptown or downtown?

Like

you don't know Uptowns side. You gotta go upstairs and go up the other side. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once we figured that the hardest part was getting off on the right corner. So you'd get to your stop, you're

go to the Northwest or the Southwest, Which one A

block this way is the one I want Uhhuh, but I'm not sure.

So it's just, yeah, that was the hardest part. But yeah,

otherwise it was good. There was a couple of times we just popped up and would have to just

go the street. Yeah. That's what we did. Yeah. You just don't quite know where you're gonna pop up at. But you know, I, it's unfortunately the kids got a really rapid lesson.

Mm-hmm. In, um, you know, so we would, every time we would pass that corner, cuz you know, every day Yeah. We'd come out, max would be like, I wonder if our guys here wonder if our guys here. Like, he wanted to, like, we see it again. Except

for that first day. Yeah. Because we did see him when we came down. When we finally came down.

Oh. And I had already heard all about it. Mm-hmm. From Chris. Yeah. So we're coming down there and I, I was like, is that your guy? And Chris was like, yeah, that's actually the guy, guy. But that was just that one day he moved onto a different corner, I guess.

Yeah. I'm just remembering homeless is a bad word now.

What is it? Yes. Oh, I apologize. Un homed. Wait. There's a different word we're supposed to be using. So I'm terribly sorry to everyone listening.

Oh. I, I was completely ignorant to that.

I'm sorry. No, no, no. I heard it the other day on a podcast I was listening to. Oh. And you're not supposed to call them that anymore, so, okay.

I'm sorry.

Sorry. It's, insert new term here. I'll do, I think it's,

we're just learning these things. Shelter, shelter challenged,

uh, something like that. I don't know. Oh gosh. Where's my phone? I'm gonna pop over there. And while you

keep talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. We wanna wait. Sure. That we're being cognizant of these.

I did not know.

So I don't know that I'm on board with this one guys. I'm

just gonna say, dunno. We had found Lily, Kate had found a bunch of gluten-free restaurants. Yeah. So we bought, before we left, we bought a big wall map, so it was like a six foot map of Manhattan. Mm-hmm. And we took little, like those little tabs used when you're reading a book.

Yes. Little C3 ones. And so every show we, we were going to was a tab in yellow. Mm-hmm. Every restaurant we wanted to go to was a tab in blue. Everything we wanted to see was a tab in green so we could kind of see where everything was clumped together and try to hit all those places in one day. Yeah. But she had found some amazing gluten-free restaurants.

One was called Modern Bread and Bagel.

Yeah. Oh, you had shot me some best

bagel sandwich I've ever had. Totally. The whole place is gluten free and the other one was Posh. Posh Pop Bakery, which, oh my gosh. Everything in there. Cakes, cookies, cake pops. Cinnamon rolls, funnel cakes. Like anything you could think of was, In there.

So we had fun doing that. But I'm gonna look at this term.

Yeah, look at that term cuz we don't wanna offend anybody,

but, well we were, we had the TV on at one point in the hotel room and they like, just random channel where they were running the same, I don't know, five minute story loop for a 24 hour cycle.

Yeah. So we went, it just caught our attention. Third loop around I think. And they were interviewing the girl who's the lead in, she's Christine in Phantom of the Opera. Oh, okay. Okay. And um, who isn't that? Spencer's trying friend. It is Spencer's friend. And I was, I was telling Laura, I'm like, we need to get her on the podcast.

You need to work that out, you know? Yes. Through Laura, through Spencer to this girl playing Christine. Anyway. And um, anyway, so she's on the TV and she's like, you have to go. Uh, is there one thing that you have to do? They ask her the question, you know, that you have to. Before your show and she's like, oh, I have to go get my cookie at Schack.

Oh yes. And I was like, there's the cookie place we've gotta go to cuz the kids wanted a cookie. Yes, yes. We were, I, you know, we were always on the hunt for what's some good food. Mm-hmm. Right. Because we didn't wanna eat the same thing more than once. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You know, we wanted to diversify and mm-hmm.

You know, do some stuff we hadn't done. Mm-hmm. And, you know, not hit chains and that kind of thing. Yes, exactly.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. We tried to stay away from that stuff. Mm-hmm.

For sure. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So we found that was our, that was one place that we kind of like, okay, we're gonna go there. Mm-hmm. Everything else felt more like we're, and the, and the start ISS diner.

Mm-hmm. Everything else kind of felt more like loose. Mm-hmm Whenever we got there. Yeah. Kind more when we got there. So we can talk about Carmines. Should we talk about Carmines? I mean that wasn't my pick. Let me throw

this in there. Before you get pick Carmines. I

horrible about that. Unhoused or houseless.

Oh, okay. Houseless not homeless. Oh, you

didn't think you were gonna learn anything on this episode? You, there it is. Here's your nugget to take away. Yes.

Well, I dunno, there might have been some other things to learn, like, don't give coffee to a homeless guy. There you go. Or you'll get burned. Houseless guy.

Um, maybe do a little bit more

on your, try that. Don't give coffee to an un homemed person. An unhoused.

