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of little gifts and we talked, we opened it

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up. It was something special. So we

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opened it up and we talked about it on the

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show and it relates to something going on in Daniel's

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life and now in my life as well. So

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we shared that and then we talked about

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some fears

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and apprehensions that Daniel has

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about an upcoming guest on the show

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because he has a history with this

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person that makes it sound pretty.

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What could that mean? It makes it

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sound pretty exciting if you ask

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me. patreon.com Scandalous.

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Scandalous. patreon.com. Sandovalous.

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guys, my sub stack is blowing

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up. I now have a

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badge that indicates best seller status

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and I have become insufferable ever

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since then. And it's

2:18

not like you have to hit a certain number of

2:20

paid subscribers to get that. And so

2:22

it's not like I'm I mean, it could

2:24

all go away tomorrow, but it's not like

2:26

I'm one over it. It's like, I'm well

2:29

in safely in the

2:31

best seller zone. So

2:34

they can't take that away from me. Or

2:36

maybe they can, but I'm just saying, and you

2:39

know, and it's all because I stopped

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writing about stuff that was

2:44

deeply personal to me and started

2:46

writing about my experience on the

2:48

Adam Carolla show. And that's okay.

2:50

Because as I was explaining to

2:52

my therapist today, because she was saying

2:56

people love nostalgia and

2:58

I was saying I you know, yes, like if

3:00

one of the stars of why are

3:02

you giving me a weird look? No, I'm agreeing. Look,

3:07

people loved that show. I

3:09

love facts of life. If one of the facts

3:11

of life cast members was writing about her experience

3:13

on the facts of life, I would read it

3:15

more than I would like her finding out she

3:18

was Jewish. Who cares? So I mean,

3:20

some people do. They're the real ones do.

3:23

But I'm just saying, Oh, I know

3:25

what I was saying. She was saying like people love nostalgia. And

3:29

yes, and I was saying that I

3:32

am loving writing about it. I

3:34

think it took time. I don't know

3:36

if I could have done it right.

3:38

I couldn't have done it right after.

3:40

But there's something about going back to

3:42

this period of time and remembering the

3:45

good times and remembering specific episodes and

3:47

funny things that happen with different guests.

3:49

That's actually very fun for me. One

3:51

of the things about nostalgia.

3:53

Sorry, are you done with your I'm

3:56

done with everything you can you can I'm gonna leave it right now.

4:00

So there's like some Instagram accounts

4:02

that I follow that are you know, oh,

4:05

I love them too. Yeah, and on

4:07

the one hand It's

4:09

like You know, I don't

4:12

want to be like But you know,

4:14

I don't want to be like a boomer fucking

4:16

fetishizing the 50s or something, you know, right? But

4:18

I was thinking about it

4:20

so many of these accounts will show

4:22

things that simply don't exist in our

4:24

modern world anymore it's yes, there is

4:26

the like That

4:28

feeling you get Remembering

4:31

how things were when you were a child and

4:34

the the what the world was very

4:36

different in the 80s and It

4:39

wasn't just different in a like

4:41

the character was different, you

4:43

know, a culture was different, of course but

4:46

like the the

4:48

tools the things in our lives were

4:50

all different and It's

4:53

wild to see things you

4:55

hadn't thought about Yes in

4:57

a while and to see like oh, yeah,

4:59

you know like Right.