Listen, these, I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it. I know I'm gonna,

well, maybe you could at least like pause, you know, half, you might not remember what the word is, but you can say to yourself, oh, I'm not supposed to say that

anymore.

I don't know if I'm gonna

insufficiently home. Insufficiently, homed, unhoused or houseless.

Listen, the guy was just a jerk. I mean, call him what you want. Just call him the jerk on the street. He was just a jerk on the street. You know, one of many,

taking advantage of I was a jerk on the streets sometimes too.

Well, you, but you didn't throw coffee in anybody.

Oh. So, you know, we moved when we sold our house and we moved downtown Lakeland. There's, we were like, okay, we're gonna take the kids. We're gonna do a lot of, we do a lot more walking. Mm-hmm. We go and visit things downtown and Mikayla has beat, like she is the rule follower.

Mm-hmm. And she's always, you know, there's not a crosswalk line, there's here, can't cross here. But we always cross there and we get a lot of shit because she's like, you're jaywalking and the police station's right there, and we're crossing right in front of the police station, but there's not a crosswalk there.

You gotta go down and like, then you can, whatever. Anyway, so for months we have caught so much shit. Then we get to New York. Yeah. And it's like nobody fell asleep. It, it blew her mind. It really did. All those people, and I'm like, I just would grab her and we'd start walking because everybody's walking.

There's no cars coming. No. It didn't change. Even though the walking guy isn't there. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you know, he's not lit up. It's the hand and it's saying no. And she's mom, mom, mom. No, mom. Oh, fucking walk or I'm leaving your ass behind. Exactly.

Yeah. You're gonna get really good. Well, okay. Almost got running by the

bus

once.

Oh, right. We were, same thing. You know, you don't, you walk, when you walk, there's nothing coming. So we were following this clearly. A guy who lived there and knew what he was doing. I'm like, follow that guy. Yeah. So we're following him and he went and Billy Kates got her cute little coffee cup and she's looking at it and she's walking across the street.

All of a sudden, I see this bus, oh my god. Barreling down at her. Oh my God. The driver had no intention of stopping. I could see it in his eyes, like he had he on that steering wheel. Like she's

gonna be,

he was coming right at her. I like grabbed her jacket and pull her outta the way. Oh my God. Yeah. He was gonna take her out.

He felt good about it too.

Yeah. Did you, so did you get honked at as a pedestrian? We got looked at as pedestrians. It happens. Yeah. I mean its happen. Surpris didn't happen more frequently, to be honest

with you. How about when we were walking back from um, that great Italian place that we ate at? Oh my gosh, yes.

That was delicious. I was

as big as big of a fan. Oh really? We weren't eating. I

had the chicken marcala

and it was delicious, but we hardly ordered anything

cuz we were not Yeah, you guys just got like salads and stuff. It wasn't, but I had like a meal and it was delicious. Mm-hmm. Much better than Carmines.

I'm just gonna put that

out

there. I am gonna disagree. Uh, what did you order? Uh, fettuccini Alfredo. Oh, okay. Well how do you miss that? It was yellow and like really, like really creamy. Like it wasn't, it was just cream.

Oh yeah. I'm sorry about that. That sucks. I'm just saying, you know, I know. What are

some losers?

Yeah, that was not, that was not a highlight of my food journey. Journey. Mm-hmm. That place. Well when we walk, start with Carmines. But it was better than car.

Better than fast. We'll, how Carmine story too. Yeah. We totally got taken advantage of there. But anyway, so we go and we're walking and PJ almost got like legitimately ran over by.

Was like a motorcycle or

a Oh no, I was, yes. Yes. I saw that happen. What was that? Was that a, it was like a delivery guy, like a door dasher or something? Yes. And he just cut the corner and about took

PJ out. Yeah, he about did. Yeah. Like that. That was kind of, it was close.

Scary. I think he probably ran over his toe.

Was that close? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And no, I just, that obeying the Yeah. Yeah. Like I had no intention of stopping. There was, there was a walk light.

There was a walk light. It was

not a, the vans little white

man, it was, you can walk. Yeah. That was scary. Mm-hmm. So car mines. So we're like, okay, you know, we're going to the city, we're going to Broadway.

Gotta go get our car mines cuz it's like a thing. Right.

Okay. Not my

choice. No, I agree. So, Yeah, and we were able to get reservations. So I was like, okay, we're just gonna go and we're gonna do it. So we go. Now the, there's eight of us and they literally sat us in a table probably this size. So

we're all, oh man.

It was, it was cozy, real friendly. But every, everything in New York was like that. Yeah. It was like just, yeah, it was house each other. Everybody

just needs to shower every day. And we had like lots of stuff, right? Like our jackets and our whatever. Yeah. Now funny, the couple that sat right here next to us, they were super funny.

She had these huge shrimp and cocktails. She's like, Hey, you want some, like, she was super nice. Like we were talking, well we were all

up in her table. So

yeah, we were, she really didn't have,

lemme have bite of that. Like shared the boots with her family member that was right there. Oh my gosh. You know? So anyway, so we ordered some stuff.

Now we know pile

jackets fell on him at one point. It was pretty funny actually. It

was exactly, I think Gabby lost her gloves. Well, she didn't lose 'em. I think she left them there by accident, but whatever. So, um, we order, and it's family style, right? So you order stuff Now. I know Gabby will eat Max. He's gonna eat some bread and butter.

He's not gonna probably eat anything else. You know, her family might eat a little bit. Pinky will probably be a little, maybe just a little bit. So we, we ordered pretty conservatively, you know, like one pasta dish. The only way I could do gluten free is if we got the big, huge thing. Mm-hmm. And I'm not gonna make everybody go through that.

So we just got the one pasta thing, a chicken, and like some, we

got, we got a breaded chicken tomato, a regular chicken, like a Yep. You know, dish? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So the kids could have some like chicken parm, something that was familiar to them. Yes, yes. And then like a lighter pasta that didn't have like, you know, a lot of like

an angel hair with like Yeah.

A lemon and and butter. Yeah. It was good. Yeah. For them. That was good. So anyway. And then, um, Chris and PJ had ordered some like mozzarella and tomato as like a little app, so we thought we had plenty of food. Well, the waitress is like, oh no, I'm telling you right now, this is not enough food. You need like at least two more things.

We're like, oh my God, are you serious? So we, I'm like, all right, well then I guess I'll get some gluten-free pasta. Mm-hmm. So we got some gluten-free pasta, and then we got, which we did not realize that it was literally the size of the table, but um, it had like sausage and chicken and potatoes and onions and peppers in this like big, huge, the sausage is spice prize.

Yeah. We

didn't know about the sausage. It was a chicken named dish. Yeah. I don't like, it's like the chicken, blah, blah, blah. Well, the, we ordered the chicken, blah, blah, blah. She's not lying. It came out,

it was like the size of this table. My, it was huge. It was like a, it was like a Turkey platter Sunday brunch.

Your grandma did type

thing. You didn't need anything else if you didn't

Uhuh? No. No. And did we get salad too, or no? Did

we not do salad? Uh, yeah. I think there was also salad there. A salad. But it wasn't like a big salad. No. So

she pretty much upsold us on about a hundred dollars worth of food. Okay. So, which

killed PJ's soul.

It didn't. Only because we couldn't take it home. We couldn't,

we were like leaving that to go to a show. We were going to Haiti's town. Right. That was Haiti's. Oh no.

Yeah. Yes. Sorry pj, because I know, you know, he hates be wasteful. He doesn't mind spending money. Like I'll spend money on some food, but dang.

Like, I mean, and he's, we left, he even said behind, oh if, if I wasn't going to go sit at a show right now, I would still be eating because I don't wanna just leave this here. But we did, we,

well we ordered the way we ordered initially because we didn't wanna feel like ass sitting in the show. Mm-hmm. Your stomach rumbling.

Yes. And you're feeling like, you know, yes. Go to sleep cuz you've eaten so much. Yeah. Yes.

We were just worried about that. It really kicked off the moral of our whole entire trip. Is stick with the plan. Mm-hmm. That's right. Mm-hmm.

You make a plan. Stick with that shit.

What was the original stick with the plan?

The plan of what? Your plan.

Just a couple things. These two things of chicken, this one thing, a pasta. That's plenty. We know our kids. We know what we're able to eat. We know what's gonna feel comfortable.

That's, you know. Yes. Yeah. We don't eat out a lot. So when you've been there for several days and all you're doing is eating and eating, you just can't, there's only so much you can take.

Yeah. Yeah. We found that out pretty

quickly.

So any other time we would make a decision mm-hmm. We'd be like, Nope, we gotta stick the plan. Stick with the blanket. Regardless of what it, it was like if we were going somewhere or a different route we were taking, or different food. We were,

we did at one point from one from Planet.

It was like, see we happened. Stayed with the fucking plan, stick with the plan. Didn't what it was now, but it was

that. Yeah. Stick with the plan. So anyway, so that was interesting. So thank you, Carmine. So of course I did. Put my hair back in, make shirt in the back.

He cares. So she's an iron man with us, push

a

button.

And so with the, with the nano technology, our hair, the server came

to give us the bill, you know, and Kristen and PJ pretty much handled everything financially. They would just fli everything down the center, right? Like, you know, they, she handed the bill and I was like, listen, listen, thank you so much for all of your recommendations, but it was really very, too much food.

Like we didn't need to order those extra two dishes. So thank you for that. Like tip you on the dishes we originally ordered. I think Tip was probably already included, to be honest. Oh, probably, yeah. With that many people. Yeah. I was like, are you serious lady? We totally got totally bamboozled. Yeah, we got bamboozled, but that's okay.

I don't ever need to go back to Carmen's. It was fine. I mean, not

Jill did. Cause I kept hearing and hearing we should go to Carmines and so you

didn't miss my first trip to New York. I was, uh, ninth grade marching band went for Macy's. So you know those school trips, right? Yeah. They planned all of these mm-hmm.