5:02

I had one of those and that was a huge

5:04

part of my life that thing or that disc man

5:06

or that, you know swatch

5:09

phone or whatever and

5:11

there's something kind of I Don't

5:15

know It just tickles a

5:17

part of your brain. Yeah, you know does it's like

5:20

It's like mental ASMR. It really

5:22

is it really is So,

5:25

I don't know. Maybe this is what happens when you get older,

5:28

but I you know I'm

5:32

trying to think like that probably happens things

5:35

have accelerated so quickly since The

5:38

night the late 19th century that there probably hasn't

5:40

been a generation that hasn't One

5:43

other weird change in their life another weird

5:45

thing is I think a lot of stuff that we

5:47

think of as 90s is actually 2000s Like

5:51

someone could show me a magazine and I would

5:53

guess it's from the 90s, but yeah good point

5:56

taken No, you're

5:58

right. No. No, you're right But I

6:01

the the and probably stuff that you think

6:03

is 80s is 90s 95

6:06

yeah a lot of things exactly like

6:08

there's a lot of things that feel 80s and you go

6:10

that was actually 1990 right but 95

6:13

through Honestly,

6:17

there's so many cultural things where I would not be able

6:19

to tell you that's what I'm saying Like

6:22

when do you think YouTube? started

6:27

Like two or three

6:32

What yeah, it's like what?

6:36

Wait a minute. Yeah, so these things that I

6:38

remember from before 2005 were

6:40

before YouTube existed Wait,

6:43

tell me doing before you to you know,

6:45

um 2005

6:49

that's crazy. Wow. I was on there really early.

6:51

I was on YouTube right away. You

6:54

were on you stream Well, I

6:56

know but like you were doing shit

6:58

that doesn't that yeah, like I Wish

7:02

you had a quiz of things and I could tell you

7:04

the year ask me other things, you know anything else Well,

7:06

I don't know anything off the top damn it Daniel. I

7:08

only know that cuz I heard it today Should we

7:10

listen to a call? Of course, so

7:12

we got a lot of voice. Love me some calls

7:15

This one, you know, it's Google voicemail.