You know, stops out that are world famous and you have to do this. Mm-hmm. So that was one of those world famous stops that we had to do. Yeah. And my remembrance of that, it may not be accurate. So I'm willing to acquiesce. That it may not be accurate. Right. And like the dirty water dog, a 350 or 400 piece marching band, and everyone in the band is going to car mines that perhaps the food experience is not going to be the norm.

I know that now. But at the time, my experience was this, we arrive, we're all hungry. The food is cold. Oh, the bread that they gave you were the rolls. And the rolls were, oh God. Hard God. Break a tooth. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I was like, I as an adult will never eat at Carmine ever again. So that was why I was like, I'm not sure about Carmine y'all, because that was not my experience in ninth grade.

Now you're really never. Yeah. I've actually did a couple of those types of stops. Like there was that Chinese place that's in Times Square, close to Times Square, and everybody was talking about that ahead of time. Like, oh, we should go to this. And I was like, dude, y'all, I remember something moving in the soup.

Oh geez. Because we went to that place when I was in ninth grade. Oh wow. God. And I was like, I don't know what the fuck is in the soup, but I ain't eating

it. Oh, I didn't know about that Chinese us. We didn't have any trouble. There was

a day before I was like even remotely adventurous with Oh yeah, yeah.

Right. Yeah. We went to the Canal Street market. It was all Asian kids. We didn't take it down there.

We were, we did in the list. We talked about going to, we wanted to take the kids to list, do the whole experience. Yeah. Buy some art from a guy that has it all laid out on a mm-hmm. On a sheet, you know?

Yeah.

I wanted, oh, that's when we walked. I wanted to go down and, and get some shady purse or did you end up getting

any of that art? I, no, we were gonna go back and get it. Cause it was, I'm so mad at myself. It was so good. And it was like, you know, it's. Three for 30, just these great little sketches. Mm-hmm. But they had several of those type vendors out there with artwork.

Yeah. We bought

art once years and years and years. Years and years ago.

When we went to New York, I didn't see anything else I liked, but yeah. Yeah. Regretting that decision. Mm-hmm. But walking the bridge was really fun. Fun. Oh, I

bet that was fun. Was it a nice, clear day? Beautiful. Wasn't cloudy or, yeah.

Foggy. Yep. Oh, that's the day you guys

left was cold. Yes. Yes. It was it, it was coldy here. Yes. My mom was, it was cold here. It was cold here. Yeah. We walked

outside. I was like,

what the fuck? Yeah. It was like, feels like 20. I'm like, I like We brought it home. Yeah. Because we wanted to go. There's the thing called the high highline, which was an old rail.

Mm-hmm. Like elevated track, but now it's like a park type thing that you can walk nears Chelsea market. Mm-hmm. So I'm like, look, it was so cold on my, I just wanna walk up there and see it like, we're here, we're literally right here. We just have to walk up these stairs. Yeah. We got up there. I'm like, oh, no, no, no.

I'm done. We up there. Winds whipping through there. Yeah. The wind. Oh it's so cold. Yeah. That'll get you. Yeah, we were not

prepared for that. We did um, travel down a little bit and we went to, um, that Jewish deli. Oh yeah. Yeah. Which was so much fun.

What was the name of that place?

Cats. Oh yeah,

yeah. Cats. We were gonna go there, but we never make Yeah.

Cats. Stella Essen. Apparently you can take gluten-free bread there and they will make your sandwich on your bread. Really? Oh, that's NICE's. What we had read, cuz we had planned to do that

and just, oh, I didn't even know that. Well, that was quite an experience. You walk in, you get like a little ticket and if you just want like counter service.

You have to stand in a line or whatever, and then you can get a seat if like there's one available. So one of the other things we've realized is with eight of us, it's difficult to dine and all sit together. Mm-hmm. So we had a couple occasions where we split up. Mm-hmm. Because, you know, hunger, I

thought it would be a problem, but yeah.

We were like, when? Anyway,

we're like, oh, we'll roll the dice. Yeah. You know? Well this place was able to accommodate us. So we just waited a little while and they took us in the back and we had this table, it's that Mike's room, Mikey's room, whatever. Yeah. Mikey's room. And on the wall were all the pictures of the famous people that were there.

Mm-hmm. Um, I

text Kathy's like, we are famous. We should have our picture on this wall and I'm gonna make it happen.

It's happening. So we talked about

we're not on the wall way away. Oh yeah. No. But we did, we're not famous either. We dig in our picture. I don't, Maya said to you we're famous.

She did say I was.

Famous? Mm-hmm. Did she? Oh, okay. Well, we'll talk about that in a second. So I was like, Hey, you know, we need to meet our per, so we got our picture taken with our waiter, but then the owner was there, so I think like we had seen him in the pictures. Mm-hmm. And then he walked by and Kristen was like, I think that, that's the owner.

And I was like, stop. Really? Well this restaurant's pretty famous. You know, it's, that was very, it's a, yeah, it's a big deal. So I was like, okay. So we talked to him. He was super kind. Yeah, he was really nice. Yeah. I was like, oh, can we get a

picture? He's like, yeah, like he cared. It was really great.

Good stuff.

So

we got

our picture.

He's like, you guys are famous, huh? Yeah. Kathy's like, listen, let me tell you all about how famous we are. Yeah. Embellish, embellish, embellish, embellish. And I was like, oh

shit. You don't know. You dunno. I'm not even sure if I used those words famous, but anyway, I I did use the, Hey, we can cross promote.

Like he needs to promote, you know? Right. Exactly. Whatever. But that's okay. He doesn't know. We had a great time. Smile. Smile. He smiled crazy. He remembered us after. Yeah. Get a picture so she can get outta here a picture. Exactly. Move her out. But it's all right. It worked. We had fun. Um, so that was a good time.

The sandwiches for heat,

we cross promote. Right. Didn't I think Chris posted and tagged.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. So yeah, we did. It was a good, it was a good experience, you know. Um, so yeah, we got to have that, but that was probably our biggest trip out of where we were staying. Yeah. That was. Journey. It was our longest.

Yeah. Um, but it was a good time. And then of course we did other things other than Broadway. Like we went to the nine 11 Museum. Mm-hmm. So that was fun. Um, I ended up having like an episode while I was there. That was not fun. I, not so bad

for you when you're having that happen. Oh, oh

my gosh. Oh, your heart.

Yes. I, it was horrible. Like, and had that in a while. We had walked, no, I hadn't. We had walked around and I don't know if I was getting like overheated too. That was part of it. But we went down to where one of

the, that was the Dave Port snowed. Yeah. It was real like wet.

Mm-hmm. That day. Yes. It was like, it's been your first

day cuz it snowed.

The day we got it was Monday. No,

Monday. It was Monday. Yeah. Oh, right. Came Saturday.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Monday and I just, we were walking around one of the souvenir stores down there, and I was like, oh man, I just started to like, not feel good. I was getting nauseous. I'm like, oh, this isn't good. I said, pj, I'm gonna go sit down.

And he was like, okay. He knows, you know, I was like, oh. And I sit down and of course Max is where I work. So he follows me and he's like, are you okay? I'm like, I'll be fine. Like, I just, it's a process. I just have to go through it. Mm-hmm. Like my body just has to reset, but the resetting piece is miserable.

Mm. And then I get hot and I just start stripping. Oh my gosh. Hat off. I took my jacket off, I took my shoes off. I

in coffin. That poor lady on bench next to

you. Okay. I, uh, I have a, you want. And I told Kristen, I was like, listen, if I wasn't in a public place with that lady sitting next to me, I probably would've vomited.

Right. And it probably would've helped. Quite honest. Yes. Yeah. But, um, but I didn't, I tried to keep it together. Mm-hmm. And she's like, are you dizzy? I'm like, yeah. I just, I just need a second. Like, I just have to let it do its thing and your body goes through all the checklists, you know, to reset that. And then I was like, you guys just go, you guys just go do your thing.

I'll be fine. Um, and PJ wasn't even really worried, like, he knows, so he's fine. And then I turned, so everyone had left. I turned to Max. I'm like, buddy, I gotta go to the bathroom, because that's just part of the process. Mm-hmm. You know? And he was like, okay. I'm like, you stay here with my stuff. I would've never left my kid alone at the nine 11.

But we weren't

far, we had like wandered basically around the corner, so we weren't far

Yeah, I'm sure you're keeping an eye just in case. And then once I went to the bathroom, I came back, I was like, yeah, I'm good to go. We're good for the rest of the day. Nice. But yeah, that wasn't fun. But the nine 11 that I had not been back there since, um, the actual nine 11 attacks and, um, it was moving.

It was, it was very, we,

Alex and Stella went in. I couldn't, I had a friend who died mm-hmm. In from college, and we got, we found his name. Did you? Yeah. And I just lost it. I'm like, I can't go inside. I can't do this. It was like, so you could just

feel it? Yeah. Mm-hmm. You can, yeah. You can feel it. You can.

Mm-hmm. My brother's. I had a, a girlfriend in college that had passed away there, so we were able to find her name. Mm-hmm. And I took a picture and then, I mean, it is, you go in there and they have all the photos. Mm-hmm. Um, and then there is that room where you can go in and if you stay long enough, you'll hear everybody's testimony of like, family as they friends.

They stayed and

heard the testimony, everything. Yeah. It's just, I mean, have to think about now, it's like, oh, I can't,

I know. Yeah. All the twisted scraps of metal and that were, you know, beams and integral parts of, of that structure. Mm-hmm. And how twisted they were. I mean, it. It's very

powerful. Yeah. Very.

Yeah. To think what had happened to make that occur. Yeah. You know, and I had told pj, I had never realized how close the buildings were to each other. Mm-hmm. Until you see the footprint. Yeah. Yes. And they were super close, you know, and then, so to think back

on that day when they existed, I don't think we went down to that area ever.