7:17

So it does do it does the

7:19

transcription for you and I cannot Make

7:23

heads or tails of what this is fun Should

7:25

we listen to it and just discover if it's as crazy

7:27

as the transcript or should I read the transcript to you? We

7:30

should listen. Hi, I'm Daniel. It's

7:32

rich from New Jersey again now

7:35

that this You

7:37

know this did appears I appear to be addicted

7:40

to Responding to your podcast, you

7:42

know voice and help so I don't know how

7:44

great that is for any of us But we're

7:46

gonna keep going In

7:49

response to here what kind of super power do

7:51

you think it's the best superpower I chose something

7:53

practical and

7:55

I chose I Would

7:58

like to build to the agility of and

8:01

technique of Pete Jackie Chan. You

8:04

know like when you see him in a movie and

8:06

there's like he walks up to a locked gate and

8:08

he just like kind of touches

8:10

his feet on three places on the gate and the

8:12

wall and he's over. Yeah,

8:15

that's the kind of thing I'm looking for. That

8:19

would be great. You know like, you know, jump off

8:21

of a second floor balcony just

8:24

entertain your friends kind of thing. But

8:27

you know, I really like assuming vulnerability to go with

8:29

that now that they think about it. But

8:32

anyhow, quick koala story. We

8:34

were talking about koalas that work one day and

8:38

you know how they were cute and whatnot. And

8:40

I said, it's a shame that they all had

8:42

precipitous. And my

8:44

friend turned to me from where he

8:46

was working and said, it's chlamydia rich,

8:49

they're not poor. So

8:51

I thought you guys might get a kick out

8:53

of that. Anyway, rich from Jersey, take it easy,

8:55

bye. Thanks, rich. So

8:57

the superpower he would like

9:00

is agility, like Jackie Chan

9:02

style ninja agility. Yeah, that's

9:04

pretty dope. It's impressive,

9:06

but I don't know if it would really come in handy. I

9:09

feel like though, if you're gonna do that, you

9:11

might as well go for Spiderman type powers, you

9:13

know? Cause then you could scale walls and you

9:15

could jump off buildings and shoot webs, like go

9:17

for the whole package. Right,

9:19

I feel like you're selling

9:22

yourself short. Like you want it

9:24

to be super human. Jackie Chan is

9:26

human. Right. But I get

9:28

you, that's cool. Should

9:33

we listen to another one? Sure. Hi,

9:36

Allison and Daniel, this is Tuesday calling

9:38

from St. Paul, Minnesota. I'm

9:40

listening to you guys right now as I feed

9:42

my newborn 11 week old

9:44

twin girl. Oh my God. And today

9:47

they go to daycare for the first

9:49

time and I'm feeling really weird, like

9:52

so happy to not have to constantly be

9:54

holding one or both crying babies at the

9:56

same time. And I can't wait to like

9:58

be my own person. and actually do

10:01

whatever I want. But I'm

10:03

also obviously nervous about sending them

10:05

off to strangers. And I keep

10:08

having weird dreams about like bad daycare situations

10:10

and me just leaving the babies home alone

10:12

and just going off and doing my own

10:14

thing. So it kind of freaks me out. But

10:18

anyway, I just listened to your newest episode

10:20

when Owen says something like, don't end the

10:22

show. And it was so funny too.

10:24

And it just made me excited for when my babies get

10:26

a little bit older and have their own funny

10:28

little personalities. Your kids

10:30

are just so cute. So I was just going to tell you guys that. Also,

10:33

I really like potato salad, but I

10:35

don't get a chance to eat it often. So you're making

10:37

me want to buy it or make it. So I might

10:39

just go do that today. Anyway, I

10:42

love the pod. This is Tuesday from St. Paul.

10:44

Bye. It sounds

10:46

like Tuesday. Yeah. Tuesday,

10:48

thank you so much for calling in

10:50

twin 11 week old babies.

10:55

Wow. That sounds very

10:58

intense. I feel like all

11:00

your concerns about. Wait, 11

11:02

weeks. That's what she said.

11:04

Do daycare? Yeah, because I don't

11:06

know what her reasons are. But I think

11:08

that maternity leave is like 30 months, 12

11:10

weeks. Yeah. It's so

11:12

crazy to think that we expect women

11:16

to go back to work so quickly. Like

11:19

that. I don't know. We

11:21

have friends that did daycare,

11:24

you know, and their kids

11:26

are being daycare all day, you know, eight hour

11:28

day. I just I can't imagine it. I mean,

11:31

you have to do it. I think I was

11:33

in daycare when I was young, but

11:35

like, I don't know. But

11:40

also she's talking about being able to

11:43

be her own person again and not

11:45

having to always be holding a baby.

11:47

Like, yeah, that's. Yeah, I don't know

11:49

what her circumstances are, but, you know,

11:52

I hope it goes well for you. Well, so this

11:54

was a couple of weeks ago, so it's already underway. I

11:57

bet it's going well. I mean, I'm sure it is. always

12:00

does yeah um yeah

12:03

they filled our heads with these like little random

12:05

situations and now we feel like scared

12:07

to do anything but it's like you

12:10

know you're not helping I actually don't

12:12

even know what you're talking about well I mean I'm thinking about

12:14

like the the back

12:16

in like the 80s oh that

12:18

was all bullshit though McMartin

12:24

that was but I have a friend oh my

12:27

god are you I feel like whatever you're gonna say

12:29

is not gonna help and we shouldn't share this was

12:32

like late seven okay all right this isn't no whose

12:35

sister let's

12:38

just say like I'd whatever

12:42

story Daniels about to tell

12:44

is something I've never heard

12:46

yeah well let's just say like

12:48

it's a it's a story that so

12:53

her sister was very

12:55

at a very young age she

12:59

claims was abused

13:02

in a daycare by some

13:05

Satan worshipper types is this the teal

13:07

swan story no this is like

13:09

late 70s and I always was like that's

13:14

this sounds like bullshit this was this

13:16

is all disproven and but her sister

13:20

ended up having serious like like

13:23

was really fucked up by it and

13:25

ended up like hospitalized and so

13:28

okay but also and I'm

13:31

not trying to not believe victims or

13:33

anything however I am

13:35

trying to save the sanity of

13:37

our caller I'm so sorry how big

13:39

is it that you're fine let me hear

13:41

it can I say something someone who's

13:43

troubled and ends up hospital listen someone

13:45

whose connection with reality is so muddled

13:47

that they're troubled and they end up

13:49

in an institution is the kind of

13:52

person who would claim so they

13:54

were abused by someone's a tanning my

13:56

feeling so the person

13:58

there satanic

14:02

panic was a thing. It's been

14:04

proven that that was all bullshit.