Mm-hmm. So like I never saw him except for mm-hmm. At a distance. Right. Right. You know, in the skyline is one thing, but down we did, but we

went to the Statue of Liberty. I think we kind of made our way down there. Yeah. I mean, this was years and years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Um, oh, museum of Broadway. That was,

that was lots of

fun.

That was so cool. That was a lot of photo ops. Oh my gosh. Yes. I had such a good time in, in New York with the new camera. Mm-hmm. You know, the Christmas present camera? Yes, yes, yes. I got her new lens that first day. Yeah. We went, that was the first, yeah, because, well, I was gonna order it ahead of time, but I had waited and then B and h was, they're a Jewish run and they had a big holiday.

Mm-hmm. And when they're on holiday, they don't take orders. Oh, right. Online. Mm-hmm. And so I was like, okay, well they're closed on Saturday when we arrive, but they open up on Sunday, so we'll just go down. I want go to the, you know, photo mecca. You know, store and I've been wanna go. So we, we went and I, I got this awesome lens and I'm going, it was so cool.

You see it sitting on your counter over there, cuz it's pretty impressive.

Yeah. It's, it's, it's like a monument. She big, she's she big. She looks heavy. She's big. Yeah.

Ooh, exciting.

Yeah. Yeah. We kind of cut our teeth on exploring New York City, walking to the, where was that? So that was kind of cool. I don't know.

Okay.

Yeah, we, I don't remember our gps even with all the subway

and then we walked, even with all the subway rides, we, our lowest walking day was seven miles. That's the day we got there. Our biggest was 12 miles. So somewhere in between there, I

remember I went back and looked at the step counts for that whole week and I don't think we were under like 16,000 steps.

Mm-hmm. Oh wow. Yeah. Any of those days. We had one day where we were, uh, lighter than the rest by a lot. Yeah. Yeah. The day you guys went and saw Anne Juliet. Okay. And we didn't do that. Yeah. Yeah. We were like 5,000 steps lighter than all the other days. But I think our average was like 16,000 steps, which is, I don't know, like six or so miles.

Yeah. Something like that. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's funny too, the kids' perception, like the first day we'd be like, oh, we have to go six blocks this way. Oh my God. Six blocks. Ah. You know? But then, you know, third, fourth day in, we're like, oh, that's 10 blocks. This way they're like, oh, 10. That's easy. That's nothing.

No. Cause they've realize that unless it's really

cold and you're like, oh, six blocks.

Yes. Or if you're going like an avenue. So if you're going like this way, the blocks are blocks.

How long is know, you see the light down there? Just keep going. Exactly. Because we

walked from Yeah. But it wasn't that light.

It was the next one. And you're like, damn, Uhhuh.

Yes. We walked from nine 11 to Harry Potter. That was our longest. Like that's single walk.

Yeah. Yeah. I think when we went to Central Park and then walked back to Ellen's and then Uhhuh back. Yeah. We did that too. That, that was probably one of our long

term.

Yeah. I did that in the not walking shoes. Mm. Oh, so I had the Hey dudes like the whole time. Yes. But the day it snowed and I was like, I bought Boots Uhhuh, so I wore the boots and then we walked the most we'd ever walked that day. That was like a 21,000 step day. Yes. And I was like dying. Oh my God.

Because they were not, those boots were not made for walking as it turns out. Yeah. Yeah. That's when you, you pop into Target and Bite We went. Yeah. But we were, we ended up back at the hotel and then before the show and so we were like, so got changed. Yeah. I went back to the Hey dudes. Yeah. They're the most comfortable.

I think it's cuz they like the, the box toe, right. Bigger. And so your, your feet are not like, Yeah, I

just wore my running shoes, which speaking of I keep speaking of. Yes. Speaking of the Irish, it's your

turn to squirrel today. Huh?

You're gonna squirrel. So the day that Sunday that we were supposed to go home was the Brooklyn, or not the Brooklyn, the New York Half Marathon.

Oh. So all over. We kept seeing people with, they have like these, um, I don't wanna say metal blanket, but these like disposable blankets. Yes, yes. And their ribbons. And I was like getting so jealous. So, oh, it's like next year I'm doing it.

Yeah. So I'm trying to That's cuz you're crazy and you're that runner person.

Yeah. Oh, I just

wanna see. That would be such a fun course. Oh, so, um, I'm looking for the dates. Okay. I haven't posted the date of it, but it was obviously this time of year. Yeah. We're going back and I'm running that marathon,

half marathon. We will be right there cheering you on

at some

point, point along the route.

Yeah. I need you guys stationed along the route. That's what Alex usually does. Stations at certain he'll get to card a little bit cup for you. Yeah. Here's your power bar or here's, let me take that jacket for you. Cause when you start, like it was cold that day, so you start with a ton of layers, but once you get going, that makes sense.

Yeah. Usually you just kind of throw it off on the side of the road and they collect it. Unhoused people. Oh, yes. But unhoused. But he's before where he's met me and I can throw things at him at, you know, six miles or whatever. Yeah. So,

yeah. You know, do that. That's what the, um, server said at Carmine, she was like telling PJ when he's having, you know, coronary because he can't bring this food with him.

And she's like, oh, you can just leave it on the side of the road. Like, it'll be leave it on the side on one side. Yeah. With all that extra Well, we want. Yeah. There was, um, which is interesting,

I've never even thought about it. Later in the, later in our stay was trash pickup day and like the trash started piling up on the size of the, the roads.

Yeah. And, uh, I watched a couple of homeless people like going through it. Mm-hmm. They didn't give a shit either about the mess they were making. No, no, no. But they were definitely digging for treasure.

How about all the dogs that just pee on the trash? I don't think

I saw any dog. Oh, all over.

I mean, wild dogs just drop a deuce right

there.

Oh, well, yeah. Just walk out. Everybody walks through it. I know. Everybody. We would say

that be like, oh, dog

poop. Dog poop. Yeah. There was a couple experts. I was like, did somebody just walk along and shake it out? Like, or was it a dog down their pants? Like, exactly.

My underwear,

it was crushed out. Oh my God.

Yeah. That's hysterical. But yeah, I don't know. It was very, um, wasn't part, sorry. Yeah, my bad. Snuck right up on it. There's no

green, so the dog's just, yeah.

I

feel like, and I guess the, I get so embarrassed when Milo just decides that we're, when we're walking him outside and he's just like, here on the sidewalk, I'm gonna drop my deuce.

You know? You're like yanking him and he is dropping off. Yeah. I'm like, no, just,

just

in the grass. Just get in the grass.

It's happening. It's happening. It's touching cloth. Um, Yeah. What did you just say? It's touching cloth. You never heard that Turtle? Head Pokings? Yeah. Crowning.

Crowning.

Cece. Oh God. So funny.

Flipper.

Flipper. Flipper. That's like a teeth flipper. No. Is it? She said turtleneck. It wasn't a head. Mikayla. When she was little, he was like, turtleneck. I got a turtleneck and we're like the whole neck emergency. That's

my brother will kill me for telling this story. But he injured his back severely one time and I went to take care of him.

Mm-hmm. For like a couple weeks and he was on painkillers, which make you very mm-hmm. Backed up. Mm-hmm. Oh yeah. There was one day he, I knew he was in pain, like he needed to go, but he couldn't. So finally, and he walked out and he's like, I just gave birth to Flipper.

Oh Dad. Oh gosh. Poor God. Oh, I know. Oh, yikes.

I know. That's so true. And know the older you get, that's what people worry about.

Like, yeah, they don't leave the house

cause they, they haven't gone to the, they haven't done their constitutional or

whatever. Well, I mean, when, when you're a parent, it's all about poop.

It is. It, you know, we've

circled back, said that a few times we have

circled back to the poop. Well, poverty, she was real little. She had really. Horrible problems. She still kind of does today and we have to do, you know, like MiraLax, uh, shot for her, you know? Yep. To help her out. But, uh, she's, she's gonna be so embarrassed.

She, she doesn't listen to our podcasts. I think it's fine. Um, but she used to, she'd get in the bathroom, she'd been there for a while and she'd, you'd hear her, oh, no, no, no.

You're like, what is happening in there? Are you ok?

And you're like, because it was coming, but it was gonna hurt. It sounded like a freaking exorcist.

Oh my

poor thing. Yeah. So tell the good news.

Oh, she's in Harrison.

I hadn't even posted about it online. I bumped into it to, uh, Teresa. I always think in my head, cuz her name is spelled Terra, I'm like, Terra. And she knows, and I've mentioned this to her, she's like, yeah, you're not the only one. But, um, so, but yeah, I saw her last night because we went to see Drowsy.

Mm-hmm. And, uh, I was like, she's in and she's like, oh. And I said, I just did, I didn't post about it. Mm-hmm. Uh, I didn't, you know, I don't know. It felt a little braggy, but I am really excited for her pinky to be in, especially

after seeing drowsy last night. So we saw the drowsy chaperon put on bike. Yes. It was amazing.

I was

crying, was laughing. I

I never made you laugh like you laughed last night.

So the pit apparently, cuz Mikayla intermission went down to the pit. Mm-hmm. Cuz all her friends are down there and Tyler's down there uhhuh, you know. And um, so she was talking to 'em and they were telling her that they could hear her laughing and she's like, I wasn't.

LA and she's like, oh, I'm gonna listen. So she comes out af uh, at the end of the show. Mm-hmm. And she's like, mom, it was you. The pit heard you and Laura. Oh. And I was right behind. We were both dying. Oh my gosh. Like Laura, stop slapping both me and Chris cuz we were, you know, mom and dad in be, she was in between us.

And she was slapping and

hitting, grabbing.

And

she was, I couldn't stop. I was crying. I must have had makeup all down my face. Adolfo.

Yes. He was amazing. Me. Yes. He was

amazing. So I can't wait to see Broadway Stars of the Future nominations after this time. Yes. Because yeah. Yeah. I felt like, you know, we'd just come back from Broadway and I felt like here we were again.