14:07

And that we've learned a lot

14:10

about how you can lead witnesses and especially

14:12

children can be unreliable in

14:14

that sort of situation. So okay,

14:18

knowing that, the person who I'm talking

14:20

about who swears this happened is someone

14:22

who is extremely credible and is a

14:24

lawyer. However-

14:27

She claims it happened to her sister. Do

14:30

I know who this person is? Yes. Does

14:32

her name have three syllables? Yes.

14:34

I don't think so. You

14:37

don't think it has three syllables? I don't think it has

14:39

three syllables. I don't think it happened. I

14:43

don't know. Then maybe you're not thinking of

14:45

the same person. Okay. Anyway,

14:48

whatever. Pants on fire. That's her

14:50

name. Pants on fire? Liar,

14:53

liar, pants on fire. Making

14:55

a joke. Jesus Christ. Go on.

14:58

Is that like a rhyme? Liar, liar,

15:00

pants on fire. Have

15:03

you not heard anyone say that? Yes. When

15:05

someone lies, you say liar, liar, pants on fire. I

15:07

don't think she's lying. So my joke- I think she's

15:09

believing her sister. I think she's believing her sister. But

15:11

I think that her sister might have schizophrenia. And like

15:13

you said, unreliable

15:16

narrator. Right. So all

15:19

this is to say, you're fine.

15:23

You're totally fine. Take care. But

15:26

she made another point, which is something I actually

15:28

was thinking about earlier today. I was

15:30

watching Elliot. He got back from his

15:33

little summer camp. He's taking like an art summer

15:35

camp. And he

15:37

was talking about something. I

15:39

was just watching him and his personality and just

15:42

thinking like, how incredible

15:46

he is.

15:51

This guy, you

15:53

know, eight years ago didn't even

15:55

exist. And here

15:57

he is, a full personality. who

16:02

is hilarious, he's smart, talented,

16:04

whatever, but

16:07

he's like, he cracks me up,

16:09

he does little bits. Like,

16:12

it's just miraculous, you just end up

16:14

just constantly dazzled by these kids as

16:16

they get older. I remember when Elliot

16:18

was talking and Owen was not yet

16:20

talking, I remember thinking like, I can't

16:22

believe there's gonna be two of them

16:25

talking at some point. Like this little

16:27

baby. We cannot get Owen to shut

16:29

the fuck up. They're

16:31

both pretty talkative now, Owen can

16:33

be loud at times. Yeah,

16:37

it's pretty fun. You have a

16:39

lot of fun days ahead of you. It's hard, it's

16:41

hard. It's hard and fun. I feel like

16:43

twins would be even

16:45

a level harder. Except

16:47

that you get through it quicker. If you wanted two

16:49

kids, it's like, it's all over. Yeah,

16:51

well who knows if she might have more kids. Well,

16:55

that's what I said if. I

16:58

couldn't do twins. I can barely do what

17:00

we have. That's

17:03

true. It's a lot. Anyway,

17:07

did you have any other

17:09

thoughts? Yeah, I've started a

17:11

potato salad movement. And this is like a lot

17:13

of religious. The most exciting thing that's happened to

17:16

you in years. Like a lot of religious movements.

17:19

I feel like this is kind of a theme of Jesus Christ Superstar.

17:21

Would you wanna know something? Potatoes are

17:23

grottin' are probably better than potato salad. I

17:27

was in the middle of talking. So you can

17:29

sit here and you can ramble on it. I'll

17:31

let you ramble in a second about potato salad.

17:33

But just everyone keep in mind, it's not that,

17:35

it's fine. Well, this

17:38

is Alison's show. Oh,

17:40

thanks. Thank you. Potato salad's fine is what

17:42

I'm saying, it's fine. Would

17:44

you pipe down? The best potato

17:46

salad is like, yeah, that's

17:49

sure. That's the best you can get with

17:51

potato salad. Don't you want to know how

17:53

I feel about the movement that I've birthed?