We're right back on it. Yes, they were. They didn't miss a note. They didn't miss a beat. Like they, even when there was a little mistake, mistake happened, they worked it into the show. Like when, uh, dropped, I'm sorry. Somebody dropped the, when they were supposed to be playing the, um, glasses with two spoons and dropped one like, well I can do it with one hand.

Yeah. This is doing this.

And it was

tainting. Yeah, yeah. But it was only one tank. Yep. Oh, they were so amazing. So good, so,

so excited. That totally forgot that you were. An auditorium. Yes. You know, in a high school. Yeah. High school auditorium. It was amazing. Amazing. So we're very excited for

her. Yeah. Yeah.

And Lily Kate walked away going, I need to work even harder cause I have to go here next year. Yes. Yes.

Do you wanna be a part of that? Yes. You do. Yeah, totally. Mm-hmm. Remind me before we're done that circle back on Harrison conversation because I have something to say offline. Okay. Okay. Yes. Perfect.

Something learned. Okay. Perfect. Yay, luck that, yes. But I don't know that it, it's worth right? Yeah. Okay.

No worries. It's almost two hours going on here,

so. Oh, are we? Seriously? Are we? Holy shit.

Yeah. We probably we're gonna have to do apartment each other

for a couple weeks. I know. It has been. Yeah. Covid, it was rough.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Covid was not fun. No, I never had it before and I had to go to New York and get it, no one else in the house.

It was almost as bad as the first time I got it. Mm.

Yeah, we, we escaped cuz we weren't around you guys at, especially at the end. We weren't around you as much.

Yeah. Yeah. Well thank God for steroids and antibiotics.

Mm-hmm.

Now you're immune for a little bit.

Yeah.

We'll be good. We suffered in our

house. Yeah. It was rough. But, but anyway, we, he never got it came out. That's, again, it's crazy that the disease is just mm-hmm. Wild to me. She's immune immunization study her and chooses. Mm-hmm. And

you know, I don't know if she's even ever had it.

Yeah. I mean she, it's not like she doesn't get sick. She does. But she's never caught covid when we've had covid. Yeah. And we've known it was Covid. Right. You know? Right.

Have you tested her? Maybe she's just asymptomatic.

We did the first time around when we all got sick, we tested. Mm-hmm.

And she was always negative.

Yeah. She was always negative. Mm. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah. Well anyway, but anyway, so up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We

can. It's been enough time. And now I need to do your headshot and then we can get outta

here. Yes. Yeah. We'll get outta your

hair. Got nothing going on today. Do you want headshot today? Does this look like a headshot worthy?

I'm with pass on that one day. Not

today. No worries. Yeah. All right. We get taken care of. Well, we had so much fun, and we'll have more fun. Do some good. Um, we're going to see, um, little Shop Harris tonight.

Yes. We're not, you're not going

next

week because Stella wants to go.

So we're waiting. Yes. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. We're going tonight, so that will be fun. I agreed to, we

let you know all about it. That's right. Or is it, or Orson Orson s Shadow. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I think is the name of it. It's a stage read at L C T Uhhuh. Yeah. So I agreed to stage manage that and I agreed to stage Manage Margaritaville. Yay. So yeah, we were gonna do that.

That's fun. Summer. One of those Summer intensives for poverty. And I was like, waiting on that. And then we kind of talked with her a little bit and we were like, we're gonna not do that this year. Mm-hmm. So that freed up that, and then I could text Alan who's been waiting. Oh. Because he actually like messaged me like almost a month ago.

Oh wow. Okay. Yeah. Because he didn't want another Right. Oopsy. Yeah. You know, he waited too long and I filled up my schedule. Yeah. So he was, he wanted to slide in there first. So I let him know that, you know, he has to be free. Nice. Good to, would like to do it cuz I do wanna do it. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be a fun show.

And

then Finding Nemo auditions are coming up. Yes. At L C T if you've got kids

interested. Yeah. Yep. That'll be a fun show. Uhhuh Two weeks. Are you guys to direct that one? You guys all auditioning pink and auditioning? I don't know. I've, I've asked her, but I haven't received a final about whether or not she wants to.

She's, I think she will. I think ultimately she will. But the day that auditions happen is April 15th and we have tickets to Mean Girls. Cause I have, I got those tickets a few months back. I got 'em for Pinky's birthday back in November. Well maybe you could go early. What time's your show? So yeah, I got an email, um, L c t and ask for an early slot so that we can get in there and out, because we're seeing the matinee that day.

So we gotta be out in Sarasota at two. Yeah, that's cut. But it's me and Pinky, so maybe she be like one of afternoon 10. Oh, okay. They started. Maybe you can be like one of the first Yeah, if we can slide in and be in there at 10. Yeah. Then she can audition and we can be out. I don't know when

Callback.

Sorry. That'll be good. I don't know. Jordan asked me to help with auditions. Yeah, me too. Okay, perfect. The

table. So we'll just hang, have fun seeing

all who shows. Oh, you're Do Nemo audition just at the table? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just nice.

So do

that lot coming up. All right. Yeah. So everybody stay tuned.