17:56

Because I was beginning to... Offer

18:01

a salvo all right from

18:03

the eye of the potato salad storm

18:05

And then you had to come shit

18:07

on me and now I don't feel

18:10

like talking about it anymore. All right,

18:12

let's hear it Okay, fine

18:14

if you insist so I

18:16

have started a movement Okay, a little

18:19

look at your watch a lot of people are

18:22

now eating potato salad because of me

18:25

Okay, they are texting me

18:27

photos. They're texting me updates.

18:30

They're in potato salad season I mean if

18:32

you're gonna do it shut your

18:34

mouth I'm talking

18:36

about That's not

18:38

the point. I'm just crazy. I'm hearing all you know,

18:40

I'm getting a lot I know you're

18:42

trying to credit everyone but me I'm

18:45

getting a lot of feedback from people

18:47

that are saying You're making

18:49

me want to eat potato salad. I Don't

18:52

normally eat potato salad, but now I'm eating it

18:54

you're making me crave it, etc. Okay, so

18:57

I Was

18:59

feeling a little bit Unsettled

19:05

over the fact I Was

19:12

trying to be stealthy I thought you were doing

19:14

me a Because

19:16

your work is calling I got a work email Nice.

19:22

Well, let's just wait and find out Do

19:25

do do do do do do do?

19:27

Okay, go ahead. So anyway, I didn't

19:30

know what to do I mean, this is

19:32

like the horse has left the barn and

19:34

I was like I I'm not craving

19:37

potato salad anymore What

19:39

if I've reached the end of my potato? Is

19:42

that true? Well, I now

19:45

see I told you this story has

19:47

steaks pathos. It's got it all This

19:50

is not the end. It's got a twist middle. Yeah,

19:53

so I thought what am I gonna do? What

19:56

am I gonna do? Yeah, what

19:58

are you gonna like if Jesus is like? But

20:00

I'm just a man. He's like, I'm not into

20:03

God anymore. He's like, I'm just one man. Or maybe that

20:05

was someone else who said it to him. I don't know. But,

20:09

you know, it's bigger than

20:11

me is what I'm trying to say. It's

20:14

like, I can't, and I don't

20:16

wanna tell people because then they'll be like, but I

20:18

have a gallon of potato salad in my refrigerator because

20:20

of you. So anyway,

20:22

I was feeling like, am

20:25

I an imposter? Am I

20:27

a false idol? A little bit. So

20:30

I was hungry before the show

20:33

though, and you bought two pounds of the

20:35

kind of potatoes that I like from Walmart,

20:37

thank you. No, sorry, four pounds.

20:40

Okay, good. You bought four pounds of it,

20:42

because there's two 32 ounce each tubs.

20:45

And so I had

20:47

some spoonfuls. I had

20:49

some spoonfuls, and I was like, yep,

20:51

it still hits, it still slaps, it

20:53

still hits the spot. Because I strayed,

20:56

because I was- You went to other

20:58

types. Yeah, because I was

21:00

like, if Devil to Egg potato salad from

21:02

Walmart is so good, maybe there are

21:04

other potato salads that I haven't messed with are

21:07

also good. So I got the red

21:10

skin one, thumbs down, original.

21:13

It's kind of okay. And then from all

21:15

the, I got the Steakhouse potato salad. That

21:17

was actually, it did. And

21:21

we try not to eat pork, because pigs are so smart

21:23

and cute. But it was actually pretty good. So,

21:26

but for some reason I lost my Devil to Egg and

21:29

I had a lot of taste, but I'm back, baby. That's

21:32

great. Should I

21:35

write a musical about it? What,

21:41

you know, we had really good potato salad recently,

21:44

you remember? Oh my God. At

21:46

that party. I took a picture of it.

21:48

I wanted to be alone with it. It was-

21:50

We should find out where she got that, because that was pretty good.

21:52

It was the place that held the party, did the catering. Oh

21:55

really? Yeah, they provided all the food. I

21:57

know, I assumed it was like some swanky something or other.

36:00

when they were young, if you

36:03

want to have a photo near them, that's a good way to do

36:05

it without it being like a punch in the heart every

36:07

time. Did you

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36:44

You uncork a pasta bottle, honey. I

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and pioneered it is. But

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also, yeah, so

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I thought this is

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crazy. But

44:14

it's also way cheaper in Japan. Yeah.

44:16

Right now, many people are catching on

44:18

to this. The yen

44:20

is very weak to

44:22

the dollar. Like it has always been throughout

44:24

my life, the opposite. When I

44:27

was in Japan and when I was like 13,

44:29

everything was twice as much. Right.

44:31

So expensive. It's like less than half now. But

44:34

now it's the opposite. And that

44:36

means that you're spending

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half as much for everything.

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The trip is not cheap

44:43

per se, but it's not nearly

44:47

what you would think a trip like this right. All

44:51

the expenses, their food, everything is really,

44:54

really cheap. Yeah. I talked to another

44:56

woman who is

44:59

there like having surgery at this clinic, like

45:01

a couple weeks ahead of ours.

45:03

And she's there with her

45:05

children because she's like, I'm crazy. I'm like,

45:07

no, I'm crazy. We're both crazy. But she

45:09

said that brunch was $35 for the

45:12

whole family. It's wild how cheap everything

45:15

is. I my reaction because this is Allison's

45:17

been driving this train and this

45:20

shin gun son, this

45:22

bullet train. And

45:27

I was just like, OK, go ahead, investigate this.

45:29

But it just seems like crazy. For the longest

45:31

time, it was like maybe could we

45:34

maybe and then we have a cardiologist

45:36

that we take Wendy to. And I

45:38

brought it up to her thinking she

45:40

would be like, yeah, that's not a

45:43

thing. And that what do you, Liana Helmsley? No.

45:46

And she was like, yes, I

45:48

have several patients who've gone there.

45:52

We first of all, losing

45:54

our last dog was right. You

45:58

you can't understand how tremendous. They

46:00

know they know but yeah, we did like

46:02

it truly we're doing this to delay grief.

46:04

Honestly, we're just not ready We

46:09

can we afford it I

46:11

don't know probably not But

46:14

we're gonna whatever it's like we're

46:17

just kind of putting our head down and doing

46:19

it We were able to get the flights with

46:21

miles, but also we're paying. Yeah, we're being very

46:23

creative but What

46:26

pushed me over the edge in terms of saying yes was

46:28

like? I Think

46:31

this is gonna be a great

46:33

adventure. Yes boys now Owen May

46:36

not remember very much of it probably won't I may

46:39

not remember much of it but just the

46:41

idea of going to Japan for a

46:43

few weeks and just Experiencing

46:45

this other culture. I love

46:48

Japan. I was there like I said, I was there when

46:50

I was a teenager Loved

46:52

it and so it'll be exciting

46:54

to sort of do that. We're gonna record

46:57

shows there Yes, and try to get as

46:59

much content out of this as we can

47:01

because we're basic. We're basically Gen Z and

47:06

Just have fun with

47:09

Everything surrounding this surgery. That's kind of

47:11

scary really scary the heart of it.

47:13

So It's kind of no

47:16

pun at the heart of it. It's her heart. It's

47:18

they put her on bypass It's

47:20

wild. She's having she's I keep looking at her and

47:22

going you you have no idea that in a month

47:24

You're gonna be getting a lot of surgery. I know

47:27

um I

47:29

know and then the fucking just

47:33

the fear of Not

47:36

what if it doesn't work but like what if she dies during

47:38

surgery which I Don't think

47:41

I asked our cardiologist. Have you have you

47:43

ever has that ever happened? Like

47:46

one of her patients and she said no So

47:48

I really feel we're in

47:50

good hands But just if that

47:53

happened I would I will be

47:55

beating myself. Well But

47:57

just this like oh my god, like what would

47:59

be We just caused

48:01

this to happen, but it was gonna happen

48:03

regardless. She's gonna

48:06

die within the year anyway. It's

48:08

not within the calendar year. No,

48:10

within the next few months. Right,

48:13

if we don't. If we don't. So

48:16

it's like a risk in order

48:18

to get potentially she could live

48:20

to... She's 10 now, but potentially she could live to

48:22

15 or something or 16. I mean,

48:25

who knows? Yeah, it's a

48:27

crazy... I'm trying to focus on the fact

48:29

that we're doing it for Wendy, of course,

48:31

but really we're

48:33

doing it for the adventure and the

48:35

boys so that if some horrible outcome,

48:38

it wasn't like

48:41

a mistake. It was still

48:43

something worth doing. Yeah. I

48:46

hope we're not in that position of trying to do

48:48

ourselves that. I would like to put the word out

48:50

to anyone who has spent time in Tokyo or

48:52

the surrounding areas because there's so many

48:55

surrounding areas, cities. Suggestions,

48:58

restaurants, places to go, cool things

49:01

to do with children, advice.

49:06

We're doing our own research, but there's nothing like people

49:08

who've been there and can

49:11

steer you around, find the

49:13

hidden gems because... Yeah.

49:18

But I also want to say something because I

49:20

don't like to keep secrets from my listeners and

49:22

I feel like people might be like, we know

49:25

Daniel was taking Japan. Why didn't you tell... I

49:28

was taking Japan. Taking Japan. Japanese.

49:30

Japanese. Japanese. Why didn't you tell

49:32

us? Excuse me. I

49:34

just want to explain. We didn't know

49:36

whether she was going

49:39

to be approved for surgery

49:41

or not. It is a

49:44

whole process to be

49:46

able to take a dog to Japan and

49:48

for this clinic to say, they

49:51

need to see all this imaging and they have

49:53

to talk to your cardiologist. And it's a whole

49:55

thing to be able to

49:57

be accepted into the program. they

50:00

will do the surgery. So I just,

50:03

even though I announced that I

50:05

was pregnant moments after I found out,

50:07

I when the babies

50:09

were like five days old or whatever,

50:11

I'm exaggerating, but I

50:14

am suspicious, suspicious. I am

50:16

superstitious enough that I wanted to

50:18

wait till it was all a go and to

50:20

say anything. So anyway, here I am saying it.

50:24

Um, also, I

50:26

mean, I don't know if this was in your

50:28

head, but like there was and continue to

50:31

be people who are

50:35

critical to me to use specifically about Oliver

50:37

when you lost your dog. That'd be like, he

50:39

lost her dog. She wouldn't shut up about it.

50:42

And it's just like that, which by the

50:44

way, is not fucking true on the Corolla

50:46

show. I talked about it on my show,

50:48

but I barely talked about it on the Corolla

50:50

show. But it's also like that

50:53

protective. Yeah. On the one hand, it's

50:55

like, oh, who cares? On

50:57

the other hand, the avalanche of

50:59

that kind of bullshit does

51:02

affect you. It does when it's

51:04

something so sensitive. Right. Oh, you're

51:09

weak somehow for grieving.

51:11

Right. Something so traumatic. Um,

51:15

and uh, so there's a little bit like, I

51:17

don't know how much I do want to talk

51:20

about that. You know, we're planning to do. I

51:22

don't want to invite that judgment and right and

51:24

have people like voice their fucking stupid ass opinions.

51:26

You know, I certainly don't.

51:29

Um, but the

51:31

idea of going and

51:33

not mentioning why we're there. Plus it's

51:36

like, I really want to have fun

51:38

recording shows there because we're

51:40

going to have some good snack, snack chats. And

51:42

yes, just there's going to be tons of stuff

51:45

to talk about. It's going to be a lot

51:47

of fun from a show perspective. So of course

51:50

we're going to bring it up. I got to go really. Yes.

51:53

Um, all right. Well, listen,

51:55

everyone Daniel had to go into the

51:58

house. you

52:00

and me. But now I have to go

52:02

into the house. So thank

52:05

you so much for

52:08

listening. You guys are

52:10

the best. Let's

52:15

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52:24

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52:26

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52:28

Goodbye. Hey, do

52:30

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52:33

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52:38

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52:41

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